. Three years in the army. The story of the Thirteenth Massachusetts Volunteers from July 16, 1861, to August 1, 1864 . sefor breach of discipline was accepted. Little by little the men real-ized that while he required prompt obedience, he was watchful ofthe comfort and health of his men, and before a month had elapsedwe began to feel a pride in the new order of things. As week fol-lowed week our attachment strengthened, until he became the idol of 148 THREE YEARS IN THE ARMY. 1862. his brigade. He succeeded in establishing so high a degree of discipline that the brigade received the en-thusia
. Three years in the army. The story of the Thirteenth Massachusetts Volunteers from July 16, 1861, to August 1, 1864 . sefor breach of discipline was accepted. Little by little the men real-ized that while he required prompt obedience, he was watchful ofthe comfort and health of his men, and before a month had elapsedwe began to feel a pride in the new order of things. As week fol-lowed week our attachment strengthened, until he became the idol of 148 THREE YEARS IN THE ARMY. 1862. his brigade. He succeeded in establishing so high a degree of discipline that the brigade received the en-thusiastic praise of General Hooker. On the night of the battle ofCedar Mountain, on a knoll exposed to the enemys fire, he was aconspicuous figure in the moonlight, in plain sight of his brigade, anexample to every man of the bravery that becomes a soldier. Byhis coolness on that night he inspired in his men a self-reliance thatwas of great service to them in the scenes that followed. Therewas no general officer under whom we served that excited in us sodeep an affection as that which we felt for Gen. Geo. L. ■**&*<; THIRTEENTH. MASS. VOLS. 149 CHAPTER VIII. 1862. We were in camp near Sharpsburg, where opportunity Until was afforcied us of renewing an acquaintance with the October 26. , - . , . . or people of that town, whom we met in August, ibOi. Visits were made to the battlefield and to the Dunkards church, in the vicinity of which had occurred such terrible fighting. The ludicrous instincts of the army were excited by the suggestive- ness of the name, and it was christened by some wag Drunkards church ; and it became so fastened upon the Society, which was very little known to the world, that it was deemed necessary to correct the error by an article published in one of the magazines some years after the war, protesting against a continuance of the outrage. The denomination of Dunkers, or Dunkards as it was originally called, is of German origin. They came to th
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