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Excerpt from Reminiscences, Incidents, Battles, Marches and Camp Life of the Old 4th Michigan Infantry in War of Rebellion, 1861 to 1864
When we see the splendidly armed and equipped Regi ments from Michigan, pass through here on their way to the seat of war, and compare their appearance with that of the Regiments that left Camp Cleveland recently, it makes usalmost ashamed oi Ohio, and inclines us to enquire in the mildest and most collected manner, why it is that Michigan in the same length of time sends Regiments to the field pre pared for service, while Ohio, who boasts of her enterprise and patriotism, sends from her camps as Regiments, mere mobs of men, half uniformed, unarmed, and wholly without drill.
The Regiment left Cleveland, via. Buffalo to Elmira, New York, where we. Took supper with 23d New York Regi ment in barracks there. We were royally entertained had a good time; had a good supper. I wish to say here, the first hard tack the writer ever saw was issued to us at Cleve land. They were round, and as large as an elephant's foot, and as tough as a prohibitionist's conscience. I noticed some of the boys, out on platform of cars, trying how far they could sail them. Others had coupling pins, trying to pulver ize them. On leaving Elmira, some of the boys who were a little off, pulled the coupling pin, which detached three or four cars. The rest of the train pulled out some distance before it was discovered. The advance section backed up, the rear cars were hitched on, and the boys were induced to all-aboard, and the train passed on to Harrisburg, Pa. The Regiment encamped a few days at that city, and we were drilled in the art of street fighting. Expecting a collision at Baltimore. The people of Harrisburg asked has Michigan sent another Regiment equipped 2 And in fact the troops at Camp Curtin thought if Pennsylvania would only clothe her men like that, she would not have a single citizen at home.
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