Excerpt from A Poetical Description of the Sixth Army Corps Campaign, During the Year 1863: Together With a Sketch of My Life and Service in the Army; How I Lost My Feet Seven Years After I Was Mustered Out of Service; A History of the Grand Army of the Republic, and a Number of Other Articles Relating to the Rebellion No sooner there than we espied, Our enemy beyond the river's tide, Snugly stationed in their rifle pits, Already prepared to give us fits. We had to cross the river, without doubt, Which General Sedgwick soon found out. He had the pontoons hauled to the river bank, And soon they were filled with many a Yank. General Brooks soon gave the word to start, The engineers pulled the boats very smart; To the middle of the river we had got, Without the rebels firing a shot. The sentry then, on the opposite Shore, Espied the boats, some forty or more Whereupon he fired his gun. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.