. Reminiscences of the war of the rebellion, 1861-1865 . eople were moving on and away, I feltthat the curtain of the great drama had been run down,the last scene of the tragedy of all tragedies closed, and has passed into his-tory, and slowly andthoughtfully w e moved with thethrong, back to thehotel, where I bademy brother good-bye, he returning tohis regiment atAlexandria, a fewweeks later to bemustered out of ser-vice, and I the nextmorning taking thetrain for home. It is characteristicof the American sol-dier to believe thathis own regiment things consider-ed, a little betterGEN. A
. Reminiscences of the war of the rebellion, 1861-1865 . eople were moving on and away, I feltthat the curtain of the great drama had been run down,the last scene of the tragedy of all tragedies closed, and has passed into his-tory, and slowly andthoughtfully w e moved with thethrong, back to thehotel, where I bademy brother good-bye, he returning tohis regiment atAlexandria, a fewweeks later to bemustered out of ser-vice, and I the nextmorning taking thetrain for home. It is characteristicof the American sol-dier to believe thathis own regiment things consider-ed, a little betterGEN. A. D. AYLiNG. than any other regi- Adjutant General of New Hampshire from 1879 to 1907. ,-|-|pi-if it-i fj-ip service This conviction isso strong that had this particular regiment beenleft out, it is doubtful if the War could have been broughtto a successful close. This feeling is what is termedesprit de corps, and in the Union army it reached itshighest exemplification. AMiile I have never persuadedmyself that the 3rd New Hampshire Regiment was su- 528. REVIEW OF GENERAL SHERMANS ARMY perioi* to all others, no ar,L;uineiit could convince niethat it was not equal to any other in its morale and inits fighting ({ualities, and it is with no little pride that Imake the comparison taken from the record of the NewHampshire regiments in the War of the Rebellion byAdjutant-General A. D. Ayling. And right here I would give more than passing no-tice of General Ayling, a brave soldier through the Warof the Rebellion and a personal friend of many yearsstanding. His services to his country through the A\ar waswith the ]\Iassachusetts troops, one of the first to enlistearly in April, 1861, first in the 7th Massachusetts Bat-tery, and in January, 1862, was promoted to 2nd Lieuten-ant and assigned to the 29th Mass. Vols-, and in 1864,was again promoted and appointed Adjutant of the 24thMass. V^ols., and later appointed aide-de-camp upon thestaff of Major-General R. S. Foster, serving for a time
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