Evening Star Newspaper, September 20, 1892, Page 16

8 THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C., TUFSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1892—PART TWO. BATTLES AKOUND WASHINGTON. Continued from fourth page. defended himself until succor arrived. Instead he chose the fatal alternative of re ze eooped upin the town. His forces wer iments of raw volunteers. it does not appear that the rebel operations on the 14th were as rigorous as they might have been. At all events Miles held out, Early on the 16th the federal batterics, feeble at best, were silonced and Jackson was pr 20% ing to charge out 9:30 am. the white fing was bung out and the About 1.000 : sir made i: wounded by = = Jackson clams 009 small arr ‘very ez BIECT AC 4uus Lee's main object had been achieved. Bat he did not purpose to w: Maryland without a geveral batile. mow only remained for him to concentrate @eatiered divivions for that event. leaving A. P. Huli to parole the prisoners, in- @tantly struck out with the other tro divivions for Sharpsburg, crossing the Potomac below . AND FR LINCOLN McCLE MOA WAP-TIW Shepherdstown, and by marching al fm supporting dist: Walker's troops, scaling the E @rossing the Shenandoah. ma Shepherdstown on the Virginia si the Potomac and on the event were already in the vicinity MeLaws, who “felt greatly relieved" ment Harper's Ferry surrendered, eff from the north, crosse troops at once to the south mac and marched around where he recrossed, i to Shepherdst al was a display of m stead of three federal army was 1 divisions of BooxEn’ About 1 p.m. of t the creek out of range of she ought tohave done on @ Lit erossed the Antietam with a design o! find and attacking the rebel left. The twelft followed in sup covered by a ort and the ov Both sides i light the ed by & a's ‘corps, Back with lows, but Jackson was fm tarn drove Hooker back n the twelfth corps came to Hooker's again Jackson Wounded and Gen. Mt Advantage, and at Freuch more to the center. Sedgwick took 9 flank fire and was re was soon rallied. G ford were here woun ebecked by the Union destructive. F and held the grow Bilied, Lawton woan The arrival of Gen. sa alker's fweope on the field revived the confederate FED Si [saving the morale of his army and tho losses in Harper's Ferry garrison and permitted Lee's | isolated detachments to escape and concen- trate. tion, for McLawa, through Crampton’s Gap. | was McClellan's best mark and Harper's Ferry hia proper direction, delivered ched the b | Lee's three divisions on the afternoon of the in time to repulse Burnside’s 15 In the pocket to his rear formed by the . which otherwise woud hav Potomac and Antietam there would have been no escape. ways it Was f i stat: & concentrated artillery fire, drove Burnside to the cover of the hills near the creek, where he was enabled to rally his disordered divisions, cted by our baiteries on the east wide. t ‘The federal gencrai Hodman and confederate general Branch were killed in this fierce con- test. It was now night, and this closed the battic on the left. During the afternoon Jackson had been to get upon the flank and rear of the ai right, bnt found it impraeticable to do 80. Here also darkness closed the contest without further fighting or movemefits of consequence. Lee's RETREAT. ‘Thatnight Le drew back toa more defensible line, and re in position all through the | 18th, but an did not attack, although he had been largely reinforced, On the night of the 13th Lee retreated across the Potomac and thna ended the battle of Antietam. Lee had captured Harper's Ferry, but he had to maintain the war on the frontier, and yland had not taken advantage of the opportunity to “recover her liberty.” He ought not to have fourht at Antietam, where he barely escaped a disastrous defeat. ’Ampie time was afforded after the fad of Harper's to retire safely across the river, thus “lel ABRAHAM LINCOLN. WHERE LINCOLN DIED The Scene of the Tragedy That Plunged a Nation in Grief. THE MARTYRED PRESIDENT. The Old Ford’s Theater and Its Tragic Memories—The Story of the Assassination Retold—A Night of Terror in Washington— ‘The House Where the President Breathed ‘His Last. Lee ORE THAN A QUAR- ter of a century bas elapsed since the tragic | S% occurrence by which | 5 President Lincoln lost| his life. As year by year passes the public interest in the final scene of that great life appears to become greater, Yearly thou- sands of visitors from all parts of the country pause to glance curi- ously at the front of the old building on 10th street, where Lincoln received the fatal wound Old Ford's Theater ceasod to be used as a place ofamusoment after