. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . rches and severely tryingones; yet they were in excellent spirits and physically in good condition; butthe heart was taken out of everybody when on the 1st of December the ordercame to retire across the Kapidan and resume the camps from which we hadstarted out so gayly a week before. | The troops burrowed in the earth andbuilt their little shelters, and the officers and men devoted themselves tounlimited festivity, balls, horse-races, cock-fights, greased pigs and poles, audother
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . rches and severely tryingones; yet they were in excellent spirits and physically in good condition; butthe heart was taken out of everybody when on the 1st of December the ordercame to retire across the Kapidan and resume the camps from which we hadstarted out so gayly a week before. | The troops burrowed in the earth andbuilt their little shelters, and the officers and men devoted themselves tounlimited festivity, balls, horse-races, cock-fights, greased pigs and poles, audother games such as only soldiers can devise. At this time the abuses of the draft system were made manifest to themen at the front by the character of a large part of the recruits who weresent through that agency. The professional bounty-jumper and the kid-napped emigrant and street boy, who were put through the enlistment I During this campaign the Union army lost 173 killed, 1099 wounded, and 381 captured ormissing = 1653; and the Confederates 98 killed, 610 wounded, and 104 captured or missing =812.— FROM A PHOTOGRAPH MAJOR-GENERAL JOHN SEDGWICK, KILLED AT SPOTSYLVANIA IN THE WILDERNESS CAMPAIGN, MAT 9, 1864. 9-2 FROM GETTYSBURG TO THE COMING OF GRANT. 93 offices in New York and elsewhere, came in large numbers, the professionalswith the intention of deserting at the earliest opportunity and repeatingthe profitable experiment of enlisting for large bounties. Their favoritetime for leaving was during their first tour of picket duty, and it was foundnecessary to throw a cordon of cavalry outside our own picket lines. Agallows and a shooting-ground were provided in each corps, and scarcelya Friday passed during the winter while the army lay on Hazel River andin the vicinity of Brandy Station that some of these deserters did notsuffer the death penalty. During the winter the army grew again intosuperb condition, and awaited with high spirits the opening of the springcampa
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