. Knapsack and rifle; or, Life in the Grand Army; war as seen from the ranks. Pen pictures and sketches of camp, bivouac, marches, battle-fields and battles, commanders, great military movements, personal reminiscences and narratives of army life ... Also, a complete chronology of the war, and a digest of the pension laws of the United States .. . ngedinto the Potomac, swimming to the other side. CHAPTEE XXII. ADVEISTTUKES OF THE FUB,STJlT— is better to chase than to be chased.—General Sedgwick. ltE WERE again on the south side of thePotomac, having crossed on our pontoonbridge. L
. Knapsack and rifle; or, Life in the Grand Army; war as seen from the ranks. Pen pictures and sketches of camp, bivouac, marches, battle-fields and battles, commanders, great military movements, personal reminiscences and narratives of army life ... Also, a complete chronology of the war, and a digest of the pension laws of the United States .. . ngedinto the Potomac, swimming to the other side. CHAPTEE XXII. ADVEISTTUKES OF THE FUB,STJlT— is better to chase than to be chased.—General Sedgwick. ltE WERE again on the south side of thePotomac, having crossed on our pontoonbridge. Lee was doing iiis best toescape. His ariiiy had ah-eady met with seriouslosses, so great, in fact, that its power forcoping with the Army of the Potomacwas Gettysburg was a fatal blowto Lee, who had built his hope of the final success of theConfederate cause on his northern invasion. It was said, and doubtless truthfully, that from thetime Lee left Virghiia until he re-entered the State, helost in battle, by disease and desertion, eighty thousandmen. We were almost constantly on the march after crossingthe Potomac. A fine landscape view greeted us near Front Royal, aplace often referred to in army despatches during thewar. The beetling hills, the outspread fields, andshadowy groves stood out upon our vision, and exclama- (265). 266 • KNAPSACK AND RIFLE. tions of admiration burst from the ranks as the mengazed upon the scene of beauty. It seemed sacrilege thata region so romantic and lovely should be trodden andwasted by the hoof of war. The fair valley and romanticuplands were marred by the havoc w^hich always attendsthe march of an invading army. We had halted one day for a short rest, and as black-berries were plentiful in the adjacent fields and bushes,the men soon scattered in all directions, and wereforaging. Presently a squad came rushing in at a headlong rate,and I was startled by this sudden retreat. They wereflying as if they had been put to rout by a ba
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