to eat, provided he had the money; if he did not have the money, he was to _take_ the food. It was related of two comrades who lived near Murfreesboro, and who were sent out by their mess with one dollar to purchase supplies, that they returned with five cents’ worth of bread and ninety-five cents’ worth of whisky, and those that liked to imbibe complained of the purchase of so much bread. In regard to the roll call, it is a breach of duty to neglect when any service is to be performed, because it puts an extra and more frequent burden on your comrades. If I had used the army parlance term, and said “stood picket” that night, I should have missed it. I ran picket for four hours around and around a big tree; I had to do it to keep from freezing. I did not have anything to eat the previous day but some raw corn taken from artillery horses, and chewed the sprigs of sassafras bushes. Captain F. S. Harris told me that he had traveled in that section much since the war, and that a citizen of Hancock, Md., had told him that on the two nights we were there the mercury was sixteen degrees below zero; and I do not doubt it. Many of our boys would get in that stupor which precedes death by freezing, and we would have to seize them roughly and keep them moving to prevent freezing. When relieved by another detail, about 3 A.M., I crawled in under an oilcloth and blanket and got a few hours’ sleep. A fall of snow during the latter part of the night served to keep us warm. Looking from under the blankets next morning, we could see many of the boys sleeping beneath their snowy couches, which resembled graves. A detail of Company C was made to guard the medical stores of General Jackson, which were in wagons. The boys found in one of the wagons a cask of brandy. Getting hold of an auger, they notified the boys in camp to have some kettles ready. Going under the wagon, they bored through the body into the cask, and thus filled their vessels. General Jackson relieved them from duty, but did not punish them. I presume he thought they were excusable under the weather conditions. We were sorely disappointed in not being able to engage the enemy. It is true that we forced them across the river, but they could return in a few days after we left. General Jackson succeeded in destroying a dam in the Potomac River which fed the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and cut off canal communication between Cumberland, Md., and Washington, D. C. On the morning of January 8 reveille sounded very early, and we moved slowly to Bath over a very slick, icy pike. The next morning there was another early reveille; and we made only seven miles that day, on account of the condition of the pike and blockade of wagons. On the 10th we were at Munger’s Cross Roads, awaiting orders. Sunday, January 12, Dr. Quintard preached for us.