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^ND AHj^
OF THE REPUBLIC
ALMANAC
FOR 1879.
CONTENTS.
PA UK PAGE
A Nurse's Stort, 34 My Boy Ben, . . . , . 49
A Recollection of Gettysburg, My Boy, 57
Battle Cry of Freedom (song), Nem's from the Front, SG
Clara Harlowe Barton, . Noble Women of the War, 64
Corporal Simpson's Story,

Eclipses in 1879,
He did His Duty Well,

Patriotism, .....
Our Youngest Soldier,
Phil Sheridan Riding to THE Front,

41
45
In the Prison Cell (song)
Jottings from the Battle Field,

Rates of Postage,
Regimental Events,
....
....
60
Just Before the Battle (song),

Kingdom Coming (bong),
.
Thanksgiving,
The Cooper Shop,
....
....
38
53
37
Marching Through Georgia (song), The Grand Review, 33
Margaret Fuller on Women,

Morning and Evening Stars,
Movements and Engagements,
The Season.«, .....
The Late Gen. Phil Kearney,
When Johnny Comes Marching Home (song)

48
Mrs. Eliza Potter,

n.
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PRE FACE.
We take pleasure in placing before the public a work which must prove of value to every
one interested in the stirring events through which our Country passed, during the period
from 1861 to 1S65, inclusive, and it is our aim to present (as far as may be) a complete
Chronological Record of the Engagements participated in by the Union forces, together with
such reminiscences of Army Life as shall help to keep alive the love of Country in every
American heart.
Fourteen years have passed since the close of the great struggle, and yet we have not a
HOME for the Veterans in the old Bay State, who were among the first to respond to the call
of " To arms ! to arms !
" Among our numbers there are many who are unable to gain a
livelihood by reason of wounds and disease contracted on the Battle Fields. Once more we
appeal to the public to aid us in securing a permanent Home for those who gave the best
days of their lives that our Country might stand undivided under the Oi-D Flag.
We most earnestly and respectfully ask the generous co-operation of the public to assist
us in this our good purpose, by purchasing a copy of the Grand Army Almanac.
Worcester, Mass., Nov. 1878. • " H. N. E.
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GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC ALMANAC.
ECLIPSES IN THE YEAR ]879.
Ill the year 1879 there will be three Eclipsestwo of the Sun and one of the Moon.
:
I. An Annular Eclipse of the Sun, January 22. Invisible. Visible to portions of South
America and Africa.
II. An Annular Eclipse of the Sun, July 19. Invisible. Visible to Africa, and to small
portions of Europe and Asia.
III. A Partial Eclipse of the Moon, December 28. Invisible. Visible, more or less, to
the world generally, except to South America and a portion of North America.
MORNING AND EVENING STARS.
Mercury will be Morning Star about January 16, May 15, September 9, and December 28;
and Evening Star about March 29, July 27, and November 20.
Venus will be Evening Star till September 23; then Morning Star for the rest of the year.
Jupiter will be Evening Star till February 8 then Morning Star till August .31
; and Evening ;
Star again the rest of the year.
THE SEASONS.
Vernal Equinox (Spring begins), March 20, 6 h. 26m. A. Summer Solstice (Summer begins),
June 21, 2 h. 35 m. A. Autumnal Equinox (Autumn begins), September 23, 5 h. 9 m. M. Winter
Solstice (Winter begins), December 21, 11 h. 18m. A. (Given in Washington time.)
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,s, MONTH.
January, 1879. 31 DAYS.
MOON'S PHASES. NEW YORK. WASHINGTON. CHARLESTON. CHICAGO.

D. H. M. H. M. H. M. H. M.
Full Moon. . . 8 7 4 morn. 652 morn, 6 40 morn. 6 28 morn. 5 58 morn.
Third Quarter. 15 6 18 morn. 6 6 morn, 5 54 morn. 5 42 morn. 512 morn.
New Moon . .
7 7 morn. morn, 6 43 morn. 6 31 morn. 6 I morn.
First Quarter. 7 o morn. 6 4S morn. 6 36 morn. 6 24 morn. 5 54 morn.
CALENDAR FOR Calendar for
Boston ; New
Eng- New York City; Phil Movements and Er\gagen:\ents
land, New
York adelphia, Connec
Slate, Michigan, ticut, NewJersey,
Wisconsin, Iowa Pennsylva'a.Ohio Jaiixiary 1S61.
and Oregon. Indiana & Illinois
2.3d.— The Confederates siezed the United
States arsenal at Augusta, Georgia.
30th. — The revenue cutters, Cass, at Mobile,
and McLelland, at New Orleans, surrendered to
the Confederate authorities.
H.M. H.M H. M. tTanuary 1862.

Wed o 58 -3 —Mason and Slidell
1st. Fort Warren for
left
Thur 25
England the British steamer Rinaldo.
in
Fri 25
4th. — Gen. Milroy defeated the confederates at
3 3 3
4 Sat 4 41 4 7 25
5 8nn 4 42 % 9 25 Huntersville, Va., and captured $80,000 worth of
6 Mon 4 43 6 8 25 stores.
7 Tues
Wed
4 44 rises. 25 7th. — Confederates defeated at Romney.
8
9 Thur
4
4 46 6 15
45 5 2 24
24
8th. —Gen. Palmer defeated the Confederates
10 Fri 244 at Silver Creek, Mo. Union loss, 4 killed and 18
4 47 7 29
II Sat 448 8 43 wounded.
12 Sun 9 56 10th. —
Col. Garfield defeated the Confederates
13 Mon 28 4. 50 II 10 under Humphrey Marshall at Prestonburg, Kv.
14
15
Tues
Wed
4 52 morn.
4 53 25
11th. —The Brunside expedition sailed from
i6 Thur Fortress Monroe. Naval engagement on the Mis-
4 54 1 41
17 Fri 2 56 sissippi between the Union steamers Essex and
4 55
18 Sat 254 56 4 9 4 3 St. Louis, and four Confederate boats; the latter
19 Sun 25 4 5^1 5 15 5 8 were compelled to seek protection under the
20 Mon 24 4 59| 6 8 6 2
batteries at Columbus.
21 Tues 23'5 sets. J9 sets.
Wed Simeon Cameron resigned his position as Sec-
23:5 5 23 19 5 27
23 Thur 225 6 31 18 6 35 War, and E. M. Stanton was appointed
retary of
24 Fri 2i|5 7 V 17 7 39 in his place.
25 Sat 5 8 41 16 842 19th.— Battle of Mill Spring, Ky. This battle
26 Sun 5 9 43 15 9 43 was fought between 3,000 Union troops under
27 Mon 5
,
8 10 44 1515 10 43
Tues Gen. Schoep and Confederates under Gen. Zolli-
2S 5 9 II 46 145 " 43
coffer. The enemy were defeated and Gen. Zolli-
29 Wed 5 10 morn. morn.
30 Thur 5 n 48 125 44 coffer killed. Union loss, 39 killed and 127
31 P"ri i.T 51 11I5 1 46 wounded.
5 1
A quaker said to a gunner, "Friend,

tTanuary 1S63.
I counsel no blood-
shed ; but if It be thy design to hit the little man in the

1st. — Gen. Sullivan defeated the Confederates
under Van Dorn, at Hunt's Cross Roads, near
blue jacket, point thine engine three inches lower."
Lexington, Tenn. The Union garrison and the
January 1803.— Continued. 20th. — Confederates evacuate Corinth.
27th. — Confederate incendiaries set fire to the
steamer Harriet Lane captured Galveston, at
city of Savannah.
Texas.
The Westfield destroyed to keep it from falling February 1801.
into the hands of the enemy.
shaw perished with
Commodore Ren- 1st. — Texas Convention passed an ordinance
his vessel.
of secession by a vote of 166 to 7, to be submitted
3d. — Since the hard battle of Dec. 31, fighting to the people.
had been going on between the two armies at The Louisiana authorities seized the Mint and
Murfrcesboro. On the night of Jan. 3, the rebels Custom House at New Orleans.
commenced their retreat. The following is the
statement of the Union loss at the battle
official
8th. —
The United States arsenal at Little Rock
surrendered to Arkansas.
of Stone river: killed, 1,997, wounded 6,425, and
3,550 missing.
9th. —Jefferson Davis and A. H. Stevens were
elected Provisional President and Vice-President
The Federal army withdrew from before Vicks- of the Southern Confederacy.
burg. The Union loss in the second attack on
Vicksburg was about 600 killed, 1,500 wounded,
13th. —
The electoral vote counted. Abraham
Lincoln received 180 votes; Stephen A. Douglas,
and 1,000 missing. 12; John C. Breckenridge, 72 and John Bell, 30.
;
10th.— Battle of Arkansas Post. The attack 19th. — Fort Kearney, Kansas, seized by the
was commenced Saturday night by the Mississippi Confederates.
squadron under Admiral Porter. On the follow- 23d. — Gen.Twiggs surrendered Government
ing day, the land forces under Gen. McClernand property in Texas, valued at $1,200,000, to the
joined in the fight, and before night all the fortifi- Confederacy.
cations were taken. About 7,000 prisoners and a
February 1802.
large quantity of ammunition was captured. The
Union loss was about 200 killed and wounded.
3d. —The Federal government decided that the
crews of the captured privateers were to be con-
20th. —
The Morning Light and Velocity, block-
sidered as prisoners of war.
ading Sabine City, Texas, were both captured by
the Confederates.
6th. —
Commodore Foote with 7 gunboats at-
tacked Fort Henry on the Tennessee river. The
22d. — Third attack on Vicksburg. After the
Confederate commander. General Tilghman, made
the capture of Arkansas Post, Gen. McClernand
an unconditional surrender.
returned to Vicksburg and resumed the siege of
that place.
8th. —
Gen. Burnside captured six forts on
Roanoke Island, taking about 3,000 small arms
28th. —
Gen. Burnside relieved of the command
and destroying all the Confederate fleet except
of the army of the Potomac, and Gen, Hooker
two vessels. Union loss was 50 killed and 212
appointed in his place.
wounded. 2,500 prisoners and a large quantify
31st. —The Confederate General Pryor made
of ammunition were captured.
an attack on the Union troops, under Gen. Peck,
at Blackwater, Va. The Confederates were
10th. —
Elizabeth City, N. C. surrendered to
Gen. Burnside. The Federal gunboats ascended
repulsed.
the Tennessee river as far as Florence, Ala.,
tTanuary 1805. captured three and destroying six Confederate
8th. — Gen. Butler removed from the command boats.
of the army of the James, and succeeded by Gen. 13th.— Gen. Curtis took possession of Spring-
Ord. field, Mo.
11th. — Beverly, Va., was attacked by a Con- 14th. — Com. Foote attacked Fort Donelson
federate force under Gen. Rosser. The town and with the gunboats, but was compelled to withdraw.
a large portion of the force defending it were 15th. — The attack on Fort Donelson renewed
captured. by the land forces under Gen. Grant, numbering
16th. — Fort Fisher, near Washington, North 40,000.
Carolina, captured with all its equipments. Bowling Green evacuated by the Confederates,
2d MONTH.
February, 1879. 28 DAYS.
MOON'S PHASES.
—
12 GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC ALMANAC,

February ISOH. — The Confederates dr'vcn from their
12th.
—Congress abolishes slavery the United works — The Confederates

1st. in Tenn, at Paris,
evacuated
13th. works their
States.
12th. — Gen. Sherman occupied Branch viDc,
New Madrid, Mo., such haste as to leave 25
at in
S. C. pieces of and a large quantity of military

artillery
— Gen. Sherman's victorious columns en- stores valued $1,000,000.

17th. at
tered Columbia, C, and burned the

S. city.
— Gen. Burnside attacked the Confeder-
14th.
— Gen. Lee assumes supreme command ates their

18th. of in Newbern, N. C.
fortification at
the Confederate armies, and recommends arming After a fight of four hours, the enemy retreated,
of the blacks. leaving a large quantity of ammunition, pro-

Charleston, S. C, evacuated and taken posses- visions and stores in the hands of the victors.
sion of by Gen. Gijmore. Six thousand bales of The Union loss was 91 killed and 406 wounded.
cotton destroyed. Ammunition stored in the IGth. —
Commodore Foote commenced the
railroad depot exploded, and many lives were attack on Island No. 10. Confederates defeated
lost. Gen. Gilmore hoisted the old flag over Fort at Cumberland Mountain, Ky.
Sumter. 18th. —
Confederate fortifications at Acquia
19th. —
Fort Anderson, N. C, taken. Creek evacuated.
21st. —
Fort Armstrong, N. C, taken. Confederates defeated at Salem, Ark.
22d. —
Wilmington captured by Gen. Schofield. 23d. —
Battle of Winchester, Va. The Con-
23d. — Raleigh, N. C, captured. Governor federates were defeated and retreated to Stras-
Vance captured. burg, leaving their dead and wounded upon the
field. The Union loss was 103 killed and 4G6
March 1861.
wounded.
4th. — Inauguration of Lincoln, President of the 2Sth. —
Fight at Pigeon Ranch, between 3,000
United States.
Union troops under Col. Hough, and 1,100
Cth. —
Fort Brown on the Rio Grande, was sur-
Texans. The battle was a drawn one.
rendered by special agreement. The Federal
troops evacuated the fort and sailed for Key 3Iarch 1863.
West and Tortugas. 7th. — Gen. Minty attacked a Confederate cav-
March 1S62. alry force at Unionville, Tcnn., capturing their
1st. —
Figlit at Pittsburg Landing between two wagons, horses, and tents, and about GO prisoners.
Union gunboats and a Confederate battery. 9lh. —
A band of Confederate cavalry passed
8th. —
Battle of Pea Ridge. Total defeat of through the Union lines, entered Fairfax, Va.,
the enemy. Union loss was 212 killed and 020 and captured Gen. Stoughton and a few privates.
wounded. The Confederate steamers, Mcrrim.ic, 17th. —
Two hundred cavalry under command
Jamestown and Yorktown, attacked the Federal of Gen. Avcrill crossed the Rappahannock near
fleet at Hampton Roads, destroying the Cumber- Kelly's Ford, where but a single horseman could
land and Congress, and damaging several otbcr cross at once, and in the face of a most terrible
vessels. fire from sharpshooters charged the Confederates
9th. —
Battle between the Confederate iron- in their entrenchments, killing or capturing nearly
clad,Mcrrimac, and the Federal floating battery. the whole force. They then encountered Stuart's
Monitor; the former compelled to retire. This cavalry, and after a desperate hand-to-hand en-
the first contest between iron-clads which the counter for five hours, routed them with great
world had ever seen —
was studied by the naval slaughter, capturing 80 prisoners.
departments of all civilized powers, and a reaction 20th. — John Morgan with 4,000 men was
took place against wooden vessels. totally defeated near Milton, Tenn., by Col. Hall
11th. —
Gen. McClellan took command of the with 1,400 mounted men.
army of the Potomac; Gen. Fremont, of the The negro brigade took Jacksonville, Florida.
Mountain department; Gen. Halleck, of the Major-Ger.cral Burnside appointed to com-
department of the Mississippi. mand the department of the Ohio.
GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC ALMANAC. 13
3d MONTH.
March, 1879 31 DAYS.
MOON'S PHASES.
14 GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC ALMANAC.
April ISGl. — Continued. 7,721 wounded, and 3,956 missing. The Con-
federate Gen. Johnson was
— Major Anderson and
14tli. men sailedhis
— Island No. 10 captured; 5,000 prisoners,
8th.
killed.
for New York.

— U. Arsenal Harper's Ferry
18th. S. at
100 siege guns, 24 pieces
de-
5,000
stands of small arms, 2,000 hogsheads of sugar,
field artillery,
stroyed by Lieut. Jones, to prevent its falling into

and a large quantity of clothing, tents, and am-
the hands of the enemy. Col. Coke, with 400
munition.
men of the 25th Pennsylvania regiment arrived
in Washington. These were the first troops to
1th. 1 —
Fort Pulaski, commanding the entrance
Savannah, surrendered after a bombardment
to
enter the city for its defence.
Gen. Mitchell occupied Hunts-
19th. —
Steamer Star of the West seized bv
of thirty hours.
ville, Ala., taking 200 prisoners, 15 locomotives,
the Confederates at Indianola, Texas.
and a large number of cars. Congress passed
The 6th Massachusetts regiment, while passing
the bill abolishing slavery in the District of
through Baltimore, was attacked by ^ mob; two
Columbia.
soldiers were killed. The troops fired upon the
mob, killing 11 and wounding many. Presidjnt
12th. —
Gen. Mitchell captured 2,000 prisoners
at Chattanooga.
Lincoln issued a proclamation declaring the ports
of South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi,
18th. —
The Confederates attacked General
Smith's division at Yorktown, but were repulsed.
Louisiana and Texas in a state of blockade.
20th. —
The U. S. Arsenal at Liberty, Mo.,
19th. —
Fight between Gen. Burnside's troops
and the enemy near Elizabeth City, N. C. The
seized by the secessionists, and the arms dis-
latter were defeated. Union loss, 1 1 killed.
tributed among the surrounding counties. The
Gen. Reno, with 2,000 Union troops, defeated the
Gosport Navy Yard destroyed by Gen. McCauley,
enemy at Camden, N. C.
to keep it from the Confederates the war vessels
;
Delaware, Pennsylvania, Columbia, Germantown,

25th. —
Com. Farragut arrived at New Or-
leans, and took possession of the city. Fort
Merrimac, Raritan, Dolphin, and United States*
Macon, Georgia, surrendered after a bombard-
were scuttled and set on fire; the Cumberland
ment of eleven hours. Gen. C. F. Smith died at
was towed out.
22d. —
U. S. Arsenal at Fayetteville, N. C,
Savannah, Tennessee.
28th. —
Forts Jackson and St. Philip sur-
seized by the Confederates.
24th. —
Fort Smith, Arkansas, seized by the
rendered.
29th. —
Gen. Mitchell defeated the Confeder-
Confederates under Senator Boland.
25th. —
Major Libby surrendered 450 U. S.
ates at Bridgeport, Ala.
troops to the Confederate Col. Van Dorn, at

Ajiril 1803.
Saluri, Texas.
29th. —
The Maryland House of Delegates 6th. —
Gen. Mitchell, with 300 cavalry, dashed
into a Confederate camp near Nashville, on a
voted against secession, 63 to 13.
sabre charge, capturing 5, killing 15, and captur-
April 1862. ing all their tents, arms, horses, and equipments.
6th. —Battle of Shiloh. The Confederates 7th. —
Attack on Charleston. The Federal
under Gens. Johnson and Beauregard attacked fleet was composed of nine iron-clad vessels under
Gen. Grant's army at Pittsburgh Landing. The the command of Commodore Dupont. The fight
Union forces were driven back to the river and a began in the afternoon of April 7, and lasted
number of prisoners captured. "• about two hours. The Keokuk was so badly
7th. — The battle of Shiloh renewed. Gen. damaged that she sunk in a few hours. Several
Buell arrived during the night with reinforce- other vessels were temporarily disabled. The
ments. The battle lasted throughout the day fleet was then withdrawn.
with varied success, but the Confederates were 10th. —
Gen. Van Dorn's forces attacked Gen.
finally defeated and driven to their fortifications Granger at Franklin, Tenn., and were driven
at Corinth. The Federal loss was 1,614 killed. back with loss.
.
GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC ALMANAC. IS
4th MONTH.
April, 1879. 30 DAt'S.
MOON'S PHASES. NEW YORK. WASHINGTON. CHARLESTON. CHICAGO

H. M. H. M. H. M. H. M.
Full Moon.. .
5 40 eve. 528 eve. 5 16 eve. 4 eve. 4 34 eve.
5
Third Quarter. 9 25 morn. 9 13 morn, 9 morn.
I 8 49 morn. 8 19 morn.
New Moon . . 9 II morn. 8 59 morn, 8 47 morn. 8 35 morn. 8 5 morn.
First Quarter.
J2_ 9 '^2 morn. 9 20 morn. 9 8 morn. 8 56 morn. 8 26 morn.
CALENDAR FOR CALENDAR FOR
Boston ; New Eng New York City; Phil April 18G3. — Continued.
land, New York adelphia, Connec
State. Michigan, ticut. New Jersey; 17th. — Gen.
Banks' command left Baton
Wisconsin, Iowa Pennsylva'a.Ohio Rouge, fought three battles, two on land and one
& Oregon. Indiana & Illinois
on Grand Lake, capturing 2,000 prisoners. Our
H loss was 700.
Six vessels of Porter's fleet ran by the Con-
federate batteries at Vicksburg.
18th. —
Fayetteville, Ark., attacked by 3,000
Confederates with four pieces of artillery; Uijion
H.M. H. M. H.M. H. H. M. forces numbered but 2,000. The Confederates
Tues 5 42 2 39 5 436 2 ZZ were repulsed. Our loss was 5 killed and 17
Wed 5 3 " 5 426 3 I
wounded.
Thur 3 40 406 3 38
3
4 Fri
5
5 4 6
5
5 38!6 4 5
22d. —
The ram. Queen of the West, was
5 Sat 5 4 31 5 37j6 4 32 captured in Grand Lake, with Capt. Fuller and
6 Sun 5 rises. 5 356 rises. all her officers and crew, numbering 90.
7
8
Mon
Tues
5 8 3 5 34 6
5 32!6
7
9 19
59 30th. —
Col. Mulligan repulsed by the Con-
5 9 24 federates at Fairmont, West Va., and the B. & O.
9 Wed 5 10 42 5 3016 10 35
ID Thur u 50 5 296 11 43 R. R. bridges blown up at Fairmont and Cheat
5
II Fri 5 morn, 5 27 6 morn. river.
12 Sat 5 o 46 26:6 40
13 Sun 246 1 25
April 1864.
5
14 Mon 5 20 2 6 22I6 2 I 8th. — The advance of Gen. Banks' expedition
15 Tues 5 19 2 34 216 2 31 up Red river, under the direction of Gen. Stone,
16 Wed 2 58 196 2 56
was repulsed near Shreveport, La.; but on the
17 Thur 5 16 3 20 186 3 19
18 Fri 166 following day our men defeated the enemy. Our
5 14 3 40 3 40
19 Sat 12 4 o I5i6 4 2 loss was about 2,000 and the enemy's the same.
20 Sun II 4 21 - '36 4 24 12th. —
Gen. Forrest captured Fort Pillow,
21 Mon sets. 5 12^6 sets.
and immediately after commenced an indiscrim-
22 Tues 8 22 5 11:6 8 16
inate massacre of our wounded soldiers, both
23 Wed 9 22 96 9 16
24 Thur ID 20 86 10 13 colored and white, not excepting women and
25 Fri 11 12 11 6 children who had taken refuge in the fort.
26 Sat II 57 II 52
27 Sun morn, 46 morn April 1805.
28 Mon 2!6
29 Tues 1
37
10 1
-î
6 — Victory of Five Forks, Va.

1st.
30 Wed I 38 06 I 36 2d. — Lee's lines at Petersburg carried.

3d. — Richmond taken.
— Surrender of Gen. Lee and his whole
9th.
Wh.it military order is like a lady crossing the street
army Appomattox Court House, Va.
at
on a wet day? — Dress up in front, and close up in the 12th. — The Union hoisted at Ft. Sumter.
flag
rear. Mobile, Ala., captured.
;
i6 GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC ALMANAC.

