. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . in connection with patriotism did not give me agreeable impressionsof war, and when I came to think of it, the stoning of the heroic Sixth didnt suit me; it detracted from my desire to die asoldiers death. I lay awake all night thinking the matter over, withthe ice and brick-bats before my mind. How-ever, the fever cidminated that night, and I resolvedto enlist. Cold chills ran up and down my back as I got out ofbed after the sleepless night, and shaved, preparatory toother desper
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . in connection with patriotism did not give me agreeable impressionsof war, and when I came to think of it, the stoning of the heroic Sixth didnt suit me; it detracted from my desire to die asoldiers death. I lay awake all night thinking the matter over, withthe ice and brick-bats before my mind. How-ever, the fever cidminated that night, and I resolvedto enlist. Cold chills ran up and down my back as I got out ofbed after the sleepless night, and shaved, preparatory toother desperate deeds of valor. I was twenty years ofage, and when anything unusual was to be done, likefighting or courting, I shaved. With a nervous tremor convulsing my system, andmy heart thumping like muffled drum-beats, I stoodbefore the door of the recruiting-office, and, before tui-n- -^k^ing the knob to enter, read and re-read the advertisementfor recruits posted thereon, until I knew all its pecu- u^ifor of the sixth -^ _ ^ MASSACHUSETTS. liarities. The promised chances for travel and promo- from a not my province to volunteer eucli advice. Ouce beforeIn my lite I had taken part in opposing a formidableriot, and had learned by experience tliat the safest andmost humane manner of queuing a mob is to meet it atthe beginning with armed resistance. The column con-tinued its marcli. There was neither concert of actionnor organization among the rioters. They were armedonly with siu-h stones or missiles as they could i^ick up,and a few pistols. My presence for a short time hadsome effect, but very soon the attack was renewed withgreater violence. The mob grew bolder. Stones flewthick and fast. Rioters rushed at the soldiers and at-tempted to snatch their muskets, and at least on twooccasions succeeded. With one of these a sol-dier was killed. Men (ell on both sides. A young law-yer, then and now known as a qmet citizen, seized aflag of one of the companies and near
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