. The long roll : being a journal of the civil war, as set down during the years 1861-1863 . Fort Naust-mond, Suttolk. fp/vs doing Home from Sh-cfcli hi/ Fredrick li. PI XTV VI THE LONG ROLL his bravery. He fought gallantly and fell late in the day, aglorious sacrifice to his Country. About four oclock yesterday afternoon, the order camefor General Rodmans Division to march immediately for thescene of fury, and Colonel Kimball tells us this morning thatthe order read Double-quick. This, of course, was impracti-cable, for our route was through gorge and ravine and overridges, up steep b
. The long roll : being a journal of the civil war, as set down during the years 1861-1863 . Fort Naust-mond, Suttolk. fp/vs doing Home from Sh-cfcli hi/ Fredrick li. PI XTV VI THE LONG ROLL his bravery. He fought gallantly and fell late in the day, aglorious sacrifice to his Country. About four oclock yesterday afternoon, the order camefor General Rodmans Division to march immediately for thescene of fury, and Colonel Kimball tells us this morning thatthe order read Double-quick. This, of course, was impracti-cable, for our route was through gorge and ravine and overridges, up steep bluffs, woods, rocks and fences, and it couldnot be Double-quicked. As we pressed on, up the toilsomeroad, we occasionally met ambulances full of wounded, andsquads of prisoners marching to the rear toward the there were very few shirkers, which bespoke plainly thatthe fight, wherever it was, was going well. We could hear nomusketry, though indications told us that we were near enough,and if it had not been for the loud whizzing of our shells atregular intervals, I might have thought that the fight was
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