. 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 .. . CHAPTER XXI. ADVENTURES OF THE PURSUIT. Dark fortune drives their squadrons back ; Away ! they cry ; the foe is on the track I T WAS the Fourth of July. Grant has captured Yicksburg! This was the news that flew along our ranksas we held that day the
. 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 .. . CHAPTER XXI. ADVENTURES OF THE PURSUIT. Dark fortune drives their squadrons back ; Away ! they cry ; the foe is on the track I T WAS the Fourth of July. Grant has captured Yicksburg! This was the news that flew along our ranksas we held that day the field of Gettysburg,so hotly contested and so valorously won. Major Beckstein hurried aAvay to ourregiment with the exciting intelligence, andas the men sprang to their feet a prolongedshout went up and mingled with loud hurrahs that wereheard on right and left. The official report of Grants renowned achievementwas read out at orders that evening, and our flags wavedproudly. Faces that were worn and haggard by the fiery ordealthrough which we had passed, were lighted up withsmiles of joy, and spontaneous congratulations wereexchanged between officers and the rank and file. A group of men struck up the Star-spangledBanner, and our redoubtablemajor, who vowed henever sang a note in his life, roared and bellowed with 17 . (257). 258 KNAPSACK AND BIFLE. all his might, sometimes in tune, more frequently out oftune, sometimes getting the words of the song, andsometimes the words of some other song, and occasion-ally no words at all. Still he sang, and as no one elsecould understand him he probably understood himself Rain had fallen, and the mud was the only bed mostof the men had to sleep in the night before. While atthe field hospital, helping the wounded, I found a boardabout six feet in length by fourteen inches in width. Iheld on to my prize, and resolved to have somethingbttween me and the wet ground when I attempted to tried to determine which was the soft side of it, a
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