. The long roll : being a journal of the civil war, as set down during the years 1861-1863 . f the Shadow. War-time, and books were more than scarce; paper andpencils, oddities; even the Newspapers were but lists of thewounded and unaccounted for. But time, dulled with themonotony of camp life, had to be filled, and the boy saved anypaper he could find to make his Journal notes and sketches,binding them into pamphlets, with Newspapers for he wrote his hopes, his plans, his ideas—descriptions,anything to occupy the leisure that camp routine gives to one,broken by the awful intensity
. The long roll : being a journal of the civil war, as set down during the years 1861-1863 . f the Shadow. War-time, and books were more than scarce; paper andpencils, oddities; even the Newspapers were but lists of thewounded and unaccounted for. But time, dulled with themonotony of camp life, had to be filled, and the boy saved anypaper he could find to make his Journal notes and sketches,binding them into pamphlets, with Newspapers for he wrote his hopes, his plans, his ideas—descriptions,anything to occupy the leisure that camp routine gives to one,broken by the awful intensity that battle means, giving acontrast in these pages as the sunshine of life beside the shadowof death. And now is offered to the world this sample page of thelife of one whose simple tastes led him always to seek the lessconspicuous place; but his record as a soldier and a man giveshim his promotion, and he rises from the ranks, by faithfulresponse to The Long Roll, to find his place among thosewho really live, and by their example unconsciously give hopeand faith to others. E. L. J. THE LONG ROLL CHAPTER I Castle Garden and Rikers Island Castle Garden, N. 12th, 1861. IT is now about two weeks since I joined this, the FirstRegiment of New York Zouaves, * and I get along remarkably well considering that I never played soldier before. Weare at present quartered in Castle Garden, but barracks arebeing built for us on Rikers Island, some ten miles up theEast River, where the Colonel says we are going to-morrow,but to-morrow probably means Tuesday. Yesterday, at drill, the boys of our Company took it intotheir heads to see how long they could go the about half of them had exhausted their strength andfallen out, some one stepped on my foot, wrenching it so thatI also was obliged to give up the contest, and I was glad to liedown on the grass in a pleasant spot in the Garden. The rest ofthe boys immediately after left the parade and broke ranks in theCastle
Size: 2930px × 853px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookidlongrollbein, bookyear1911
