. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . ne to the bottom with all that remainedon board. The j)osition of the Rhode Island at thistime was about eight or ten miles off the coast directlyeast of Cape Haltcras.— II. R. S. (See page 300.) THE SECOND BATTLE OF BULL RUN. 441 SONGS OF BATTLE.* OLD as the world — no other things so old;Nay, older than the world, else, how had sprungSuch lusty strength in them when earth was young ?—Stand valor and its passion hot and bold,Insatiate of battle. How, else, toldBlind men, born blind, that red was fitting tongueMute, eloquent, to show how tru
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . ne to the bottom with all that remainedon board. The j)osition of the Rhode Island at thistime was about eight or ten miles off the coast directlyeast of Cape Haltcras.— II. R. S. (See page 300.) THE SECOND BATTLE OF BULL RUN. 441 SONGS OF BATTLE.* OLD as the world — no other things so old;Nay, older than the world, else, how had sprungSuch lusty strength in them when earth was young ?—Stand valor and its passion hot and bold,Insatiate of battle. How, else, toldBlind men, born blind, that red was fitting tongueMute, eloquent, to show how trumpets rungWhen armies charged and battle-flags unrolled ?Who sings of valor speaks for life, for all death, and long as life is rippled waves the eternal air his breathEternal bears to stir all noble Homer from his lost and vanished graveKeeps battle glorious still and soldiers brave. Helen Jackson. (H. H.) Suggested by La Farges Battle window for Memorial Hall, Cambridge, Mass. THE SECOND BATTLE OF BULL RUN.*. PICKETING THE RAPIDAN. EARLY in June,1862, I was incommand of thearmy corpsknownas the Army ofthe Mississippi,which formed theleft wing of thearmy engaged inoperations againstCorinth, Miss.,commanded byGeneral few days afterCorinth was evac-uated I went to St. Louis on a short leave ofabsence from my command, and while there Ireceived a telegram from Mr. Stanton, Secre-tary of War, requesting me to come to Wash-ington immediately. I at once communicatedthe fact to General Halleck by telegraph, andreceived a reply from him strongly objectingto my leaving the army under his quite concurred with him both as to his ob-jections to my going to Washington for publicreasons and as to the unadvisability of such astep on personal considerations. I was obliged,however, to go, and I went accordingly, butwith great reluctance and against the urgentprotests of my friends in St. Louis, and subse- quently of many friends in the
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