that fatal Good Friday in 1865. The property was subsequently pur- chased by the government and the interior was refitted. The exterior remains practically the same as it was twenty-seven yeara ago, and that is about all that is to be scen by the visitor. ‘The biilding is now occupied by a portion of tho clerical force of the record and pension di- vision of the War Department, and there would be but little work done if all were ad- Lee decoyed him in the wrong direc- | mitted who wished to enter the building. fact is, however. that there is nothing to be een. Floors divide the old theater space into stories and there is nothing to indicate location LAN AT ANTIETAM. E PHOTOGRAPH.) ‘McClellan's bad dispositions lost the | Bat the column pursued vertheless to have been pushed to the and destroyed. uppose the powerful, persistent attacks of Mensfield, Sumner and Franklin with en on the ith, which it required the ole rebel army to barely resist, had been as they might have been—against tage and the box occupied by President. Peruaps of still greater i | the plain three-story dwelling house on the op- posite aide of the street; for there ow room, at the end of tho story, Lincola breathed his tabiet fixed to the front of the house conta: tion uof ihe north, and while avictory it had < e Lee back into | ¥ be ‘observed, however, that e been accomplished at less ia undoubtediy true that Id have been obtained by he remains of Lee's ed army of less than this simple inseri; President A. Lincoln Died in this heuse April 15, 1565, The family of Mr. Louis occupy the hon re- quests from visitors to eee the room where Mr. force engaged at | This was close ength is one of the mysteries He stated that he fought the 2 less than 40.000 men, but he prob- * some of the divisions that progress, Gen. ‘D. H. Hill with less than 30,000, Both gi aght ROOM IN WHICH LINCOLN DIED AS IT NOW APPEAR! As a rule these requests are granted, al- thozgh the room is used by the family and does not contain a single article of furniture that was there when Mr. Lincoin was borne into the room unconscious and dying. ‘The room is ee about 10 feet wide by 15 fect in length. The nts were wrong, as a little figuring will Daitle on the ef while, and Lee e bureau and bedstead and chairs that furnished says th col beck to | prove. Confederate writers cling to these | it when Mr. Lincoln dicd there have all been Beariy star zares in order to let themselves easy. sueatpabee " tack « the ee I Hun .Lee had about 60,000 men of all | ™MOved and preserved as precious relics. At eonfedierate right. F ef men under Toombs feeble of About al meide’s BURNSIDE ATTAC nd back of the bridze. Two vi hours were consumed in readju: Mnes, when at last Burnside movegl forward and drove the enemy back into the'suburbs of | rg. The opposing force was very weak. all of Lee's available troops being en- @nged on the left, repelling the savage @asiaughts of Hooker, Sumner and Franklin. Burnside so long deiayed bis attack @ aT THE puIpGE. A Hill, whe bad barely from his work at Harper's Ferry in Geploy for » charge. Hill's rusu, with | 1 t time the house was occupied by Mr. Peter- sen, who still has in his possession the blood- stained pillow caso ana tho coverlid that was spread over the dying man, The exterior of the two buildings have about the seme appear- ance as they did twenty-seven years ago. but the surroundings are much abanged. Tenth street between E and F streets was mainly lined with residences. So was F street. But now it is a busy business ccnter. Another point of interest in connection with the tragedy fs the alley which leads into F street betwoen 9th and 10th streets from the center of the block. arms, and his losses were about 10,000 men, proximately 50.000, Now, two days ull Kun he was joined in front of Wash- a by two fresh divisions—those cf Hill MeLaws— thirty-nine regiments of infantry 1 nine bate f artillery. It is perfectly safe to say these two commands, recruiting as y had becn two months in the vicinity of hmond, added not less than 12,000 and per- ps as many. as 15,000 men to the army. Lesides these, there were other additions. Lee's strength at Antietamn could hardly have been les than 60,000, and I think it exceeded that number considerably after A. P. Hill's arrival, THE Losszs, ‘The losses were frightful. Antietam was the lies: day's battle of the war. The federals lost 2.010 killed, 9,416 wounded and 1,043 mias- ing; total, 12.469, The heaviest regimental losses in killed and wounded according to Fox's compilation were: Fifteenth Massachusetts, ‘THE ALLEY. It was through’ this alley that the assassin, Booth, made his escape. He mounted a horse, which Was held for him at the door in the rear of the theater, and galloped off out the alley. Visitors in their tours of sightseeing frequently pause and look down that alley out of which the assassin spurred his horse into the dark- ness after committing the crime that shocked the world. 