. . EZRA WHtTKEY, i h battery; Died at Nashville, Term.,December gth, 1862. lS65.] DISCRETION GAVK WAV TO PASSION. 731. such a tension of excitement that a single act of ill-consideredviolence would be likely, as a spark dropped in a powder maga-zine, to precipitate a conflict, the result of which the mind shud-ders to contemplate. It must be borne in mind that all thesoldiers had muskets and bayonets, and while it can scarcely beconceived that any would use them upon their officers and com-rades, it cannot be doubted that a number,
. . EZRA WHtTKEY, i h battery; Died at Nashville, Term.,December gth, 1862. lS65.] DISCRETION GAVK WAV TO PASSION. 731. such a tension of excitement that a single act of ill-consideredviolence would be likely, as a spark dropped in a powder maga-zine, to precipitate a conflict, the result of which the mind shud-ders to contemplate. It must be borne in mind that all thesoldiers had muskets and bayonets, and while it can scarcely beconceived that any would use them upon their officers and com-rades, it cannot be doubted that a number, dangerously large,chiefly among the Illinois and Missouri soldiers, were sufficientlycrazed and desperate tohave done so if the sparkhad fallen among picture is not over-drawn. It is not a pleas-ant one to contemplate, butsuch was the condition ofthose three brigades of vet-eran soldiers—who, timeand again, had cheerfullvobeyed the order to chargeinto the smoke and blaze ofhostile guns—as they rap-idly drew near to seemed like an anomaly:but it should not be forgot-ten that their provocationwas great. When within a shortdistance of Cairo, GeneralConra
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