. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ge body of cavalry stretched along a country road, at night,with here and there a narrow or defective bridge or causeway. We were the advance brigade, and I recall the fact that inthe effort to get as much fun and frolic out of an uncomfort-able situation as possible, a number of the best voices in thecommand had been gathered about the center of our regimentand were waking the echoes in the gloomy forests whichhemmed us in, by singing lively war songs. From my point of view, at that time, the war had becomea very serious matter. I
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ge body of cavalry stretched along a country road, at night,with here and there a narrow or defective bridge or causeway. We were the advance brigade, and I recall the fact that inthe effort to get as much fun and frolic out of an uncomfort-able situation as possible, a number of the best voices in thecommand had been gathered about the center of our regimentand were waking the echoes in the gloomy forests whichhemmed us in, by singing lively war songs. From my point of view, at that time, the war had becomea very serious matter. In the beginning I thought it wouldbe a grand and exciting, yet short-lived, adventure, and witha host of others under military age hastened into the servicefearing war might be over before we had a chance for the gloryof it. That illusion had been dispelled. Nearly three yearshad passed, and despite the patient toil and suffering and theheroic self-sacrifice of the battlefield, our army had met witliso much disaster, it forced upon me the conclusion that our. m ^h,.^.,...\.;. m
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