. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . 188 YORKTOWN AND WILLIAMSBURG. RECOLLECTIONS OF A PRIVATE.—III. BY WARREN LEE IT was with open-eyed wonder that, aspart of MeClellans army, we arrived atOld Point Comfort and gazed npon FortMonroe, huge and frowning. Negroeswere everywhere, and went about theirwork with an air of importance born of^ their new-found freedom. These werethe contrabands for whom GeneralButler had recently invented that sobri-quet. We pitched our tents amid thecharred and blackened ruins of what
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . 188 YORKTOWN AND WILLIAMSBURG. RECOLLECTIONS OF A PRIVATE.—III. BY WARREN LEE IT was with open-eyed wonder that, aspart of MeClellans army, we arrived atOld Point Comfort and gazed npon FortMonroe, huge and frowning. Negroeswere everywhere, and went about theirwork with an air of importance born of^ their new-found freedom. These werethe contrabands for whom GeneralButler had recently invented that sobri-quet. We pitched our tents amid thecharred and blackened ruins of whathad been the beautiful and aristocratic village of Hampton. The first thingI noticed about the ruins, unaccustomed as I was to Southern architecture,was the absence of cellars. The only building left standing of all the villagewas the massive old Episcopal church. Here Washington had worshiped, andits broad aisles had echoed to the footsteps of armed men during the Revolu-tion. In the church-yard the tombs had been broken open. Many tombstoneswere broken and overthrown, and at the corner of the church a big holeshowed that some one with a greater desire for possessing curiosities thanreverenc
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