red slipper upon the floor. “Won’t you heed me? Come,

machinery where parts had been carried away, or changing the

principle and running the mills on some different plan when

necessary, and finally forward the product to the army, made a task

that taxed the energy of all engaged in it. Yet, having at command a

very skillful corps of millwrights, machinists, and millers, detailed

principally from the Fourth Iowa and Thirty-sixth Illinois volunteer

regiments, we soon got matters in shape, and were able to send such

large quantities of flour and meal to the front, that only the bacon