We got all the grunters and weak sisters fanned out the first year, and since then we've been on a business basis, all the time.

We're in a mighty good brigade, too.

Most of the regiments have been with us since we formed the first brigade Pap Thomas ever commanded, and waded with him through the mud of Kentucky, from Wild Cat to Mill Springs, where he gave Zollicoffer just a little the awfulest thrashing that a Rebel General ever got.

That, you know, was in January, 1862, and was the first victory gained by the Western Army, and our people felt so rejoiced over it that--" "Yes, yes; we've read all about that," we broke in, "and we'd like to hear it again, some other time; but tell us now about Atlanta." "All right.

Let's see: where was I?
O, yes, talking about our brigade.
It is the Third Brigade, of the Third Division, of the Fourteenth Corps, and is made up of the Fourteenth Ohio, Thirty-eighth Ohio, Tenth Kentucky, and Seventy-fourth Indiana.