Identifier: historyofseventy00smit (find matches)
Title: History of the Seventy-sixth regiment New York volunteers; what it endured and accomplished; containing descriptions of its twenty-five battles; its marches; its camp and bivouac scenes; with biographical sketches of fifty-three officers and a complete record of the enlisted men
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Smith, A. P. (Abram P.)
Subjects: United States. Army New York Infantry Regiment, 76th (1862-1864) United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories
Publisher: Cortland, N.Y. (Truair, Smith and Miles, printers, Syracuse)
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ity,and argument? which might touch his heart in the civil walks,fell powerless when judged from a military stand-point. Noth-ing but surrender of the contraband article would prevent aresort to extreme measures. The poor Mary lander looked outof his window, then his door ; wherever he turned his eyes,on every side, he was hemmed in by double ranks of the boysin blue, each possessed of a shining piece of infantry arms.There was no escape ; resistance would be worse than useless;so with many a demurrer, and much semi-loyal argumentagainst confiscation, the owner of the pot-house surrendered.A detail of men conveyed the suspicious casks and flasks tothe army wagon, which was soon on its triumphant marchback to Camp Brightwood. The Colonel marched his menback in rear of the wagon, with feelings akin to those of acertain general at that time high in command, who, it is said,always requested the band to play, on his appearance in camp, See, the conquering hero comes. It may not be amiss to
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Captuked Whisky. 49 say, that the Colonel saw that the suspicious enemy was storedsafely in the cellar of his boarding-house, where he could havea personal supervision of it, and a perfect personal control ofthis destructive agent. It was soon after, however, removedto the cellar of the store at Brightwood, and undoubtedlyfinally proved a large if not valuable accession to the hospitalstores of the post. We shall have occasion hereafter to note the doings of this thing of evil, yet the whisky invasion, as it was face-tiously termed, proved a most salutary movement to theSeventy-sixth. The men accustomed to intoxication saw thatthe regimental commander was determined to prevent it; theliquor-sellers entertained that respect for him which they everdo for those who do them full justice, and the guard-housesoon began to furnish unmistakable evidence of an improvedcondition of the temperance cause in the Regiment, The mis-erable pot-house keeper was seen on divers days, hangingabout camp,

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