April 1SG5. — Continued. defeated. Union loss about 300 killed and
14th.— President Lincoln shot by Wilkes wounded.
J.
Booth, Ford's theatre, Washington;
in Mr. — Gen. Milroy attacked the enemy
8th. at Mc-
Seward and his son wounded. Dowell's, Va. After a fight of five hours he was
15th. —
Death of President Lincoln. Vice- forced to withdraw.
President Johnson sworn in as President of the 9th. —The Confederates evacuated Pensacola,
United States. and destroyed the Navy Yard.
26th. —
Gen. Johnson surrendered. 10th. — The Federal forces took possession of
Norfolk, Va. Gosport Navy Yard destroyed by
May 1801. the Confederates. Gunboat fight on the Mississ-
1st. — President Lincoln called for 42,000 three ippi, near Fort Wright; the Confederates were
years volunteers; 22,000 troops for the regular repulsed, losing two vessels.
army, and 18,000 seamen. 11th. —
The Confederates blow up their iron-
4th. —Gen. McClellan placed in command of clad, Merrimac, to prevent its capture by the
the department of Ohio, comprising the States of enemy.
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. 12th. —
Natchez, Miss., surrendered to Com.
.5th. —Gen. Butler took possession of the Re- Farragut.
lay House, Maryland. ICth. —
The Union Gunboats repulsed at Fort
11th. —Blockade of Charleston, S. C. estab- Darling.
lished, by the steamer Niagara. 17th. —
Confederates driven across the Chicka-
16th General Scott ordered the fortification hominy, at Bottom Bridge.
of Arlington Heights. 23d. —
Confederates defeated at Lewisburg,
18th. — Military Department of Virginia created, Virginia.
comprising Eastern Virginia, North and South 24th. — Col. Kenley, commanding the
Federal
Carolina headquarters at Fortress Monroe
; Front Royal, Va., was attacked by
troops at
commander. General Butler. a large force of the enemy and defeated with a
22d. —
Fortifications of Ship Island destroyed
heavy loss.
to keep them from the enemy. 23th. —
General Banks defeated at Winchester,
24th. —Thirteen thousand troops crossed theVa., and driven across the Potomac.
Potomac into Virginia. Alexandria occupied by 27th. —
Confederates defeated at Hanover, Va.
Federal troops. Col. Ellsworth shot by JacksonUnion loss, 35 killed and 220 wounded.
the murderer was instantly killed. Arlington29th. —
Confederates evacuated Corinth, Miss.
Heights occupied by Union troops. 31st. —
The Confederates Under Gen. John-
2Gth. —The Port of New Orleans was block- son attacked the left wing of the Army of the
aded by the sloop-of-war Brooklyn. All postal Potomac, commanded by General Casey, at Fair
service in the seceded States suspended. Oaks. Union forces were driven back.
Corinth taken.
3Iay 1802.
.3d. — TheConfederates evacuated Yorktown, May
1803.
Jamestown, and Mulberry and Gloucester Is- 1st. —
Gen. Carter with 5,000 men attacked the
lands, leaving ammunition, camp equipage, and Confederate forces at Monticello, under Pegram,
100 guns behind. driving them from the field.
.'jth.—Battle of Williamsburgh, Va. The Battle of Port Gibson. Gen. Grant defeated
Union troops were commanded by Gens. Hancock Gen. Bowen, with a loss of 1,550 men and 5
and Hooker. The Confederates were defeated, pieces of artillery.
and retreated in the night towards Richmond. 2d. —
On the morning of the 17th of April,
7th. —Battle of West Point, Va. Gens. Frank- 18G3, the Gth and 7th Illinois cavalry, 900 strong,
lin and Sedgwick, with a force of 20,000 men, were under command of Col. Gricrson, of the Gth
attacked by Gen. Lee. The Confederates were Illinois, set ont from Lagrange, Tenn., marched
.
5th MONTH.
May, 1879. 31 DAYS.
MOON'S PHASES. BOSTON. NEW YORK. WASHINGTON. CHARLESTON. CHICAGO,

\\.M. H M. H. M, H. M. H. M.
Full Moon.. . I 28 mom. I 16 morn, I 4 morn. o 52 morn. o 22 morn.
Third Quarter. 9 52 eve. 9 40 eve. 9 8 eve. 9 16 eve. 8 46 eve.
New Moon. . . I 6 morn. o 54 morn, o 4 morn. o 30 morn. o I morn.
First Quarter. 6 52 eve. 6 40 eve. 6 28 eve. 6 16 eve. t
; 46 eve.
s:.
May J^65.— CuNTiNUKD. May lS6r>.
13th. — Grant defeated
Joseph F. Johnston 4th. — Gen. Dick Taylor surrenders.
and captured Jackson, Miss., with 7 cannon and lOtii. — Jefferson Davis captured at Irwinville,
large quantities of military stores, besides 400 75 miles southwest of Macon, Ga., by the 4th
prisoners. The State capitol was destroyed by Michigan cavalry, under Col. Pritchard, of Gen.
fire. Wilson's command also, his wife, mother, Post-
;
15th. —
Battle of Baker's Creek, Miss. The master-General Regan, Col. Harrison, private
Confederate army, under Gen. Pemberton, and secretary, Col. Johnson and other military
the Union forces under Gen. Grant. About characters.
25,000 men were engaged upon each side. The 24th. —
Grand review of Gen. Sherman's army
Confederates met with a disastrous defeat, losing at Washington.
2,600 in killed and wounded, 200 men prisoners, 26th. —
Kirby Smith surrendered. The last
and 29 pieces of artillery. armed Confederate organization has succumed.
17th. —
Battle of Big Black River. Grant 31st. —
Confederate General Hood and staff
again attacked Pemberton, and defeated him surrendered.
with a total loss of 2,600 men and 1 7 cannon.
18th. — Investment of Vicksburg by the Fed- June ISai.
erals underGen. Grant and Admiral Porter.
27th. — Gen. Banks commences the siege
3. — Col. Kelly defeated the Confederates at
of
Phillippi, Va., killing 15 Col. Kelly was severely
;
the forts at Port Hudson, Miss. wounded.

Gen. Beauregard arrived and assumed com-
May 18(i4. mand of the Confederate forces at Manassas
6th. — Gen. Grant crossed the Rapidan, and Junction, Va.
Lee fell back towards Richmond. Battle of the 10th. —
Battle of Big Bethel. Three regiments
Wilderness. of Union troops, under the command of General
7th. — Grant still advances, driving Lee's Pierce, were defeated with a loss of 16 killed,
forces before him. among them Major Winthrop, and 41 wounded.
8th. — Sherman occupied Dalton. 14th. —
Confederates evacuated Harper's Ferry
9th. — After three days' hard fighting, Lee's after destroying all available property.
forces retreated, leaving 3,000 killed and 10,000 i5th. —
Brig Perry arrived at New York with
wounded on the field in possession of the Union the privateer Savannah.
army. 17th. —
Wheeling Convention unanimously de-
12th. —Battle of Spottsylvania. Union troops clared Western Virginia independent of the Con-
victorious. They capture 4,000 prisoners and 25 federate portion of the State.
pieces of artillery. General Lyon defeated the Confederates at
13th. —Gen. Sheridan, with cavalry, reached Booneville, Mo., with a loss of about 30 killed
the rear of the enemy near Hanover Junction, and 50 wounded ; Union loss, 2 killed and 9
breaking two railroads, capturing several locomo- wounded.
tives, and destroying Lee's depot for supplies at 20th. —
Gen. McClellan assumed command in
Beaver Dam, containing over 1,000,000 rations. person of the army in Western Virginia.
15th. —Sherman forced Johnson to evacuate 24th. —
The United States gunboat. Pawnee,
Resaca, after two days' fighting. attacked the Confederate battery at Mathias
Union defeat at Newmarket, Va. Point. A spy arrested at Washington, with full
23d. — Army of the Potomac flanked the Con- details of the number of troops and batteries, and
federates under Lee, and forced them to evacuate best plan of attack on the city.
their fortifications near Spottsylvania Court-house. 27th. —
The steamers Pawnee, Resolute, and
27th. —Grant crossed the Pamunkey, and Freeborn, made a second attack on the Con-
occupied Hanovertown. federate battery at Mathias Point; Captain Ward,
28th. —Battle near Dallas, Ga. commanding the Federal force, was killed.
.
.
6th MONTH.
June, 1879. 30 DAYS.
MOON'S PHASES. BOSTON. NEW YORK. WASHINGTON, CHARLESTON. CHICAGO.

D. H. M. H. M. H. M. H. M. H. M.
Full Moon. . . 8 52 morn. 8 40 morn, 8 28 morn. 8 16 morn. 7 46 morn.
Third Quarter. 12 eve. 12 o noon, II 48 morn. II 36 morn. 1 1 6 morn.
New Moon. . 19 3 35 eve. 3 23 eve. 3 II eve. 2 59 eve. 2 29 eve.
First Quarter. 27 1 12 morn. I o morn. o 48 morn. o 36 morn . o 6 morn.
Boston ; NewEng- New York City; Phil- June 1862.
NewYork
land,
Slate, Michigan,
adelphia, Connec-
ticut, New Jersey, 1st. — Battle of Fair Oaks was renewed. Con-
Wisconsin, Iowa Pennsylva'a.Ohio, federates repulsed. Union 890
loss, killed, and
and Oregon. Indiana & lllinojs-
4,844 wounded.
6th. —
After a naval battle, Memphis surren-
dered to the Union troops.
8th. — Battle of Cross Keys, Va., between Gen*
Fremont's army and the Confederate army, com-
manded by Gen. Jackson. The latter were
H.M. H.M H. M. H. M. defeated.
San
Mon
4 25 7 30 1 SO 1 54
2 29
16th. — Fight on James Island, near Charles-
57 31 2 24 ton, S. C. Federals defeated.
Tues rises. rises.
Wed 8 13 8 6 17th. — Col. Fitch destroyed a Confederate
Thur 9 " 9 5 battery at St. Charles, Ark. 125 were killed by
Fri 9 58 9 53 an explosion on one of the Federal gunboats.
Sat
San
10 34
11 2
29^10 30
29 II o
18th. —
Union troops occupied Cumberland
Gap.
Mon< II 27 30 II 26
Tues II 49 II 48 26th. —
General Pope assigned to the command
Wed morn, morn. of the army of Virginia.Commencement of the
Thur o 9 o 10 six days' fight before Richmond. The Confed-
13 Fri o 30 o 32 erates attacked McClellan's right wing at Me-
14 Sat o 52 o 55
chanicsville. Battle undecided.
15 San I 17 I 21
16 Mon I 45 1 50
27th. —Bombardment of Vicksburg commenced.
17 Tues 2 19 2 26 Gen. Fremont relieved of his command.
18 Wed 2 59 3 6 Battle before Richmond renewed the Fed- ;
19 Thur sets. sets.

erals were driven back; loss heavy on both
20 Fri 8 37 831 sides.
21 Sat
22 San
9 13
9 45
9 9
9 41
28th. —
Incessant fighting all day between the
23 Mon 10 12 lo 10 right wing of the Union army on the Chickahom-
24 Tues 10 36 10 35 iny and the left wing of the Confederates ; the
25 Wed 11 o 11 o enemy were repulsed. In the evening the Union-
26 Thur II 24. II 25
ists were ordered to fall back.
27 Fri II 50 " 53
29th. —
Battle before Richmond renewed by
28 Sat morn. morn.
29 Sun 20 25 an attack on the Union forces at Peach Orchard ;
30 Mon 1 I 1 7 the Confederates were driven back, but late in the
eveningmade another attack at Savage's Station.
The fight continued until nine at night. The
Why ought women to be employed in the
wounded fell into the hands of the enemy.
post-office.'' —Because they understand how to 30th.— Battle of White Oak Swamp; heavy
manage the males. loss on both sides.
June 18G3. — General Fremont appointed 6th. to the
23d. — Battle of Big
Black River, Missouri. command of the Western Department, consist-
Confederates under Johnston attacked Oster- ing of the State of Illinois and the States and
haus' division and were defeated with great territories west of the Mississippi and east of
slaughter. the Rocky Mountains. Headquarters at St.
25th. — Another fight at Liberty Cap, between Louis.
a Confederate division under Clayborne, and 10th. — Skirmishes at Laurel Plill, Virginia;
Willich, Wilder and Carter's brigades. The Con- Confederates and
defeated. Union loss, 2 killed
federates fled in disorder. wounded. 2
26th. —
Rear Admiral Foote died in New York 12th.— Battle of Rich Mountain. The Federal
City. troops under command by Colonel Rosecrans,
29th, —
Gen. Hooker was relieved of his com- defeated the enemy under Colonel Pegram,
mand of the army of the Potomac at his own Confederate loss, 150 killed and wounded, and
request, and General Mead succeeded him. 800 prisoners.
June 1864» 13th. —

The Confederates, under Gen. Garnett,
were defeated at Garrick's Ford, Virginia. The
3d. — Battle of Coal Harbor, in which the
Confederate General Garnett was killed. Union
Confederates are routed heavy loss. ;
loss, 2 killed and 10 wounded.
Sth.— Sherman flanked Johnson, and captured
Battle of Screytown, Va. The Federals under
Ackworth Station.
Colonel Lowe were defeated with a loss of 9
7th. — Gen. Hunter defeats the Confederate
killed and 40 wounded and missing
General Jones, near Staunton, Virginia.
— Morgan defeated by Gen. Burbridge,
8th.
16th. —
Tilgram, a negro, killed three of a
Confederate prize crew on the S. J. Warring,
near Lexington, Ky.
and brought the vessel into New York.
1 — Gen. Hancook drove the Confederates
2th.
18th.— Fight at Blackborn Ford. The Federal
from Bottom Bridge the point of the bayonet.
at
troops under command of General Tyler made
— Gen. Smith attacked with a force of
15th.
the attack, but after three hours's fighting, were
15,000 men.
ordered back to Centerville; their loss was 19
— Battle of Lost Mountain, Georgia.
I6th.
killed and 64 wounded and missing.
— The Confederate cruiser Alabama
19th.
The department of Maryland created, and
sunk by the U. S. frigate Kearsage, in the
Gen. John A. Dix placed in command; head-
English Channel.
23d. —
Confederates attack Wright and Han
quarters at Baltimore.
19th. —Gen. Banks superseded Gen. Patterson;
cock, capturing three full regiments, after which
headquarters in the field.
they are repulsed.
27th. — Sherman made an unsucceessfu! attack
21st. — Battle of Bull Run. The army of the
Potomac, about 45,000 strong, under command
on the enemy's position, losing from 1,000 to 3,000
of Brigadier General McDowell, which left
men.
28th. —
Left wing of Grant's army take posses-
Washington July 17th, attacked the Confederates,
about equal in numbers, at Manassas, Va., where
sion of the Weldon railroad.
they occupied a strong position. The chances
July 1861. were at first in favor of the Federals, but the
2d. — General Patterson defeated the Con- Confederates receiving large reinforcements un-
federates at Falling Water, Va.; Union loss, 3 der General Johnson, the scale was turned.
killed and 10 wounded. Panic seized upon the Union troops, and they
5th. — Battle of Carthage, Mo. Confederates commenced a disorderly retreat towards Wash-
were commanded by Governor Jackson , the ington. The Union loss was, 481 killed, 1,011
Federal troops, numbering 1,500, by Col Sigel. wounded, 1,216 missing. Confederate loss, as
Colonel Sigel retreated to Springfield. Union reported by General Beauregard, i64 killed and
loss, 14 killed and 31 wounded. 1,843 wounded.
7th MONTH.
July, 1879. 31 DAYS.
MOON'S PHASES. IJOSTON. NEW YURK. WASHINGTON. CHARLESTON. CHICAGO

H. M. H. M. II. M. H. M. II. M.
Full Moon 4 54 eve. 4 42 eve. 4 30 eve. 4 18 eve. 3 48 eve.
Third Quarter. 4 lo morn. morn, 3 46 morn. 3 34 morn. 3 4 morn.
New Moon . . 4 22 morn. 4 10 morn, 3 58 morn, 3 46 morn. 3 16 morn.
First Quarter. 5 52 morn. ,s40 morn. 5 28 morn. 5 16 morn. 4 46 morn.
c
Jiily 1803. — Continued. July 1864.
works were taken. At on the 8th of July,
last, — The Confederates under Early invade
.5th.
the commander. Major General Gardiner, Maryland.

sur-
rendered with 7,000 prisoners, 60 cannon, and 13th-15th. — The Confederates under Gen.
10,000 stands of arms, to General Banks. Forrest defeated in five different battles, near
Morgan's raid into Indiana and Ohio; crossed Pontotoc, Mo.
the river into Harrison county, Ind., and marched 17th. —
The Confederate army was driven
rapidly through the southern part of the State within the fortifications at Atlanta.
into Ohio, committing numerous depredations. 20th. —
The enemy assaulted Gen. Sherman's
On the 18th he lost his artillery and 1,300 lines three times, but were repulsed each time
prisoners. With a mere fragment of his com- with severe loss. General Averill defeated the
mand he retreated to Columbiana county, Ohio, enemy near Winchester, Va.
where, on the 20th, he surrendered to General 22d. —
A great battle was fought before
Shackleford. Atlanta, resulting in the complete deteat of the
13-lGth. —
Riots take place in New York, Confederates.
Boston and other Union cities, in consequence of 30th. —
A mine containing six tons of powder,
the enforcement of a conscription decree. under a Confederate fort at Petersburg, exploded,
13th, I4th, 15th. — Draft riots in New York destroying the fort and garrison.
city. Mobs had possession of the city for three Chambersburg, Penn., burned by the Con-
days. Offices where the draft was going on were federates.
demolished, and the buildings were burned. The August 1801.
mob directed their fury particularly against 1st. — The Confederates retreated from Har-
negroes, several of whom were murdered. The per's Ferry to Leesburg.
colored orphan asylum on Fifth Avenue was 2d. —General Lyon defeated the Confederates
pillaged and burnt down. Collisions between at Dug Spring, Missouri ; Union loss, 8 killed
the mob and military frequently occurred. Many and 30 wounded.
persons were killed during the prevalence of the .5th. —Commodore Alden bombarded Galves-
riot. The city paid above $1,500,000 as indemnity ton, Texas.
for losses that occurred during the riot. 7th. — The village of Plampton, Virginia,
17th. —
Gen. Sherman attacked Jackson, Miss., destroyed by the Confederates. The privateer,
routed Johnson and occupied the city. Large York, burned by the United States gunboat
stores were captured, and also 40 locomotives, Union crew taken prisoners.
;
and all the rolling stock of three railroads. Gen. 10th. —

Gen. Lyon with 5,000 troops attacked
Ransom captured Natchez with a large quantity of a Confederate force double that of his own at
ammunition, 13 cannon, 2,000 head of cattle, and Wilson Creek, near Springfield, Mo. After a
4,000 hogsheads of sugar. A severe fight occurred hard fight of six hours, Gen. Lyon being killed,
on Elk Creek, Ark., between Gen. Blunt and the the Union troops under the command of Col.
Confederate Gen. Cooper the former was vic- Sigel and Major Sturgis, retired to Springfield.
;
torious. Union loss 40, that of the Confederates 14th. —Gen. Fremont declared martial law in
184. St. Louis.
23d. — A gallant fight occurrednear Manassas 16th. — Gen. Wool took command Fortress
at
Gap, inwhich 800 men of Gen. Spinola's brigade Monroe.
utterly routed twice their number of Georgia and 26th. — The 7th Ohio regiment, 900 strong,
North Carolina troops, with 17 cannon. were surprised at Summerville, Virginia, but
Kentucky again invaded. Kit Carson with a fought their way out with a loss of six officers.
part of the first New Mexico regiment, defeated The Hatteras expedition sailed.
the Navajoe Indians in a severe fight beyond 29th. —
Capture of Forts Hatteras and Clark,
Fort Canby. N. C; Confederate loss about 1,000; Federal
loss none.
.
.
8th MONTH.
August, 1879. 31 DAYS.
MOON'S PHASES. NKW YORK. W.-VSHINGTON. CHARLESTON. CHICAGO.

H. M. 11.M. :[. M. II. M. H. M.
Full Moon 2 28 morn. 2 16 morn. 2 4 morn. 52 morn. 1 22 morn.
Third Quarter. 9 25 eve. 9 13 eve. 9 I eve. 49 eve. 8 19 eve.
New Moon. . 3 26 eve. 3 14 eve. 3 2 eve. 50 eve. 2 20 eve.
First Quarter. 10 28 morn. 10 16 morn. 4 morn. 52 morn. 9 22 morn
Full Moon.. . 2 14 eve. eve. 1 50 eve. 38 eve. I 8 eve.
Boston ; New Eng New York City; Phil
State, Michigan, ticut, New Jersey
Wisconsin, Iowa Pennsylva'a.Ohio
& Oregon. Indiana & Illinois
y?
H. M. H.M
I ! P^ri 527 rises. 4 56
Sat 53!7 7 ^8 4
Siiii 7 7 53 4
Mou 7 8 15 4
Tues 7 8 36 5
Wed 7 8 58
Thur 7 9 22
Fri 7 9 46
Sat 7 10 16
iSiiii 7 10 52
Mon 7 11 35
Tues morn.
Wed 26
Thur 67 1 25
Fri 77 2 31
Sat 87 3 40
Sim sets.
Mon 106 7 9
Tues II !6 7 34
Wed I2|6 7 59
Thur 13(5 8 27
Fri 1516 9 o
23 Sat 5 i6i6 9 39
24 Sun 5 176 10 27
25 Mon 5 i8j6 11 25
26 Tues i9!6 morn.
27 Wed 6 31
28 Thur 21 1 41
29 Fri 2 53
30 Sat 4 4
Sun rises.
August 1S63. — Continued. September 1861.
— President Lincoln
7th. the demand for
rejects — Gen. Grant took possession of Faducah,
Gth.
the suppression of the conscription the State Ky.

in
of New York. — Gen. Rosecrans with 4,500 troops
10th.
17th.— Lieut. Col. Phillips of the 9th Illinois

attacked the Confederates under Floyd near
Mounted Infantry attacked the Confederate Carnifex Ferry. After several hours' fighting,
forces at Grenada, Miss., consisting of 2,000 men darkness put an end to the contest. During the
fight Floyd retreated, burning the bridge over
under command of Gen.
Slimmer, and drove
them from the place. He then destroyed all the Gaulcy river.
ordnance and commissary stores, burnt the depot I2th. — Fight at Cheat Mountain. Col. J. A.
and machine shop, tore up the railroad track, Washington, proprietor of Mount Vernon, was
and destroyed 57 locomotives and more than killed. Union loss, 9 killed and 12 wounded.
400 cars.
21st. —John C. Breckenridge fled from Frank-
20th. — The
town of Lawrence, Kansas was
fort, Ky., and joined the Confederates.
Lane defeated a confederate force

General
at Papinsville,
surprised in the middle of the night by 300
Missouri. Federal loss, 17 killed.
guerrillas under the leadership of Qiiantrell.
The town was set on fire and 182 buildings
23d. —
Capture of Lexington, Missouri, by the
Confederates, after a siege of four months.
burned to the ground, and $2,000,000 worth of
property destroyed, 191 persons were killed, many
September 1S62.
of whom were helpless women and children; 5S1
were wounded, many of them mortally. About
1st. — Fight at Britton's Lane, Tenn. Con-
federates retired, leaving their dead on the field.
80 of the murderers were killed.
Union loss, 5 killed, 78 wounded, and 92 missing.
22d. — Gen.
Blunt with 4,500 men attacked
Fight at Chantilly, Va. The Union troops were
Gen. Cooper with 11,000 Confederate troops in
commanded by Gens. Hooker, Reno and Kearney.
the Indian Territory and compelled hinn to retreat
The Confederates retired, leaving their dead and
to Red River.
wounded on the field. This was the last fight in
29th. — The
Confederate army in Arkansas which General Pope's army was engaged.
under General Price severely pushed by the
Union forces under Gen. Steele.
2d. — Gen. McClellan appointed to the cim-
mand of the troops for the defense of Washing-
ton.
August 18G4, 5th. — Confederates began crossing the Potomac
5th. — Commodore Farragut's passed
fleet
into Maryland.
7th. — General Banks assigned to the command
Forts Morgan and Gaines. The Confederate
and around Washington.
ram Tennessee was captured and several other of the fortifications in
General McClellan took the field at the head of
vessels destroyed. Fort Gaines
Shortly after
the Army of the Potomac.
surrendered and Fort Powell was evacuated.
7th. —
Gen. Avcrill defeated the enemy at
12th. —
Fight at Middlctown, Maryland. Union
loss, 60 killed and wounded.
Morefield, Va.
14tri Gen. McClellan overtook the enemy at
15th. —
The Confederate Gen. Wheeler re- South Mountain, Md. A general engagement
pulsed at Dalton, Ga. took place. The fight was severe, and the loss
18th. —
The VVeldon railroad seized by Gen. heavy on both sides, the Unionists losing 443
Grant. killed and 1,S0G wounded. Gen. Reno was among
23d. —
Fort Morgan surrendered. the killed. The Confederates retreated towards
25th. —
Gen. Hancock, who held the Weadon the Potomac.
railroad south of Ream's Station, was attacked 15th. —
Harper's Ferry surrendered after two
several times, but repulsed the enemy each days' fighting, to the enemy, with all the garrison,
time. consisting of 8,000 men.
..
GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC ALMANAC. ^5
9th MONTH.
September, 1879. 30 DAYS.
MOON'S PHASES. I!USTON. NEW YORK. WASHrNGTON. CHARLESTON CHICAGO.

H. M. H. M. H M. H. M. H. M.
Third Quarter. 3 20 eve. 3 8 eve. 2 56 eve. 2 44 eve. 214 eve.
New Moon . . i6 I 13 morn. T I morn, o 49 morn. o 37 morn. 7 morn.
First Quarter. 22 4 36 eve. 4 24 eve. 4 12 eve. 4 o eve. 3 30 eve.
Full Moon. . .
_32_ 4 33 morn. 4 21 morn. 4 9 morn. 3 57 morn. 3 27 morn.
c
Septeniber 1863. — Continued, 21st. — Fight at Fredericktown, Missouri. The
Confederates defeated. Union loss, 6 killed and
menced by General Bragg in the morning and
about 60 wounded.
continued all day. At night both armies occupied
Battle of Ball's Bluff. Union forces com-
nearly the same position that they did in the
manded by Col. Baker. Gen. Stone failed to
morning. On the next day the battle was
cross the Potomac to his support, and after a
renewed by the Confederates and lasted until
severe fight, in which Col. Baker was killed, the
dark. The Union army was defeated and driven
Federals retreated. Union loss was 223 killed,
back to Chattanooga. The Federal loss was
266 wounded and 455 prisoners, including 100
about 1,800 killed, 9,500 wounded, and 2,500
wounded.
prisoners.
Gen. Zollicoffer, with 6,000 Confederates, at-
Septeniher 1864, tacked the Unionists at Camp Wild Cap, Laurel
county, Ky., and was repulsed. Union loss, 4
Ist.— Gen. Sherman defeated the enemy at
killed and 21 wounded.
Johnsboro, Ga.
22d.— Skirmish at Buffalo Mills, Mo. Con-
2d. — The Federal troops took possession of
federates lost 17 killed and 90 prisoners.
Atlanta.
4th — Morgan's forces were routed at Green-
25th., — General Kelly defeated the enemy at
Romney, Virginia.
ville, Tennessee, and 100 of his men were —
26th. Gallant charge of Maj. Zagonyi, with
captured, including his staff, and 75 of his men
150 of Fremont's body guard, on a large force of
killed. General Gillem commanded the Union The enemy
Confederates near Springfield, Mo.
forces.
was routed with a of 106 killed and 27
7th. — The Confederate General John Morgan
prisoners.
loss
was killed near Greenville, Tennessee.