19; seventh Michigan, 217; twelfth 214; first Delaware, 213. |, no complete officlal statement was of the confederate losses at Antic- compilation from the official reports Longstreet, Jackson and D, H. Hill of losses during the Maryland campaign is as follows: Killed. Wounded. Missing. A NIGHT OF TERROR. There are «good many people still living in this city who attended the play at For: ‘Theater on the evening of April 14, twer Longstreet. we 5,234 1,310 | seven years ago. No one who was there would — 2,268 63 | be likely to forget the terror of that night * hes — 925 | ‘whey were present ns unconscious witnesses of Total. 9,339 2,298 | ®theatric murder which ended the noblo ea- or a total of 13,500, exclusive of Stuart's cavalry losses. which were heavy. The total ave been fully 14,200, about 1,000 less McClelian’s. Their “heaviest tal Page Bae ohare who were interested losses, killed and wounded, are stated by Mr. | in the play of American Cousin,” which Fox: Third North Carviina, 253; forty-eighth | was in after years and elaborated to North Carolina, 227; thirteenth ‘Georgia. 217; bring ontthe part of Pa at twenty-seventh North Carolina, 199; first Texas, Keeno was in role. i: Shr, Sat aleare Reoneia Se | atte ihe ee the Note” She" acts the North Carolinians Gibles of heavi-st regimental losses, ceased playing and the orchestre struck up | twent: The | ina “Hail to the Chief.” Presently in th box on the right of the’ stage appeared the familiar form of Prosident Lincoln. He was accompanied by Mrs. Lincoln and Miss Harris and Major Rathbone. the latter two betrothed lovers. The President acknowledged the tumultuous checring of the crowd and then took bis sent. The play was resumed. THE ASSASSIN'S TEAGIC APPEARANCE. While every eye was intent upon the stege 9 man was scen to vault lightly from the Presi- dent’s box upon the stage. Falling, he jumped again to his fect, and, brandishing a dagger, shouted, “Sic Semper Tyrannis!” and then rushed from the stage. For an instant the au- dience sat gazing at the stage overcome with surprise. But the interval was only a brief one. Major Rathbone from the box shouted, “Stop hima!” and then the cry was raised, “He has shot the President!” The confusion, the appalling terror that filled that crowded house will never be forgotten. A SCENE OF WILD EXcrTEMR: A-scene of the wildest excitement followed. Men jumped upon the stage in’ pursuit of the assassin. Others flew to the box, where tho wounded Lincoln lay, and tho great body of the people rose to thelr feet and poured into the strects. Medical aid was at once procured for the wouuded man, but it was soon found that he was past all help, As quickly as pos- sible he was removed to the house immedi- ately across the strect and laid upon a bed in asmall room at the rcar of the hall on the ground floor, The street was filigd with an excited multitude and oon a company of mil tary dashed to the scene. ‘The wildest rumors révailed. The city waa filled with soldiers, ‘our eforo Leo had surrendered and the city ns weil as the entire country was re- joicing over the closo of the long and bloody strife. In the midst of the general joy tho chief figure in the eyes of the nation had been suddenly and mysteriously stricken down by the bullet of an assassin. JOuN WILKES nooTH, While Lincoln was slowly and painfully gasping away his life the active pursuit of the assassin was begun. ‘There was no doubt as to his identity. In the figure that stood upon the stage flourishing the dagger and declaiming the theatric matter was recognized John Wilkos Booth, an actor and amember of a famous | family of piayers, He was a young man of -six, distinguished among men because of his physical beauty. He wasa fanatical | i oor rsesprp, | ause and over the ri | ALLEY poor THROUGH wit | supporter of the souther was filled with | of Lincoin and thy the presidential electi 2 plot to kidney Lincoln, But the plans ame to nothing and then le determined upon ascheme of murder which ehould include the | Pre . the and the aceomp own and men of inferior minds to his r his control, | directed to | on the task: Booth him. der of Lincoln, The men others who t the honse of 3 et. About noon at the Preside these ured his ngemonte | + the project that night, BOOTA’S CAREFUL PLANS. Tho box which the President occupi double one, the partition