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 letter writing, newspaper reading, and pipe carving at Camp Kelly, 87 music, band: 36; regimental bands practice at Camp Kelly, 87; band plays “Yankee Doodle” on march to Falmouth, 123; regimental bands broken up and sent home, 146; new recruits at Frederick placed in brigade band, 195; bands lead the march into Virginia with “Carry Me Back to Old Virginny,” 371 music, singing: “John Brown’s Body” on march to Winchester, 103; “John Brown’s Body” on march to Chancellorsville, 218; around the campfires at Bridgeport, 301 New Year’s Day 1865 celebrated by firing muskets, 359 practical jokes: Fife Major Noonan pranks Irish soldiers, 211; catching Negro children and putting them aboard trains, 295 reading and studying, 210 Sabbath service as entertainment, 241 searching for laurel root from which to carve trinkets, 98 snowballing, 210, 298 swimming: in the Rappahannock, 124; on the march to Cedar Mountain, 154, 157 tobacco: ground oak leaves serving for at Camp Kelly, 87; prevalence of smoking at Dumfries, 208; officers gather at Dumfries for cigar smoking and conversation, 210; shortage of at Wauhatchie, 281 touching off tin cans filled with gunpowder, 362 Washington’s Birthday celebration at Paw Paw, 97 arms Enfield muskets issued, 56 Buckley bans pistol loading in camp after recruit shoots off his finger, 56 soldier disappointment with issue of Pondir musket, 56–57 ammunition issued for first time at Camp Kelly, 85 musket used for deer hunting, 88 Gen. Lander’s negative opinion of Belgian musket, 88 100 rounds per man issued at start of Winchester march, 98 inexperience in firing, 106 Gen. Pope orders every soldier to carry 100 rounds, 153 Tower Enfield muskets issued at Dumfries, 213 ammunition carried by 12th Corps train to Chancellorsville, 218 rain requires discharge and reloading of muskets, 235 29th Ohio’s division fires 277,000 musket rounds at Culp’s Hill, 259 aka Giddings Regiment, ix aka the Abolition Regiment, ix, 58, 59, 378; referred to as the “nigger regiment,” 59 as Twenty-Ninth Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry, 290 amusements Akron supper during veterans’ furlough, 293 “ball” playing: during march to Falmouth, 124; at Dumfries, 210; on march to Chancellorsville, 216; at Aquia Creek, 243, 244; at Bridgeport, 301; on march to Dug Gap, GA, 304 boxing, 154 Christmas Eve 1863 celebrated by musket firing from boxcar doors, 290 climbing Allegheny mountain peaks, 98 in the company streets: at Bridgeport, 301; at Camp Giddings, 54 dancing: at Camp Giddings, 52; refugee women join soldiers for evening cotillions at Bridgeport, 302 drinking: admonitions against, 73; soldiers and officers on a spree at Camp Chase 1862, 74–75; Buckley blocks an intemperate officer’s promotion, 123; Ohio officer identifies drinking as the scourge of the army, 210; alcohol-fueled carousing on the sea voyage to New York City, 269; officers observed intoxicated at Normandy, TN, 274–75; soldiers overindulge in whiskey at Louisville, 290; whiskey ration causes soldiers to act foolishly, 329; at Atlanta, 348, 352; at Sister’s Ferry, GA, 363; at Bladensburg, MD, 375; at Bardstown, KY, 376 fishing, 119, 210, 301 gambling: Chuck-a-luck at Wauhatchie, 286; Chucka -luck during the march to Savannah, 355; card playing and Chuck-a-luck at Savannah, 362 games: “Bluff” and chess, 244 Halloween ball in Jefferson, 1861, 62 hometown celebrations of veterans’ return, 379–80 humor, soldier: at Camp Giddings, 52, 54, 56, 65, 67; at Camp Chase, 72, 76; windstorm blows away surgeon’s medicines, 94; at Cedar Mountain, 159, 210–11; march to Chancellorsville, 218; general hilarity in Hooker’s army first night at Chancellorsville, 220; soldier comment on Hooker’s retreat from Chancellorsville, 235; Gettysburg, 259, 260, 261; soldiers hide shovels to avoid manual labor, 296; oversized caps issued at Bridgeport, 302; soldiers favoring McClellan in 1864 election teased, 351; “playing smash” on the march to Savannah, 355 Twenty-Ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment Index ( S e e a l s o G e n e r a l I n d e x , f o l l o w i n g )  t w e n t y - n i n t h o h i o v o l u n t e e r i n f a n t r y r e g i m e n t i n d e x indifference to human remains, 347 chaplain buries rebel and former slave side by side, 348 unburied dead scattered on old Virginia battlefields, 372 camps, field 4 miles north of Winchester, 105...

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