. As seen from the ranks; a boy in the civil war . ghterings of weakerraces by stronger ones; but this was, fromthe first, a death grapple between two civil-izations represented by branches of the samedominant race, and for four long years theechoes of the pickets rifle never ceased. Thedesperate and heroic character of the contestis attested by the high proportion of casual-ties in both armies, which were far in excessof those of any modem European war. As those who took part in it are fast pass-ing away, I am minded to sketch at random afew recollections of events which came undermy own obse
. As seen from the ranks; a boy in the civil war . ghterings of weakerraces by stronger ones; but this was, fromthe first, a death grapple between two civil-izations represented by branches of the samedominant race, and for four long years theechoes of the pickets rifle never ceased. Thedesperate and heroic character of the contestis attested by the high proportion of casual-ties in both armies, which were far in excessof those of any modem European war. As those who took part in it are fast pass-ing away, I am minded to sketch at random afew recollections of events which came undermy own observation and touched my ownexperience, believing that the impressionswhich events riiake upon any personality VI PREFACE have a certain value in themselves. In thesesketches I have had constantly in mind thatlarge portion of the public—and may it evergrow larger—who have never witnessedscenes of war, and have written for themrather than for veterans, aiming to presentin a series of pen pictures the drama of thecivil war as seen from the CONTENTS Preface PAGEV The Making of the Soldier The Dutchess County Regiment—Enlistment—Night Ride to Poughkeepsie—The Muster-ing Camp—Enthusiasm—A Regimental Band—Departure. II. From Camp to Field ....A Winter in Baltimore—City Camp and FieldCamp—Short Rations—Fun and Hardship—A Forced March—Echoes of Battle. III. Gettysburg ...... Approaching the Conflict — Meeting theWounded—On the Field—Entering the Bat-tle—How Does a Battle Look?—Work ofthe Stretcher-Bearers—Opening of the ThirdDays Battle—Recovering a Position—Hold-ing Culps Hill against Stonewall Jacksons Veterans. vii 24 viii CONTENTS IV. PAGE The Crisis Battle of the War . -37Picketts Grand Charge—Daring Courage ofthe South Breaks against the Firmness of theNorth—What might have Happened—Hopeof RepubUcs. V. After the Battle . . • -45Emotions in Battle—Quality of Courage—Gettysburg the Greatest Battle, both in Im-portance and
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