. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . Court House, of which this engagement wasthe close, the Union army lost about fifteen thousand. With sympathy for the last moments of eachsoldier, such as Robert Burns Wilson has put into his poem opposite, the horror of war becomes alltoo vivid. Ewells attack illustrates the sudden facing of death that may come to every desperate fighting about Spotsylvania had been prolonged ten days and more, when General Leethought the Union army was withdrawing to his right. To ascertain whether this was true hedirected Ewell to fe
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . Court House, of which this engagement wasthe close, the Union army lost about fifteen thousand. With sympathy for the last moments of eachsoldier, such as Robert Burns Wilson has put into his poem opposite, the horror of war becomes alltoo vivid. Ewells attack illustrates the sudden facing of death that may come to every desperate fighting about Spotsylvania had been prolonged ten days and more, when General Leethought the Union army was withdrawing to his right. To ascertain whether this was true hedirected Ewell to feel out the Federal position. After a long detour through roads nearly impassable,Ewell came upon the enemy ready to receive him. The object of his movement thus accomplished,he prepared to return, but found himself fiercely attacked. It was necessary then to make a stand,for no effective fighting can be done in retreat. The late afternoon and the early evening were filledwith the fierce encounter. Onlv when darkness came was Ewell able in safety to WHERE BUGLES CALL AND RIFLES GLEAM The men of the 74th New York Infantry, as they drill in their camp of 1861, exemplify the martial splendor of Cutlers poem; norwas its hero animated by a more unflinching resolve than they. The regiments record tells the story. It was organized in NewYork and till August 20th was stationed at Camp Scott, on Staten Island, as the fifth in Sickles Excelsior Brigade. Barely amonth after Bull Run, the first overwhelming Federal defeat, this regiment was on its way to Washington. The fall of the year, asthe picture shows, was spent in the constant marching and drilling by which McClellan forged that fighting instrument known tofame as the Army of the Potomac. The volunteers were indeed where bugles called and rifles gleamed, but they were impatient forservice on the great hot plain to hear the dissonant cries of triumph and dismay. Marching about under the leafless trees over[78]
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