A force of 2,000 Confederates defeated at
October 1862.
Readyville, Tenn.
19th. —
Gen. Sheridan gained a complete victory 4th. — Battle of Corinth, Miss. The Confeder-
over the enemy in the Shenandoah valley. ates were defeated with a heavy loss. The
22d. —
Battle at Fisher's Hill, the Confederate Union loss was 315 killed and 1,802 wounded.
army defeated. — Confederates attacked General Palmer's
6th.
brigade Lavergne, Tenn., but were defeated.
at
October 1861. — Battle Perryville, Ky. The advance
8th. at
.3d. — Gen.
Reynolds made an armed recon- of Buell'sarmy was attacked at Perryville, Ky.,
noissance of the enemy's position at Greenbrier. by a superior force of the enemy under Gens.
The Confederates evacuated Lexington, Mo. Jackson and Terrel. The Confederates retreated
5th. —
The steamer Monticello shelled the during the night. Union loss was over 3,000
Confederates at Chicamacomico, under Barlow, killed and wounded.
and drove them to their boats. 10th. — The Confederate cavalry under Gen.
7th. — The Confederate iron-clad steamer Mer- Stuart entered Chambersburg, Pa., and captured
rimac made its first appearance within sight of a quantity of small arms and clothing.
Fortress Monroe. 18th. —
The Confederate General, Morgan, oc-
9th. —
Confederates made an attack on Santa cupied Lexington, Ky.
Rosa Island, but were defeated. Union loss was 19th. —
The Confederate General, Forrest,
13 killed and 21 wounded. defeated near Gallatin, Tenn.
Col. Geary, with 400 Pennsylvania troops 22d. —
Gen. Blunt defeated the Confederates
crossed the Potomac at Harper's Ferry and at Maysville, Ark., capturing their all artillery.
captured 21,000 bushels of wheat. 28th. — Gen. Herron defeated the Confederates
11th. —
Confederate steamer Theodore escaped near Fayettville, Ark.
from Charleston, S. C, with Mason and Slidell 30th. — Gen. Rosecrans assumed conunand of
on board. the army of the Cumberland.

. 5
<Oth MONTH.
October, 1879. 31 DAYS.
MOON'S PHASES. BOSTON. NEW YORK. WASHINGTON. CHARLESTON. CHICAC.O

M. H. M. H. M. H. M. H, M.
Third Quarter. 59 morn. 8 47 morn, 8 35 morn. 8 23 morn. 7 53 morn.
New Moon . . 25 morn. 10 13 morn, 10 I morn. 9 49 morn, 9 19 morn,
First Quarter. 35 morn. I 23 morn, I II morn. o 59 morn. o 29 morn.
Full Moon ^S eve. 9 13 eve. 9 I eve. 8 49 eve. 8 19 eve.
Boston ; New
Eng- New York City; Phil October 1803.
land, New
York adelphia, Connec
State. Michigan,
Wisconsin, Iowa
ticut. New Jersey,
Pennsylva'a.Ohio,
9th. — Wheeler's Confederate cavalry defeated
& Oregon. Indiana & Illinois with considerable loss at Farmington, Tennessee,
and again near Shelbyville.
2oth. —
The department of the Cumberland
and Mississippi were consolidated and placed
under the command of General Grant.
.M. H. M. H. M. October 1864.

I Wed
Thur
42
40 6 19
57 5 5 56
6 24
5th. — The Confederates attacked Allatoona,
2 585 Georgia, but were repulsed with a severe loss.
Fri 39 651 6 56
7th — The pirate vessel Florida captured by
3 591
4 Sat 37 7 28 ojS 7 34
Sun 35 8 II ^15 8 18 the United States steamship Wachusett.
5
6 Mon 5 Zl 9 2 25 9 9 8th. — The Confederates Shenandoah valley
in
7 Tues 5 10 o 3'5 10 6 are again defeated by Sheridan.
8 Wed 5 11 3 45 11 9
19th. — Gen. Sheridan gained his fourth victory
9 Thur 5 morn. morn.
10 Fri 65 14 over the Confederates under Early at Cedar
5 9
II Sat 1 18 7:5 1 22 creek, Va.
5
12 8an 5 2 29 8'5 2 31 23d. —
The Confederate Gen. Price defeated at
13 Mon 5 3 42 95 3 43 Blue River, Mo.
14 Tues
Wed
5 4 58 10.5 4 57 27th. —Engagement at Hatcher's Run.
15
16 Thur
5
S
sets.
5 33
125
135
sets.
538 28th. —Gen, Blunt defeated the Confederates
17 Fri 6 17 14 5 623 under Price, at Neosho, Mo.
18 Sat
5
5 7 II 15 7 19 30th. —Gen. Hood made three attacks on
19 Sun 5 8 14 16 8 21 Decatur, Alabama, but was repulsed each time.
Mon 19 5 9 24 17 9 30 31st. —Union troops recaptured Plymouth,
Tues 20 5 10 35 18 10 40
N. C.
Wed 6 21 s 11 46 19 11 50
Thur 6 morn. 20 morn.
Fri
s
21 o 56
November 1860.
5 53
Sat 5 1 59 23 2 o 6th. — Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, and Han-
Sun 5 3 2 24.5 3 3 nibal Hamlin, of Maine, elected President and
Mon 5 4 5 25s 4 4 Vice-President of the United States, by the votes
Tues 4 5 7 26|5 5 5
Wed rises. rises. of all the northern States except New Jersey-,
4 2715
Thur 4 4 52 28:4 4 58 which chose 4 electors for Douglas, and 3 for
Fri 4 5 27 304 5 34 Lincoln.
An officer, happening to bow, a
in battle, This election is made the pretext for rebellion
cannon-ball passed over his head, and took off and secession of the cotton States.
that of the soldier who stood behind him.
" You see, "said he, " that a man never loses by
9th. — An attempt to seize the arms at Fort
Moultrie.
politeness."
;

Novemher 18G1. — Gen. Ransom defeated the Confeder-
11th.
— General Scott resigned as Commanaer- ates under

1st.
—
Woodward, near Garretsburg, Ky.
A cavalry took place near Kings-
17th. fight
of the armies of the United States.
in-chief Gen.
N. C. ton,
McClellan was appointed
— Gen. Hunter superseded Gen. Fremont 2Sth. — BattiC of Crane
his place.
in
Ark. The Union Hill,
2d.
army, numbering 1,000 men, was commanded by
in the command of the Western department.
7th. —
The naval and military forces, under Gen.
Blunt. The Confederates were defeated
command of Commodore Dupont and General with a heavy loss, and retreated to Van Buren.
Sherman, captured Forts Walker and Beaure-
gard, at Port Royal entrance. They also took
possession of the town of Beaufort and Hilton
Island. The Union loss was
Battle Cry of Freedon
8 killed and 25
wounded.
Yes, we'll rally round the flag, boys, well rally
Gen. Grant, with a force of2,800, attacked a
once again.
Confederate camp at Belmont, Mo., driving the
Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom,
enemy out, destroying the camp and taking a
quantity of arms ; but, reinforcements arriving at
We will rally from the hill-side, we'll gatncr from
the plain,
Columbus, the Federals were compelled to re-
treat; their loss was 84 killed, 288 wounded, and
Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom.
23.5 missing. The Union for ever. Hurrah, boys, Hurrah 1
11th. — Guyandotte, Virginia, burned by the Down with the traitor. Up with the star
Unionists. While we rally round the flag, boys, rally
Gen. Halleck takes command of the Western once again,
department. Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom.
1.5th. — The U. S. frigate, San Jacinto, Capt.
Wilkes, arrived at Fortress Monroe with Mason
We are springing to the call (jf our brothers gone
and Siidell, the Confederate commissioners to
before.
Europe, taken from the British mail steamer>
Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom,
Trent, Nov. 8.
And we'll fill the vacant ranks with a million
21st. — The U. S. vessel, Santee, captured the
Freemen more.
privateer. Royal Yacht, off Galveston, Texas.
Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom
2.3d.-—Fort Pickens, and the United States
Chorus.
war vessels, Niagara and Colorado, bombarded
the Confederate fortifications at Pensacola.
Port of Warrenton burnt. We willwelcome to our numbers the loyal, true
.30th. — Lord
Lyons, the British minister at and brave,
Washington, receives instructions from Earl Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom,
Russell to leave America within seven days, And although he may be poor, he shall never be
unless the United States government consent to a slave.
the unconditional liberation of Messrs. Mason Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom.
and Siidell. Chorus.
Jefferson Davis elected President of the Con-
federate States. So we're springing to the call, from the East and
from the West,
Shouting the battle cry of Freedom.
Novemher 1S62. And we'll hurl the rebel crew from the land we
5th. — Gen. McClellan relieved of the com- love the best.
mand of the army of the Potomac, and General Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom.
Burnside succeeds him. Chorus.
llth MONTH.
November, 1879 30 DAYS.
MOON'S PHASES BOSTON NEW YORK. WASHINGTON. CHARLESTON. CHICAGO.

H M. H. M. H. M. H. M. H. M.
Third Quarter 7 Ill morn. 59 morn, j_ô 47 morn. 35 morn. o 5 morn.
New Moon 13 7 55 eve. 7 43 eve. 7 31 eve. 7 49 eve. 6 49 eve.
First Quarter 20 2 5 eve. 1 53 eve. 1 41 eve. 1 29 eve. o 59 eve.
]
Full Moon 28 4 13 eve- 4 I eve. 3 49 eve. 3 27 eve. ^ 57 eve.

Boston ; New Eng- New York City; Phil JSToiember 1S63.
Slate, Michigan, ticut, NewJersey, 5th. — Brownsvile, Texas, captured.
25th. — The Confederate army, under
Wisconsin, Iowa Pennsylva'a.Ohio,
and Oregon. I
Indiana & Illinois Bragg,
was badly whipped near Chattanooga, losing
H about 6,000 prisoners and 52 guns. The Union
losswas between 3,000 and 4,000 in killed and
wounded.
29th. — An unsuccessful attempt of the Con-
federates to carry Knoxville by storm.
H.M. H. M. H.M.
Sat 6 34 54 6 10 6 31
SUD 6 57 6 32 Nove^nher 1864.
Mon 7 47
Tues 37 501 8 53 16 34 S 5S 3d. — The Confederate ram, Albermarle, de-
Wed 39 49 9 56 stroyed by Lieut. Cushing.
Thur
Fri
40
41
48 II 2
461 morn.
8th. — McClellan resigns commandhis the in
army.
Sat 45 o 10
16th. — Gen. Sherman
43
Sim 44 44 I 19 1 20 Atlanta and began'
left
Men 45 2 31 his great march to the Atlantic.
Tues 46 3 46 3 44 30th. — General Hood attacked the Union
Wed 48 5 4 5 ^
troops under Gen. Schofield at Franklin, Tenn.,
Thur 6 qo sets. sets.
but was repulsed with great loss.
Fri 651 4 55 5 I
Sat 5 56 6 3
Sun -I 7 4 7 12 November 1865.
Mon 37 8 19 825
Tues 35! 9 33 9 37 9th. —
Confederate privateer, Shenandoah, sur-
Wed
,
34^10 44 39JI0 46 renders at Liverpool, having destroyed about 30

Thur 34" 51 39|ii 53
vessels crew released.
33 morn, 38 morn.
;
Fri 6 54
Sat o 56 6 55 yi\ o 56 10th. — Execution of Wirz, the Confederate
^33 Shd 58 564 371 I 57 prisoner-keeper, for cruelty to L^nion prisoners.
24 Mon o 58 361 2 58
25 Tues I 59 36! 3 59
26 Wed 3 o 4 59 December 1860.
27 Thur
28 Fri rises.
4 I
5 59
rises. 20th. — South Carolina secedes from the
29 Sat 4 54 5 I Union.
30 Sim 5 47 5 54 26th. —
General Anderson evacuates Fort
Moultrie, Charleston, and occupies Fort Sumter.
A soldier in one of the Kentucky camps, dur-

3d. —
Congress met. The President denied
the right of a State to secede, and asserted the
ing one of the cold nights, says the motto with right of the general government to coerce a
them is :
" United we sleep ; divided we freeze .'"'
seceding State.
!
3° GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC ALMANAC.

December 1801. KLingdom. Coming.
5th. — Engagement between the Confederate
gunboats and Federal vessels at Cape Hatteras. Say, darkeys, hab you seen de massa,
According to the reports of Secretaries of War Wid de muff stash on his face,
and Navy, the Union forces numbered 640,537 Go long de road sometime dis mornin ,
volunteers, 20,334 regular soldiers, and 22,000 Like he gwine to leab de place?
seamen. He seen a smoke, way up de ribber,,
9th. —
The Confederate Congress passed a bill Where de Linkum gumboats lay
admitting Kentucky into the Southern Confed- He took his hat, an' lef berry sudden.
eracy. An' I spec he's run away
Freestone Point, Va.. shelled by the National
De massa run ? ha, ha !
gunboats and captured.

— De darkey stay? ho, ho !
13th. Engagement at Camp Allegheny, Va.,
Itmust be now de kingdom comin'.
in which Gen. Milroy defeated the Confederates
An' de year ob Jubilo !
under Col. Johnson. Union loss, 21 killed and

107 wounded.
17th. — Fight
at Munfordsville, Ky. Drawn He six foot one way, two foot tudder,
battle. Union loss, 10 killed and 17 wounded. An' he way tree hundred pound,
General Pope captured 3G0 secessionists at His coat so big,, he couldn't pay de tailor,
Osceola, Mo. An' it won't go half way round.
18th. —
Gen. Pope captured 1,300 Confeder- He drill so much dey call him Cap'en
ates, a number of horses and wagons, and 1,000 An' he get so drefful tann'd,
stand of arms at Milford, Mo. Union loss, 2 I spec he try an' fool dem Yankees
killed and 17 wounded. Stone fleet sunk in For to think he's contraband.
Charleston Harbor. Chorus.
20th. — Battle of Gainesville, V.a., in which the
Confederates were defeated by the Union troops
under Gen. McCall. Union loss, 7 killed and De darkeys feel so lonesome libing
61 wounded. In de log-house on de lawn,
23d. —
Troops despatched to Canada by the Dey move dar tings to massa's parlor
British government as a precaution against ag- For to keep it while he's gone.
gression by the U. S. Dar's wine an' cider in de kitchen.
An' de darkeys dey'll hab some ;
Decemher 1862 I spose dey'll all be cornfiscated
When de Linkum sogers come.
7th.— Battle of Prairie Grove, Ark. The Union Chorus
army was commanded by Gens. Blunt and Herron.
The Confederates were defeated with heavy loss
and retired during the night. De oberseer he make ns trouble.
11th. — The Fredericksburgh bombarded
city of An' he dribe us round a spell;
by the Union troops, under cover of which they We lock him up in de smokehouse cellar,
crossed the Rappahannock. Wid de key trown in de well.
13th. —
Battle of Fredericksburgh, Va. Con- De whip is lost, de han'-cuff broken.
federate works were attacked by the Union troops But de massa'll hab his pay;
in three divisions, under Sumner, Hooker and He's ole enough, big enough, oughtto known
Franklin, who were repulsed. Federals lost better
1,512 killed, 6,000 wounded and 100 prisoners. Dan to went an' run aw^.
14th. — Gen. Banks superceded Gen. Butler at Chorus.
New Orleans.
GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC ALMAiYAC. 31
12th MONTH.
December, 1879. 31 DAYS.
MOON'S PHASES. NEW YORK. WASHINGTON. CHARLESTON. CHICAGO.

11. M. H. M. H. M. H. M. H. M.
Third Quarter '
6 2 59 eve. 2 47 eve. 2 35 eve. 2 23 eve. I

S3 eve.
New Moon 13 6 20 morn. 6 morn,
8 5 56 morn. 5 45 morn. 5 1 5 morn.
First Quarter 20 6 31 morn. 6 19 morn, 6 7 morn. 5 55 morn. 5 25 morn.
Full Moon I -S Ti 31 morn. II 19 morn. II 7 morn. ID 55 morn. ID 25 morn.
^
: ; —— ; ; ;

December 1804. Marching Througlr\ Georgia.
13th. — Fort McAllister captured by General
Sherman's army. Bring the good old bugle, boys ! we'll sing another
16th. — General Thomas defeated the enemy song—
at Nashville, Tennessee, with heavy loss, captur- Sing it with a spirit that will start the world
ing a large number of guns and prisoners. along —
20th. —
The Confederates, under Gen. Breck. Sing it as we used to sing it, fifty thousand
enbridge, defeated in southwestern Virginia, and strong,
the salt works destroyed. While we were marching through Georgia.
21st. — General Sherman entered the city of
Savannah, capturing 150 cannon, 30,000 bales of chorus :
cotton, and a large amount of munitions of war. Hurrah Hurrah we bring the Jubilee ! ! !
24th. —First bombardment of Fort Fisher. Hurrah Hurrah the flag that makes you free ! ! !
29th. — Hood's army crossed the Tennessee So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the sea,
river, thus ending the Tennessee campaign. While we were marching through Georgia.
How the darkeys shouted when they heard th.e

Just Before the Battle.
sound
joyful 1
How the turkeys gobbled which our commissary

Just before the battle, mother,
found !
I am thinking most of you ;

How the sweet potatoes evtn started from the
While upon the field we're watching.
ground,
With the enemy in view.
While we were marching thrcugh Georgia.
Comrades brave are round me lying.
CHORUS.
Filled with tho'ts of home and God
For well they know that on the morrow,
Yes, and there were Union men who wept with
Some will sleep beneath the sod.
oyf ul tears.
j
CHORUS When they saw the honor'd flag they had not
Farewell, mother, you may never seen for years
Press me to your heart again. Hardly could they be restrained from breaking
But, O, you'll not forget me, mother, forth in cheers.
I'f I'm numbered with the slain. While we \\ere marching through Georgia.
THORUS.
Oh! I long to see you, mother,
And the loving ones at home ;
"Sherman's dashing Yankee boys will never
But I'll never leave the banner,
re ach the coast,"
Till in honor I can come. said, 'twas a handsome boast^
So the saucy rebels
Tell the traitors around you,
all
Had they not forgot, alas! to reckon with the
That their cruel words we know
host.
In every battle kill our soldiers.
While we were marching through Georgia.
By the help they give the foe. Chorum
Hark ! I hear the bugles sounding,

So we made a thoroughfare for Freedom and
'Tis the signal for the fight;
her train,
How may God protect us, mother,
As He ever does the right.
Sixty miles in latitude — three hundred to the
Hear the battle cry of Freedom,

main
Now it swells upon the air Treason fled before us, for resistance was in vain,
Oh, yes we'll rally round the standard While we were marching through Georgia.
Or we'll perish nobly there. Chorus. CHORUS.
— !
GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC ALMANAC. Zl
From a Memorial Day Address by Chaplain-in-Chief, y. F. Lozierh.
A DOZEN years have passed since the in that mighty host, men who had won
war closed, sinceits sword was sheathed, bars, or leaflets, or eagles, or stars by in-
since the banner of rebellion — the stars trepid bravery, by unchallenged courage.
and bars — trailed in the dust, and once But there were other heroes — men in the
again the grand old Stars and Stripes ranks, sergeants with three bars and a ..
the Flag of the Union —floated in the lozenge, corporals with two stripes, and
clear and radiant sunshine under a peace- privates who, in simple blue uniform,
ful sky. The days just before our armies were equal to captain, major, colonel or
were disbanded will never be forgotten general, in stalwart courage and heroic
by any who composed them. The peace- manhood. We remember them with en-
ful camp fires burned. The hill-sides thusiasm. Every patriotic heart delights
flamed at night with beacon-fires and to honor them.
rockets. Through the day laughter and But have we only the memory of that
song took the place of the sharp move- grand review ? No, no, most emphatically
ments of drill and bugle calls. Those no. Look up There is a grander review.
!
whose wounds were fresh, thought of the Look up See the hosts assembling upon
!
battle as of a dream, and looked forward the parade ground of the heavens. What
eagerly for the return to northern homes. mighty army is above What heroes have !
At last came orders for a grand review set their names upon its roster. What
the grand review of the army of the Po- matchless valor, what inestimable worth,
tomac —
the fighting army,/«;r exccHence, what dauntless heroism they represent
of all our armies. never expect to Let the living pass. Give way, comrades
I
see a nobler sight. The whole scene is of the Grand Army of the Republic.
vividly before me. I see the steady Give way to the Grand Army of the
sweeping advance of infantry. I see the Immortals. From what battle fields
noble squadrons of cavalry. I see the their ranks are recruited Fredericks- —
heavy batteries of artillery —
silent now, burg, Shiloh, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, the
but speaking with convincing eloquence thickets of the Wilderness, the swamps
a short yesterday ago. Even as today of the Chickahominy, the trenches of
under the spell of memory I recall that Petersburg. What familiar forms come
grand review, my heart throbs more forth to greet us. See There is the !
warmly, my pulse beats more quickly, and old man, his hair gray with age who was
every nerve quivers and thrills. There wounded at Spotsylvania. "Ah, uncle
were generals, and colonels and captains John," I said to him then, " I am sorry
! —a

you are hurt, but the wound is not des- A N urse's Story.
perate, we shall seeyou well again soon." It was at Memphis saw one of
tliat I
" Perhaps so, chaplain, if I could get a the most affecting scenes, in my whole
little rest, but there's too much old blood experience as nurse. Some one came up
in my veins to stand a move, and the one day to the hospital and told me that
ambulances start in an hour." There he a boat had just come from Vicksburg,
is, above, with the smile of eternal youth loaded with wounded, in a very suffering
upon his face —
soldier under the Great condition. I had no one of my own sex
Captain of our salvation. And there with me at the time, save a young girl, a
why there I see the boy who came to me daughter of one of the wealthiest and
with a face beardless as a woman's, a once most prominent men of the vicinity
patient in the hospital, with no sickness — a secessionist, by the way.
upon him, but homesickness. It was so —
The girl Olive Lancaster —
of course
lonely, he said, and as I talked with him, I cannot give her real name —
had left
he told me of the dear mother at home her father's house to nurse wounded
he so longed to see. S3'mpathy was Union soldiers, greatly to the disgust of
medicine to his heart, He went back her family, who at once disowned her
to his company. Alas, the next battle not at all, however, to the daunting of
brought him again to the hospital to die the brave girl.
of wounds, to die with a smile on his She had been educated in a Northern
face and the sweet word, mother, on his school, and she told me sometimes of a
lips. And there are others, how many young Northern cousin, whom she loved
others, whose memories we cherish. very dearly —
beyond cousinly limits I
From what experience, from what scenes fancied —
for her cheek took a richer
of trial and anguish they went forth to carmine when she talked of him, and
swell the ranks above. her eyelids drooped, as eyelids are not
Thus the army above was gathered. apt to droop for cousins. It was from
Look up to it —
it will help your patriot- him, more than any other Northern as-
ism. Look up. How gladly they rejoice sociation, she had got those sentiments
that their names are honored. How they which banished her from her father's
exult that the flag, under which they house, and made her a tender and
fought and for which they died, still efficient nurse of our loyal defenders. I
waves above their unforgotten graves. alone, knew how fearfully she watched
Comrades who have been promoted, for his face among the wounded who
we salute you. Comrades of the host came to us.
above, we be true to your
swear to She was very beautiful, this Olive Lan-
memory, and true to our country and our caster. The circumstances under which
flag, till Death, your recruiting ofificer, I knew her were enough in themselves to
permits us to put our names beside yours make her lovely in my eyes, but she was
upon the roster of the Grand Army of undeniably beautiful aside from that' —
the Immortals. brunette —
dark but clear, with a tropi-
cally scarlet lip, and faintly flushing weaker brother had tasted it and others, ;
cheeks, and the soft darkness of her delirious, babbled of home, sweet-heart,
eyes was like a June evening. She went or wife, "Johnny," or "little Joe."
with me down to the landing, each of us There was one, among the last that I
carrying a basket of such necessaries as bent over, and toward whose handsome,
we knew by experience would be most boyish-looking face I had glanced more
acceptable. It was a terrible sight. I than once as I moved along the line. It
have seen other terrible sights since, but was a young face —
handsome as a girl's,
then I had had no such experience as and with a patient sweetness about the
that, and I thought when my foot first mouth that touched me exceedingly. His
touched that awful deck that I should eyes were closed, and he lay so still, so
faint. without sound or movement, that I could
These poor wounded soldiers lay as not tell whether he was dead, or only
thickly as they could be put, upon the fainting.
open deck, and the blood from their But he was neither, for when I touched
wounds had literally drenched the whole him, speaking, he opened his eyes and
floor, so that we could not step without looked at me, and smiled as I offered
putting our feet in pools of it. him wine. Such a smile I have never
!
Olive did not once falter. Glancing in my life seen any thing like it and the ;
at her sometimes, I saw that her face lustre of those eyes —

the expressiveness
was very white, but she stepped quietly that was in them, and that I can no more
along among them —
and her eyes had a paint to you that I can the awful reality
look in them that I thought must of itself of the tragic scene about me. I looked
be as much, almost, to those fainting at him in amazement, thinking he was

men, as the wine and food she put to either delirious or unhurt but he was ;
their pallid lips. not the first, and his whole right side was
After the first sickening sensation of oozing scarlet.
and appalling, I was strong enough.
fright "You haven't got much of that left,
One could not be weak at such a time, and the others need it more than I do,"
with such moansin our ears, such he said, with a gesture of his well hand
awful need hollow hungry eyes at toward my wine bottle; and then, as I
lifting
us. Some had fainted from exposure, hesitated an instant, "I've got something
privation, and loss of blood ; others were better than wine. Let me alone, please,
so near fainting that it was long before and come back when you've attended to
they could be sufficiently revived to be the rest of those poor fellows." I passed
removed in the litters which were waiting on, wondering, and got back to him as
to take them to the hospital. Some were soon as possible, vaguely uneasy.
quite dead —
for lack, perhaps, of those Olive was only a few steps away, com-
very offices we were rendering to their ing toward us, as I knelt beside him, and
surviving comrades. Some — the heroes his glance tried to reach her ; he could
— refused the succoring draught till a not move his head, and his face was
" —
! ; ;:
! : ; ;

turned from her. *'
Is it Olive ? " he News frorr\ the Front.
asked, eagerly. In an instant it flashed " Hold there, courier, what news from the front ?
over me who he was —
even before Go not so fast on your galloping way
Have the armies met, has a battle been fought ?
Olive, with a low cry, had dropped beside
Tell us which side has won the day,
him, and was covering his face with her And who is living, and who lie low
kisses and tears. * We all have friends in the ranks, you know."
" I knew you were there," he said " I ;
" The armies met but a few days since,

heard your voice, and it was better than
And a terrible battle has been fought
a bottle of wine to me." We are the victors, thank the Lord
" You knew I was here, and yet waited But the victory, oh, it was dearly bought.
without calling to me ? " Olive said, For the ground is littered with Union dead,
reproachfully. And the trampled grass with their blood is
red."
" You couldn't have come to me with-
out leaving others, you know," he said, " Tell me, courier, say if you can
gently. How it has fared with my own brave boy ?
He was the last of five gallant sons,

The girl's only answer was a kiss and
His mother's only remaining joy."
a sob, and then she said to me, Thus spoke a woman wrinkled and gray,
" It is my cousin Philip." As the courier paused a while by the way.
"Of course it is, Olive," I said, " and
" Your boy, good woman Alas he is killed ? !
it is time he was removed to the hospital.