dividing it being re- moved for that occasion and the front was decorated with ‘The entrance to the box | from the Louse was through a door which led | into a passageway and from this passage doors opened into the box. Hoo! ring interrup- tion before he could carry cut his design had a made which fitted into amortice in the d when in place would prevent the do from being opened from the onteide, He had | pored into the door of the box, ¢o that ug able to get into s Victim and shoot cured a fleet horse, in the rear of the ying | np for commitiin: to send it to the’ of National Intelligencer tor publ never saw the light, as the act that night without showing it to Booth for some time aq fi of the «ud word was sent day to have the would be needed ‘opr arms in rea that night. HOW WE ENTERED THE nox, A few moments before 10 o'clock Booth rode up tothe alley entrance to the theater and leaving his horse in charge of one of the theater employes walked around to the front of , aud going into a neighboring a drink of brandy. He then entered the theater, where, of course, he was known to all the attaches, and passed ut once to the door leading into the passage to the box occupied by the President, He handed his card to the attendant at the door, who allowed him to pasa, Once inside the door of tho passage he secured it by the bar which had been prepared and then noiselessly opened the door of the box and stepped in without attracting the atten- tion of the four occupants, whabwere engrossed. with the play. ‘The assassin held a revolver in his right hand and a dagger in his left, Ap- proaching the President from behind he put the pistol tohis head and fired, The Presi- deut did not move. except that his head dropped forward slightly and his eyes closed. The bullet, which was from a large Derringer revol- er, entered the back of the head on the left ide and passing through the brain lodged just behind the leftove. When he fired the hot Booth dropped the revolver and taking the | knife in his right hand struck Major Rathbone, who at once sprang to seize him. LEAPED TO THE STAGE, Then running tothe frontof the box he placed his left hand on the reiling and vaulted to the stage. His spur caught in the folds of the American flag which draped the front of the box, causing him to fall to the stage, break- ing his leg. In spite of the excruciating pain caused by this injury he bounded to his feet and, with the theatrical display to the audience | & good enddlo horse, the midst of the flames of tho burning vuilding bya private, soldier named Boston Corbett, ‘the fate of the fellow conspirators of Booth is soon told, They were tried by a military com- wission, sitting at what is now known as the Washington barracks. Mrs. Surratt, Payne, Herold and Atzerott were hanged on July 7. ‘The rest were imprisoned for a term of years. ‘The President was shot a few minutes after 10 and lingered until 7:22 the next morning. He did not regain consciousness. THE ATTEMPT ON MR. SEWARD'S LIFRL ‘The other details of the conspiracy were not carried out, although Payne forced his way into the residence of Secretary Seward on Lafayetie Square, the house now occupied by ex-Secre- tary Blaine, and into the room where the Sec- retary was confined to his bed suffering from a runaway accident in which his right arm and jaw wero fractured. Ho litcrally fought his way to the bedside of his victim, striking the attendants, who included the Secretary's two sons, repeatedly with a dagger and with tho butt of his pistol, inflicting terrible wounds, He succeeded in stabbing the Secretary several times until tho latter saved his life by rolling of between the bed and the wall, Finally, Payne escapod from the house, leaving five of the inmates bleeding from ghestly wounds, Mounting the horse which he had iett standing at the door he rode out of the city. Hiding for two days in the woods he abandoned his horee, and returning to the city"at night he came to the houso of Mrs, Surrait, when he ws at once placed under arrest by the officers who had ‘on possession of the premises, MADE INSANE BY HORHOR, The horror of that dreadful nicht left its lasting impression upon those who occupied the box with the murdered President, Mrs. Lincoln's mind never recovered shock, and. as the latest biographer of Lincoln states, she passed the remainder of her life in melancholy and madness, Major Rathbone, some years later, in a moment of dementia killed Miss Harris, whom he had married, and | finally he died by his own hand. This couplo had takon the'piace of Gen. and Mrs. Grant as members of the theater party. Gen, Grant late in the day was called to New