. The Ninth New York heavy artillery. A history of its organization, services in the defenses of Washington, marches, camps, battles, and muster-out ... and a complete roster of the regiment . rations are common,and in this year of grace 1899, the government is paying, in theway of pensions, for many cases of permanent disability this day •Near the State House, itself a tribute to Jefferson, is an equestrianstatue of Washington by Thomas Crawford erected in the early fifties,sometimes called his masterpiece. At the apices of a six-pointed starstand statues of Patrick Henry, John Marshall, Thom
. The Ninth New York heavy artillery. A history of its organization, services in the defenses of Washington, marches, camps, battles, and muster-out ... and a complete roster of the regiment . rations are common,and in this year of grace 1899, the government is paying, in theway of pensions, for many cases of permanent disability this day •Near the State House, itself a tribute to Jefferson, is an equestrianstatue of Washington by Thomas Crawford erected in the early fifties,sometimes called his masterpiece. At the apices of a six-pointed starstand statues of Patrick Henry, John Marshall, Thomas Jefferson,George Mason, Thomas Nelson and Andrew Lewis. RICHMOND;, WASHINGTON, AND HOME. 253 incurred. The brief halts where dust-brown ranks stood fast,or lounged by the roadside, were moments of restful bliss neverequaled elsewhere in life. If he remembered the hymns of hisboyhood, many a man thought: My willing soul would stay, In such a frame as this,And sit and sing herself away, To everlasting bliss. It was their very brevity that made them so enjoyable, andthe bugler was far from popular when his marching call rangout, as it always did many minutes too soon, followed by the. From Hardtack and Coffee, by permission. A ROADSIDE HALT. inevitable order of the officers, Fall in, fall in, men! Wasthere ever such a halt when some voice did not interpret thebugle-notes thus? I know you are tired, but yet you must go, So pack up your knapsack and march along s-l-o-w. When the day is done we camp at Chesterfield, another re-minder of that southward march of May, 1864. We appear tohe taking the route of that year in reverse. There are no sus-picions of a storm when we pull our tents and ponchos over usfor the rest to be found so sweetly in the pine spore-covered hol-lows of an ancient corn-field, now overgrown with vigoroustrees, but before morn the active pattering of rain-drops and theslow but sure gathering of water in those same comfortable de-pressions warn us that a rain
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