In the front of battle I saw him fall.
She got up then, blushing deeply as she With his face to the enemy he lay,
saw the men waiting with a litter wait- —
Shot through the heart by a rifleman's ball
ing with a respectful, sympathetic look, But tell me, mother, was your boy's life
More dear than our cause in this deadly

that spoke plainly enough their apprecia- ?
strife
tion of the scene.
Poor Philip was so badly wounded "Courier, I have already said
that it hurt him terribly when they lifted

He was the child of my later years ;
I have given five to our noble cause

him. But though his lips whitened, and
And the Lord will wip^ away these tears
drops forced out by agony stood on his 'Tis hard with one's flesh and blood to part,
forehead, he made no moan. But I yield them all with a willing heart."
Olive several times cried out sharply

"Courier," said a young wife then,
as though they had hurt her, and wrung " Is my husband living, and is he well? "
her hands at the pain it was to him. " My Captain, lady, was wounded at first.
He lived, but it was with the loss of Close by my side in the fight he fell
And asked that this token to you I'd give,
his right arm and just before I left
;
For he knew himself that the could not live."
Memphis I was present at a ceremony
in which my sweet and brave Olive "O God, he is dead! 'tis my picture this;
I bade him wear it on every field
exchanged the name of cousin for that of
Close to his heart, where I placed it then,
wife. I left them both there, both nurses,
Praying his precious life it might shield;
since Philip could no longer fight. And I strove to keep the tears from my eyes
When I gave him to God a sacrifice I"
; : —
" courier, what of Walter Holt ?

And, distribution of coffee to the soldiers.
Pray tell me if of him you know aught " The men soon became interested and set
This from the lips of a fair young girl.
" I know how bravely and well he fought,
themselves to work to procure supplies
And I know as well that he lost an arm. for the women, in their labor of love.
But otherwise he is safe from arm." For a few days, these refreshments were
collected and served under the trees in
" Oh, courier, tell him when you return
How that of one thing he may be sure :
front of the cooper-shop, owned by Mr.
That I am his whenever he will William M. Cooper, on Otsego street,
And 'though he has lost an arm, and is poor. near Washington avenue. Mr. Cooper,
Bid him remember that I have two,
whose patriotic heart burned within him,
And will prove what a Yankee girl can do."
saw what was needed, and immediately
Then the courier spurred his foaming steed. tendered to this committee the .use of his
Thinking aloud as he rode away
"
large shop. The building was at once
Oh, when will the night of battle clear.
cleared of the barrels, hoop-poles and
And show us the dawn of a brighter day,
When these groans of anguish and grief shall staves, and the first regiment was fed
cease under its roof May 12, 1861.
In the golden sunrise of perfect peace ?"
Across the street always hung a ban-
ner, with the following in large letters: —
Tl:\e Cooper Refresl\ment Rooir\s at
Philadelphia.
COOPER SHOP
{From MSS. History of the ^-jth Regiment Mass. VOLUNTEER
Vols., prepared by J. Brainerd Halt,, of
Worcester, Afass.]
REFRESHMENT SALOON.
The Cooper Refreshment Rooms has FREE.
a history which would fill a book larger
than this is expected to be. Early in the Soon after the cooper-shop was opened,
war, the wife of a mechanic that lived the demand became so great that another
near the landing of the Camden & Am- set of rooms near by was opened attached :
boy Railroad terminus, in that City, went to the last, was a temporary hospital.
out one morning with her coffee-pot and In these two places 1,200,000 soldiers
a cup, and gave about a dozen soldiers a were fed 40,000 were accommodated ;
warm drink. This hint of that noble with a night's lodging; 15,000 freedmen
woman was the gem from which sprung and refugees cared for, and 20,000 had
a system of relief, which will always be their wounds dressed by those in at-
remembered by every soldier that passed tendance.
through that "City of Brotherly Love," The rooms were at all times liberally
during the late war of the Rebellion. supplied by the citizens of Philadelphia.
The hint was quickly imitated by At all hours of the day or night, these
others, who immediately formed them- self-sacrificing heroines, when a little
selves into a committee, for the general signal gun kept for the purpose an-
nounced the approach of a regiment or the same day of his burial the following
company, would repair to the saloons, in relation to him was written :
and with the greatest cheerfulness, dis-

pense the generous bounty of their Head Quarters Co. "C." 57th. In the Field.
fellow-citizens. These rooms were not Near Pegram's Farm, Va., Oct. 23, 1874.
closed until August, 1S65. When visited " Dear In reply
by the 57th, many and ap- to your inquiries about Ira B. Bullard,
of the tools
pliances still hung in their accustomed I will state that he was wounded in action.
places before the change from a shop to May 24th, at the battle of North Anna,
and afterwards died of wounds in hospital
a Soldiers' Refreshment Saloon.
at Washington, I took him from the field
in one of my ambulances I was attached —
i\egiinei\tal Everxts. to the ambulance train at that time * *
The following accounts of two of the I had quite a long talk yesterday with
Lieut, Colonel Tucker about Ira. The
members of the 57th Mass. regiment, and
Colonel, you know, formerly commanded
their sufferings and death, will be of in-
Co. '* M,"
terest to many :
He said that Ira proved himself to be
an excellent soldier, both cool and
Near Gaines Mills, Va., June 7, 1S64.
plucky in a fight, and always faithful
Dear : * * * I do not when on duty. The Colonel in speaking
know whether you are aware that Cor- of Ira's conduct in the battle of the
poral Bullard has been wounded ; he was Wilderness, related a circumstance illus-
wounded at North Anna river, in the trative of Corporal Bullard's coolness
arm and leg ; has had a bone taken out under fire. Ira's rifle having become foul,
of his arm, I believe, and at last accounts so that he was unable to discharge it, he
was doing well ; he is probably now in quietly took his wrench from his cartridge
Washington ; I am told by Sergeant Allen box, unscrewed the cone on which the
that Ira fought like a hero, cool and caps are placed, took his primer and
plucky, * * he has proved that the cleaned out the cone, then screwed it on
Bullard blood comes from good fighting again and blazed away all this under
;
stock. * * * " a heavy fire of musketry from the

"Johnnies." I have just been talking
George. E. Barton.
with the Color Sergeant ; he says of Ira,
On
Sunday, October 23, 1864, Corporal
— he was the best Corporal I had on the
" Color Guard," always in his place,
Ira B. Bullard, of Co. M., was buried close to the colors. He fell fighting by the
from the Baptist Church, West Sutton. old flag, and went to the rear without
Corporal Bullard was wounded at the assistance.
battle of North Anna River, Va., May A day or two before the fight at North
24,. 1864, which wound caused his death
Anna
was quite sick and was
River, Ira
Regiment about half a
away from the
at Mount Pleasant U. S. Army General
day, but this did not suit him at all. He
Hospital, in the suburbs of Washington,
joined the "Color Guard" and went in
D. C. He was spoken of as a brave with the Regiment. Most men would have
soldier and a worthy young man. On taken advantage of their sickness and
remained in the rear, but this was not slightly wounded on the North Anna,
Corporal Bullard's style. He made this and was sent to Port Royal for trans-
remark to the Color Sergeant when he portation to Washington, but of his own
joined the Guard "If I weie only well
account, returned to his Regiment, join-
:
I could do my duty, but I want to be

ing it at Coal Harbor. While preparing
with the Regiment wherever thev are,"
* * * for the charge upon the enemy's works,
George E. Barton. on the 17th, beyond the Dunn House, he

said to the Chaplain, '
I intend to be the
At the time of Schneider's death, Mr. C. C-
first one to enter their works.'
Coffin (Carleton), of the Boston Journal, wrote
a just and beautiful tribute to his memory. It
" The charge was made. How grandly
contains some things which have already ap- they moved through the woods How !
peared, but it has been thought best to give it in quickly they swept up to the rebel line
full. He says: — of defensive works, like the ocean billow
"
While riding up from City Point to upon a break-water, rolling over it, en-
the front to-day, a friend, attached to the gulfing all beyond The brave young !
Christian Commission, pointed out a soldier tried to make good his words.
grave by the roadside, near the 5th Corps With eager feet he lead the advance,
hospital, about a mile east of the Dunn breaking out from the line and keeping
House. For me it had a special interest, a rod or two in advance. He was almost
as it will have for thousands —
the grave there, not quite, —
almost near enough —
of Edward M. Schneider, o7th Mass. to feel the hot flash of the rebel musketr}-
"When the Regiment was formed in his face, —
near enough to be covered
he was a student in Phillip's Academy, with the sulphurous cloud from the can-
Andover. From motives of patriotism non, —
when he fell, shot through the
purely, against the wishes of his friends, body.
he left " He was carried to the hospital, with
the literature of the ancients, the
history of the past, to become an actor six hundred and fifty of his Division
in the present, and to do what he could comrades. He lay all night with his
for the future. His father is the well wounds undressed, waiting his turn.
known Missionary of the American Board There was not a murmur from his lips.
at Aintob, Turkey and the son did what The Chaplain looked at his wounds.
;
he thought would meet his approval. "What do you think of it ? "Seeing it was
" The Chaplain of the Regiment, Rev. mortal, he could not articulate a reply
;
Mr. Doshiell, has kindly given me in- neither could he restrain his tears. He
formation of what he has done for his remembered the last injunction of the
country. On the march from Annapolis, young soldier's older sister " I commit
:
he, though but seventeen years old, and him to your care." The young hero in-
unaccustomed to hardships, kept his terpreted the meaning of the tears that —
place in the ranks, not once falling out his wound was mortal. "Do not weep,"
from the encampment by the waters of he said, "it is God's will, I wish you to
the Chesapeake, to the Rapidan. He was write to my father and tell him that /
;

have tried duty to my country and the 17th of June, eighty-nine years ago,
to do my
to God." He
disposed of his effects, the sons of freedom freely gave their lives
giving $10 to the Christian Commission, on Bunker Hill for the cause they loved.
$20 to the American Board, and trifles Not less worthy of remembrance are
to his friends. Then, in the simpUcity those who fell infront of Petersburg on
of his heart, he said " I have a good : thismemorable day.
many friends, school-mates and com- "
Not many days hence, a gray haired
panions. ,They will want to know where man, far away in the Orient, will receive
I am, how I am getting on. You can let the tidings. The affliction may be severe;
them know I am gone, and that I die for, loving his work, serving his Master,
content ; and Chaplain, the boys in the he doubtless has looked down the vista
Regiment. I want you to tell them to of coming years, and beheld the boy
STAND BY THE DEAR OLD FlAG and succeeding him as a Missionary of the
!
there is my brother in the Navy, — write Gospel ; but in his affliction will he not
to him and tell him to stand by the thank God that he had such a son 1
OLD flag and cling TO THE CROSS OF He has not lived in vain. He has done
Christ! " his work, and has gone home to engage
" The Surgeon came and examined in a high service. It was not for him to
the wound. "It is my duty to tell you, have all his heart's desire here, — to be
that you will soon go home," he said. upon the rampart of
the first to stand
"Yes, Doctor, I am going home, I am enemy's works, but fearlessly and
the —
not afraid to die. I don't know how the triumphantly he vanquished the last
valley will be when I get to it, but it is enemy, and came off a mighty conqueror.
all bright now." Then gathering up his "I die content," said the heroic and
waning strength, he repeated the verse noble Wolfe, at Quebec, when told that
often sung by the soldiers, who, amid all the French were fleeing. Stand up for —
the whirl and excitement of the camp and Jesus," said Dudley Tyng ip his last
battle-field, never forget those whom they hours. " Let me die with my face to —
have left behind them, —
mother, sister, the enemy," was the last command of
father, brother. Calmly, clearly, distinct- General Rice, the Christian, the Soldier,
ly, he repeated the lines, — the chorus of the Patriot, at Spottsylvania : — but
the song :
— equally worthy of a place in the memories
" Soon with angels be marching, of men are the words of Edward M.
With bright
I'll
laurels on my brow ;
Schneider, — the boy, the student, hardly
I have for my country fallen. eighteen years of age, the leader m the
Who will care for sister now." charge, — to his brother. They are the
" The night wore away. all that Wolfe, and Tyng, and
Death came essence of
on apace. He Rice uttered in their last moments. His
suffered intense pain
but not a murmur escaped his lips. grave is by the road-side, marked by
Sabbath morning came, and with the a rude paling erected by Rev. Mr.
coming of the light he passed away. On Doshield. The summer breeze sweeps
! 1 "
through the sighing pines above the while living, and mourned for when dead ;
heaved-up mound. Mournful, yet sweet but never have I felt a profounder
the music of the wind's harp mournful, ; reverence for departed worth than for
in that one so young, so full of life, him. — Asleep beneath the pines, uncof-
capable of such a future, should go so unshrouded, wearing, as when he
fined,
soon ; sweet that he did his work so well. fell, the uniform of his country. His last
Had he lived a century, he could not words the messages to his comrades, to —
made it more complete. was a short
and his brother
It his father
will live so —
life,extending only from the peaceful long as the flag of our country shall
shade of Old Andover to the entrench- wave, or the cross of Christ endure.
ment of Petersburg ; but oh, how full " Stand up for the Dear Old Flag,
" I have given the record as narrated AND CLING TO THE CrOSS OF ChRIST !
by Chaplain and by members of the They are the emblems of all our hopes
his
Christian Commission, who were with for time and eternity. Short, full, round,
him in his last moments. It is plain, complete, his life. Glorious such a
simple, true. I am refreshed. The future death !
is not dark. Will the tree of Liberty " Carleton."

become diseased and fall prematurely
into the sear and yellow leaf, if nourished
Our Your\gest Soldier.
by such vital blood ? No. There is com-
pensation in God's economy. It is costly Sergeant John Clem, Twenty-second
to sow such seed but return will be Michigan Volunteer Infantry, was the
;
abundant, the harvest golden. Amid all youngest soldier in our army. He was
the pain, the anguish, the tearing of only 12 years old, and small, even for his
heartstrings, waste and desolation of war, age. His home was in Newark, Ohio.
we have such compensation. There are He first attracted the notice of General
thousands who are ready to fall where Rosecrans at a review at Nashville, where
he marched to the cannon's mouth and ; he was acting as marker of his regiment.
there are other thousands who have not The General attracted by his youth and
yet taken their places in the ranks, young intelligence, invited him to call upon him
as he in years, who, as they read this whenever they were in the same place.
record, will feel the patriotic flame Rosecrans saw no more of Clem until
kindling as never before. his return to Cincinnati, when one day
" One week ago this Sunday morning coming to his room at the Burnet House,
he passed, from the din of the dry, hot, he found the boy awaiting him. He had
dusty, bloody field of battle, to that landseen service in the mean while.
|
He had
where peace fioweth like a river for- gone through the battle of Chicamauga,
•
evermore. I have stood by the mould- where he had three bullets through his
ing dust of those whose names are great in hat. Here he killed a rebel Colonel.
history, whose deeds and virtues are cut The officer, mounted on horseback, en-
in brass and marble, who were reverenced countered the young hero, and called out.
1
;; ; ; —

"Stop, you little'Yankee devil!" By way of
Corporal Sirqpson's Story.
answer the boy halted, brought his piece
" It was a grand ride and adventure
to "order," thus throwing the Colonel
off his guard. In an other moment the
thatwe had last week! "
piece was cocked, brought to aim, fired,
The boys drew closer to the fire ; they
and the officer fell dead from his horse.

knew my story was worth hearing, and,
lighting their pipes, they got ready to
For this achievement Clem was promoted
listen.
to the rank of Sergeant, and Rosecrans
bestowed upon him the Roll of honor.
" Yes, a right jolly ride You remem- !
ber, boys, that on the 25th of March
He did His duty Well. Captain Gere of the Griswold Light

Cavalry —
you have fought at their side
Come bear him to his resting place

more than once was sent out with a —
hundred or so of men to the neighbor-
With still and solemn tread,
No crown of laurel shall be placed hoods of Berryville and Winchester, on a
Above his youthful head scout. Well, we encamped at Millwood,
No words of praise upon his tomb a straggling sort of place, you remember,
To speak of how he fell
about seven miles from Berryville. After
Only the honest epitaph,
the fires were built, rations not being
" He did his duty well."
over-plenty, Dick Weatherbee, sergeant,
Come near and gaze upon the dead private Harry Johnson and myself deter-
Ere laid beneath the dust,
mined to indulge in a little foraging on
Gaze on the calm and settled face
With still and solenm trust our own account, and in prosecuting our
Look on him, let your grief be still, laudable purpose, went some two miles
And do not mourn as they from camp to a farm-house, 'where we
Who mourn a youthful spirit lost,
ordered supper from an old woman, ap-
Or birth-right cast away.
parently the only occupant of the premises.
How might a mother's heart rejoice She didn't seem to care about giving us
To know amid the brave, what we wanted, but we sat down resolu-
Her son, the brightest and the best,
tely by the fire, giving her to understand
Had found his early grave ;
that we meant to stay until our wants
Amid the foremost ranks had fought
With bold and fearless eye, were supplied and so at last she went
;
And felt within his noble heart about prepai'ing us a meal. She moved
'Twas honor thus to die. very slowly, however, and seemed feverish
and uneasy, as if she was waiting for
Then bear him to his resting place
With still and solemn tread, something she did not wish us to know
No crown of laurel shall be placed about. Finally, however, the supper was
Upon his youthful head ; ready, and we were just sitting down at
No words of praise upon hfs tomb.
the table, when we were treated to a 'sur-
To speak of how he fell
prise' we had not bargained for. Suddenly
Only the honest epitaph,
" He did his duty well." several revolvers advanced threateningly
;
into the room, each having a shaggy fel- Paris, ten or twelve miles, you remem-
low behind it with 'shot' in his eyes, and ber, away. The ride was by no means a
a firm set in his mouth that wasn't at all quiet one, Mosby constantly taunted us
pleasant, considering how close the pistols with questions. Were you with Colonel
'
were to our heads. Now you know, boys, Cole when I thrashed him at Upper\'ille?'
I'm not a coward, but I didn^t like the was one of his first queries, to which,
*
situation just at the moment.
'
I recog- however, he got no satisfactory response.
nized the foremost of the three who came Then, after a while, he asked, 'What do
into the room as Mosby, and I knew he you think of my gray nag I took him —
was not apt to care where his bullets hit from a Yankee Lieutenant.' Weatherbee
and besides, the Captain and Lieutenant said that wasn't the only instance of a
who accompanied him did not look as if rascal riding on an honest man's horse,
they were given to straining the quality at which the Captain and Lieutenant
of mercy. Upon their demand, therefore, laughed. Then Mosby began to brag ;
that we should surrender, we signified 'Don't you Yanks, now, fear me more than
immediate assent, but not without a pang the regular cavalry?' 'How do you like
that we were to lose our supper, which my style of fighting ? and a dozen other
'
seemed all the more tempting now that questions were addressed to us in swift
they were beyond our reach. succession, showing how little of a hero
" Mosby, however, was anything but and how much of a braggart this fellow,
depressed. Indeed, he was in the jolliest with all his feathers, really is. Of course
humor possible, and indulged in all sorts we were mad; but we held our tongues
of jokes at our expense. We didn't, how- as well as we could, and rode on with as
ever, lose our wits in our misfortune. We much apparent indifference as possible.
had been in worse scrapes, a great deal, " As we went along, frequent pauses
than that, and we did not altogether were made at farm-houses along the road,
despair of geting out some way or other. and at each, two or three recruits were
" After helping himself to what supper secured for Mosby's gang. Nearly every
he wanted, Mosby told us we must follow house appeared to have some friend of
him to Paris, where he had his head- his in it. He would ride up to a place,
quarters, and we accordingly went out, call Jim or Jake, tell them that he wanted
watched by the Lieutenant, to get our men at such an hour at the usual place,
horses, which were tied near the barn. and that they must tell Joe and Mose,
Johnson, somehow, managed to give the and then would ride on, leaving his
Lieutenant the slip, and instead of getting friends to come on at their leisure. A
his horse, hid in a haystack, and so got good man}' of these fellows I had seen
off, Mosby not daring to wait and hunt before, and all claimed to be Union
him up lest some of our fellows should citizens ;some of them, I know, had taken
pounce down upon him. the oath of allegiance, and no doubt had
"Well, Weatherbee and I mounted, in their pockets passes to come into our
and under strict guard we started for lines and go out whenever they chose. I
! " '

marked some of these chaps, and we " What's all this infernal row about
'
.''
must attend to them, boys, the first "We were too polite, boys, to swear at
chance we can get. him in return, as I just leveled at him as
"Well, we got to Paris at last. I had he stood in the door, sending a bullet
marked the road pretty closely, thinking close to his ear, and making him dodge
that maybe I might want to travel it some out of sight. Then what time we made !
time and I was all the while on the

; But we didn't leave without a benedic-
look-out for some means of getting away. tion. As we flew away Weatherbee
The chance came before I expected it. shouted,
Mosby, as he came up to the house where "'How do you like our style of fight-
he had his head-quarters, dismounted and ing. Colonel Mosby 1
went in, leaving his pistols in his holsters. " And I sent back this parting cry :
How my heart fluttered when I saw that " '

Come and see us, boys, we're of the
My horse stood close by Mosby's, and New York Twenty-first.'
his pistolswere almost within my reach. " So, lads, we got away, leaving one
But there sat the Lieutenant with his vacancy among Mosby's officers, and
revolver in his hand, ready to shoot me carrying with us his gray nag,' saddle, '
down at the first imprudent movement. pistols, and over-coat. You will find
Caution was necessary. So, leisurely them all in the tent there, except the
getting down, I pretended to tie my horse —
he is out yonder in the woods
horse. As I fumbled about the bridle I eating Union provender, on which, if
saw out of one eye that the Captain was Mosby told the truth, he was brought up.
moving off, to look, as he said, for an "One good thing came out of our
orderly to take the horses. Mosby's horse capture. Mosby, as we learned during
was between the Lieutenant and myself. our ride, and from his talk with the
Here was a chance if I could only get farmers, intended to attack Captain Gere
:
the pistols, I might fight my way out. at daylight, hoping to surprise and cut
Suddenly I put my foot into the stirrup him to pieces. Of course we spoiled
of Mosby's saddle, and laid hold of one that nice litde plan by getting back in
of the shooting-irons. But the Lieu- time to give the Captain notice of what
tenant saw the movement and fired. was going on, and enable him to make
Fortunately his aim was bad, and he preparations for defense. Mosby evi-
missed me. In an instant I was in the dently thought better of it, and didn't
saddle ; and aiming straight at the fel- come."
low's heart, shot him dead. Heavens !
how excited IBut I wasn't out of

was !
A country girl, coming from the field, told by
the woods yet. The Captain hearing her poetic cousin that she looked as fresh as a
the discharges, turned round instantly daisy kissed with dew, said, " Well, it wasn't any
and fired but he, too, shot wide of the

