All the members of Company D went to headquarters in a body, and protested against his being put in their company, and he was not.

Well, he behaved so well at Chickamauga that the boys saw that they had done him a great injustice, and all those that still lived went again to headquarters, and asked to take all back that they had said, and to have him put into the company." "Well, that was doing the manly thing, sure; but go on about Atlanta." "I was telling about our brigade," resumed the narrator.

"Of course, we think our regiment's the best by long odds in the army--every fellow thinks that of his regiment--but next to it come the other regiments of our brigade.

There's not a cent of discount on any of them.
"Sherman had stretched out his right away to the south and west of Atlanta.

About the middle of August our corps, commanded by Jefferson C.
Davis, was lying in works at Utoy Creek, a couple of miles from Atlanta.
We could see the tall steeples and the high buildings of the City quite plainly.