This picture of Company C of the Twenty-first Michigan shows impressively
the type of men that the rough campaigning west of the Alleghanies had
molded into veterans. These were Sherman's men, and under the watchful eye
and in the inspiring presence of that general thousands of stalwart lads
from the sparsely settled States were becoming the very bone and sinew of
the Federal fighting force. The men of Sherman, like their leader, were
forging steadily to the front. They had become proficient in the fighting
which knows no fear, in many hard-won combats in the early part of the
war. Greater and more magnificent conflicts awaited those who did not find
a hero's grave.
[Illustration: A CAMP MEETING WITH A PURPOSE