;
fellow by that name, but was Steve Jones that
it
mark. Mosby, all excitement, rushed to kissed me. I told him that every one in town
the door, shouting. would find it out?"
PATIÎOTISM. tiger cat have been cut, to call the tiger

a kitten. Mercy and forgiveness are
A Discourse delivered at Gettysbtirg, yuly 2\st, Christian virtues but mercy and for-
;
1S78, before the Grand Army of the Republic,

giveness do not mean compromise and
by Rev. J. F. Lovering, Chaplain-in-chief,
concession. Between loyalty and dis-
G. A. H.
loyalty, as between heaven and hell,
The lesson of patriotism must not be there is a deep gulf. shame our We
forgotten, nor must we suffer it to be own manhood, we dishonor the graves
held as of secondary importance. It is of our dead, when we forget to honor
our duty ; our Christian duty our duty the cause of the nation, when by a single
;
as those upon whom must rest the word or look we seem to apologize for
responsibility of inculcating veneration the patriotism which once sung its exul-
for and righteousness, gratitude te?nus in the notes of the bugle, flashed
justice
for and guardianship of its wrath with the gleam of sabres, and
the guidance
Almighty God, and obedience to those uttered its command from the throat of
principles underlying our nationality, cannon.
which are the products of His law it is ; During the month of September, fol-
our duty to encourage the most enthusi- lowing the days of July which gave us
astic patriotism. There is a mawkish this battle-field, a very striking phe-
sentimentalism which hesitates to speak nomenon was observed in Virginia., The
of loyalty and patriotism above a whisper. day had been exceedingly warm the air ;
It condones rebellion by praising bravery. was dry and motionless, not a leaf was
It finds stirring, and the silence was broken only
" With keen, discriminating sight, by the drowsy hum of insect life.
Black's not so black —nor white so very white." Suddenly, in the afternoon, about 3
have no question of the bravery of
I o'clock, a vast number of light fleecy
those who once mustered in regiments clouds rolled up from the South, their
and brigades and fought so stoutly edges tinged with delicate shades of
against the noble defenders of our noble pearl and amethyst and emerald the —
flag. They did fight bravely. " When light green tint forming on some of the
Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug clouds a singularly beautiful fringe. For
of war." But for all that they were nearly an hour, singly or in long column,
wrong. "We may not forget," as Gen. these clouds swept rapidly through the
Butler said last Decoration Day in his open sky. This phenomenon had hardly
eloquent oration ; ''
we may not forget passed when another and one more
that they were good soldiers in a bad startling took its place. In the deep
cause." valley below where the sky touched the
And I deem it to be a sacred duty to South at the horizon, out from the South
keep this distinction in mind. We have on towards the North, silently as if
no right to shuffle with conscience. We ghosts were mustering on the parade-
have no right, because the claws of a ground of the heavens, came vast num-
;
46 GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC ALMAiVAC.

bers of soldierly forms. Platoon after a surge wave of the Atlantic, lifting itself
platoon, battalion after up with a power that seems irresistible,
battalion, brig-
ade after brigade, they advanced, passed is dashed into spray upon the rock cliff ?
in review and disappeared. Only a little Do they forget the heroic sacrifice that
imagination was needed to clothe these sanctified their loyalty and patriotism ?
shadowy presences in a common uniform, Perhaps even as the Apostle was encom-
a simple blouse and hat, but armed with passed round about with an innumerable
no weapon, neither sabre or gun. For multitude, so to-day upon the heights,
an hour this grand review took place, within the valleys, here in our midst, may
then the sky was again clear ; a cool be the forces of those who once wore the
breeze sprung up the earth brightened blue
; ay, and the forms of those who
;
under the setting sun. All was still, as wore the gray, and who passing through
if the mysterious tread of ghostly feet the fiery furnace of battle have been
had brought a solemn sense of peace. purged from every taint of disloyalty and
What 2vas a vision may be actual fact. rebellion. Certainly this is true — that
Here and now may be gathering about with a lesser use of the imagination than
us a silent and unarmed multitude. On that which shaped the shadowy clouds
the plains of Marathon, so a patriotic into soldierly presences, we may say
faith taught the Athenian, those who had there are those living who are with us
—
once saved the land gathered on certain to-day —
parents who gave their sons,
anniversary occasions, to review their wives who gave their husbands, sisters
battles, and to quicken in the hearts of who gave their brothers, friends who
Greece a love for country. Here once gave, with heart-breaking farewells, their
another summer brightened. I)o any neares. and dearest. There are with us
here remember that day —
that day twice those who live and who suffer because
repeated —
when the sky quivered with of the sacrifice they have made in the
the conflict that shook the earth when love of their departed. They are with
;
with the flashing of keen sabres, squadron us and if with us only in thought, they
;
mingled with squadron, and the shriek of bear testimony to the import and value
rider and horse rent the air together of the sacrifice by which the highest
; j
when the booming of artillery, the crash Christian patriotism is confirmed.

of shell, the whirl of bullets and plunge Are instances needed of such sacrifice ?
of shot were answered back, each hillside Where can we look without greeting the
to the other giving echo when over these
; scene of some heroic exploit or of some
hills and valleys hung the thick sulphur- heroic death? Yonder sounded the cry
ous clouds lighted up by the lurid wrath once, "On, to the Round Top," and the
of war ? Do you think the dead remem- troops dashed forward. Among them
ber — that they recall the terrific charge were three, united by ties of soldierly
that they see again the valiant masses love. Round Top is gained. The ranks
hurl themselves forward, only to be broken of the rebels are mown like corn.
and shattered and thrown back, as when Shrapnel and shell do their fearful duty.
GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC ALMANAC. \1
Together our three friends had kept, tion can duplicate ours. In character
separated for a moment only to meet and membership it is unique.
in Com-
agam. Round Top is gained Gained? ! rades of the Old Guard, veterans of the
Yes, and one falls with a gurgling cheer G. A. R., let us hold true to our record
upon his lips he motions feebly
;
— and stand firm for any emergency. Let
"Come near;'' he whispers, "I must every fight, from Bull Run to Gettysburg,
send one message home." One of the from Gettysburg to Appomattox, speak
survivors springs forwards, bends over in our ready and firm resolution. When
him, but, as he tries to catch the whisper —
the command comes- -not the command
of his friend, the zip of a Minnie ball of any mortal leader, but the command
hisses through the air, and, struck to the of God — uttering itself in the supreme
heart, the brother-in-arms falls. Cheek to need of some crisis-hour, when such com-
cheek they lie, and their mand calls us to face the Nation's foe ;
dying thoughts
greet each other ; while there
beside whether that foe dare utter rebellious
them sat the third, one hand grasping his words or do rebellious deeds, whether it
rifie, the other laid upon his tent-mate's, seeks to steal by policy what was lost by
while unconscious tears furrowed his by the stealthy stab of the
battle, or to kill
swarthy, battle-stained face. assassin what could not be done by hand-
Here in another portion of the field is to-hand fighting —
let us be ready and
the dead body of a Union soldier. The obedient. If in any need of any day God
eyes are open their rayless, stony stare
; speaks to us by any servant of His will,
is set upon an ambrotype, the likeness of " Up, Guards, and at them " let the !
three little children. The dying soldier, bugle sound, "Forward, the whole line !"
moments, turned to thoughts of
in his last and with irresistible and overwhelming
home, and while looking into the pictured impetuosity let the charge be made.
faces, of the little ones, breathing with Do this, but do this in the name of
his last breath a prayer for their protec- God. Do this, but do this in the spirit
tion, surrendered life with all its joys and of Christian fidelity to the great Captain
duties, for our country and its flag.
of our salvation. Do this, but do this in
Comrades of the Grand Army of the recognition of the significance of all the
Republic by the toil of the march, by memories and duties and hopes asso-
:
the exposure of the camp, by the fiery ciated with this battle-field of Gettysburg.
baptism of battle, you have won the " Glorious things are spoken of thee,
honor which cannot be taken from you, O City of God." Yes, "glorious things
of being the Nation's defenders, the are spoken of thee, O City of God " —O
veteran soldiery that forms the color- Gettysburg.
guard of the Union.
This was the Nation's battle-field !
None but those who have served in

Over it gathered the angry cloud,
the Army or Navy during the late war
Over it thundered the cannon loud,
can recruit our ranks. Ours is the Over it glared the lightning's pain,
aristocracy of patriotisim ! No organiza- Over it hurtled the leaden rain.
——
! ; ;

Look round! there once the squadrons dashed, TI\e Late Ger\. Pf\ii Kearr\ey.
And once the sabres flashed;
there, there
Philip Kearney was born in New York
Hark hear the echo from days of dread
!
"Forward forward " o'er living and dead.

I
City on 2d June, 18 15. He was born a
soldier, and in spite of the wishes of his
This was the Nation's battle-field :
family, who desired him to study law,
enlisted in the First United States Dra-
On it redden'ed a crimson sod,
On it agony prayed to God. when quite a boy. His uncle then
goons,
On it, amid the deadly strife, commanded them, and through his in-
The wounded shrieked for death —not life.
fluence he succeeded in obtaining a
Look round! there once the squadrons dashed; commission as Second Lieutenant. He
And there, there once the sabres flashed. was shortly afterward sent to Europe by
Hark ! hear the echo from days of dread, the Government to report upon the
" Forward ! forward!" o'er living and dead.
cavalry tactics of the French ; and, the
What is the Nation's battle-field ? better to inform himself, he joined the
Chasseurs cV Afriqjie, and made several
Valleys slumber in peace to-day;
campaigns with them in Algeria, winning
Round Top smiles 'neath the Summer's ray ;
In the camp of the dead each silent grave golden opinions from the officers for his
Like a holy altar enshrines our brave. gallantry and military skill. When the
war broke out with Mexico, Phil Kearney
The robin sings from the shattered tree,
In meadow flower hums the honey-bee ;
accompanied the army as a Captain of
Her fields, once wet with a crimson stain. Dragoons, whose equipments and horses
Give fruitful promise of golden grain. he provided at his private expense. In
the march from Vera Cruz to Mexico he
Such is the Nation's battle-field.
won high honor, and was shortly after-
God of our comrades we praise thy name!
ward brevetted Major for his gallantry.
Each hero of thine is the heir of fame.
At the San Antonio Gate, City of Mexico,
" Dead on the field of honor!" we cry :
Living ! Promoted 1 is Heaven's reply.

he was ordered to charge a battery. He
gave the order to charge. A murderous
God of the Nation ! bless thou our land !
volley checked his advance, and caused

Speak from our Gettysburg thy command
his troop to waver. Alone, with his
That in the future, as in the past.
The law of the right shall be law to the last sword erect, PhilijD Kearney dashed upon
That the crime of rebellion shall triumph never, the enemy, and his men, electrified by
But the flag of the Union float forever. his example, charged and took the bat-
Ame.\
In this affair ^Major Kearney lost
!
tery.
you think that if the women

" I say, Dick, don't an arm.
had to do the fighting instead of the men they After the Mexican war Major Kearney
would make sad work of it?" "No; why do you was sent to California, and commanded
ask ?" " Because I think they would, they have an expedition against the Indians of the
such an engaging way with them." ''That's very
Columbia River. He displayed during
true; but they have also such a captivating way
that there would be, doubtless, more prisoners this campaign, as the annals of the War
than killed." Department will prove, such tact, cool-
:
ness, and courage as won him the praise My Boy Ben.

of our best military judges. When ''Cindy!"
re-
turned from this expedition, Major The girl leaned from the window of the
Kearney resigned his commission, and room she was dusting. Fair and blue-
returningto Europe devoted several eyed, somewhat pretty, there was yet a
years to military studies. lurking something in her face that told
During the Italian campaign of 1859, you she belonged to the subject race.
Major Kearney served as volunteer aid "Yes, Ben," looking up and down the
to General Morris, a distinguished officer fragrant garden paths for the owner of
in the French army. The American aid the voice, and fin'ally right down beneath
made good use of the facilities offered the window, where he stood with a prun-
him during the series of brilliant victories ing-knife in his hand and some clippings
wliich brought the contest to a speedy from the tall flowering shrub he had been
conclusion. He was ever observing, trimming. Nothing in his face to tell what
studying with unflagging zeal and ardor blood darkened in his veins, unless it
each movement of the army. He was might be the spark that smouldered, as
unconsciously preparing himself for his it were, in his full dark eye. He was
future position. At the conclusion of tall and lithely made, his features aristo-
this campaign the French officers, who cratic enough in mould for the most
had witnessed with delight the evidences exacting taste, and he carried himself
of the military ardor and enthusiasm of like a prince in disguise.
Philip Kearney, called the Emperor " It's true, Cindy, what I told you.
Napoleon's attention to the American Master Perry is only home on furlough.

officer. His Majesty immediately be- He's taken a commission in the Rich-
stowed upon him the Cross of the Legion mond army. I saw his uniform hid away
of honor. in the oak wardrobe, not half an hour
When the news of the breaking out of ago. And the family is going back with
this hideous rebellion first reached him when he goes. So it's good-by to
Europe, Major Philip Kearney was resid- our chance if we don't take it pretty
ing in Paris. He lost not a moment. soon."
He hurried back to offer his services to " What shall we do, Ben 1" Cindy said,
his country, and was shortly afterward clasping her hands.
appointed a Brigadier-General of the Ben reached up and pulled her ear
forces of New Jersey. In the army of down to the level of his lips.
the Potomac no officer has won higher "Take our chance to-night, if we care
praise than General Kearne}-. General enough for it," he whispered "the Union ;
M'Clellan is said to have wept when he lines are only six miles off."
heard of his death, and to have said "But master will go after us," she
"Who can replace Phil Kearney?" answered, in the same breathless voice.
" I know and they'd give us up to
;
The Coward's "Arms." — His le^s. him, because he pretends to be Union.

And prove that he ain't. But, my with a load of sweet-potatoes, the other
I can't
girl, we as Cindy and Ben. day.
won't go Wonder if those Yankee soldiers
You'll put on a suit of Master Walt's, will see any resemblance between Captain
and 1 shall wear Master Perry's uniform?" Littlejohn and his boy Ben .-'"
Cindy drew back from Ben's triumphant Cindy watched her lover, speechless
look, fairly aghast with the daringness of with admiration too much bewildered, ;
the proposition. indeed, to detect the fine sarcasm that

"Don't you be scared, Cindy, it ain't underlay his light speech.
half sobad as to stay. And remember " The devil ha, ha ho, ho
! What ! :
what that would be. How did your old the mischief does this mean, Ben, you
"
mother die ? and where's Jube and what .''
rascal ?
was Lizzy whipped for ? Will you go ? It was Captain Perry himself, who had
Cindy was crying bitterly. "Yes, oh been listening some time among the
yes ! branches of the tree under which they
"Get away as early as you can then, stood, waiting for the night to get a little
to-night, and wear a Master darker. He swung himself down now,

suit of
Walt's. Look as much like liim as you and laid his hand lightly on Ben's
can ; I'll be waiting at the bottom of the shoulder, almost convulsed with laughter
garden." at the idea of his servant in his uniform,
was near midnight when the two met and pretending to pass for himself/
It
" It means that I'm going to try
again at the foot of the garden; Cindy
looking as much like the spruce young freedom. Master Perry," said Ben,
student. Master Walt, as his clothes could quietly. "Come, Cindy."
make her, but shaking with fear till her He sprang from under Littlejohn's
teeth chattered. hand, and darted down the avenue.
Ben she at first took for Master Perry Poor Cindy was too frightened to
himself, and was for running back to the move, and let Master Perry take her
house when he stopped her. Ben's eyes back to the house without the faintest
flashed like the buttons of his master's show of resistance.
uniform. Master Perry was very angry by this
" Do I look enough like him to pass time but he did not offer to pursue the ;
for him, Cindy ? " he asked, drawing fugitive.

himself up. " The scoundrel !
" he muttered. " I'll
"You look like his very self, Ben." go over to the Union camp after him
"Then I am him, Captain Perry Little- to-morrow and I don't think ; he'll ever
john, of the Confederate service —
again after I've given him a certain
re- try it
member, Cindy —
and you're my boy practical illustration of the consequences
Jube, and I'm going to desert to the old of such impertinence. Won't the Yankees
flag I never wanted to fight against. stare, though curse them when they — —
That's about what I heard a deserter find that, instead of Captain Littlejohn,
tell 'em when I went to the Union camp deserter, they've only got my slave-boy,
" ; " "

Ben ? They're just soft enough to swal- Colonel Manning, amused and perplexed
low that imposition." both, sent a irle of men after the mysteri-
Cindy listened to him, shuddering. ous Captain.
She had often heard Ben say he would Ben came into the preselice, looking
never live to be whipped and some ; like a Major-General, at the very least.
instinct of this in the family had hitherto The uniform became him wonderfully,
spared him such ignominy. Now, having already snuffed a few hours of
however, it seemed that nothing could free air he carried himself several inches
save him. taller than usual, and looked so hand-
True to his word. Master Perry went some and dignified withal, that it was
over to the Union camp in morning much easier believing Littlejohn
the " my
to claim his slave. He had rested very boy Ben," than Ben himself.
contentedly overnight, in the belief that " You certainly resemble each other,"
he would experience no ditificulty in said Colonel Manning to the slave
obtaining possession of him, and his claimant, " and really, Sir, where master
meditations were chiefly of the punish- and strongly resemble each
ment necessary to prevent such imper- other, really
slave
—so
tinence in future. Ben was very spirited He hesitated, still between amusement
he knew that well enough ; but all the and real perplexity, while Littlejohn
more reason why his spirit should be colored angrily.
broken. "Do you mean to insult me. Sir?"
"A fellow representing himself as feeling for his sword ; but Ben had it.
Captain Littlejohn, deserted from the "By no means, Captain."

Confederate service t " repeated the Ben, at too great a distance to hear
officer to whom Littlejohn presented the conversation, was regarding his
himself. "Why, yes, I believe we have quondam master with an indescribable
got such a man here. He's under guard, ferocious air, copied from the most ap-
though, till the matter can be investi- proved specimens of Southern chivalry
gated. Do you know any thing about he had ever seen.
him ''
Captain, this gentleman lays a very
—
.?
Littlejohn laughed. singular claim to

"I ought to, seeing I'm Cap—"- ahem The bogus Captain interrupted the
— Littlejohn myself, and fellow you the hesitating sentence with a ferocious
have got only my boy Ben, done up
is in scowl, and then laughing lightly, said :
my — ahem — a uniform the fellow got

in "You are facetious, Colonel, ha! ha!
hold of somewhere." to call my boy Ben, this gentleman."
"What?" Here was a situation Which was !
somewhat "My boy Ben," or was either? The

Littlejohn rejêated his story
more coherently. There were some Colonel began to look cloudy, vaguely
quicksands in the vicinity of that uniform, suspecting that he was being made the
but he floundered through them and victim of some family hoax.
;
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52 GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC ALAIANAC.
"Gentlemen," he began, "I see no enough, for nothing more was heard of
other way but to place you both under him till the following day toward noon.
arrest till this matter can be properly Meanwhile, next morning, a little
investigated." before light, a blue-eyed, fair-faced
"Come to inform against me as a rebel, young woman calling herself Cindy,
eh? " said Ben, slave wit getting ahead of came struggling into the Union camp,
the gentlemanly instinct on the other side. and fell fainting with terror at the foot
"You, rascal — " began Littlejohn ;
of the compassionate picket who hailed
but Colonel Manning informed him that her. A slight examination showed that
personal invective could not be indulged it was probably not altogether terror
there, the Captain showed himself quite made the girl faint. Her shoulders were
the most a gentleman of the two. bruised and lacerated
she had been ;
"Captain.? he's no Captain; this is an whipped for trying to run away. That
—
outrage, Colonel Manning a deliberate was evident enough.
"
outrage !
We all know what Yankee soldiers are
" Why, Ben, what game are you up to in such a case. One of those who stood
now ? The cleverest joker you ever saw, there and heard poor Cindy's story had
Colonel," the real Ben said, with an air dabbled in law before he became a sol-
that staggered Littlejohn himself. dier, and was consequently dubbed " the
Colonel Manning tried to smile, but it lawyer" by his comrades. He managed
was hard work, the whole affair was so somehow to get speech with Captain
bewildering. And he had grown more Littlejohn alias Ben and the conse- ;
and more suspicious that he was being quence was, that when Colonel Manning,
hoaxed somehow. His sentiments con- having pondered the matter, had that
cerning the contrabands were peculiar, curious case of " My boy Ben " up again
somebody might have hit upon this plan in the morning, Ben, looking as much
to test them. like a Major-General as ever, told the
He accordingly, as the simplest way Colonel with dignified courtesy that if he
out of the dilemma, ordered the myste- would permit him (Ben) to say a few
rious pair both under arrest for the words and ask a few question, he would
present. prove entirely to his satisfaction which of
Southern temper was scarcely able to the two was really Captain Littlejohn.
contain itself then, and sputtered and Colonel Manning assented, and Ben
fumed vehemently, but in vain. Ben proceeded :
marched away with his chuckling guard " If even I were the slave of this man
like a conquering hero. calling himself Perry Littlejohn, has not
A messenger was dispatched to the the United States Congress passed a law
?""
Littlejohn family mansion when Master confiscating the slaves of all rebels
Perry got cool enough to suggest such a "Congress has passed such a law."
j
proceeding. But the messenger must " Then, sir, this matter is easy of set-
have lost his way, though it was plain tlement. For the easier arrangement of
j
GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC ALMANAC. %Z
it I am willing to acknowledge that I was Tt\ar\ksgivir\g.

the property of Perry Littlejohn ; but " What have soldiers in hospital,
having in my possession proof that he is writhing in pain, or tossing in fever, to
a rebel, I am now confiscated to the be thankful for? The clay is a humbug.
United States. This uniform, you will Keep it ? No, I've not kept it."
find, if you wish to test the matter, fits A strong man shorn of his strength
that gentleman better even than myself. spoke, but it was no Delilah answering.
I took it from his wardrobe the night I " Many a poor soldier weary with pain
came here. In this pocket of it you will and agony has found cause for thankful-
find his commission, under rebel signa- ness ; some trifling deed of pity or word
ture, as an officer in the rebel army. By of sympathy has stirred his heart to
sending to his father's house and exam- gratefulness. Suffering generally hum-
ining his father's private papers you will bles men to recognize and accept what
find ample proof that he is also a rebel. they disdain in the pride and glory of
Till you have ascertained these circum- health."
I represent them, Colonel,
stances to be as " Yes, you women get us in your power
I await with hope that judgment and then crow."
shall
which makes me either a free man or " Victor, what malice !"
his slavey " It is true ; then tell us to be thankful.
Perr)'' had very little For what
Littlejohn, Esq., for maimed, crippled bodies, .''
to say —or rather he had much, but it for useless arms, for paralytic legs?"
was of little avail. The pale face grew paler, and a scornful
His father, coming to claim Cindy, was smile gleamed out of restless, eager eyes.
detained till a sort of investigating com- "Oh, Victor! Victor! the battle is
mittee could be sent to his house. but half fought, the glor}' only half won
The result proved that Ben had told when you utter these thoughts.
the truth and Colonel Manning being
;
Victor partially raised himself, leaning
very exact in such matters, the Littlejohn on one ann and speaking haughtily.
slaves fulfilled the letter of the law, and " If you think I implied regret at gi
became confiscated. my mite to this war you are wholly mis-
They had a wedding in camp the next taken, Margaret."
day, Ben and Cindy were married. " No, no I did not mean that, believe !
Margaret Fuller ori^ Won[\en.

me but it is right for all to be thankful,
;
and I meant you had not gained one of

To make our women sea captains,
Miss Margaret Fuller wrestles,
the direct purposes of suffering."
While scripture sends them all to sea,
'•
Pray what is that ?"
And calls them weaker vessels; Margaret's head drooped as she ans-
The matter sure is very plain, wered,
No evidence it lacks, " Gratitude for ha\ ing shared in even
And specially its clear to me,
They 're very fit for " smacks." the least degree that which was endured
Cambridge. for us all bv our Master."
•

Victor's voice had lowered before he The fairest little being, robed in pink
replied, danced in and thrust her curly
tarlatan,
" I am no Carmelite, Margaret, nor pate down on her brother's arm, chatter-
one of those who believe that mere bodi- ing all the while.
ly pain can make us like the Divine One- " ^'ou have kept Madge ever so long
—
;
"Eat it can help it can indeed." isn't she a darling"

