The boys of '61; or, Four years of fightingPersonal observation with the army and navy, from the first battle of Bull run to the fall of Richmond . s becoming impassable on account of the increas-ing multitude, soldiers were summoned to clear the way. Howstrange the event! The President of the United States — hewho had been hated, despised, maligned above all other menliving by the people of Richmond — was walking its streets,receiving every evidence of love and honor! How bitter thereflections of that moment to some who beheld him, who re-membered, perhaps, that day in May, 1861, when Jeffers
The boys of '61; or, Four years of fightingPersonal observation with the army and navy, from the first battle of Bull run to the fall of Richmond . s becoming impassable on account of the increas-ing multitude, soldiers were summoned to clear the way. Howstrange the event! The President of the United States — hewho had been hated, despised, maligned above all other menliving by the people of Richmond — was walking its streets,receiving every evidence of love and honor! How bitter thereflections of that moment to some who beheld him, who re-membered, perhaps, that day in May, 1861, when JeffersonDavis entered the city, — the pageant of that hour, his speech,his promise to smite the smiter, to drench the fields of Virginiawith richer blood than that shed at Buena Vista! How thatpart of the promise had been kept; how their sons, brothers,and friends had fallen; how all else predicted had failed; howthe land had been filled with mourning; how the State hadbecome a desolation; how their property, wealth, had disap-peared ! They had been invited to a gorgeous banquet; thefruit was fair to the eye, golden and beautiful, but it had. -- n m. v - -•. f « H saw -^,.vS5r teS* m m>-:.
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