. . le of novelty and interestinfantry soldiers, few of whom had ever before seen a battery pped for About the tirst of Deceml>er the hoi ived, and the mounteddrills, as the battery wentthrough tli- ield evolutions, viewed with curious eyes, not onlyby the denizens of thecamp, but by people fromtown and country, whocame from far and near towitness the inspiring scene. The battery numl>ered•ut one hundred and fiftymen; of these nineteen wereabove tb ; forty and more than a hundred wunder thirty. Twenty-fourwere mustered as be wh
. . le of novelty and interestinfantry soldiers, few of whom had ever before seen a battery pped for About the tirst of Deceml>er the hoi ived, and the mounteddrills, as the battery wentthrough tli- ield evolutions, viewed with curious eyes, not onlyby the denizens of thecamp, but by people fromtown and country, whocame from far and near towitness the inspiring scene. The battery numl>ered•ut one hundred and fiftymen; of these nineteen wereabove tb ; forty and more than a hundred wunder thirty. Twenty-fourwere mustered as be which meantall the way down to six-teen. Under the regula-tions which uerp tluons, wliKli were tl. Died at Nashville, April, if niM. idhered to, no person could be received in the military service under the age oi eighteen, Hut tluiv were pi of life had not readied the limit of youth,Who to go to the tented field, and many of them □ d to slip through the meshes of the net and get in. True theyhad to follow the example of Ananias and tell fibs to the recruit-. JJ6 TO i> GRAvbkards. [Xovenil>er, lying their conscii ith the argument that in such a pti m was justifiable. It was the same in the infantry. In the • Sixty fourth and Sixty-fifth there was many a fresh, sturdy, r<cheeked lad, the record of whose birth in the big family Bible athome was greatly at variance with the figures on the muster-roll. When one of these lads wanted to enlist the recruitingofficer *sized him up and if the inspection was satisfactory hewinked slyly as the boy gave his age Eighteen, sir ! and signedhis name to the list. hoys made prime soldiers. They grew and developed rapidly under the fructifying influenceof army life. They endured the hardships of the service much : than the average of men above the age of forty. Animatedby the fiery enthusiasm and ambition of youth, their courage inbattle fairly challenged that oi heir older comrad< Later in the war, when the v itemeut that during
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