. Hon. Johnson : a partial copy of his letters, travels and addresses . such soldiers as youwere, nor any who achieved such results as you did by your valorand patriotism. No one who took no part, or saw the sufferingsyou endured on the march under a burning sun, or wading throughthe mud and slush to your knees in winter, camping in and nearfever breeding swamps, lying on battle fields, wounded andsuffering, or racked with pain on the hospital cot with no one nearor dear to sooth you with kind words and sympathy, can everhave any conception of what you endured. One of the saddest sights I
. Hon. Johnson : a partial copy of his letters, travels and addresses . such soldiers as youwere, nor any who achieved such results as you did by your valorand patriotism. No one who took no part, or saw the sufferingsyou endured on the march under a burning sun, or wading throughthe mud and slush to your knees in winter, camping in and nearfever breeding swamps, lying on battle fields, wounded andsuffering, or racked with pain on the hospital cot with no one nearor dear to sooth you with kind words and sympathy, can everhave any conception of what you endured. One of the saddest sights I have ever witnessed, was betweenHuntsville and Stevenson, Alabama. After the surrender of , I was coming from Huntsville with a train of soldiers, goingto Louisville to be mustered out. My train was flagged and afterstopping, I went forward to see what the trouble was and foundthat the section ahead of me had been derailed, a common oc-currence; only this particular one had at least, one sad featureconnected with it. One of the victims of that disaster was a young. Undoubtedly a Coming Man. rruv AiE^>/ YOFvKWuBUC LlBRARYl T»LD ASTOn, LENOXgf. foUNOATIDNS^ WRITINGS AND ADDRESSES 151 Indianian, who had enlisted at the beginning of the war as aprivate; re-enHsted as a veteran; went home on a furlough andwas married; he had only been at home two weeks and had lefthis bride to await his return. He had escaped the shot andshell of the Confederates and was killed on his way home to meethis bride. I saw him laid out and on his shoulders, he wore theshoulder straps of a captain. Just think what that meant for thatpoor girl-wife, in her Northern home? Yet it was only one ofhundreds of thousands not, perhaps, all so striking, but the blowwas as hard to bear for other mothers, wives and sisters, to saynothing of sweethearts, as it was to her. In all the wars of the world, either before or since the greatCivil War in which you took such a prominent part, there hasnot been such m
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