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From May 4th until the 11th the Regiment remained at Camp Dennison, during which time they were uniformed, armed and equipped, and mustered into the United States service. On the night of May 11th orders came for the Regiment to report to Gen. Lew Wallace at Baltimore, Md., going by way of Columbus and Pittsburg. We started at midnight, being crowded into box cars, without a seat or bed except the floor. We rode in this manner for three days and four nights. Thursday noon found us still south of Xenia, and did not reach Pittsburg until Friday evening. There the Regiment was handsomely received. We marched to a hall where a bountiful supper was provided for us by the loyal ladies of that city. That supper to the tired, hungry soldiers was an event long to be remembered. The good people of Pittsburg fed every Regiment that passed through, going or returning. Early the next morning we passed Altoona, Pa., and the great “Horse Shoe Bend.” At this point one of the brakes on our car dropped to the track as we were descending the steep mountain grade; we could hear it “bump, bump,” on the track, but luckily it held, or the history of the 149th would have ended then and there. Nothing could have prevented the train rolling over the mountain side.