Book Excerpt: ...sing bottle, grew wonderfully, and bade fair to be a marvel of size and strength.Sometime in September the pioneer regiment arrived in pretty good condition at--where? No fort, no settlement, no regular landing even; simply at the mouth of the St. Peters river, where we had been ordered to halt, and our long march was ended.For many weeks the boats were our only shelter, and the sense of entire isolation, the thought that the nearest...