This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ...BLUFF. LT. COL. J. G. CHAMBERS. LT. R. F. WHEELER. 26 April, '64. The good management which usually marks military movements was seldom more evident than when the regiment left winter-quarters for active operations this year. Tents were struck at sunset, the camp was left at 10 p. M., several pleasant hours were spent on the march to and on the wharves at Portsmouth and, by 3 A. M., of next day, the right wing was settled away on the Geo. Leary--the left wing and guard on another boat. With continued promptness, we got under way by noon, reached Yorktown before dark, were dumped on the beach under the bluffs, and went into bivouac then and there. 28th. Moved a mile or two up river. Made a camp of shelter-tents--then distributed for the campaign. "Weeded out more men unfit for active soldiering. Seventeen men were sent to General Hospital. 29th. Another move three or four miles toward Williamsburg. Piling-off from the dusty high-road at 11.30 A. M., we made a pleasant camp on the green sod, among the scattered copses of an " old-field." It really looked as though the "Star Brigade" was to enjoy a neat, fresh camp, pending the arrival of the rest of the corps and the preparation of our transports. At 1 p. M. came the most exigent orders to return to Yorktown. That short-lived camp among the bushes disappeared like an exhalation. Shelter tents were mounted in the long roll across the body--the bandoleer of modem infantry. The scanty regimental baggage, little more than a few head-quarter tents and the company kettles, was put in wagons. The brigade, its four-mile gait raising a dust which speedily turned the fresh northern faces to the semblance of the yellow Cracker of the Carolinas, rushed back to Yorktown. For...