. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . nate, glorious mazes ! —Tis a Peri hymning of Paradise !Tis the plaint of a spirit that yearns and sighs,Though lapped in the nameless bliss of theskies. For a lost-loves embraces ! By the tethered horses, from man to manSpeech and laughter alternate ran, Where the muleteers were lying;But story and merriment fainter the only sound the tent-court knewWas the dragomans footfall echoing through, Or the wind in the walnut sighing. A moments hush with the falling strain; —And the wild wind, rising, roared amain Oer the stream and the c
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . nate, glorious mazes ! —Tis a Peri hymning of Paradise !Tis the plaint of a spirit that yearns and sighs,Though lapped in the nameless bliss of theskies. For a lost-loves embraces ! By the tethered horses, from man to manSpeech and laughter alternate ran, Where the muleteers were lying;But story and merriment fainter the only sound the tent-court knewWas the dragomans footfall echoing through, Or the wind in the walnut sighing. A moments hush with the falling strain; —And the wild wind, rising, roared amain Oer the stream and the covert shady; —Breathless I stood in the curtained the ravishing melody came no more;And the dragoman, crossing the tent before Cried, The Nightingale, my lady. Yet still, when April suns are low,I hear the wild sirocco blow. And see, in memorys vision,Abilas ruins strew the hill;The stars the Syrian azure fill;While, listening, all my pulses thrill As soars that song Elysian. Edna Dean Proctor. THE BATTLE OF BULL RUN.* JULY 21, L0L1SI.\NA TIGER. SOON after the first conflictbetween the authorities ofthe Federal Union and thoseof the Confederate States hadoccurred in Charleston Har-bor, by the bombardmentof Fort Sumter,— which,beginning at 4:30 a. m. onthe 12th of April, 1861,forced the surrender of thatfortress within thirty hoursthereafter into my hands,—I was called toRich-mond, which by thattime had become theConfederate seat ofgovernment, and di-> rected to assumeJ command of the Con-federate troops on theAlexandria line. Arriv-ing at Manassas Junction,I took command on the 2d of June, forty-ninedays after the evacuation of Fort Sumter byMajor Anderson. Although the position at the time was strat-egically of commanding importance to theConfederates, the mere terrain was not onlywithout natural defensive advantages, but, onthe contrary, was absolutely unfavorable. Itsstrategic value was that, with close proximityto the Federal capital, it held in
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