zor! been obliged to decline the Presi tion, Booth was aware that G: tended to accompany the President to the theater and he stated a short time before his death that it had been his purpose to also kill Gen. Grant a eee A DISTINGUISHED SOLDIER. Past Commander-in-Chief Fairchild on an Important Committee. The committee of the Grand Army encamp- ment to devise a systematic plan of loyalty con- tains as much loyalty to the cubic inch so far | as that quality can be measured by the deeds of men as it would be possible for any commit- tee to hold. ‘There are scveral distinguished soldicrs on the committee. By no means the least distinguished is Gen, Lucius Farchild, past commander-in-chief of the Grand Army. Gen, Fairchild was born in Kent, Portage county, Ohio, December 27, 1831. His father was a native of New York state and his mother was from New England, of Scotch-Irish descent, ‘The family moved to Cleveland in 1834, and to Madison, Wisconsin, in June, 1816. Young Fairchild’s education was obtained in the com- mon schools of Cleveland, Ohio, in the academy of Levinsburg, in that state, and also at Carroll College, in Waukesha, Wisconsin, In March, 1849, his father furniched him with and the young man set out for the gold ficlds of California, He re- mained in California six years, spending most of the time inthe mountains, whero he lived the hard, rongh life of a miner, hiring out to others when not inining for himself, He had a land claim in Scott valley. and raised the first crop of wheat there, in 1894. 160 miles from the nearest wagon road, selling his wieat for $7 a | bushel. The young man’s first political experience occurred during these daye. He selected as a delegate to the convention which notinated Bigler for governor. He was n line, but courage- the "journey. Tie re clothes, such as d in so disting the way the m ight into a rapid stream below and dis The young d to Shs 'y cn foot, and of the distance by stage. He sat in ation without a coat and without a cent in his pocket, In 1858 he was elected, on the democratic ticket, clerk of the circuit court of his county (Dane). In tho autumn of 1860 he was admitted to the bar, In the spring of 1561, after the surrender of Fort Sumter, asa member of the Governor's Guard, an independent company. he enlisted as a pri pany, wh first | (thre voluntee: Was assigned as company months’) regiment of Wiscon: 1 the position of lien ling himself qualified LUCIUS FAIRCHIED, The regiment served its three months in eastern Virginia. In Aulgust of the same year President Lincoln appointed Capt, Fairchild to the same rank in the sixteenth regiment of regulars, and about the same time he received from Gov. Kandall a commistion as major in the second Wisconsin infantry. He accepted both appointments and was tie first. officer of the regular army to receive leave of abrence to serve with a volunteer regiment. Maj. child shortly after was commissioned i ant colonel of the game regin nor of the secor:] Wisconsin infantry, being jn poor health, Liout. Col. Fairchild commanded the regiment much of the time. It rapidly im- proved in discipline and efticiency, and’ ac- quired the reputation of being one of the best regiments in the service. With the sixth and roventh Wisconsin and nineteenth Indiana it formed _a brigade. first commanded by Gen, Rutus King of Wisconsin, and which afterward, under Gen. Gibbon. won an envixble reputa- tion. As a part of the first division of the first army corps it took part in nearly all the great battles and campaigns of the eastern army, ex- cept those on the peninsula under McClellan. In 1862 these regiments participated in the movement on Manassas, and subsequently formed u part of the Army of the Rappahan- nock under General McDowell. Later tiey took in the movement of the Army of Virginia under Pope. At the battle of Gainesvilie, July 28, 1862, the regiment gained the name of “The Iron Brigade.” They were at the second battle of Bull Run, at Fredericksburg under Burnside and with the Army of the Potomac, under Hooker, at Cancelloraville, Ho was also in the battle of South Mountain, $ At Gettysburg, as the Iron brigade, early on the first day of the battle, engaged in the des- Rerate conflict on Seminary Ridge, the second isconsin, in the advance, lost, in less than half an hour, 116 men of the 300 e1 ; and there Col, Fairchild fell with his left arm shattered, so that amputation just above the elbow became paceman. ‘ While recruiting his health at Madison, hav: ing the desire and intention of rejoining the srmy—be having Neen recommended by all the generals under whom he bed servod foe iment as brigadier general—t inion sere Wisconsin, much to his surprise, nominated him, with great unanimity and en- thusiaem, for the office of of ited U. 8, consul at Liver- ere until 1878, when he was office of consul general at ited minister from the | had been | hed a body. On| but waselected eaptain of the com- | WHAT THE BOYS SANG Songs With Which They Whiled the Hours Away. —— THE MUSIC OF THE MARCH. Lays of the Camp—The Tuneful Leader of the Al Fresco Concert—How Lively Sing- ing Cheered the Soldiers on the March— Lines That Were Favorites, . { POPULAR THEORY | concerning war songs | needs correcting. Ho- | mance and ron a use- ful purpose in animat- ing them to deo desperate valor. 