. The Ninth New York heavy artillery. A history of its organization, services in the defenses of Washington, marches, camps, battles, and muster-out ... and a complete roster of the regiment . he Federal *Wilmer McLean was living in 1861 on the Bull Run battlefield, hishouse there being Beauregards headquarters. Later to escape hisvexatious surroundings, he moved to this seemingly quiet was a strange decree of fate that made his home the very ending ofthe struggle. BREAKING THE LINES, AND SAILOR S CREEK. 239 forces. The enemy bad fought and retreated till there was noth-ing left fo
. The Ninth New York heavy artillery. A history of its organization, services in the defenses of Washington, marches, camps, battles, and muster-out ... and a complete roster of the regiment . he Federal *Wilmer McLean was living in 1861 on the Bull Run battlefield, hishouse there being Beauregards headquarters. Later to escape hisvexatious surroundings, he moved to this seemingly quiet was a strange decree of fate that made his home the very ending ofthe struggle. BREAKING THE LINES, AND SAILOR S CREEK. 239 forces. The enemy bad fought and retreated till there was noth-ing left for him to do but to lav down his arms and to receivesuch terms as General Grant chose to impose. The latter, de-termined and relentless in war, was mild and merciful in most stupendous of struggles was ended in the most com-passionate manner. The old world had never seen a conquerordismissing the thousands whom he had beaten, to their homesand vocations bearing with them such articles as might con-tribute to their future well being. In every way, save in theuniversal quality of personal bravery, our war was an excep-tion to all those which thus far had devastated the earth. In. WHERE LEE SURRENDERED. this lull of hostilities, old friends in both armies are renewingformer intimacies and none are sorry that, when the leadersseparate, it is with the understanding complete. There arefew men living who do not regard that moment when the words,Lee has surrendered, were borne to their ears, in that far-away Virginia county, as the culminating moment of their lived vears in those few hours of bliss, too intense forfull expression, though they resorted to every possible form ofindication. Nothing, however, in the crowning acts of this dayeclipses the merciful kindness of the conqueror in sending ra-tions from his trains which had followed hard after him, but 240 NINTH NEW YORK HEAVY ARTILLERY. the men themselves did not wait for the slower coming of foodfrom the supp
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