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| •236 morning, but it was half past three in the afternoon before the last train pulled out from the station. As the Fifth left Camp Thomas, the Fourteenth New York and the First Missouri lined up and cheered the Marylanders, their bands playing, "Maryland" and the "Star Spangled Banner." The march to Rossville was through excessive heat and thick clouds of dust, but the way was down hill and the men were not so heavily loaded as when they marched up the hill to the camp. Not one man dropped out of the ranks, the troops singing songs as they marched. There was a tedious and tiresome delay at Rossville owing to the lack of facilities for loading the supplies and horses, but this delay was not more tiresome than the trip itself. It was Sunday afternoon before Tampa was reached, and the last part of the trip from Waldo, Fla.. to Tampa, a distance of 156 miles occupied 40 hours. To add to the discomfort of the trip for the first part of • the journey the cars were not supplied with drinking water. |