She was so afraid to speak of these " What is that she wears on her neck-
things that she dared not say all she was lace, Josey ?'
thinking. She wanted to assure him that "A cross, a pearl cross; Madge, let
!"
a better appreciation of the great sacrifice him see it
lay in his power than in hers, rejoicing " Don't ask her, Josey. She is angry
as she was, in health and vigor but dif- with me. Is that the way you women
;
ferent leaven had been working in his wear crosses made of pearls and hung on
mind, for he suddenly resumed again in a golden chain } How heavy they must
his cutting ironical tone : be!"
"Ah, it is easy to preach of thankful- " Stop, Victor, stop, you are outrageous.
ness in purple and fine linen to the rag- Madge has gone, and I shall go too ;
ged, beggarly horde ! You have heard but look at the buttons in my ears."
the sermon to-day, you have given thanks " Petite sauvage ! why make holes in
devoutly, and now —stand a farther little such little pink sea-shells of auriculas ?"
off that I may look you—you are going

at " I don't know what you mean. I wear
to the but you do not army button ear-rings to match this army
sumptuous dinner ;
care for the viands, your esthetic palate button bracelet, and they are lovely.
is to be cajoled. I wonder who will But, Vic, I wish yon had your dear old
whisper the most tasteful, delicate flat- leg again sowe could have a redowa —
teries ; who will most poetic
offer the and how splendidly you used to lead the
draughts, spiced carefully for such dainty German Oh, it is too bad
! I shall !
lips !Let me see. The sheen of your just ciy."

silk dazzles I —
must shade my weak " And make your eyes read. Oh no,
vision —
it is êry beautiful and the lace Josey ; come, dance off with yourself.
—
;
at your throat, how soft and downy be there .'" Who's to

you call it a ruche, T believe the rose, Everybody." "
;
too, in your hair is red, rosier than your "Tell me who Margaret dances with."
fair face, red as the blood I have seen on " She won't dance in war times, she
battle-fields
" — says. Isn't she old fogy. She came up
" Madge Madge ! where are you ? to me the other night and said the music
!
Come out of this dungeon. We are ought to be funeral marches instead of

waiting for you. What are you two giddy waltzes."
crooning over? Victor, you look as sour "Was that after I came home ?"
as green grapes. Look at me am I not " No, before ; and you know how mag-
;
bewitching ? See, I am en niiHtai?-e. nificently she plays. Well, she would

not touch the piano except to give us the found it She has tightened the rein ! till
adagio of one of Beethoven's symphonies, the bit cuts at every pull but I am ; re-
or something else so sad that we could venging myself. I hurt her nicely to-
hardly keep from tears ; but I must go, night. She's a good little Christian, and
Vic. Good-bye
don't get blue here all does not like to be thought a Pharisee."'
;
alone. suppose you would rather have

I A little table stood near with conven-
a book than my delectable society ?" ient trifles. A book of larger type caught
" Oh yes, chatter-box "
adieu ;
his eye, Mrs. Browning's " Last Poems."
!
The light steps danced down the hall ;

It opened of itself, as if it knew the hand
other steps and other voices echoed, died accustomed to hold it (not Victor's), at
away ; the carriage wheels rolled off, and the hundred and seventy-eighth page.
silence reigned. Down the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth
Victor took up his book ; was scored lightly a pencil mark.
the print verses
was too fine ;
For one vivid moment he knew what one
so he was obliged to re-
linquish it, wishing he had some one to woman had suft'ered in all the dreary
read aloud to him. Margaret had so time of his silent imprisonment in Rich-
often read to him that the words began mond, and like an avenging weapon
to bear more clearness and power from those verses cut in deeply. He tried to
her voice than any other, but he had shake it oft" he tried to think some other ;
provoked her now. It was not a pleasant hand had opened these pages so often
reverie in which he was indulging alone, that the leaves fell apart at this one place.
;
crippled, feverish, restless he who had He knew better and knowing it, self-
; ;
prided himself on his independence and reproach added to his dreariness. His
manly strength. But he did not regret bell rang so furiously that the servant
having spoken as he did to Margaret it feared some accident and rushed breath-
;
rather satisfied him to resent kindness lessly in.

and patience with cool sarcasm it was " Did the ladies say when they would
;
.''"
his masculine protest against forbearance return, Joanna
and gentleness. "Thankful, grateful —
"No, sir; but noi until late I'm sure,
I have no need, I wish to have no need sir."
for such words. Has she not left me all " Ask them when they come no, you —
alone here to gnash my teeth at fate, to need not either. Bring me a glass of
ponder over my uselessness and misera- water."
ble good-for-nothingness, while she dances " Yes, sir."
off to a dinner — a Thanksgiving dinner ? He was very restless and feverish, and
And why should she not go ? What does lay with closed eyes as quick steps indi-
slie owe me that she should deny herself cated Joanna's return. But the step was
any pleasure ? Nothing. To be sure I lighter, and a cool hand laid softly on
once told her —
I was fool enough then his brow made him start.
— that no other woman in the world had A quiet figure in gray merino, with
so great a sway over my actions con- onlv a blue bow knotted under the linen
;
collar, stood near him — She knew not what he meant ; and
thick, drooping,
wavy curls hid her eyes. though she had determined not to be
" I thought you had gone !" was the weak, tears would come just one pas- ;
half-impatient exclamation. sionate outburst, which she quelled

" I changed my mind at the last mo- proudly the moment they were shed.
ment." But he saw them, and drew her toward
"To heap coals of fire on my head, I his couch.
suppose." " This is the way I have to sue for
" Victor, drink this water you have ;
pardon, lying helpless, maimed for life.
fever ; don't talk." I had rather you had killed me, Mar-
"I must." garet, than force me so to love you that I

" Not now let me read."
; She had can not longer hide it. Oh, Margaret,
opened a book, and crouched down on a Margaret, it was cruel I, who shall !
low ottoman, her face shaded by her never ask any woman to be my wife."
hand, began to read. The voice was Margaret put out her hand very coolly.
like a chime of low, sweet bells, but they "Good-night, Victor."
seemed to jangle in Victor's ears. He " Must you go Then I am mistaken.
.''
tossed and turned, and finally put out his I hoped you cared for me, Margaret, in
hand and grasped the book. spite of my detestable behaviour."
" Pardon me, Margaret." "Yes, I must go, Victor."
" Shall I go away, Victor ?"' " It has been very tiresome for you
"Yes." here, Margaret, listening to my folly."
There was not a tinge of sentiment or " No, I did not care to go out."
sadness in her words, but they were very Her perfect indifference at last en-
calm and low. raged him, as she knew it would.
" I only came because I saw you were " You seem to be in no way moved at
worse and needed recreation," rising as my misery. I did not know you were so
she spoke. cold and heartless."
" Do you call this recreation .'"'
"What would you have me say.-"'
"No, it is very evident I have done " Drop some delicious grains of pity ;
harm." sweeten the biiter pill with honeyed

" More than you can repair, Margaret." phrases."
He was not now speaking satirically, " I am very sorry this has happened."
and she looked at him with amazement. " But that is a cant expression. You
" You have made me break a reso- are generally original."
lution so strong that it was nearly a She was silent again, and moved to-
vow." ward the door. He detained her, grasp-
"I Victor?" ing her hand.
" Yes, you, your calmness and
with " Among all your thanks to-day can
womanly gentleness, your terrible ma- you spare a little forgiveness ?"
lignity." " For what .?"
GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC ALMANAC. S7
"For my rudeness and harshness." For a moment or two his pale face
His voice was gentle again. worked. It was hard for him to make
" There is more to forgive than that."
the attempt he had almost sworn not to
" I dare say bnt I am in earnest. do
; —
so hard, that for a moment he
Don't go yet. Do you forgive me ?" faltered.
—
"No!" firmly, softly, but emphati- But the temptation was irresistable.
cally. and he saw that nothing else would
" And why not Is my sin so hein- compel Margaret to answer,
.-*
so he spoke :
ous .'" " Margaret, will you be my wife .?"

" The man is not a brave one who tells " Yes, Victor," came the answer,
a woman he loves her but will not ask clearly spoken.
her to be his wife." " The wife of a cripple .?"
" Margaret !"
She crushed the words with a kiss.
She went on as indifferently and coolly For a long while there was stillness,
as if discussing some novel. Victor clasping tightly Margaret's hands
" It is not brave, nor is it honest, for
as if afraid she would elude them, but in
he may have won her love in some place of the pain and feverish irritability
strange way."
on his features was a look of very ex-
" But she should let him know," said pressive content.
Victor, half amazed and half amused. Margaret's tears were so nearly falling
^'
A true woman's self-respect is a bar-
thatit was some time before she could
rier to that."
ask Victor what he was thinking of, so
" Victor bit his lip.
unusual was his silence.
" A cripple, doomed
drag a footless
to " Keeping my Thanksgiving at last,"
stump after him all his life, has no right
was the reply.
to ask a young and beautiful, no, nor an
old and ugly, woman to be his wife." BOY. MY
" Who has laid down that law .?"
" A true man's self-respect is the bar- ROSE TERRY.
rier." Every human being, I believe, has
Margaret glanced up, a very sunbeam some trait, or expression, or power
of a smile playing over her features. peculiar to themselves, that is the seal
" It is a dead-lock, Victor." of their own individuality. I begin with
" It shall not be, Margaret, if you will such a "credo," because it is necessary
just stoop down here a moment." in order to explain the peculiar but
" What for ?" faithfully true incident I have to narrate
" Now I have both your hands ; tell that I should confess my own specialty.
me, do you, dare you love me ?" Everybody confides in me ! I do not
There was no answer, and her curls mean that they trust, or love, or ask
drooped over her face. He repeated the help from me bnt something in my
;
question, but she would not reply. mental or moral nature seems to lay a
:

spell, even on strangers ; and
have favored " (as we say in Connecticut), a
I
had personal most certain gravity and sadness on the long

histories of the
delicate nature, things I would scarcely uncomely feature, the prominent mouth
tell my sister, poured into my ears by set firmly, the cool eyes looking straight
persons I had not known ten days. forward, the hands dropped, nothing
This curious and often embarrassing gift more attractive in the visage than a
of mine was never more strongly ex- steady expression ; one could scarce
emplified than one day, about a month imagine that even a mother's eye could
ago, when I was walking up the broad find it pleasant to look on,
bright streets of my native city. There I looked from the picture to her she j
could have been nothing in my face to was a middle-aged, common-place look-

attract confidence, for I was very tired, ing woman, well and neatly dressed in
full and anxiety, and hastening deep mourning, evidently from the
of care
home without even a glance at the country her whole face stirred with ;
people I met, when suddenly a woman suppressed feeling. I had to say some-
stepped before me and said, in a peculiar thing so I spoke —
excited tone : " He is in the army.^"
" Do you want to see niy boy^ " "He's dead!"
My wits are rather quick, thanks to long I despair of giving these two words in
training in emergencies, and at once I print; I did not know that one phrase
thought, " A crazy person ! take it coolly, could be so overburdened with expres-
don't show her you know it." So I said sion. I felt at once that there was only
with entire composure and a certain one fact in the world to her, only one
degree of suavity, quite unsurprised. idea — possessing and transfusing agony
"Oh yes, where is he.-"' that could not recognise any thing in life
"There he is, said she, indicating with but itself; that even knew not in its blind
the tip of her parasol one daguerreotype rage, whether she spoke or thought;
out of some hundred, that filled a large careless of forms or persons intent to ;
showcase leaning against the side of a speak as a severed artery is to bleed,

door. yet simply instinctive in doing so. The
I looked, expecting to see some fat very dynamic force of her anguish made
urchin, ruffled and bare armed, with a it utter itself in words.

whip or an apple, looking crosser than I was struck dumb. I was like one
lifeand more stolid than nature ; for I blundering into a foreign tongue, what
had jumped to the feminine conclusion could I say ? I stammered out a blunt
that this strange appeal was a burst of inquiry :
maternal pride in some simple soul, "Was he shot?"

altogether carried away by the depicted " Shot at Bull Run and they brought —
beauties of her baby but I saw instead him home."
:
a young man's figure, dressed in uniform; " You had him with you then ? "
a thoroughly New England face, " hard- "Oh yes! He was just through
;
College. The going to be a died, he was so good; he was all the

best boy !
minister ;
Why son I'd got, and I thought he'd grow up
so good and so smart.
the President said at his funeral it was a to be a comfort to me, and everybody
mysterious Providence." spoke well of him? he'd have done a
"But it was splendid to have him die great deal more good if he'd lived I ;
for his country," said I. can't see it — and he's dead!"

As soon had said it I
as I could have " But you
know God always does right,
bitten my tongue for offering to this if it does seem hard now," said I, in
broken heart such oratorical stuff as despair of making my way gradually to
that. She took no notice of it. these heights, that are the very citadel of
"He was so good knew so much if the soul, and which one instinctively
: :
he had lived he would have done so shrinks from entering without cautious
much more all his life, —
and he's approach. She turned round upon me
dead." with a mingled look of weariness and
She faced round upon me with these anger.
last words till I felt imbecile again. " Did you ever lose a son in the war .?"
" Was he sorry he went " said I. said she, almost fiercely.
!
" No he thought he ought to. I asked That appeal cowed me at once, for I
him when he was a-dying, if he could felt all it implied ; my tongue faltered
forgive the man that shot him. 'Why, and my heart slunk away before hers, as
mother !
says he,
' I haven't anything I said faintly.
'
against him, he didn't mean to shoot me "No."

specially suppose he thought he ought
; I "Then you
don't know anything about
to fire his gun as much as
I thought I it ; no use for you to talk. I can't
it's
ought to fire mine. I could shake hands have it so I tell you he's dead ! I
!
with him now." Just here she caught the eye of a

"You had a real hero for your son." friend, and turned to speak to her. I
"He's dead," was all she said, with made my escape. I could not have
dreadful iteration ; the tears running over borne another minute the sight of her
her eyelids, without her consciousness grief. I have never seen her since
apparently, and her whole face as still though I found out her name and her
with intensity as the band of a wheel dwelling-place, and if ever I go through
that moves so fast it seems to stand that pretty river town I will ask about
still. her, most surely, for I never can forget
"But after all," said I, "you are a her or her son. Yet strange to say as
blessed woman have made such a
to I walked away from that interview,
sacrifice to your country ; I wish day stunned and dumb, only these words
and night I had a man to send to the kept reiterating themselves in my mind :
" " For God so loved the world, He

war, and I haven't one !
This was equally unheeded she went ; gave his only-begotten Son."
on — "I can't see why he should have
6o GRAND ARAIY OF THE REPUBLIC ALMANAC.
Pl\il. Stxeridaa Riding to the Front the cavalry, he rode to the front, took
off his hat and waved it, while a cheer
The victory gained, on October 19, went up from the ranks not less hearty
1864, at Cedar Creek, surpassed in and enthusiastic than that which greeted
interest the victory gained precisely one him after the battle of Winchester. Gen-
month earlier at Winchester. It was a erals rode out to meet him, officers wa\ ed
victory upon the heels of

following their swords, men threw up their hats in
apparent reverse, and therefore reflect- an extremity of glee. General Custer,

ing peculiar credit on the brave com- discovering Sheridan at the moment he
mander to whose timely arrival upon the arrived, rode up to him, threw his arms
field the final success of the day must be around his neck, and kissed him on the
attributed. cheek. Waiting for no other parley
The General was at Winchester in the than simply to exchange greeting, and
early morning when the enemy attacked to say, This retreat must be stopped
' !'
— fifteen milts distant from the field Sheridan broke loose and began gal-
of operations. General Wright was in lopping down the lines, along the whole
command. The enemy had approached front of the army. Everywhere the
under cover of a heavy fog, and flanking enthusiasm caused by his appearance
the extreme right of the Federal line, was the same."
held by Crook's Corps, and attacking The line was speedily re-formed ;
in the centre, had thrown the entire line provost-marshals brought in stragglers
into confusion, and driven it several by the scores ; the retreating army
miles. The stragglers to the rear were turned its face to the foe. An attack
fearfully numerous, and the enemy was just about to be made was repulsed,
pushing on, turning against the Federals and the tide of battle turned. Then
a score of guns already captured from Sheridan's time was come. Cavalry
them. charge was ordered against right and
This was the situation a little before left flank of the enemy, and then a
noon when Sheridan came on the grand advance of the three infantry
field, riding, says one of his staff, so corps from left to right on the enemy's
that the devil himself could not have centre. "On through Middletown," says
kept up. A staff-officer meeting him the correspondent above quoted, "and
pronounced the situation of the army beyond, the enemy hurried, and the Army
to be " awful." of the Shenandoah pursued. The roar
" Pshaw," said Sheridan, "it's nothing of musketry now had a gleeful, dancing
of the sort. It's all right, or we'll fix it sound. The guns fired shotted salutes
!"
right of victory. Custer and Merritt,
Sheridan hastened to his cavalry on charging in on right and left, doubled
the extreme left. " Galloping past the up the flanks of the foe, taking prisoners,
batteries," says the JFt'r/i'/ correspondent, slashing, killing, driving as they went.
" to the extreme left of the line held by The march of the infantry was more
GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC ALMANAC. 6i
majestic and more temble. The lines A Iêcollectiorx of Gettysburg.]

of the foe swayed and broke before it
every where. Beyond Middletown, on A few days after the dreadful battle
the battle-field fought over in the morn- of Gettysburg, when more than twenty
ing their columns were completely over- thousand badly wounded men filled the
thrown and disorganized. They fled along inns, the churches, the private homes,
the pike and over the fields like sheep." the farm-houses; the barns, the sheds,
Thus on through Strasburgh with the extemporized canvas-hospitals, which
two brigades of cavalry at their heels. made that fair region a spectacle of
Two thousand prisoners were gathered boundless misery, I went out to the
together, though there was not a suf- field-hospitals of the third corps, four
ficient guard to send them all to the miles from town, where twenty-four
rear. The guns lost in the morning hundred wounded men lay in their tents,
were recaptured, and as many more a vast camp of mutilated humanity.
taken, making fifty in all, and, accord- Who can ever describe, or would wish
ing to Sheridan's veport, the enemy to describe if he could, the various and
reached Mont Jackson without an or- horrible forms of injury represented in
ganized regiment. the persons of the victims of that
The scene at Sheridan's headquarters glorious and decisive fight But amid!
at night, after the battle, was wildly ex- all their sufferings, an air of triumph
citing. "
General Custer arrived about animated the pale faces of those ranks
9 o'clock. The first thing he did was to of heroes, even on their dying beds. No
hug General Sheridan with all his might, murmurs mingled with the sighs of their
lifting him in the air, whirling him around exhaustion or the groans of tb'iir an-
and around, with the shout " By
: guish.
,
we've cleaned them out and got the One woman, young and fair, but grave
guns!" Catching sight of General and earnest, clothed in purity and mercy,
ToRBERT, Custer went through the same —
the only woman in the whole vast
proceeding with him, until Toreert was camp —
moved in and out of the hospital
forced to cry out :
'
There, there, old tents, speaking some tender word, giving
"
fellow ; don't capture me !
' some cordial, holding the hand of a dying
Sheridan's ride to the front, October boy, or receiving the last words of a
10, 18G4, will go down in history as one husband for his widowed wife; I can
of the most important and exciting never forget how, amid scenes which,
events which have ever given interest to under ordinary circumstances, no woman
a battle-scene ; and to this event will be could have appeared in without gross
attributed the victory of the day. Says indecorum, the holy pity and purity of
General Grant, " Turning what bid fair this angel of mercy made her presence
to be a disaster into a glorious victory seem as fit as though she had indeed
stamps Sheridan what J always thought dropped out of heaven. The men them-
of him, one of the ablest of Generals." selves, sick or well, all seemed awed and
purifiedby such a resident among them. had at length got to work among them,
Separated from the main camp by a and limbs just cut off, (one I recollect,
shallow stream, running through a deep with the heavy shoe and stocking still
ravine, was a hospital where, with perhaps upon it,) lay in dreadful carelessness, in
fifty of our own men, more than two full view, about the place.
hundred wounded rebels had been Having exhausted the little store of
placed. Under sudden and violent comforts we had brought with us, one of
rains, this shallow stream had in a few the sufferers said to Miss G., " Ma'am,
hours swollen to such a torrent as ac- can't you sing a little hymn !" " O yes,
tually to sweep away, beyond recovery, I'll sing you a song that will do for either
several wounded men who la)^, thought- side;" and there, in the midst of that
less of any new peril, sleeping on its band of neglected sufferers, she stood,
banks. For three days the flood kept at and with a look of heavenly pity and
an unfordable height, and the wretched earnestness, her eyes raised to God,
hospital of the rebels Avas cut off from sung, — "When this cruel war is over,"
medicine and supplies by the impossi- in a clear, pleading voice, that made me
bility of reaching it. A brave young remove my hat, and long to cast myself
lieutenant repeatedly swam the torrent upon my knees ! Sighs and groans
with a bag of medicines and small com- ceased ; and while the song went on
forts in his mouth, the only communica- pain seemed charmed away. The mo-
tion that was had meanwhile. ment it stopped, one poor fellow, who
Accompanied by the young woman had lost his right am, raised his left and
above named, 1 found my way, at the said; " O, ma'am, I wish I had my other
earliest moment possible, to the unwill- arm back, if it was only to clap you."
ingly neglected scene. The place was a In that barn a noble matron from
barn and stable. Every foot of it was Philadelphia was doing her utmost for
occupied by a wretched sufferer, clad those two hundred wounded prisoners.
usually in the ragged gray of the rebel She had been with them all the time,
uniform. Those above in the barn using such scanty means as she could
might almost be said to be in heaven, master to alleviate their misery. I re-
as compared with those below it the turned to Gettysburg and sent out a
stable, who might with equal truth be heavy wagon load of supplies, food,
said to be in hell. For upon heaps of medicines, and clothing, to those poor
dung, reeking with rain, and tormented wretches that night. What was my
with vermin, their wounds still undressed, surprise, only last week, on visiting our
and many longing for amputation, as the rooms at Washington, to find this noble
happy long for food or drink, lay fair lady there, with a face fuller of anguish
and noble youth, with evidences of than any of those she had ministered to
gentle breeding in their fine-cut features, in that place of torment. She had at
and hunger, despair, and death in their her home in Philadelphia, yesterday,
bright and hollow eyes. The surgeon received from her son, in the army of
GRAND Army oF the republic almanac. 63
the Potomac, a telegraphic despatch, " What sort of a wife did you get .'"
"Mother, I am to be shot on Wednes- "
The laist ye say av' her 's the best,
day next, under a charge of desertion." Cap'tn twan't much of a courtin' I
;
Knowing the groundlessness of the had," he continued. " Belike 'twas as if
charge, in any intent of her faithful son, I wint to-night to a wake ye know —
and yet the dreadful haste and awful what that be I thought so —
an' to-
.^ —
necessities of military discipline, it morrow night I'd be in front of a Praste,
seemed only too probable that her boy, the Lord help me." " How did you like
for some venial offence, was really, in your wife ?" said the captain. " How
a few hours, to lose his precious life did I like her ? As a well man likes
by a disgraceful death We had known medicine. Be-gorra, the way she liked
!
the mother's spirit too well to believe me was to get three hundert an' sivinty-
in the son's guilt. Direct and earnest five dollars av' me bounty, and that's the
interposition with the President was last I see av' her, an' be the same takin
made from our office for a postpone- it 's all I want to." " I shall take warn-
ment of the sentence and a new trial. ing from what you say, Paddy, and be
The boy was saved that sudden and careful not to get married," said Dr. H.
doubtless unjust sentence, for his moth- " Och, Docther, that 's not the way ;
er's sake, and because she had loved 'twould be like stoppin' up all the little
much her son was forgiven. springs becase one man dhrounded him-
H. W. B. self in the say. There 's betther luck for
the likes av' yese I wouldn't be deman-
Jottir\gs from tl\e Battle Field
;
ing meself spaking agin' all av' them —

the wimmen, I mean." A good wife is
\From Chaplain Lovering's Note Book.']
a blessing, an' the worst gets one, av'
Patrick from Massachusetts, for they look out."
hails I'm afraid after what '•
'twas there he " 'listed." He feels bound, you've said that I've not the courage to
therefore, whenever opportunity presents try." Och, Docther, don't be down-
itself, to stand up for the Old Bay State. hearted 'twas the bewilderment of the
;
One night Capt. Perry, in order to start whiskey that make the thruble wid me ;
him, said :
" Well, Paddy, what about an' there's no danger av' that wid you.
Massachusetts these days ?" " Be-gorry, Shure an't you a temperance man tell —
an' she's all right," was his hearty reply. me that now ? " For all that, I might
"Let me see," continued the Captain, in make a mistake, so I'll be contented as I

a hesitating manner " You
: enlisted am.." Paddy's face fell. He was silent
there, didn't you?" "Thrue for you that for a while, watching the Doctor out of
I did." " And you were married there, the corner of his eye. At last he heaved
wern't you.-"' "Thrue for you agin," a profound sigh, and looking at me,
said Paddy, with a sigh "an' that same said " Chaplain, is the Doctor in arnest,
; :
wer' the worst job I iver had in Massa- d'ye think .^" "He seems to be," I said.
chusetts, an' that wer' me own fault." "Well, thin," said Paddy, doubtfully.
! !

