These, with new regiments and furloughed men who had joined early in the month of May, equaled our losses from battle, sickness, and by detachments; so that the three armies still aggregated about one hundred thousand effective men.
It will take us all of April to get in our furloughed veterans, to bring up A.
The latter place was reached about 10 o'clock Monday morning and after passing in review before the governor at the state house the Prairie men proceeded to the receiving ship Wabash, where they were furloughed until the following Wednesday.
But the people were repaid for hours of waiting by the arrival only of a few men who had been furloughed from the hospitals.
By this time rumors that we were to be furloughed and sent home were rife again and the date was finally fixed for the 26th.
Diet kitchens were established and a system of looking after convalescent and furloughed soldiers was established.
These preparations, moreover, had to be made in so hasty a manner, because, as soon as the Russians advance farther into the interior of Prussia, of course both a conscription and the recall of the furloughed soldiers would be impossible.
A man who at the age of twenty has not attained the height of five feet and one inch can be furloughed for two years; and if, at the end of the third year, he has not reached this height, discharged from all service.
But few pensions are granted to discharged or furloughed soldiers, although veteran soldiers are frequently appointed to situations as doorkeepers, watchmen, overseers, &c.
The increasing number of furloughed men required the establishment of an emergency hospital near the railway station, and this was installed in two tents erected for the Red Cross by the army officers.
Some fell sick, of course, and were tenderly cared for or furloughed and sent to their homes.
A few other discharged and furloughedsoldiers took deck passage.
There were a few furloughed officers on the steamboat, among them Brevet Major Henry W.
The "Council of Deserters, Stragglers andFurloughed Soldiers" announced a number of meetings for the afternoon of December 6th to enforce a demand for participation in the government.
A rattling volley rang out and the deserters, stragglers and furloughed paraders fled.
The "slaves of the Earth-gods" are children whom women have obtained through prayers offered to Agbasia, the greatest of the Earth-gods.
At all events, in all three cases the worship of the animal seems to have no relation to agriculture, and may therefore be presumed to date from the hunting or pastoral stage of society.
The skin of one of these reptiles is hung tail downwards from a branch of the highest tree in the public square, and the placing of it on the tree is an annual ceremony.
Our ranks had been largely recruited by the return of furloughed men, and young men attaining eighteen years of age.
General Longstreet had bent all his energies to the repairing of the railroad through East Tennessee and Virginia, and as soon as this was accomplished, a limited number of soldiers were furloughed for twenty-one days.
Their ranks of furloughed men in this line were usually quite full.
Of this there is no official record, and it is more than probable that new cases of sick and furloughed men of that interval were as many at least as the fragmentary parties that joined us.
General Badeau claims, besides, six thousand furloughed men and conscripts as joining the army between the 20th of April and the 4th of May.
After four weeks of toil and labor, all the soldiers who were able to leave were furloughed home, and the rest brought to the large hospital where I am now located.
After four weeks of severe toil all the soldiers who were able to leave were furloughed home, and the remainder, about nine hundred, brought to a more comfortable Field Hospital, two miles from Chattanooga.
All the men furloughed during the winter and spring had promptly reported, and it was increased by more than two hundred exchanged men.
Many other convalescents werefurloughed at this time, so finally, in company with Dr.
IN the latter part of February, 1862, I left Rusk in company with Tom Hogg, John Germany, and perhaps one or two more of our furloughed men, for our winter quarters on the Arkansas River.
I was furloughed until March 1, but as the weather was fine I remained in the camp for two weeks before starting on the long home journey to Rusk.
He erected a fort at Essenecca, which he named after President Rutledge, and furloughed a part of his force until August 28th.
Letters from North Carolina state that the country is swarming with deserters--perhaps many supposed to be deserters are furloughed soldiers just exchanged.
Wilcox is organizing an impromptu brigade here, formed of the furloughed officers and men found everywhere in the streets and at the hotels.
Even ourfurloughed troops cannot now rejoin their regiments from their distant homes.
Last night my youngest son Thomas came in, furloughed (unsolicited) by his officers, who perceived his exhaustion.
Grant probably furloughed many of his men to vote in Pennsylvania and Ohio, on Tuesday last--elections preliminary to the Presidential election--and they have had time to return to their regiments.
Every day furloughed men rejoined him, and bands of loyalists came into camp; and he was in momentary expectation of help from Cornwallis or Cruger.
He had furloughed many of his loyalists, as all formidable resistance seemed at an end; and he now sent out messengers in every direction to recall them to his standard.
I held this position some time, until one day there was going to be a squad of recruits, and returned furloughed men sent on a steam-barge to the front at City Point, where Butler was bottled up.
The captain protested, as the troops on board were all unarmed, being returned furloughed men and recruits; but it was no use, the order was imperative, and the captain headed his barge toward the shore.
These were furloughed for ten days, when they returned to camp, bringing with them enough recruits to swell the number to a maximum.
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