The Allowance—The Losses of Infantry—Clothing of Garrisons—First Maine Heavy Artillery—Their First Active Campaigning.—ARMY CATTLE—The Kind Referred to—Where They Came from—Wade Hampton as a Cattle-stealer—Cattle on the March—Their Route by Day and Night—The Sagacious Leader—The Slaughter—The Corps Herd—HEROIC HORSES—Their Conduct in Action—When Wounded—A Personal Reminiscence—Anecdote of General Hancock—Sagacious Horses 316 CHAPTER XVIII. BREAKING CAMP. ON THE MARCH. Marching Orders—When They Came—What was Done at Once—The Survival of the Fittest—“Waverly” Correspondents—The Night in Camp after Marching Orders Came—Camp Fires and Hilarity—“The General”—The Wait in Camp—Forward, March!—The Order of March—Corps Headquarters—Division Headquarters—The Division Flags Described—Brigade Headquarters—Brigade Flags Described—Battle Flags—The Mule of Regimental Headquarters—His Company—Light Batteries—Lightening Loads—The Chafed and Footsore—Fording of Streams—The Same by Night—Personal Reminiscences—“Close up!”—Marching in a Rainstorm—Camping in a Rainstorm—Horses in the Rain and Sloughs—A Personal Reminiscence—Flankers—“Column, halt!”—Double quick!—“They’ve found um” 330 CHAPTER XIX. ARMY WAGON TRAINS. Grant’s Military Railroad—The Impedimenta—An Army Wagon—An Army Minstrel Troupe—The Transportation of a Regiment—What They Originally Carried—Baggage Trains on the Peninsula—Chaos Illustrated—The Responsibility of Train Officers—What They had to Contend with—The Struggle for the Lead—Depot of Transportation—The Officers of the Quartermaster’s Department—What Wagons Took Into the Wilderness—The Allowance on the Final Campaign—Incident—Early Order of McClellan—General Orders, No. 153—The Beginning of the Supply Trains—What General Rufus Ingalls Did—Meade’s General Orders, No. 83—Strength of a Corps Supply Train—Of the Army—Its Extent—Its Place on the March—A Reminiscence of the Race for Centreville—General Wadsworth’s Bull Train—Its Rise and Fall—Trials of a Train Quartermaster—He Runs Counter to Meade and Sheridan in the Discharge of his Duty 350 CHAPTER XX. ARMY ROAD AND BRIDGE BUILDERS.