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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PART II. CHAPTER I. Three years have passed since first the country responded to the call to arms; three years since first was raised the cry of On to Richmond; since the setting in of that tide of war, which has ebbed and flowed along the coast and rivers of the South and among her mountains, on the plains and valleys of the Mississippi, of Tennessee and of Virginia; which has broken over Maryland into Pennsylvania and rolled along northward until it threatened to submerge Washington and Baltimore; three years of fatiguing toilsome march; of camp, of bivouac and of battle. Hundred of thousands of brave men have bared their breasts as a bulwark for the cause they loved. Tens of thousands have been swept resistlessly onward to die upon the field of battle, to languish in some gloomy, far-off hospital or pestilential prison pen. Again and again have the voice and bloody arms of war been raised for men, more men. The lines are more contracted, but the battle cloud that has hung so long in the southern horizon has not yet lifted; the smoke and gleam from a country ravaged and burning has not yet faded away; there is no near prospect of peace from the shock of battle. ihe North is determined, strong; the South is de- /fiant, desperate. Three years next month old Joe roused Waytown with the cry of War. Since then how changed the village grew. So changed and strange I did not care to stay there. Seventy-five thousand men were called for, and my comrades, all who could, enlisted. Almost everybody said: Pshaw the war will soon be over; but when we received the report of the attack upon the Sixth Massachusetts regiment in Baltimore, and soon afterward news of the fight at Bull Run, our people began to realize'that war was really at the door, and that, perha...
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