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76 THE MAINE BUGLE.
dcred. After returning to Richmond I was detached from my
regiment and assigned to duty as assistant provost marshal,
where I remained until the city was turned over to civil authority.
In conclusion, I wish to say that I had a \'ery mistaken idea
of the infantry, as all know who were there. The last campaign
was the hardest of the war, and the infantry made cavalry time
on that march, and I have to report that the infantry service
except the last campaign was a picnic as compared with the
cavalry service. I was never punished or even reprimanded
for my action on the skirmish line at Hatcher's Run, but on the
contrary was on the best of terms with every officer and man
in the regiment, from the colonel down. And just here I want
to record the fact that no better, braver, more faithful to duty
and the cause of the Union lot of officers and men were ever
organized into a regiment than those comprising the Eleventh
Maine Infantry, from Col. Hill down, your humble servant
excepted of course. After serving a full term in the First
Maine Cavalry I ought to know whereof I speak. My service
in the infantry was of the most pleasant and satisfactory char-
acter, considering the time and duties to be performed, and I
look back to the days that I spent with the Eleventh Maine
Infantry, counting even the hard work and exhaustion of the
time from Chapin's farm on the north side of the James River
to Appomattox Court House and back to Richmond as among
the most pleasant of my life.
Eleventh Maine at Appomattox Court House.
BY THOMAS J. HOLMES, SECOND SERGEANT, CO. G.
I will commence my story April 8th, 1865. We commenced
marching at the Appomattox river at a burnt bridge west of
I'^armville, where we arrived the night of the seventh of April.
We started before daylight in a thick fog back for the main
road \vc left the night of the seventh. The road on which we
continued to march all day was the road over which the cavalry
had gone, and all along the way we saw jaded and played