. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . sound is heard with distinctness. The watersof the Potomac were like a sheet of glass aswe took up our line of march across the LongBridge, making the old structure shake withour cadence step. Our moods varied : somelaughed and joked ; some, in suppressed tones,talked with their comrades as to their desti-nation. Not much was said about fighting,but I, for one, did a great deal of thinkingon that tender subject. After we ])assed the fort, which commanded RECOLLECTIONS OE A JRIVATE. 283. MARYLAND HEIGHTS. ~ ■^^ ■ : ■ big Irish
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . sound is heard with distinctness. The watersof the Potomac were like a sheet of glass aswe took up our line of march across the LongBridge, making the old structure shake withour cadence step. Our moods varied : somelaughed and joked ; some, in suppressed tones,talked with their comrades as to their desti-nation. Not much was said about fighting,but I, for one, did a great deal of thinkingon that tender subject. After we ])assed the fort, which commanded RECOLLECTIONS OE A JRIVATE. 283. MARYLAND HEIGHTS. ~ ■^^ ■ : ■ big Irish (oni- radc, Jim OBrien,facetiously took upthe declension ofmud,— mud, mudder,murder,— pulling afoot out at each vari-ation for emphasis. Jack. it would be im]jossibleto dislodge an enemy stuck in themud as we army resembled, more than an\ thingthe bridge on the Virginia side, we encount- else, a congregation of flies making a pilgrim-ered one of the most powerful allies of the age through molasses. The boys called theirRebel hosts, particularly during the winter and feet pontons, mud-hooks, soil-excava-spring campaigns in Virginia,— mud. No tors, and other names not quite so can beat a Virginia road for mud. When we halted to rest by the wayside, our feetWe struck it thick. It was knee-deep. It was were in the way of ourselves and everybodyverily heavy marching. The foot sank very else. Keep your mud-hooks out of my way,insidiously into the mucl, and reluctantly came Save your ponto
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