. Incidents and adventures in rebeldom; Libby, Bells-Isle, Salisbury. ible way to avoid this contingency andsave the rebel cause with which he secretly sympathized wasto order a sudden cessation of hostilities. I also met andtalked with new soldiers the evening after the battle whohad not had a chance to discharge a gun at the enemy thatday, and I know, and thousands of other soldiers who par-ticipated in that fight know, that reinforcements were ar-riving in large numbers during that eventful day. In common with the rank and file of the eastern army,up to this time, I had been an enthusiastic
. Incidents and adventures in rebeldom; Libby, Bells-Isle, Salisbury. ible way to avoid this contingency andsave the rebel cause with which he secretly sympathized wasto order a sudden cessation of hostilities. I also met andtalked with new soldiers the evening after the battle whohad not had a chance to discharge a gun at the enemy thatday, and I know, and thousands of other soldiers who par-ticipated in that fight know, that reinforcements were ar-riving in large numbers during that eventful day. In common with the rank and file of the eastern army,up to this time, I had been an enthusiastic McClelland ad-mirer, but the facts above stated, taken in connection withhis stupid conduct of the Peninsular campaign set the seal 56 Incidents and Adventures in Rebeldom. upon General Geo. B. McClelland as the chief traitor of thecentury, and if any confirmation of this opinion as to hischaracter were necessary, it was furnished by the generalsolicitude exhibited on the part of the rebels at Richmond,on his behalf, which I observed while a prisoner of war CHAPTER Scenes. After the Battle of Antietam our command went intocamp in an orchard near a brick house which stood on anelevation, and just below it, in the valley, gushed one of thelargest flowing springs it was ever my good fortune to Gaskell was pitching his tent in the orchard, in makingthe necessary excavation, he unearthed an arm, and grasp-ing the hand as he might that of a living comrade, exclaimed,Hello, old fellow, how do you do, how is it down there any-how ? and then calmly proceeded with his work. A shortdistance below the spring were some buildings which therebels were occupying as hospitals. Out in the open air wasan operating table, where amputating was being and legs by the cart load had been dissevered, some ofwhich had been buried, and it was one of those which Gas-kell had disturbed while engaged in pitching his tent. There were large numbers of sightseers and relic
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