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When Port Hudson surrendered, two of the nine-months' regiments had already served beyond their time.
A good captain, and twenty picked men, of Nixon's, with two drums, accompany this, to re-enforce your left, and the orders are despatched to Major Pawling for the officers you wrote for. One hundred pair of shoes will be sent to you by this snow. Send up all Burgoyne's men, with a good corporal and small party of the nine-months men, with the first deserters or prisoners.
Chiefly in July and August the twenty-one nine-months' regiments and in November the nine-months' men of the 176th New York went home to be mustered out. This left of the Nineteenth Corps thirty-seven regiments, having an effective strength, daily diminishing, of less than 350 men each; in all, less than 15,000.
Four moose had passed, as my friend skilled in woodcraft confidently asserted, although I could not have told that from the appearance of the trail. He went still farther in his `reckoning, and stated that they were a bull, a cow, and two nine-months' calves.
You said, you know, it was all up with it " "Up? up?-so it is! That is, it won't break it up, you know. Why-oh, I see where the mistake is-it isn't all over, you know, seeing how the society can live through a score of nine-months scandals. But the thing's in every vulgar fellow's lips-that is the worst of it." Mrs.
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