. The long roll : being a journal of the civil war, as set down during the years 1861-1863 . different for the threeor four men who were hit. The firing has ceased, of have had one luxury for which I am thankful and that is ahalf-pipeful of tobacco, which I have just finished I write, our Mess is engaged in discussing certain pointsrelating to the Antietam fight, and telling their respectiveadventures on that terrible field. And for our Country, the new Calendar of Father Timeslooks gloomy enough. My earnest prayers are that the AlmightyGod will look down upon us and change
. The long roll : being a journal of the civil war, as set down during the years 1861-1863 . different for the threeor four men who were hit. The firing has ceased, of have had one luxury for which I am thankful and that is ahalf-pipeful of tobacco, which I have just finished I write, our Mess is engaged in discussing certain pointsrelating to the Antietam fight, and telling their respectiveadventures on that terrible field. And for our Country, the new Calendar of Father Timeslooks gloomy enough. My earnest prayers are that the AlmightyGod will look down upon us and change the state of our affairssoon, as He must do if in His goodness He thinks our insti-tutions worth saving from utter ruin. I hope Sixty-three willend in a far happier evening for our whole Country as well asfor myself, and that can not be unless this strife is ended in208 THE LONG ROLL a perfect reunion. With these prayers, do I take leave of thisold Year and meet the coming of Sixty-three, almost at ourdoor. I still continue to hope, almost against hope, that allwill be well in the 209 CHAPTER XVIII Newport News Again February 24th. HOW strange that I should be destined to see the last daysof the service in the same place where I served myapprenticeship! After so many curious windings onthe sea coast and in the interior of our country, where we havetraveled, tramped and fought, to be again at Newport Newswhere we had our first lessons in Camp life, nearly two yearsago. Of course, I can not with certainty say that we will behere for the remainder of our time, but I am repeating theassertion of our oflBcers, and though extraordinary events maybring us again within the music of bullets, they think it quiteimprobable. We are detailed at this Post as Provost-Guardand that is sufficient for the present. I will now go back towhere I left you, in the Camp of Distribution, near Alexandria. On January Twenty-ninth I was surprised to see SergeantLoades of the Second Maryland, whom y
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