. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . CHAKOE OK THE FEDERAL LINE TO RETAKE THE IlENKV HILL. RECOLLECTIONS OF A PRIVATE.—L* (INCLUDING THE BATTLE OF BULL RUN.). EFORE the war hadreally begun I enlist-ed. I had read thepapers, and attend-ed flag-raisings, andheard orators declaimof undyingdevotionto the Union, Onespeaker to whom Ilistened declared that human life must becheapened, but Inever learned that hehelped on the work ex-perimentally. When not believe, from the first, in a sixty dayswar; nor did I consider ten dollars a monlh,and the promised glory, large pay for theservice
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . CHAKOE OK THE FEDERAL LINE TO RETAKE THE IlENKV HILL. RECOLLECTIONS OF A PRIVATE.—L* (INCLUDING THE BATTLE OF BULL RUN.). EFORE the war hadreally begun I enlist-ed. I had read thepapers, and attend-ed flag-raisings, andheard orators declaimof undyingdevotionto the Union, Onespeaker to whom Ilistened declared that human life must becheapened, but Inever learned that hehelped on the work ex-perimentally. When not believe, from the first, in a sixty dayswar; nor did I consider ten dollars a monlh,and the promised glory, large pay for theservices of an able-bodied young man. En-listment scenes are usually pictured as entirelyheroic, but truth compels me to acknowledgethat my feelings were mixed. At this momentI cannot repress a smile of amusement and pityfor that young recruit—myself. It was thenews that the Sixth Massachusetts regimenthad been mobbed by roughs on their passagethrough Baltimore which gave me the warfever. When I read Governor Andrews pa-thetic telegram to have the hero martyrs deliberately to the A SOLDIER OF 1861 (14TH NEW froiit aiid slgncd the voRK).t enlistment papers, he preserved in
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