. To sacrifice, to suffer, and if need be, to die : a history of the thirty-fourth New York Regiment. s headed south, upthe Shenandoah Valley. At ten oclock it is near Charlestown, andgoes into camp in the edge of a woods, overlooking the beautiful till the 10th. At six oclock in the morning, in the midst of apouring rain, it is off again, down through Charlestown, and headedfor Berryville. Now there is firing ahead, ominous sounds and sightsof every kind, and it looks as if our time had come, for we are on thevery frontier of the advancing column. But no; the enemy offers butlittl
. To sacrifice, to suffer, and if need be, to die : a history of the thirty-fourth New York Regiment. s headed south, upthe Shenandoah Valley. At ten oclock it is near Charlestown, andgoes into camp in the edge of a woods, overlooking the beautiful till the 10th. At six oclock in the morning, in the midst of apouring rain, it is off again, down through Charlestown, and headedfor Berryville. Now there is firing ahead, ominous sounds and sightsof every kind, and it looks as if our time had come, for we are on thevery frontier of the advancing column. But no; the enemy offers butlittle opposition, and soon we are in Berryville, and down comes thesecesh rag, and up go the stars and stripes. Still there are threateningsounds ahead, until our cavalry swoops down the road, and justcleans it. On the march to Charlestown, where Tohn Brown was hanged, theregimental bands played the tune, to which is set Battle Hymn of theRepublic. and the mighty host, marching in columns miles in length,sang the familiar: John Brcwns body lies a-mouldering in the grave,But his soul goes marching on;. Moving at Last and when the chorus,Glory,glory,Hallelujah,wasreached the volume of the thousands of voices wasmost impressive. As foreshadowing the final doomof slavery, it was very significant. The rebel sym-pathizers, in return for this expression of sentiment(for we could now and then hear them, although wecouldnt see them), sang in reply: Twas in Harpers Ferry sectionThey had an insurrection;John Brown thought the niggers would sustain him;But old Govnor Wise, col byron laflin 1865 Dropped the specs from off his eyes, 3 And he sent him to the happy land of Canaan. This little town of Berryville boasted a newspaper called The Con-servator. Its editor was dead set against anything like progress, butmanaged to get a move on, when the Yanks showed up; and some ofour boys thought it too bad for the subscribers to be without theiraccustomed home paper for even one day. So some of them t
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