. Four years in Secessia : adventures within and beyond the Union lines : embracing a great variety of facts, incidents, and romance of the war ... . are often treated by their officers, is enough to render anysensitive nature cynical. I have seen repeated instancesof this, and I wonder some shoulder-strapped ruffians arenot often assassinated, as they deserve to be, by the menthey so grossly abuse. As an instance: One day, at Syracuse, a privatewho liad a canteen of liquor, and had been drinking,was knocked down, beaten, and kicked in the mostbrutal manner, before a dozen Captains, Colonels,
. Four years in Secessia : adventures within and beyond the Union lines : embracing a great variety of facts, incidents, and romance of the war ... . are often treated by their officers, is enough to render anysensitive nature cynical. I have seen repeated instancesof this, and I wonder some shoulder-strapped ruffians arenot often assassinated, as they deserve to be, by the menthey so grossly abuse. As an instance: One day, at Syracuse, a privatewho liad a canteen of liquor, and had been drinking,was knocked down, beaten, and kicked in the mostbrutal manner, before a dozen Captains, Colonels, andMajors, all of wliom, doubtless, professed to be gentle-men, and yet not one of them remonstrated against theoutrage, or interfered to prevent it. Gentlemen, indeed ! They were not even human. I^ot a voice was raised against the cowardly and ruf-fianly officers, except that of a woman, whose instincts ofhumanity could not be repressed. When she spoke of the grievous wrong, she wasinsulted by the military gentlemen who had failed toprevent the cruelty the weak woman only had courage torebuke. Iin IB oImS> zen > I ocv>mA mm■Dma] 05. THE KEV/ YOKKPUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, ;1 tOU:>i->AT10N ON THE MARCH. 43 Another instance : Two soldiers, wlio liad been in thehospital in St. Louis, and who, extremely anxious to jointheir regiment, had left their beds before they were able,arrived one day at Syracuse ; and, still pale and wan,but with patriotism and enthusiasm flashing from theireyes, went up to the Colonel, and said; Well, Colonel, we are about again. We got upagainst the Surgeons orders ; but we were afraid wedbe left behind, and we always want to be with the braveSeventh. The Colonel, contemptible puppy as he was, lookedangrily at the poor, brave fellows, and said, in the mostangry tone: Well, G d 3^ou, go and report yourselves, and dont trouble me. * After seeing and hearing the brutality of a portion ofthe ofiicers to their men, I do not wonder
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