. Knapsack and rifle; or, Life in the Grand Army; war as seen from the ranks. Pen pictures and sketches of camp, bivouac, marches, battle-fields and battles, commanders, great military movements, personal reminiscences and narratives of army life ... Also, a complete chronology of the war, and a digest of the pension laws of the United States .. . the explosion ofher boilers fifty-nine officers and men were killed, onlyten escaping, all of these being scalded and wounded. Surpassing even this destruction, terrible as it was,was that at Fort Fisher, North Carolina. GeneralAmes division and a pa
. Knapsack and rifle; or, Life in the Grand Army; war as seen from the ranks. Pen pictures and sketches of camp, bivouac, marches, battle-fields and battles, commanders, great military movements, personal reminiscences and narratives of army life ... Also, a complete chronology of the war, and a digest of the pension laws of the United States .. . the explosion ofher boilers fifty-nine officers and men were killed, onlyten escaping, all of these being scalded and wounded. Surpassing even this destruction, terrible as it was,was that at Fort Fisher, North Carolina. GeneralAmes division and a part of the Twenty-fourth Corps,then under command of Geneial Alfied H. Terry,carried the foit by assault. They were aided by abattalion of marines and seamen from the Forseven hours the desperate struggle went on, and finallyended in a Union victory. The next day a frightfulexplosion occurred at the fort, caused by the carelessnessOi Federal soldiers who were wandering through thecaptured works. By this calamity w^iich produced aprofound sensation throughout the land, two hundredand forty officers and men lost their lives. One whose death was greatly lamented wus RobertGillette, of Hartford, Connecticut, a young and promis-ing officer, connected with the navy, who, combining inhimself all the elements of highest manhood, and fairest. RKvARY A^TOR, LFNOXTILCFN FOUKa^VTWNB KNAPSACK AXD RIFLE. „ 371 piomises of a useful life, was borne back to his earlyhome with demonstrations of sorrow. Thousands hkehim, and young Colonel Ellsworth, who fell in thebeginning of the war, the very flower of the land,rendered the nations struggle very costly. Whetherlying in the old family burial ground, or among theunknown upon the fields of their heroism and sacrifice,no graves are more sacred than theirs. So sleep the brave, who sink to restBy all their countrys uishes blest. It appeared to be the determination of General Grantto push the war to a conclusion by pushing the enemyto defeat.
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