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. The story of Company A, Twenty-fifth Regiment, Mass. Vols. in the the War of the Rebellion [electronic resource] . usement asthey thought best. We have seen how CompanyA boys amused themselves. It was some threehours or more before the other troops arrived, butat the first sound of the drum the men came troop-ing from all directions, and before it ceased beatingevery one was in place, and every gun taken whenthe order take arms was given. The Colonel wasmuch pleased, and complimented the boys on theirpromptness. We left Sunday morning, November 2nd, march-ing through a thinly settled country, the Twenty-Tarioro ^h. navmg tne tedious duty of guarding the baggagemarch, train. About the middle of the afternoon the ad-vance (Forty-fourth Mass., nine months men) metthe enemy and had a skirmish, with a small loss tothe Union troops, the cavalry and artillery doingmost of the fighting= This skirmish took place atan extensive swamp through which flowed a con-siderable stream of water that crossed the road wewere traveling; at this point was the fighting, andwe passed several dead Rebels, one rolled in his. 25th Rcgt., Mass. Vols. 133 blanket, with his head bound up. Broken cannonalso lay here. We soon after bivouacked for thenight. This place was called Rawls Mill. Early morning saw us again on the road, andmarching through a much better country Williams-ton, on the Roanoke River, was reached aboutnoon. This was a pretty village of ten or twelvehundred inhabitants. We halted here until 4 p. m., and in the meantime set about getting somethingto eat as usual. Our foragers were very successful, and brought in a variety of food. For instance, wehad beef, hog, sheep, chickens—all just killed, andsalt horse. Soldiers say, Live to-day if you die to-morrow We were marching through a goodcountry and lived accordingly The march was resumed, the route turning for afew miles towards Hamilton, and by 10 p. m. weagain went into bivouac. Sunrise next morningfound us once more on the roa