. . d the Tennessee woods andhills rang and re-echoedwith the strains of Coro-nation and Old Hundred. The da; en up to c e 1 e b r atin g. Thegenerals and colonels laidaside their official dignityand mingled freely withthe boys, shaking handsM&Uk*/ and speaking word- *%> igratulation. Some their tongues were a littlethick and their speech14 rocky, but the wondei was that thev were abl«talk at all. On the evening of the15th came a dreadful revul-sion of feeling. A dispatchwas received and read toeach regiment, annoumthe assassinati
. . d the Tennessee woods andhills rang and re-echoedwith the strains of Coro-nation and Old Hundred. The da; en up to c e 1 e b r atin g. Thegenerals and colonels laidaside their official dignityand mingled freely withthe boys, shaking handsM&Uk*/ and speaking word- *%> igratulation. Some their tongues were a littlethick and their speech14 rocky, but the wondei was that thev were abl«talk at all. On the evening of the15th came a dreadful revul-sion of feeling. A dispatchwas received and read toeach regiment, annoumthe assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. The wholecamp was plunged in a moment from the pinnacle of rejoiinto the lowest depth of grief and mourning. Mr. Lincoln waspeculiarly endeared to the soldiers, and to each of them his deathcame as a sore personal bereavement. For a little time after thebaleful tidings were made known, the men seemed dazed by thesudden and grievous blow. Then the fountains of the greatdeep were broken up. Hundreds of those brawny, war-worn. MONKS WALT!SKRGI HANV C, SIXTY-FOURTH. TANTALIZING VISIONS OF HOME. 717 veterans wept like children. Their mingled and conflicting emo-tions were uncontrollable sorrow for the cruel death of u FatherAbraham and a convulsion of rage and exasperation. Bitterand without restraint were the maledictions invoked upon theperpetrators of the diabolical deed. Could those soldiers havelaid their hands upon the assassins, they would have torn themlimb from limb, and no power on earth could have stayed theiravenging passion. The world never witnessed such turbulenceof emotion, such contrast of su-preme s t j o y and profoundestgrief, as followed the tidings tthose two momentous events,within that brief space of time. That the war was at annone could doubt. With the fallof Richmond and the surrenderof Lee, the structure <^\ theSouthern Confederacy tumbled inruin, as fell the temple of thePhilistines when Samson bowedhimself*1 and wren
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