. 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 XXXI. THE LAST DATS. ^Now lulls the storm ; great guns, whose brazen throat*Spoke fire and blood, are dumb at last. Rent flagsShall now go back to hang in marble tattered trophies of the nations eyes that wept shall dry t
. 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 XXXI. THE LAST DATS. ^Now lulls the storm ; great guns, whose brazen throat*Spoke fire and blood, are dumb at last. Rent flagsShall now go back to hang in marble tattered trophies of the nations eyes that wept shall dry their wasting tears,And hearts that prayed in agony and fear,Shall welcome back the men with scars. The rest the honored dead, shall now be deckedWith fairest flowers of May. I regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibilityof any further eftusion of blood, by asking of you the surrenderof the army under your command.—General T is with no little satisfaction that IapjDi-oach the end of my narrative, and reachthe point where I can describe the last scenesin the great strife. My wound, received at Cold Harbor, wassevere, yet I was determined it should notkeep me out of the army so long as I had anytime to serve. IN^either this, nor a previous wound, received soonafter I entered the ranks, leaving a bullet Avhich I havesince carried in my body, incapacitated me long for do not regret any sacrifice made in the conflict, anyblood spilled. (srs) 374 KNAPSACK AND BIFLE. But the reader who has turned these pages with theirHght and shadow—more of shadow than sunshine, aswas inevitable in a record of the war—will not be averseto reaching a conclusion. If we had all fared as well as you have, Knox, weshould say that the war had been to us a right goodfortune, remarked Sanderson one day, as a few werestanding together discussing the situation. By the way, Knox, asked Sergeant Yail; how doyou and that Southe
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