The Little Regiment and Other Episodes of the American Civil War

The fog made the clothes of the men of the column in the roadway seem of a luminous quality. It imparted to the heavy infantry overcoats a new colour a kind of blue which was so pale that a regiment might have been merely a long low shadow in the mist. However a muttering one part grumble three parts joke hovered in the air above the thick ranks and blended in an undertoned roar which was the voice of the column.