3 we have the fam | stories of the Greeks under Miltiades si grand hymn as they rushed down upon the {Persian hosts on the pisins of Marathon; Knights Templar bursting into ins ! | Well’s ironsides chanting the fierce war psalms of David as they attacked the curled and per- famod gallants of King Charles; Frederick the | Great's grum old Brandenburgers shouting in | unison: ¢ feste Rerg ist Unser Gott!” | when they threw thomselves resistlessly upon | the French, Anst nd Russians who en- | circled their little country; the hastily levied | troops of the French revolution singing in grand chorus “Marscillaise,” “Carmagnole” | hosts of their royal enemies. Onr trouble with this idea is that there comes & great disappointment when, one reads in the Piping times of peace such relics of the war | songs of great periods as have come down to us, Taking the whole list, there are astonish- ingly few which seem worthy of the occasion, and not one is at fivst sight or hearing seem- | ingly calculated to do much firing of the blood | of the combatants upon the eve of the battle’s | crisis, Tho next trouble with the idea is that while | Soldiers of all ages, countries and climes are | passionately fond of singing, the one time of | all others when they don't sing, don’t want to d have no thought or strength to waste in singing is on the eve of or during a battle. A battle, and especially a modern battle, brings strain upon head, heart, nerve and muscle | | ofevery mane ed tho intensity of which not equaled by any other experience in life. Before the combat begins, and during its pro- gress, every man upon the battlefield in tho |fieree front or the more peaceful rear | wrought up to the highest pitch of which hi | nature is capable, Even if he is doing nothing | more belligerent than supervising the manners of a six- team his brain is entirely too | perturbed to adinit the suggestion of lifting | his voice in song. Decidediy he has other fish to fry. There was, however, atime for singing. It | was on the marchor in camp, Then the man | witha musical voice and an ear for tune was the master of the situation, and received more attention than colonels, majors, captains and a’ that, SINGING IX cAMP. Take, for example, one of our regiments dar ing the war of the rebellion. Let it get into camp after nottoolong a march ona pleasant day and comfortably distant from the enemy. | Wood and water are handy, and in less time than it takes to write this paragraph 500 little | white “dog” tents—one for every two men—are up, making the green fields look asif there had | beena scurry of snow piled in “‘hummocke,” Humireds of fires twinkle around them, almost simultaneously with their rising, and the soft evening air becomes redolent with the odor of steaming coffee and frying meat, Mingled with this are vagrant whif's of cooking potatoes, cabbage, onions, chickens, &:., telling tales of skiliful and successful foraging in spite of the steady march of the long day, by boys who had. grown so adept in this soidierly art that it has been said of them that they could finda pig a mile from the road, catch, kill. skin and ent him up, all without even breaking ep or let- ting tho officers know a breath of what was going on, Supper is at Inst over; the pickets are sta- tioned, the pipes are lit, the moon rises in all the brilliancy of an Indian summer night and the ger pleasure of the surroundings seeks voice in song. There ino more question who will lead the singing than there is who will lead the regiment in battle. He got an un- written and irrevocable commission as regi- mental singing master the firet night the regi- ment went into such a camp as this, andall the tunefully minded lifted up their voices in rong. His was the voice that rang out pre-eminently over all the others. It is a *tenore robusto, or tenore lyricso, technically speaking, full and strong. “Ob,say ean you see, by the dawn's carly light, What so proudly we hailed in the twilight'’s last gleaming?” yells