"Nathan and his chief of staff, Lieutenant Isaac Prentiss, continued along the clay-paved road and were soon among the regimental encampments. Rows of tents glowed canvas-white in the darkness, some bright with internal candlelight that placed shadows of soldiers on the coarse cloth. On the cool breeze was a fragile and lovely sound, the tenor voice of a soldier singing the love song 'Lorena,' and sleepless soldiers sat around crackling fires of pine knots, staring into the flames and listening..."
From Ethan's Peach Tree
Encampment of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry.
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