. 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 .. . may conclude by saying that the surgeonsimputed my recovery to my sobriety and sound consti-tution, saying that if I had been a dissipated man Icould never have survived the operation. It is but just, in closing this chapter of peril, andnearness to
. 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 .. . may conclude by saying that the surgeonsimputed my recovery to my sobriety and sound consti-tution, saying that if I had been a dissipated man Icould never have survived the operation. It is but just, in closing this chapter of peril, andnearness to the gates of death, that I should speak ofthe skill and great surgical ability of the operating sur-geon, Dr. Thomas G. Morton, who, assisted by and Agnew, performed this critical operation atthe Pennsylvania Hospital. It was owing to their con-stant attention, ably seconded by the coi-ps of housedoctors and trained nurses at the hospital, together withthe blessings of Divine Providence, that I ani to-dayenjoying perfect health, surrounded by a loving wife,children and scores of friends, while the past, with itshair-breath escapes and exciting scenes, seems but adream. With these concluding words, the narrative of mywar ex]^r ence comes to an end. CHAPTER XXX. HOLDIJfG ON BRAVELY. Theirs not to reason why,Thehs but to do and URIN^Gr all the summer and autumn of 1864General Grant had his face set towardRichmond. Vigorous operations had been carried onby the aimj in every part of the countrywhere it w^as possible to strike a blow thatwould hasten the approaching conclusionof the war. Our men saw the star of hopecoming out brighter and brighter, and made but littleaccount of their hardships and sufferings. Our sturdy commander, Sedgwick, had fallen in battle,and had left us only the memory of his valiant he was to rank among the heroes who sleptunder the honors of the brave. In the earlier part of the season Sherman had beenoperating in Georgia,
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