" there 's one woman to be pitied in the j
stand Yankee preaching, that was wosse'n
State of Maine, ,
or elsewhere." bullets."
A MAN
was brought into the Hospital.
A POOR, tired, dirty, forlorn-looking
He
had been fatally wounded. The Dr.
soldier who had fallen out of the column met him. "Well, Dr." said the man,
on the line of march, and is making all " We are giving it to them they are on ;
the speed he can to get into camp with the run. Johnny Reb will get heavy
his fellows, comes up to a place where " How
rations to-day. Bully for us !"
there is a number of surgeons with some is it with you ?" questioned Dr. Hersom
;
hospital attendants. " Hello, thar," he
" Where are you wounded " Me I'm .-'"
!
shouts, as he passes, " Who'll trade V

hit here," was the reply, as the man put
" Trade what ?" answers a round apple-
his hand on his bowels. " A bad wound,"
face drummer. " My gun for a shirt-
said the Dr. " Yes," was the response
;
collar," says soldier as he plods on, "
I'm done for, I suppose but never ;
with a chuckle. Just as he gets by, a mind that, the Johnnies are running
Surgeon comes up followed by his man The fia<; is all ri<iht
tugging away at an old pack-horse,
scarcely able to stumble along. Soldier
Hark ! Singing ! Where ? By whom ?
calls out withan oath which will not On the operating table
" You're a mean cuss,
by a man who —
bear repeating :
dreams of home while the sharp knife

you are ; let that old horse go and beat flesh, cuts thethe quivering and saw
it honorably." way through the bone.
eats its swift
"Kiss me again. Mother," he says. How
Dear old Uncle John Vassarand full his voice. Alas one short
! who clear !
will ever forget him so quaint, so brave, hour, and then the life which had bound-
so helpful.
;
One day I said to him ed with love of home and country,

:
the —
" Uncle John, if you wear that grey suit life that had been so full of endurance
you'll get into trouble somebody will and courage, goes out. Another shadow
;
run against you as a suspicious charac- darkens another home, another shadow —
ter." " I'm not afraid," he replied, " our adds to the sloom of war.
boys won't shoot me, they know Uncle
* Noble Womerx of tl:\e War.
fohn too well, and if the Rebs catch me
they won't keep me long. They got me Mrs. Eliza Potter was the daughter of
once and held me only two hours." Scottish parents of intelligence, piety,
" How did you get away " I told and worth, but was herself born in the
.''"
them they'd either got to let me go or North of Ireland. She emigrated to

elsehave camp meetings all the way to this country when thirteen years of age,
Richmond." " So they let you go, Uncle and after acquiring a good education
John ?" " Yes," he replied, with a cheer- * From Women's 'Work in the Civil War." By L.
'•
ful laugh. "They said they couldn't P. BltocKETT. Publisiied 1S67.

was married while yet very young to for them. To do this was a matter of
Mr. Lorenzo T. Potter, a native of great difficulty. She was in delicate
Providence, R. I., but then, as now, a health, and the few quasi Union women
merchant of Charleston, S. C. who still maintained their intimacy with
When the leaders of the rebellion, of her protested strongly against her under-
which Charleston was the birth-place, taking such a work in her condition the ;
began to talk of Secession, Mr. Potter military authorities had issued orders
was silent, but when his opinion was that no further attentions should be
demanded avowed himself heartily and bestowed upon them than such as were
fully devoted to the National cause and necessary to prevent a pestilence, and
the National flag. the surgeon in charge was a rabid Se-
Late in the autumn of 1861, a few cessionist, brutal and profane. The
Union prisoners, some of them wounded, place assigned as a hospital for them
were brought to Charleston, and Mrs. was an old negro-pen and mart, long
Potter, true to her principles, at once used for the confinement and sale of
set about supplying them with needed slaves, with its kitchen and other out-
comforts and ministering to them. She buildings. There was no floor but earth,
had the gratification of knowing that, and it was a filthy and miserable den,
owing in a good degree to her care, intowhich any man of com.mon humanity
they were nearly all restored to their would have shrunk from thrusting a sick
ranks in health and condition to do or wounded beast.
further service to their country. Mrs. Potter comprehended the situa-
In June, 1862, occurred the disastrous tion at once. She saw that her only
battle of James Island,which the
in chance for accomplishing her purpose
Union forces lost some four hundred or of ministering to those wounded soldiers
more prisoners, most of them wounded. must be through this rebel surgeon, and
These were brought into Charleston, and with skillful diplomacy she began to
nothing could exceed the fury and hatred study the best method of influencing
manifested toward them by nearly all him. He had a mother in Charleston
classes of the white population of the city. with, whom she had had a slight ac-
Fair and delicately-nurtured women, who quaintance, though never hitherto a
boasted of their superior refinement and willing one. Now, however, she visited
culture, were ready to propose their her with some presents of articles not
murder in cold blood, and to express readily procurable, and talked with her
the hope that they would die of their about her son. She soon found that he
wounds. All pity, all sympathy, all was ambitious of promotion, and was
womanly tenderness seemed to have looking forward with some anxious long-
fled from the hearts of these furies. No ings to an appointment as grand surgeon
sooner did Mrs. Potter learn of the to the large hospitals at Richmond.
arrival of those poor wounded prisoners Here was something to work upon.
than she determined to nurse and care Having ascertained at what time he
would be at home, she returned and their superiors in station, they cursed
met hhn in the evening, and after listen- the poor wounded men, jeered at and
ing to his ribald denunciation of the reviled them, and when compelled to
Vandals, asked to be allowed to visit furnish them with water or food, they
the hospital as a matter of curiosity. took care that both should be as unpalat-
He objected very strongly ; said it was able as possible, and administered in
not a fit place for a lady to go to, " that such a way as to increase their suffer-
the rascals didn't deserveany pity ings.
or attention he wished he was rid of
; Sending her son before her to lay
them, and he would be soon he'd wing gently on each mangled and suffering
;
them." By dint of urgency and more body a part of a sheet or other covering
potent appliances, however, she obtained for its nakedness, Mrs. Potter advanced
permission to visit the hospital the next into the room and administered, so far
morning. She had been forewarned that as possible, cordials, soft custard, and
many of the men had been deprived of other nourishment to the men, and
their clothing, removed," the surgeon washed and cleansed their wounds. In
''
said, " to get at their wounds," but, in these ministrations of mercy she was
fact, stolen and she had provided her- constantly insulted and taunted by the
;
self with portions of sheets and some vile wretches who were acting as pro-
hospital clothing, as well as cordials and fessed attendants, and was told that
such simple nourishment as could be " her white neck would get stretched
most readily administered to them. A if she went to do for them Vandals."
servant brought these to the foul den In the negro kitchen adjoining the main
which the rebels had taken for an building she found a soldier from one of
hospital, and Mrs. Potter and her son, the Connecticut regiments, wounded in
a noble, brave boy of fifteen, received the head and shoulder, who had been
them and entered the place. What an thrown down with his head and neck
appalling sight met their eyes Almost resting in the ash-pit or fire-place of the
!
four hundred men suffering from wounds kitchen; the oozing blood and the luke-
of every description, and, with hardly an warm water which had been thrown
exception, entirely nude, lay scattered upon his wounds had made a lye with
over the filthy earth-floor, without the ashes, which had eaten through a
blanket, mattrass, pillow, sheet, or even large portion of the skin of tie neck
straw to rest upon their wounds un- and back of the head.
; She relieved him
dressed, covered with flies and maggots, as far as possible, and having accom-
and tortured with thirst. The only at- plished all she could that day, she set
tendants were the lowest dregs of the out for home, after arranging for another
white population of the city, thieves and interview with the surgeon. She re-
prostitutes taken from the slums or from monstrated with him in regard to the
on these poor fellows wretched conition of the wounded pris-
the jails to wait ;
and actuated by the same feelings as oners, but he declared that it was good
enough for them, the Vandals it ; pital food and

clothing, as well as the
was better than they deserved. " That delicacies She endeavored to
needed.
may be," said Mrs. Potter, "but you persuade the other nurses and attendants
cannot afford to have them left in that to wash the soiled clothing of the men,
condition you are looking for promotion
;
but they refused, and, whenever it was
to a Richmond hospital, and you can removed, destroyed it; and she was
only obtain it by proving that you know compelled to hire, at her own expense,
how to manage a hospital well. If with the washing for all the patients in the
all the difficulties in your way, you can hospital. She e.xpended over eleven
make this a model hospital, you will have hundred dollars in this work alone.
earned and will doubtless receive promo- She dressed the wounds of the men
tion." He saw the reasonableness of herself, and with the aid of her son
this, but said
that the Confederate kept them cleanly and comfortable.
authorities would not furnish him with This involved, in such a miserable and
the necessary hospital supplies to make filthy place, a vast amount of labor —
it a good hospital. " I can help you in much of it of the most unpleasani char-
that matter," said Mrs. Potter. "Ap- acter —
but she never shrank from it;
point me a nurse in your hospital, and and in a short time that hospital was
f will furnish you the necessary beds superior in neatness and comfort to any
and bedding for the men, and such other in Charleston. The surgeon took-
comforts and special articles of diet as all the glory to himself. "This is the
they may need, and will perform a way / keep my hospital," he would say
nurse's duty beside and very soon you to the rebel officers who visited him,
;
can demonstrate your claim to a better and several times he was censured by
position." The surgeon objected to the rebel authorities for suffering the
this, that she ought not to be brought " Vandals" to be so comfortable. Poor
into contact with such wretches as fellows ! very little of their comfort was
were then the nurses in the hospital. due to any kind offices of his. At times
She replied that if she chose to take the old of his nature would
ferocity
that risk he need not be an.xious about gleam out, even in his intercourse with
it, and finally succeeded in obtaining Mrs. Potter. One day, a soldier who
from him the apiDointment, he drawing had received some terrible wounds in
her pay and rations. the head, one of which had laid bare a
She entered upon her duties at once. portion of the brain, attracted her atten-
In a factory of her husband's, near tion; the maggots, by hundreds, were
Charleston, then closed, there were a crawling over his wounds, and he seemed
large number of mattrasses which had to be suffering intensely. She carefully
been used by his hands. These she had removed the loathsome creatures, washed
brought to the hospital, furnished withhis wounds tenderly, and laid cool, wet
suitable bedding, and she drew upon cloths upon them.
'
He had not for some

her home stores for the necessary hos- time previously shown any consciousness,
G8 GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC ALMANAC.
but when she had completed her task he prisoners, though conducted quietly and
groped and seizing them, as secretely as possible, drew down upon
for her hands,
cried out, "Mother mother " She was her the scorn and spite of the rebels, in
! !
affected to tears by this and as he still every form which their malignity could
;
held her hands with his firm grasp, devise. The fences and walls of her
though seemingly dying or dead, she dwelling were constantly covered with
was compelled to wait a little before abusive and obscene inscriptions, at-
she could remove them. tacking alike her character and her
The next day, as she came into the motives. One of her servants found
hospital, the surgeon said to her, " Oh, almost constant employment in effacing
Mrs. Potter, Ihave something I want these evidences of petty spite. As she
to show you. Come this way." She passed along the streets to and from the
followed him as he went to the dead- hospital, women of high social position,
house, one of the miserable appendages who a short time before had been proud
of the hospital. Calling her attention to of invitation to visit her, drew away their
a rough box, he slipped off the cover and skirts as they passed her, lest they should
exposed the body of the poor sufferer, be polluted by contact with a Union
covered completely with maggots, (its woman and with nose uplifted and
;
only covering), and said with a sneering contemptuous shrugs, indicated their
tone, "There's your pet!" contempt for one who dared be a helper
Symptoms of scurvy began to make of wounded Union soldiers. The lower
their appearance among the men, and classes manifested their hate by the
finding it impossible to obtain a suffici- foulest and most abusive language.
ency of oranges, lemons, and limes in the Twice she was summoned to head-
Charleston market, Mrs. Potter sent to quarters to answer to the serious charge
Nassau, N. P., for them, and ran the of giving aid and comfort to the enemy,"
blockade repeatedly with her small and of "shedding tears over the Vandal
ventures of tropical fruits. She made foe." Her husband was repeatedly
it a rule to refuse nothing to a wounded questioned by the military authorities
soldier which it was in her power to as to his wife's giving so much help to
obtain, let the cost be what it might ;
the " Vandals " but he replied always
;
and more than once, when tropical fruits that his wife was a British and
subject,
were scarcest, and the Confederate cur- therefore not responsible them for
to
rency seriously depreciated, she paid ten what she did for these wounded men,
dollars each for oranges for her patients. and that she had resources of her own,
Occasionally she brought them flowers, which she expended without rendering
but the surgeon, partl}^, perhaps, at the him an account of them. He, meantime,
prompting of other rebels, prohibited in every way in his power, aided our
this, because it was giving aid and com- who were in Southern prisons.
soldiers
fort to the enemy. His money bribed Confederate provost
Mrs. Potter's labors for the Union marshals to allow the transmission of
supplies to Andersonville prisoners, wlien morning of their departure, intending to

those supplies alone preserved them from distribute them to them before they
a general starvation ; his money and sup- entered the ambulances but their ;
plies reached the prisoners at Columbia departure was hastened by the military
and Florence, and mitigated, though it authorities, and when she arrived they
could not wholly prevent the suffering were all in the ambulances. Into each
there. The officers imprisoned under of those she threw a bundle of bandages,
fire at Charleston were supplied with but while doing so was arrested by the
all necessary household utensils and guard, who charged her with giving the
food from his table and those who
;
prisoners the means of escape. She
escaped from the rebel prison found in explained but they would listen to no
;
him a protector, and were sheltered by explanation, and surrounded her with
his care for long periods —
one of them their bayonets, threatening her with
for twenty-t\vo months —till there was instant death or with long imprisonment
a feasible chance of escape. A truer- for what she had done while outside, ;
hearted patriot never lived than he. the howling mob were shouting, " Kill
The soldiers who had been wounded her! Shoot her! Hang her She is a !
at James Island either died or recovered Yankee Run her through "
! !
so far as to be deemed capable of &c., &c. Mrs. Potter did not lose her
removal to Columbia, Florence, or self-possession, though she was aware of
Salisbury ; but others, captured in the the danger she was in, but demanded to
siege of Fort Wagner, or on the ruins be taken to the headquarters. At this
of Fort Sumter, or elsewhere on the moment the surgeon, who was to take
coast, were sent to take their places, charge of the prisoners en route to
and Mrs. Potter found constant employ- Columbia, and ascertaining
rode up,
ment for her active charities. One in- the state of the case, ordered them to
cident in connection with the removal of " disperse, and leave that woman alone."
the convalescent prisoners to Columbia, The guard and the mob at their back,
is worthy of record. Knowing that at did not like to lose their victim so
Columbia they would not in all probabil- easily, and refused to release her until
ity find Union women to nurse them as he should prove that he is really the
tenderly as she had done, she devoted surgeon in charge. When he had pro-
several days before their departure to duced his commission, and the sergeant
instructing those who were most nearly of the guard had made out the signature
recovered, to care for the weaker and of the chief of staff, they sullenly drew
feebler prisoners, to dress their wounds, back and allowed her to escape.
and give them nourishment. She had We have already spoken of their eldest
provided bundles of bandages and rags son, the companion of his mother in all
for dressings,and packages of crackers her charitable labors, and her comforter
and bread for their journey. These she in all her sorrows. He was a noble,
brought down to the hospital on the manly. Christian boy, gentle and tender
and brave in the assed by the rebels. The young ruffians,
in his feelings, yet firm
maintenance of right. At the beginning when they found their victim determined
of the war he had received from some not to yield, threatened to finish him next
friend the present of a Union Flag. He time. Mrs. Potter did not believe they
prized it highly for the giver's sake, but would carry out their threat, but she took
more highly as the emblem of the Union, what precautions she could to prevent
and requested his mother to put it away her son from being exposed to their
for him till the time should come when it malignity. It was, however, all in vain.
might again wave over a loyal city. He He was to go to the high school to receive
was a pupil in the Charleston High his diploma, before entering college, and
School, and was expecting to graduate when he came, these young villains laid
there, and enter college in the autumn. in wait for him, and while one called his
It had, somehow, come to the knowl- attention in another direction, the others
edge of some of the pupils of the high setupon him, beat him on the head, and
school, sons of some of the rebel aristoc- in a few minutes he was borne to his
racy, that young Potter had this flag, and home, bleeding and insensible. He re-
they demanded it of him, that they might covered his consciousness for a little
trample on it and destroy it. He refused time, conversed freely with his mother, of
to surrender it. They threatened him his hopes of heaven, his trust in Jesus,
with a whipping, but he was firm. Soon and his faith in the final triumph of the
after l>e told his mother of their threats, national cause. He acknowledged that
and his determination not to give up the he knew those who had assaulted him,
flag. She approved his resolution, and but refused to give their names, and
told him that he would not be the first prayed for their forgiveness. Delirium
who had suffered for the flag of the nation. soon supervened, and after some months
A few days later he came home and sent of severe suffering, typhoid fever set in,
to his mother, to ask her to come to his and death came to relieve his poor
room. He had been most cruelly beaten, bruised and mangled body from further
and his back was covered with gory distress. The mother, though at first
stripes, but he made no complaint, except almost overwhelmed at this terrible afflic-
to say, " I can bear this, mother, but I tion, bore up under it with the patience
cannot bear to have them abuse you as and fortitude of a Christian. Rising
they do." "Their abuse does not injure from her sick bed, while this sorrow was
me, my son," was her reply ; " our Master yet fresh, she sought to relieve her over-
was reviled and evil-treated, and why burdened heart by ministering to those
should not His servants suffer what He who were suffering in the hospital. Never
suffered .'"' The knowledge of this cruel had her ministrations there been so gentle
outrage was kept from his father, who and tender, or her sympathies so hearty
was at the time very anxious in regard to for those who had been wounded in
the condition of some of the Union defending the flag. Large numbers of
soldiers, and who was also greatly har- those in the hospital at this time were
very severely wounded, and sank under your tears, lady ; let me "keep it on my
their wounds. To those she devoted heart till I die."
herself especially, pointing them There was, naturally enough, among
to the
great Sacrifice for sin, and in many men an apprehension that their ser-
in- the
stances she was permitted to rejoice that vices and sacrifices for their country
they manifested evidence of having given would be forgotten, and that when the
their hearts to the Saviour before they struggle was over and peace had returned,
departed. none would remember even the names of
The soldiers thus tenderly cared for, those who had laid down their lives to
almost worshipped her. We have seen secure the blessings of freedom. This
letters from several of those who sur- fear Mrs. Potter earnestly combated.
vived and returned to the army or to "If I live," she said, "to see the retuu
their homes, so touching and earnest in of peace, your deeds shall be recorded
their gratitude that their perusal would for your honor and the everlasting remem-
affect any reader to tears. Their friends brance of the nation if I die, I will
:
and families of the soldiers, at home, to bequeath it as a sacred trust to my

whom, as often as opportunity could be children, to see that this work shall not
found, she transmitted the dying messages be neglected."
and keepsakes entrusted to her charge, Peace came, but the war had swept
recognized with the deepest thankful- away Mrs. Potter's large estate, except
ness their indebtedness to her faithful twenty thousand dollars which she had
care for these mementos expended for the wounded and impris-
of the heroic
dead. oned soldiers, and about twice that sum
The cruelties inflicted on the wounded which her husband had given for the
men by the rebel surgeons and attendants same purpose. That, as given for a holy
affected her deeply. On one occasion cause, they reckoned saved. But not for
she had been moved to tears by some of a moment did Mrs. Potter hesitate to
their barbarities, and though, from fear fulfill her pledge to those dear soldiers
of depressing the spirits of the men, she of the Republic, A lot was secured in
generally abstained from weeping in their Magnolia Cemetery near Charleston ; the
presence, at this time she could not re- Government has undertaken to fence
strain herself, and shed tears as she per- it ; the bodies of three hundred and
formed her usual round of duties for the thirty Union soldiers, who died in the
men. One poor fellow, severely wounded, prison hospitals of Charleston and were
was near death, and from him she buried in the potter's field of that city,
received dymg messages and endeavored are, this autumn, to be removed to their
to prepare him for his coming dissolution. new resting-place ; and partly from the
As she left him, she dropped her hand- wreck of her own fortune, and partly by
kerchief, and presently returned for it, personal effort among her friends, this
when the dying soldier, looking up in her heroic woman has procured the means
face, said beseechingly, It was wet with for the completion of a shaft of ever-
''
— ;

during granite," eighteen feet high, on which he dwelt, and by which his worth
which is inscribed the legend. Immortal- was most thoroughly known.
ity TO HUNDREDS OF THE DEFENDERS OF Three days after Major Anderson had
American Liberty against the Great lowered his flag in Charleston Harbor,
Rebellion, and with it the names of a the Sixth Massachusetts Militia started
hundred and seventy-one of these dead for Washington. Their passage through
heroes, and a commemorative tribute to Baltimore, on the 19th of April, 1861, is
the unknown dead soldiers of the Union a remarkable point in our national his-
whose names it was not possible to ascer- tory. The next day about thirty of the
tain. The record of these dead soldiers, sick and wounded were placed in the
imperfect as it is, is due entirely to Mrs. Washington Infirmary, where the Judi-
Potter's solicitous care. The name of ciary Hospital now stands. Miss Barton
every soldier who entered the hospital, proceeded promptly to the spot to ascer-
where it could be ascertained, was care- tain their condition and afford such vol-
fully entered by her, and copied by her untary relief as might be in her power.
daughter. Hence, if she was not the first person in
The nation's gratitude is due to those the country in this noble work, no one
who for the love of their country " jeop- could have been more than a few hours
arded their lives, even unto the death, in before her. The regiment was quartered
the high places of the field;" to those at the Capitol, and as those early volun-
who in rebel prisons, foul, dank and teers will remember, troops on their first
loathsome, battled with starvation and arrival were often very poorly provided
fever, and often sank in the contest ; is for. The 21st of April happened to be
it not also due, and even in larger meas- Sunday. No omnibuses ran that day,
ure, to those, who, surrendered by lebels and street cars as yet were not so she
;
and exposed to all their malignity, suf- hired five colored persons, loaded them
fured a perpetual martyrdom, while with baskets of ready prepared food, and
ministering to our sick and wounded proceeded to the Capitol. The freight
men, and with no hope of reward, save they bore served as countersign and pass
in an approving conscience and the she entered the Senate Chamber, and
smile of God, gave their time, their distributed her welcome store. Many of
substance, and their lives to the nation's the soldiers were from her own neighbor-
deliverance ? hood, and as they thronged around her,
she stood upon the steps to the Vice
President's chair and read to them from
Clara Harlowe Barton. a paper she had brought, the first written
history of their departure and their journ-
Miss Barton was born in North Oxford, ney. These two da3's were the first small
Worcester County, Massachusetts. Her beginnings of her military experience,
father, Stephen Barton, Sr., was a man steps which naturally led to much else.
highly esteemed in the community in Men wrote home their own impressions
of what they saw ; and her acts found confiscated it," said the soldiers. "No !
ready reporters. Young soldiers whom no " said the lady ; " that will never do.
!
she had taught or known as boys a few Governments confiscate. Soldiers when
years before, called to see her on their they take such things, steal. I am afraid,
way to the front. Troops were gather- my men, you will have to take it back to
ing rapidly, and hospitals — the inevita- the house from which you took it. I
ble shadows of armies — were springing can't receive a stolen carpet." The men
up and getting filled. Daily she visited looked sheepish enough, but they should-
them, bringing to the sick news, and ered the carpet and carried it back. In
delicacies and comforts of her own pro- the wearisome weeks that followed the
curing, and writing letters for those who Fredericksburg disaster, when there was
could not write themselves. Mothers not the excitement of a coming battle,
and sisters heard of her, and begged her and the wounded whether detained in the
to visit this one and that, committing to hospitals, around
Falmouth or forwarded
her care letters, socks, jellies and the through the deep mud to the hospital
like. Her work and its fame grew week transports on the Potomac, still with
by week, and soon her room, for she gen- saddened countenances and depressed
erally had but one, became sadly encum- spiritslooked forward to a dreary future,
bered with boxes, and barrels and bask- Miss Barton toiled on, infusing hope and
ets, of the most varied contents. Through cheerfulness into sad hearts, and bringing
the summer of IS62, the constant stock the consolations of religion to her aid,
she had on hand averaged about five pointed them to the only true source of
tons. The goods were mainly the con- hope and comfort.
tributions of liberal individuals, churches In the early days of April, 1863, Miss
and sewing-circles to whom she was per- Barton went to the South with the expec-
sonally known. But, although articles of tation of being present at the combined
clothing, lint, bandages, cordials, pre- land and naval attack on Charleston.
served fruits, liquors, and the like might She reached the wharf at Hilton Head
be sent, there was always much which on the afternoon of the 7th, in time to
she had to buy herself. hear the crack of Sumter's guns as they
While she was in Fredericksburg, after opened in broadside on Dupont's fleet.
the battle of the 13th, some soldiers of That memorable assault accomplished
the corps who had been roving about the nothing unless it might be to ascertain
city, came to her quarters bringing with that Charleston could not be taken by
great difficulty a large and very costly water. The expedition returned to Hil-
and elegant carpet. " What is this for ?" ton Head, and a period of inactivity
asked Miss Barton. "It is for jôu, followed, enlivened only by unimportant
ma'am," said one of the soldiers; "you raids, newspaper correspondence, and
have been so good to us, that we wanted the small quarrels that naturally arise in
to bring you something." "Where did an unemployed army.
you get it.^" she asked. "O ma'am, we
! Through all the long bombardment that
followed, until Sumter was reduced, and the meantime freely, as she had done all
Warner and Gregg was ours, amid the along, of her own private means for the
scorching sun and the of succor of the poor wounded soldiers.
prevalence
prostrating diseases, though herselfmore Moving on to Port Royal, and thence to
than once struck down with illness, she the James River, she presently became
remained at her post, a most fearless and attached to the Army of the James, where
co-worker with the fndefatigable General Butler, at the instance of his
efficient
agent of the Sanitary Commission, Dr. Chief Medical Director, Surgeon McCor-
M. M. Marsh in saving the lives and mick, acknowledging her past sei'vices,
promoting the health of the soldiers of and appreciating her abilities, gave her
the Union army, '
' How could
you," said a recognized position, which greatly
a friend to her subsequently, "how could enhanced her usefulness, and enabled
you expose your life and health to that her, with her energetic nature, to contri-
deadly heat?" "Why," she answered, bute as much to the welfare and comfort
evidently without a thought of the hero- of the army in that year, as she had been
ism of the answer, " the other ladies able to do in all her previous connection
thought they could not endure the cli- with it. In January, I865, she returned
mate, and as I knew somebody must Washington, where she was detained
to
take care of the soldiers, I went." from the front for nearly two months by
In January, 1S64, Miss Barton returned the illness and death of a brother and
to the North, and after spending four or nephew, and did not again join the army
five weeks in visiting her friends and in the field.
recruiting her wasted strength, again took By this time, of course, she was very
up her position at Washington, and com- generally known, and the circle of her
menced making preparations for the correspondence was wide. Her influence
coming campaign which from observation, in high official quarters was supposed to
she was convinced would be the fiercest be considerable, and she was in the daily
and most destructive of human life of any receipt of inquiries and applications of
of the war. The first week of the cam- various kinds, in particular in regard to
paign found her at the secondary base of the fate of men believed to have been
the army at Belle Plain, and thence with confined in Southern Prisons. The great
the great army of the wounded she moved number of letters received of this class,
to Fredericksburg. Extensive as had led her to decide to spend some months
been her preparations, and wide as were Annapolis, among the camjDS and
at
the circle of friends who had entrusted to records of paroled and exchanged pris-
her the means of solace and healing, the oners, for the purpose of answering the
slaughter had been so terrific that she inquiries of friends. Her plan of opera-
found her supplies nearly exhausted, and tionwas approved by President Lincoln,
for the first time during the war was March 11, 1865, and notice of her
compelled to appeal for further supplies appointment as "General Correspondent
to her friends at the North, expending in for the friends of Paroled Prisoners,"
was published in the newspapers exten- incorrect, as to be worthless. Poor

