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Title: Field, camp, hospital and prison in the civil war, 1863-1865; Charles A. Humphreys, chaplain, Second Massachusetts cavalry volunteers
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Humphreys, Charles Alfred, 1838-
Subjects: United States. Army Massachuesetts Cavalry Regiment, 2nd (1862-1865) United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Prisoners and prisons
Publisher: Boston, Press of Geo. H. Ellis Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ssityso shallow that on windy days the smoke wouldbe forced in gusts down the flue into our tents,and I have often been driven out into thestorm for self-preservation—though doubtlessif I had stayed in I would have been preserved,but only as a smoked and dried specimen ofsuffering humanity. Still we had a great dealof satisfaction in our fireplaces, and when thenights were cold and clear, and the logs blazedbrightly, our tents often resounded with laugh-ter and song, and all went merry as a marriage-bell (Note 3). A Chaplains duty is not prescribed by armyregulations, except so far as to require him tohold service on the Sabbath when convenient,and to bury the dead. But there are manyways in which a Chaplain can make himselfuseful in camp, and by alluding to some ofthem I shall give an insight into the allevia-tions as well as the trials of camp life. I felt it a pleasure as well as a duty to visitthe men in their tents and to encourage themto come freely to mine. By the kindness of
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3 > THE NEW YORKPUBLIC LIBRARY Ai£I-OH, Lh:xN(3A ANDT1LDP>N FOUNDATIONS IN THE CIVIL WAR, 1863-1865 5 friends at home I had an excellent library oftwo hundred volumes, gathered largely byRev. Henry W. Foote, H. C. 1858, among theattendants at Kings Chapel (Note 4). These keptboth officers and men in reading matter, andlightened the tedium of many a dull wintersday. Some lady friends—chief among whomwas Mrs. John M. Forbes of Milton—knitseveral hundred cavalry mittens, especiallyadapted for holding the bridle rein, and I dis-tributed them through the regiment, and theysaved the men from many a bite of frost, andfilled a want that the government did not supply.Mrs. Forbes, besides keeping her own fingersbusy, kept six women knitting for the regi-ment. On January 12, 1864, I received fromher forty pairs of cavalry mittens, and—withoutgiving notice of their arrival—I gave them toany who came to my tent to inquire if I hadsome of those warm mittens, and they wereall gone bef

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