. Annals of the Army of the Cumberland: . zephyr: they come from the distant camp,where thousands have gathered to wage the battle for national we refrain from mention of the prime cause of all this death, destruc-tion, and privation ? We think not. These times and scenes cannot long con-tinue, in the nature of things. Peace must come: it must follow exhaustion,if it does not spring from victory. The future historian will then appear,to weave and create for his day and generation. There will be a Bancroft,in those later times, to round the swelling periods, and a Macaulay, to
. Annals of the Army of the Cumberland: . zephyr: they come from the distant camp,where thousands have gathered to wage the battle for national we refrain from mention of the prime cause of all this death, destruc-tion, and privation ? We think not. These times and scenes cannot long con-tinue, in the nature of things. Peace must come: it must follow exhaustion,if it does not spring from victory. The future historian will then appear,to weave and create for his day and generation. There will be a Bancroft,in those later times, to round the swelling periods, and a Macaulay, to investwith grace and beauty the historic pages of the slaveholders rebellion of thenineteenth century. They will search for such lesser lights and shadows aaare here recorded with which to gild and tint their complete picture. Andbeneath that picture they will again write, as was written by the EternalOne, They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. [SCIDENTS, ANECDOTES, REMINISCENCES, AND POETRY ARMY OF THE CUMBERLARD. M. INCIDENTS AND REMINISCENCES. BiRNiNG OF Steamboats on the Cumberland.—During the month ofDecember, 1862, the water in the Cumberland was at its lowest stage. Onlythe lightest class of steamers could reach Nashville, and the grounding,delay, and reshipment to cross the Harpeth Shoals, some thirty miles belowNashville, was materially added to by the presence of rebel forces, here andthere, along the river-banks in that vicinity. In the early part of thatmonth, four steamers were thus destroyed in one day, and also the smallgunboat William H. Sidell, which had been hastily improvised from a littlestern-wheel steamboat, the work being done at Nashville during the blockade. An eye-witness of the event thus describes it :— No evidences of danger were seen until, approaching Harpeth Shoals,we beheld the smoking hull of the steamer Charter and several burninghouses on the south side of the river. The steamer had been burned bythe guerrillas under
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