Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed.
Through Blood & Fire: Selected Civil War Papers of Major General Joshua Chamberlain (ed. Stackpole Books, 1996) - ISBN: 9780811717502