. Gordon's experiences in the Civil War : from his narrative, letters and diary . een allkinds of people, from almost every nation on earth, have marchedtwice the length of that terrible Peninsula,—have waded the mostdismal of the Carolinas swamps, have been engaged in ten or adozen sanguinary conflicts, in short we have seen the Elephant inall his glory; and felt the Earth quake beneath his mighty tread. A good part of the time when enduring the hardest privations, wehave been cheered with the thought that we were striving to per-petuate that Government which was established by our foref
. Gordon's experiences in the Civil War : from his narrative, letters and diary . een allkinds of people, from almost every nation on earth, have marchedtwice the length of that terrible Peninsula,—have waded the mostdismal of the Carolinas swamps, have been engaged in ten or adozen sanguinary conflicts, in short we have seen the Elephant inall his glory; and felt the Earth quake beneath his mighty tread. A good part of the time when enduring the hardest privations, wehave been cheered with the thought that we were striving to per-petuate that Government which was established by our forefathers,and for which a Washington a Greene a Marion, a Lafayette ten-dered their lives, and at whose shrine the lives of Warren De KalbPulaski and thousands others less noted but no less brave wereoffered up. But in these latter days when Ambition and lust rules theday there is little to comfort the common Soldier and true cannot look out on the dread future with anything like hope-fulness, and as we are powerless to do anything toward asserting (( 2|*S r mimfi (l| »r. s, (llmtotiV -///a fy(///■/;/// ///// s/t/A yO / OcoM j /?////■ S/. /- vY/- AJ//// SfSf/7 f////,//A/////////// //////?/. f////////Y/y/A. /////// / ■cMc; /■ (< 30 EXPERIENCES IN THE CIVIL WAR Port Royal S. C. March 14th [1863] Dear Uncle IT is with pleasure that I acknowledge receipt of your letter ofFeb seel. As you do not mention the receipt of but one from me, you musthave written in answer to some I have written since leaving is the first one I have received from you since one dated I have written to you often, oftener perhaps than to any otherperson but I believe all of my letters did not reach you. We arestill lying on St. Helena and are getting along after the same oldfashion. As you intimated we have been knocked around a good have been (comparatively speaking) everywhere. Have seen allkinds of people, from almost every nation on earth, ha
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