[Gutenberg 60243] • A Historical Sketch of Company "B," Eighteenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry / Three Months Service

Excerpt from A Historical Sketch of Company "B" Eighteenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry; Three Months Service

As friend Boring states we arrived at Columbus about A. M. We were marched up to the State House and spent the day about the grounds. We had a meal about 1 o'clock P. M., at the Goodale House, but so many hungry men had preceded us that but little to eat was left and that little was of poor quality and poorly cooked and served.

Some of our boys had friends in the city and were invited to dinner with them and thus fared sumptuously. The first night we were quartered in the basement of the state house, where we slept on beds of straw upholstered with small lumps of coal. The next night we quartered in the rotunda of the capitol building, sleeping on the marble floor with neither straw nor coal to temper the springs of our beds. The next day we went to Camp Jackson, now Goodale Park. Here we spent some four weeks, drilling and learning the other duties of soldiers. On Thursday, the 25th, we were given quarters at the Ohio Penitentiary, taking our meals there and sleeping on the parlor and office floors and in the loft of a large barn adjoining the prison. Our meals during the time we were quartered here were taken at the mess table of the officers of the prison and were very satisfactory and a great improvement over our camp fare. We remained here about two weeks, when we returned to our barracks in camp. During our stay at the Penitentiary we spent the hours between meals at the camp drilling, etc.

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