. Bullet and shell. War as the soldier saw it; camp, march, and picket; battlefield and bivouac; prison and hospital. the city ; the bat-talion being soon scattered by detachments, busily employed inprotecting property and driving stragglers towards the front. The firing along the main lines had now greatly slackened,and it was evident that some change was being made in the dis-position of the assaulting columns. Heavy bodies of infantrywere seen moving towards the extreme left, while others rein-forced the center under Sumner. It grew dark soon after, andthough the troops were in constant mot
. Bullet and shell. War as the soldier saw it; camp, march, and picket; battlefield and bivouac; prison and hospital. the city ; the bat-talion being soon scattered by detachments, busily employed inprotecting property and driving stragglers towards the front. The firing along the main lines had now greatly slackened,and it was evident that some change was being made in the dis-position of the assaulting columns. Heavy bodies of infantrywere seen moving towards the extreme left, while others rein-forced the center under Sumner. It grew dark soon after, andthough the troops were in constant motion far into the night,they moved in silence, the only sounds that came to the earbeing the pattering shots of the opposing pickets, as they keptup an aimless fire amid the darkness. Our company was now summoned to escort some prisonersto the rear, so we saw no more of the army until it had re-treated across the river. We were thankful for our escape,though our captain grumbled as usual because we had missedthe disastrous engagement which shattered the army and droveits general from his command. 123 CHAPTER ■ Behold in awful march and dread arrayThe long-extended squadrons shape their way. URNSIDE had been succeeded by Hooker, andthe winter had passed quietly. The woods— 0 and forests which had hidden the corps and division camps when first established had nowall disappeared, for the axes of the soldiers hadswept away every tree and shrub for theirfires. The entire country was bare, not evenj^the shade-trees in the fields being spared.!< Barns, out-houses, fences, trees, all were gone :even the gardens were obliterated. The rav-ages of war had withered every thing. With the beginning of February, signs of anew campaign became visible. Supplies of every kind pouredinto the lines of the armies, the hospitals were rapidly empty-ing, and the ranks of the regiments filled up amazingly. Thenthe grand review — the usual prelude to a general movement —took place. It was
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