. The Ninth New York heavy artillery. A history of its organization, services in the defenses of Washington, marches, camps, battles, and muster-out ... and a complete roster of the regiment . ing thesame on the 23d, being prevented from entering Richmond bythe burning of the bridge on the rebel evacuation April halt was in Manchester, and here we remained till the brief interval was improved in visiting the rebel Capital,and in looking up the places that had become famous in thepreceding four years. Some of the companies had come up earlyenough to pretty thoroughly udo the cit
. The Ninth New York heavy artillery. A history of its organization, services in the defenses of Washington, marches, camps, battles, and muster-out ... and a complete roster of the regiment . ing thesame on the 23d, being prevented from entering Richmond bythe burning of the bridge on the rebel evacuation April halt was in Manchester, and here we remained till the brief interval was improved in visiting the rebel Capital,and in looking up the places that had become famous in thepreceding four years. Some of the companies had come up earlyenough to pretty thoroughly udo the city; I for instance. RICHMOND, WASHINGTON, AND HOME. 251 The trip was so slow that we had an excellent chance to studythe land impoverishment wrought by tobacco-raising. Wewondered that the country held out as long as it did. CHAPTER XXIII. Richmond. Washington, and Home. We had an early start on the 24th. and marched down to apontoon bridge spanning the James, near where, in the pre-ceding February, some of us had taken the steamer down thestream, for Libby prison with all its horrid memories is at ourleft, and further up the river is Belle Isle, the most infamous ~zr,~ 5 srO W- -. £=^. CAPTTOL OF VIRGINIA. bit of land in all the national geography. The rank and filehad no premonition of the pageant in which we were to beara part: but the day was to be a red-lettered one in our entered the rebel Capital by 17th street, thence filing intoBroad, which we traveled in company front, and at shoulder-arms. There is a steep incline as the street nears the rear ofthe State House, which, by the way. has a ••front-in-rear. andthat soldier who. forgetting Lots wife, looked backward, sawthe sight of his life, for from curb to curb, the street had be-, come a stream of burnished steel, glistening in the rays of themorning sun. Those weapons had belched fire and death from 252 NINTH NEW YORK HEAVY ARTILLERY. Cold Harbor to Petersburg, through a hundred miles of theShenandoah va
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