. To sacrifice, to suffer, and if need be, to die : a history of the thirty-fourth New York Regiment. opportunity of seeing the fear-ful ordeal through which thefields and woods had passedduring the terrible conflict ofJuly 1st. Unexploded shells, whichhad been fired by our gunboats,were also found, some of themtwo feet long and eight inchesin diameter. It was extremelydisagreeale business marchingover some portions of this field,on account of the horrid odoifrom the decaying bodies. TheRichmond Dispatch was theauthor of a statement, made atthis time, that a man who diesfor his country is enti
. To sacrifice, to suffer, and if need be, to die : a history of the thirty-fourth New York Regiment. opportunity of seeing the fear-ful ordeal through which thefields and woods had passedduring the terrible conflict ofJuly 1st. Unexploded shells, whichhad been fired by our gunboats,were also found, some of themtwo feet long and eight inchesin diameter. It was extremelydisagreeale business marchingover some portions of this field,on account of the horrid odoifrom the decaying bodies. TheRichmond Dispatch was theauthor of a statement, made atthis time, that a man who diesfor his country is entitled to agrave beneath her soil; but notall southern people, particularlythose in the southern army, concurred in this view. On the fol-lowing Thursday morning we returned to Harrisons Landing. Our next move was to be another of those masterly retreats forwhich our commanding general was so famous. Not in many a day,not until many a mile has been marched, many a battle fought, andmany a sacred life surrendered, shall we again be near enough to beholdthe spires of Richmond, as we did at Fair 1861 CAPTAIN EMERSON S. NORTHUP IQ02 CHAPTER VIII LEAVING THE PENINSULA. HARRISONS LANDING TO ANTIETAM ON Saturday morning, August 16, there was great commotion incamp, and great preparations for an important move. Itturned out to be a move down the peninsula, instead of days later we crossed the Chickahominy on a pontoon could not the army have had such a bridge at Edwards Ferry,and Balls Bluff, the preceding October, when that disastrous movewas made across the Potomac? On Tuesday, near night, we passedthrough the college town of Williamsburg, the scene of that terriblebattle just three months before. It was now a scene of and vines were rapidly obscuring the streets. If our marchup the peninsula had been made unpleasant by the constant rains, wenow had a taste of something quite different. No rain had fallen forsome time, and the great army, march
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