CHAPTER XVII.

SCATTERING SHOTS. THE CLOTHING.

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