sively, bringing in a torrent of inquiries wretches in the rebel pens seemed even
and letters from wives, parents. State to forget thenames their mother called
officials, agencies, the Sanitary Commis- them. The Annapolis scheme was there-
sion and the Christian Commission. On fore abandoned, with mortification that
reaching Annapolis, encountered thousands of letters had lain so long
she
obstacles that were vexatious, time-wast- unanswered, that thousands of anxious
ing, and in fact, insupportable. Without friends were daily waiting for tidings of
rank, rights or authority credited by law, their loved and lost. The pathos and
the officials there were at a loss how to simplicity of these letters was often
receive her. The town was so crowded touching. An old man writes that he
that she could find no private lodgings, has two sons and three grandsons in the
and had to force herself as a scarce army, and of two of the five he could get
welcome guest upon some one for a few no tidings. Another says she knew her
days, while her baggage stood out in the son was brave, and if he died, he died
snow. Nearly two months were con- honorably. He was all she had and she
sumed in negotiations before an order gave him freely to the country. If he be
was obtained from the War Department really lost she will not repine j but she
to the effect that the military authorities feels she has a right to be told what
at Annapolis might allow her the use of became of him. Many of the writers
a tent, and its furniture, and a moderate seemed to have a very primitive idea of
supply of postage stamps. This was not the way information was to be picked up.
mandatory, but permissive ; and negotia- They imagined that Miss Barton was to
tions could now be opened with the walk through all hospitals, camps, armies
gentlemen at Annapolis. In the mean- and prisons, and narrowly scrutinizing
time the President had been assassinated, every face, would be able to identify the
Richmond taken, and army sur- lost boy by the descriptions given her.
Lee's
rendered. The was breaking Hence the fond mother minutely des-
rebellion
away. All prisoners were to be released cribed her boy as he remained graven on
from parole, and sent home, and nothing her memory on the day of his departure.
would remain at Annapolis but the The result of these delays was the organ-
records. Unfortunately these proved to ization, by Miss Barton, at her own cost,
be of very little service —
but a small per of a Bureau of Records of Missing Men
centage of those inquired for, were found of the Armies of the United States, at
on the rolls, and obviously these, for the Washington. Here she collected all rolls
most part, were not men who had been of prisoners, hospital records, and records
lost, but who had returned. She was of burials in the rebel prisons and else-
also informed, on good authority, that a where, and at short intervals published
large number of prisoners had been Rolls of Missing Men, which, by the
exchanged without roll or record, and franks of some of her friends among the
that some rolls were so fraudulent and Members of Congress, were sent to all
;

parts of the United States, and posted in In T\\G Prisor\ Cell.
prominent places, and in many instances
copied into local papers.
In the prison cell I sit, thinking mother dear of
you.
When Johr\ny Comes Marclriir\g Home. And our bright and happy homes so far away ;
And the tears they fill my eyes spite of all that I
can do,
When Johnny comes marching home again, Tho' I try to cheer my comrades and feel gay.
Hurrah Hurrah ! !
We'll give him a hearty welcome then,

Hurrah Hurrah ! I
The men will cheer, the boys will shout. Tramp, tramp, tramp the boys are marching.
The ladies they will all turn out, Cheer up comrades they will come ;
And we'll all gay when

feel Johnny comes And beneath the starry flag we shall breathe the
marching home. air again
Of the freeland in our own beloved home.
The old church bell will peal with joy,
Hurrah! Hurrah !
In the battle front we stood when their fiercest
To welcome home our darling boy. charge they made.
Hurrah Hurrah !
And they swept us off a hundred men or more
1
The village lads and lasses say But before we reached their lines they were beaten
With roses they will strew the way, back dismayed,
And we'll all feel gay when Johnny comes And we heard the cry of vic'cry o'er and o'er.
marching home.
CHORUS.
Get ready for the jubilee.

Hurrah Hurrah ! !
So within the prison cell we are waiting for the
day.
We'll give the hero three times three,
That shall come to open wide the iron door;
Hurrah Hurrah ! !
And the hollow eye grow bright, and the poor

. The laurel wreath is ready now
heart almost gay.
To place upon his loyal brow.
As we think of seeing home and friends once
And we'll all gay when
feel Johnny comes
more.
marching home.
Let love and friendship on that day,

Hurrah! Hurrah !
The Songs published in the Alhanac are all set to music; and
Their choicest treasures then display, caQ be prucured at any Music Store,
Hurrah ! Hurrah !
And let each one perform some part.

Tl)e Alrr\ar\ac.
To fill with joy the warrior's heart,
And we'll all gay when Johnny
feel comes
marchincr home. We purpose publishing the Almanac next
year. You can aid us in making our next more
interesting, by contributing personal reminis-

A Dutchman being called upon to give a toast,
said :
" Here ish to de heroes what fit, pled and cences of the war, anecdotes, etc. Anything you
died at the battle of Bull Run — of which I am may send will be thankfully received and duly
acknowledged.
AD VER TISEMENTS. 77
E. B. Stillings & Co.

I
15 Spring Lane, Boston, Mass.

Army are invited to give us a trial. Orders iy mail
comrades of the Granl
promptly filled.
B03T0K, Oct. 18. 1878.

STILLINGS HAS FURNISHED THE PRINTING FOR THIS
".-OMRADE E B GIYEN ENTIRE SATIS-
r.^^.T^'^SSSr FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS AND HAS
RECOMMEND HIM TO ANY COMRADE WISHING
JEtSi AND I CORDIALLY
ANYTHING DONE IN HIS LINE." ^^ ^^ MEECH,
Asst. Adjutant- General Dept. of Mass., G. A.
R
INSURE WITH
T HE "OLD" WORCESTER
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377 MAIN STREET, opp. ELM, WORCESTER, MASS.
Insxires tHe Safest class of Property only, against
LOSS OF^ DAMAGE BY FIRE OR LIGHTNING.
Pays Sixty Per Cent. Oiyidends. ^ ^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^
CHAS. M. MILES, Ss:?.
SIMPLE
THE PARKER GUN.
IN CONSTRUCTION, DURABLE AND EFFECTIVE IN ACTION.
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the World, and by the Leading Sportsmen as
Fndorsed bv Dr. Carver, the Champion Shot of
the American Gun for American Sportsmen. Send stamp for catalogue, edition Ib-S.
beTng
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BOSTON, MASS,
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GUNS, EIFLES, EEVOLVEES,
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78 AD VERTISEMENTS.
JOHN KENDALL,
JEWELS, EMBLEMS, ETC, fclis ffiili Hit iUii
MADE TO ORDER
SILK AND STIFF HATS MADE TO ORDER.
GREENE &SON, HEAD-QUARTERS FOR
6. n. % P;^T^ ^J^D ajVIF01^M^,
This Department is iu charge of
Comrade DAVID BOYDEN.

SS^ Jltain Simd, yCar-cîUl, JdaU.
A full Stock of FUR GOODS in Season.
The only Manufacturing Jeweler receiving
MEDAL at N. E. FAIR. 1878. :il5 MAIN ST., - WORi^BSTEB.
HENRY W. MILLER,
156 Main Street, Worcester, Mass.
Dealer in We have a large assortment of choice new styletfof
Mouldings in Gold Leaf and Fancy Gilt,

Nails, Glass and Building Materials generally WALNUT AND OAK.
Carpenters' and Mechanics' Tools, etc.
Which with our f:;cilities we are able to malie uji
Sloves, Ranges and Furnaces —
brick set and portable.
Chilson's Ailington Portable Range, a very superior arti- at Retail, at Manufacturers' Wholesale Prices.
cle, tijgether with a large variety ot other makes of
Ranges and Stoves. Littltfield's new Morning Glory WORCESTER MOULDING WORKS,
Base Burn r, together with the Laurel, a new and beau-
tiful Base Burner, Parlor Stove and Parlor Cook Stove. E. S. KENNEY, Proprietor,
Copper, Tin and Sheet Iron Stove Work done in all its
variety. Plumbing and Plumbing Materials. 21 Cypress Street^ tVorcester, Mass,
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT BONDS.
The best and safest securities for investtnefit, tit present,
are those of the United States- ^Ve advise the purchase of ^ * m
Registered Bonds on account of their absolute sa/ty.
Tlic urulersigneil will devote his attention to
A full description of all issues of Government Securities
may be obtained at cur office- iVe buy and sell on cowinis-
sion, all kinds of Stocks and Bonds, deal in Foreign and Prosecuting Claims for Pensions,
Dotnesti'- Exchange, are agents for European and Cali-
fornia Steat/iship Lines, secure Passports, Letters of BOUNTIES, ARREARAGE OF PAY, AND
Credit for Travellers, dr'c-
OTHER CLAIMS AGAINST THE UNITED
A complete list cf ** Called Bonds " may STATES GOVERNMENT.
be found at our counter.
CHARLES B. WHITING & CO., GEO. H. ESTABROOK,
Office, 415 Main St., - - Worcester, Mass. No. 6 Erinley Hall, - Worcester, Mass.
DEALER IN
M.: omj^soe
(xOLD AND SILVER PLATER,
Skes, Furiiacps, and Haiige, No. 5 Maple St., Worcester, Mass.
Knives, Forks Spootis, Table Ware, Watches, Jewelry,
MANTLES, GRATES, &c. etc.. Plated and Re plated in a superior manner.
Plumbing, Steam and Gas Fixtures. Manufacturer of and Dealer in G. A. R., Masonic,
K. of P., 0. O. F.
600 & 611 MAIN ST., - Worcester, Mass.
I.
and all other Society Reiâlia .and Lodge Supplies.

Agent for Brown's Steam Furnaces U^^ Orders from the country, by mail or express,
and Radiators. promptly attended to.
AD VERTISEMENTS. 79
%^ %^ W%sby h ioa. Wm. H. Jourdan,

Dealer in
JH^ ANTHRACITE, BITUMINOUS AND GAS
387 MAIN STI\EET,
RULING AND BINDING

IN ALL ITS BRANCHES. M^HOLESALE AND RETAIL.
OFFICE NO. 2 LINCOLN BLOCK, MAIN ST.

HENRY F. EDWARDS,
WORCESTER, A/ASS.
Manufacturer of Constructive and Ornamental Metal
Work, for Building and Engineering purposes,
from Cast, Wrought and Sheet Metal.
Copper and Galvanized Iron Cornices, Oriel Windows,
Jerome Marble
Ma infacturers of
Sole Proprietors and
& Co.
the
and other finish. Weather Vanes, Stable Fittings, Vaults, PATENT INDIGO BLUE DYE
Shutters, Sidewalk -lights, and all styles of heavy or And dealers in
light Columns, Girders, Bolts, etc., furnished to order.
IRON FENCE FOR SOLDIERS' MONUMENTS OILS, (bÛGS, CHEMICALS^

DYE SUTFFS, PAINTS, GLASS, &C.,
A SPECIALTY. FINE VARNISHES.
Estimates given from architects drawings when desired.
440 Mairx Street, WORCESTER, Mass.
Offlre and Works, 22 &24 Cypress St., Worcester, Mass. JERO.ME MARBLE. WM. II. DRURY.
Hiram H. Ames & Co.

Dealer
A. M. Evans,
in and Manufacturer of all kinds of
Dealers in
FURNITURE, FOREIGN AND AMERICAN POLISHED GRANITE

MONUMENTS A SPECIALTY.
BEDDING, CARPETS, CROCKERY, GLASSWARE
Sole Agent for the sale of Celebrated Columbian Marble.
HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS, ETC. Come and see Granite Yard and Marble Works.
Bracket! Court, off 54 Shrewsbury Street,
225 & 227 Main St., Worcester, Mass. Near Eastendof Union Depot, WORCESTER, Mass.
H. Hammond,
E.
PRACTICAL
Dr. E. W. Sweet,
REPAIRER AND JOBBER,
OF PUMPS, LEAD AND IRON PIPES,
Stove-Pipe Work, Key Fitting, Lock Repairing. Bell
BONE SETTER,
Hanging and Wringer Repairing, made a Specialty. Office, 302 MAIN ST, WORCESTER, Mass.
N. B.-A COPPER a!ways HOT and READY FOR USE.
Rooms 419 Mair) St., over Friendly's,
Ofllce Hours From 9 to 12 a.m. and
; 1 to 5 p.m.
WORCESTER, MASS.
^'3- Also, Agent for Lacy's Gas Stoves. Residence, 200 Main Street.
S
8o AD VERTISEMENTS.
TOYS, &c.
Repairs Uir\brellas, Car\es, Locks, Etc.
TAKES ORDERS FOR DYEING.
Restores Worn and Broken Articles to Usefulness.
226 MAIN STREET, WORCESTER, Mass.

Nearly opposite Qiiinsigamond Bank.
H. J. JENNINGS, BROWN AND BRYANT,

Manufacturers of
MOR TISIN G CHI SEL

AND BRYANT'S
_, _^ _ _ __, _ ^%
PATENT MORTISING MACHINE TABLES.
13 MECHANIC STREET, 311 Main Street,
Lock Box I02I. WORCESTER, Mass.
Crompton's Block, WORCESTER, Mass. C. K. BROWN. c. i;ryant.
0. F. RAWSON & GO'S

SUGAR CURED HACK No. TWENTY-EIGHT.
NAVY TOBACCO, STABLE 35 AUSTIN STREET,
Is the Best in the Market for either STAITD, Cor, UAIH and UECHAITIC ST., WOSCESTEB, MASS.
SMOKING OR CHEWING. All orders promptly attended to by being left at
IT CAN BE FOUND AT James H. Frost's, 399 Main St., cor. Mechanic.
Hacks furnished for Funerals and Partiss at short notice.
391 Main Street. G. A. R. M'ork a Specialty. P. O. Box igg.
Bay State House,

Hotel & Restaurant, WOECESTEE, MASS.
The only First-CIass Hotel in the City, with Elevator and
modern improvements.
No. 301 Main Street, POPULAR PRICES.
Corner cf Exchange Street. PROPRIETOR S.
A. P. POND, W. L. SHEPARB,
WORCESTER MASS. Late of the Delevan House, Late of the Massasoit House,
Albany. Springfield.
Coach at Depot fbr aU trains. Horse Cars pass the
WM. 6^ JOHN C. BLOS. J8£g=
door tu and from depot.
UFEirumES OF THE GREAT ARMY
WORK OF ART. AN HISTORICAL
Armies luring the late Civil war.
By ErrWlW^FORBES, of the French Etching Club;

the United States, and n.en.ber
Special Artist with the Arnîes of
Member of the London Etching Club.
Hon. Foreign
„„ uubliRhors would
U.epu^^^^ call attention to tlieir manifold
IN introducing these sketches to
,
the Amen
A •
,,„>>iir.
an public tlio
^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^ ^^.
^^^
of nil patron^^^^
claims to the f.vorable consideration tl,e press, being entirely the ^-ork of the designer,
v e^^ so aige^ ana^m

even to the oViginator of a Bcnes o pit. A.û
„,ey take precedence of a 1 engravng«,
unprecedentedlylowrates tothcAme icanpe ^ ,„,if^^| ^y^^ importance of tl.c sul-iect claim- a
lithographs, cl.romos, and other fyVrfh-^J^ske'ehcrae the work of an eyewitness of, and participant in the
interest forth -eske^^^^^^
greater and more absorbing depict scenes of familiar and engrosMng
''^^ "" "^-"^^^ rather as
strange
'^:lVZ'll^^^Ztl:^^^S^:^^^^^^^^
checkered life
dreams than the past "-t-alUies of a
Exhibition at rbilndclphia, and the unanimous
and
entbli^îc^Sof'l^^B? mtlâ^J ^^^'^^^^^^^

rank, and artists hi.h in estimation.
COPY OF CENTENNIAL AWARD.

. , „.i fv,„ T.vo,lnrt hen in described
• • " Life Studies of the Great Army," respect
The undersigned having
«;'"'"«),,^,^,'^./^''^"':' ralConimisKivm for award for the following reasons,
Ceimnmai^t.o
recommended the same to t'^c Unu«l fetaUsand Life, i irmm.s.'s
'e tJ ,
fully ^^^ Spirited Execution.
vizi For excellent Studies
fkom >ailre ^ ^^^ qqvy., Sig. of Judge.
Lh. i i h^Kb FROM

TFTTFRS )rt\KJ EMINENT MEN.
^^^^^^J^^^"^ MANSION, WASHINGTON, July 28, 1870.
directs me to acknowledge tWeceipt^f^^^^^

The President
Ki^^ i^ô^^êl^^f ^^S^-f ^ '' '"•
^"' '' '"' "" Ti^^^
ery îîr ^ J^?"
lespccttullj jours,
vour note presenting
in it. ^^^ Secreiary.
to Mr. Edwin Forbes, Artist.
July 24, 1875.
HEADaUARTERS ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES, WaSHINGTOX, U. C,
^'""^r^:-of^nn beg to aeVnowledge receipt of ^^^ô ^^^^ZrT^t^l^SIT^l^ô^^^^'^'p

the Great Army." and to thank
ou ^"f t»«J»'y°^- at the Centennial in
•' Life Sketches 3
J «""î°^*r° '^^^^ Exhibition
I an. sure that these
«p\7ÛrX^h:;^td?.^n?ortre^rrS^^^^ ^*'*'"^ '" '"« P"^'"
îolu^t'^wmVlXr^heû'îf^rs the memory of
-]^y^^^^^' W. T. SHERMAN. General.
HE*I,QUAR^RSÛTAr7diV. of THE MISSOURI, CHICAGO. Sept. 26. 1878.

_
th.
head.nartcrs here, all '>f.t'i« " l^'/« /k^'ches of
M.SSRS. ESTES & Lahriat: I have at my G-'^^^J^/fi.l'jfglifrtlf,:
the r.oms. '•"""? '
They ê framed and hung up around pleasure tesUfnng to the.^rârt.st.c excellence am
m
^^^Xfr^rrtifexcellnoea^^^^ .,
enemies of the repuplic. I take great ^ ^^ gHERIDAN. Lieut. Gen"!.
Boston, January 19, 1877.
TERMS OF PUBLICATION.-The series will be completed

in '0 P^'-^S'
jL^^.'jPîi"'^^^^^ f
plates (13xr9, on paper 19x24) issued
monthly, at $2.50 each Part.. P.^M'^^^^^^^^^^^.^^'te c^d^t
give cea^^^^
the carriernot being allowed to receive -^^êy in advance or to
Cnly on delivery; Subscribers
be supplied to subscribers who agree to take the whole series.
The wSrk will only
will receive a Portfolio gratis
with delivery of first parts.
ESTES k LAURIAT, Publisher s, Boston.

.:^??i!!IW
THE
i-'l.i.'.-i-.i..tiJ.V',.i;«y»-' 1 ' i M ''
.%±t ' i' 'r I " ii-^'-^
ENDORSED BY HAVE RECEIVED
Christine Nilsson, over
Ole Bull, 50 Medals and Fir
Clara Louise Kellogg Premiums at difTei
Jerome Hopkins, ent Fairs during th
Annie Louise Cary, Fall of 1878.
Edw. Hoffman, Having received tF
Geo. W. Morgan, HIGHEST AWAF
Theo. Moelling, at every Fair at
and a host of other which they ha^
artists. been Exhibited.
SSBSB^HB
PRICES no hi^herthan for Other first class Organs and but little higherttian are
asked for poor ones. EVERY ORGAN WARRANTED for FIVE YEARS.
Cataloffues sentfree on applicaUon
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JOHIi STA.RKIE, Proprietor. Call and Examine Specimens, whether a Sitting

Comrade JAMES M. ODIE, 4» %. Oiaffiiaij

BUBIEE & CO., 23 Exchange Street, BOSTON, Mass.

FIRST NATIONAL C. A. KEYES.

Bouquets, Wreaths, Crosses, etc., made to order,

Office, No. 410 Main Street. Flowering Plants at Low Prices.

YERBENAS AHD PAIISIES A SPECIALT7.

W. II. Dexter, George Draper, Milford.

Ten Eyck &Co. Work, Fine Stationery.

Fine Writing Paper, four cents per quire.

EMPLOY AGENTS on the most liberal terms

to solicit orders for their celebrated

Special Terms to Members of Grand Army AND SURVEYOE.

Write for Circular conlaining fitll information 406 MAIN STREET,

No. 1 Prica $20.00. Price $16.00.

OIL TANK, PRESSED GALVANIZED IRON.

PRICE LIST OF LAMPS AND FIXTURES.

138 3IAIN STRBBT, WORCESTEIt, Mass,

DENHOLM & McKAY,

FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC GOOOS,

SHAWLS, MOURNING GOODS,

S. P. LEIGHTON & CO.,

glltK 7IND ISajSIiFIMG V-hM^ W^ BANNERS.

iR4iP 4RM1 Mi®^,

Guild & Delano, - Jewelers,

A Recollection of Gettysburg, My Boy, 57

Battle Cry of Freedom (song), Nem's from the Front, SG

Clara Harlowe Barton, . Noble Women of the War, 64

Corporal Simpson's Story,

He did His Duty Well,

Phil Sheridan Riding to THE Front,

In the Prison Cell (song)

Jottings from the Battle Field,

Just Before the Battle (song),

Marching Through Georgia (song), The Grand Review, 33

Margaret Fuller on Women,

When Johnny Comes Marching Home (song)

Mrs. Eliza Potter,

of " To arms ! to arms !

Worcester, Mass., Nov. 1878. • " H. N. E.

MORNING AND EVENING STARS.

Star again the rest of the year.

dollars is required, additional orders to make it up must be obtained.

GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC ALMANAC.

MOON'S PHASES. NEW YORK. WASHINGTON. CHARLESTON. CHICAGO.

H.M. H.M H. M. tTanuary 1862.

A quaker said to a gunner, "Friend,

shed ; but if It be thy design to hit the little man in the

12 GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC ALMANAC,

—Congress abolishes slavery the United works — The Confederates

S. C. pieces of and a large quantity of military

— Gen. Sherman's victorious columns en- stores valued $1,000,000.

tered Columbia, C, and burned the