. Les souvenirs d'un batteur-garçon . la compagnie a été affectée à l'Armée du Potomac tout au long de ses campagnes dans le Maryland et LA FIERTÉ DES RÉGIMENTS 161 Virginia. À l'expiration de sa durée de service, en août 1862, le petit Tommy s'est réenrôla, et a servi à la fin de la guerre, havingété présent dans quelque vingt-six batailles en tout. Il était bien-aimé par tous les hommes de son régiment, et était un favori constant parmi eux. On pense qu'il a battu le premier long rouleau de la grande Guerre civile. Il vit toujours à Varsovie, dans l'Indiana, et fairbids est le dernier survivant de

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. The recollections of a drummer-boy . the company was assigned was with theArmy of the Potomac throughout all its campaigns in Maryland and THE PRIDE OF THE REGIMENTS 161 Virginia. At the expiration of its term of service, in August, 1862, Little Tommy re-enlisted, and served to the end of the war, havingbeen present in some twenty-six battles in all. He was greatlybeloved by all the men of his regiment, and was a constant favoriteamongst them. It is thought that he beat the first long roll of thegreat Civil War. He is still living in Warsaw, Indiana, and bids fairto be the latest survivor of the great and grand army of which he wasthe youngest member. With the swift advancing years the ranks ofthe soldiers of the late war are being rapidly thinned out, and tliosewho yet remain are showing signs of age. The Boys in Blue arethus, as theyears go by, almost imperceptibly turning into the Boysin Gray ; and as ** Little Tommy, the youngest of them all, soundedtheir first reveille, so may he yet live to beat their last tattoo.. CHAPTER XVI. ABOUND THE CAMP-FIRE. What glorious camp-fires we used to have in the fall of the year1863 I It makes one rub his hands together yet just to think of them.The nights were getting cold and frosty, so that it was impossible tosleep under our little shelters with comfort; and so half the nightwas spent around the blazing fires at the ends of the company streets. I always took care that there should be a blazing good fire for ourlittle company, anyhow. My duties were light, and left me time, which I found I could spend with pleasure in swinging an axe. Hick-or}^ and white oak saplings were my favorites; and with these cut intolengths of ten feet, and piled up as high as my head on wooden fire-dogs, what a glorious crackle we would have by midnight! Go outthere what time of night you might please, — and you were prettysure to go out to the fire three or four times a night, for it was toobitterly cold to sleep in the tent more than an hour

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