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Excerpt from The Twenty-Seventh: A Regimental History The dinner hour having arrived, the pickets unanimously conclude to set aside Uncle Sam's homely fare, and take advantage of the enlarged facilities Of entertainment af forded by the village. Accordingly they adjourn to one of the boarding-houses, kept by a man of secession pro clivities, whose principles, however, do not interfere with his untiring efforts to please. Such houses of re freshment, where a civilized meal could be Obtained, Sit uated as they were here and there along the picket-line, added much to the enjoyment of these brief excursions from camp. Our duties were not very onerous, requir ing the attention of each man two hours out of every six, and consisted in seeing that no one passed along the road, or appeared in the vicinity, without proper author ity. In good weather, the two days of picket duty, oc curring once a fortnight, were quite agreeable; but if stormy, they afforded good material for the grumbling fraternity. 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.