up from his throat like the pipe of a cburch organ and mellow as the strains from a French horn. Possibly he is reminded of home and the shady gloom of the waik through the woods to the singing school, for without a pause, like a chime of silver belis, he trills an apostrophe to the queen of night “Roll on, silver moon, Guide the traveler on his way, While the nightingale’s song is im tune. For Inever, never more With my true love will stray By thy sweet silver light, Bonnie moon.” Then the music and the moonlight make him melodramatic, love and luna mingle in his tuneful memory, for, unconciously and half under his breath, hg sings to his sweetheart: « “Oh, I loved a little beauty, y Belle Brandon, And I told her ‘neath the old ‘Arbor tree—” And then, as if framing in music the thoughts of the “ittle beauty” in her far-away northera home, he sings: “Dearest love, do you remember, When we last did meet? How you told me that you loved me, Kneeling at my feet? Oh, how proud you stood before me, ee ee oe, ‘hen rou vowed to meand country, Ever to be true. ‘Weeping, sad and lonely, Hopes and fears how vain, Praying, wen this cruel war ia over, Praying we may meet again.” Laughter and badiringe havo ong since Paro 4 Fiat on their backs, gazi: 4 atthe stare throuxh @e pine and hemlowk the bory lie. quictiy smoking witle the soloiat “Pen ie, We Have 6] fs the Battle Over?” and” "Gone at Hues cousicy’s call, ne at their co ‘And yet, and yet, We cannot forget, That many brave boys: must fall.” Again his thoughts reach out thro distance to his sweetheart and the qi love song is on his lips: “Maxwelton's banks are Where eeriy fails the dew, And "twas there that Aunie Laurie ‘Gave me her promise true,” Thisisa too much, and with talant Oh tnet take tone his demands “something hag yp rg ire soen de massa, id do musta ou his face?™ N sh the old the flag, boys, will relly roun We'll rally once again, Shouting the battle cry of freedom"— and find themselves in splendid tune to sing: “A thousand years my own ( "tis "Ti is the giad day #0 long fore s the glad morn whos Washington saw im da; Then the whale r loose to sing. swing to patriotismgin song who knew the difference between “Yankee Doo: and “Old Hundred, If there ¢ other in parod: years ‘sl nnd parodies on “Dixie” an ever bef sa time richer than an- that time was between he rolls them ou makes the distant bills reverbera’ those of his comrades who have any abi and ail those who have none at all“ r orus,” giving a varie is offeurive effect that is ludicrous and inde- seribabii This al happy hours, “There's coos tattoo the orderly sergeants, is at an end. oN THE MARCH, Tho march demanded wilder, more barbarle dithyrambie masic. on, has gone into a wet, muddy camp after a long da; through Pelting, soaking rain, The boys are doing their best to make themsclves as little uncom- fortable as possible for the night, but every- body is sour and cross and tempers as the water-soaked wood, whi sputter and hiss instead of burning cheerfully. An orderly spatter up thre the rain to where the colonel is grumbling at Lis cook for not getting him something to cat aud the cook is verbally “biasting” everything in the south- | cra confederacy, his sable soul included, because the fire can't be made to burn. ‘The colonel opens the paper which tho orderly hands him, finds it is an order to make & point twenty-five miles disiant before daybreak, swears internally or audibly.accord- ing to the church he attends when at home,and orders the adjutant to have the buglers sound the “assembly!” The adjutant sends everything to hopeless Perdition that he can include in a sentence and dispatches an order to the buglers, who, if | their words could really “burn,” would melt tho mouthpieces off the bugles which they | raise to their lips, And if there is no lurid | Profanity in the meliow straine which issue it, 13 because the bugle has limited capacity to | express the blower's sentiments, Words are | pale, colorless things to describe the way in | Which the hateful call is received by tho regiment, But there is no help for it, “Orders is| orders,” and in a few moments the regiment is plunking through the mire and nasty drizzie- | drozzie rain, the colovel riding grimly at the head after giving pleasant orders to the lic tenant in command of tho rear guard to| “bayonet any man who won't keep up.” For miles they plod sullenly along, burning | with hatred for every other man and thing in | | the army, from the fellow in front, who splashes | mud on him and tumbles down and trips him up, to the general commanding the army, and | articularly the “blame fool colonel’ avd rigadier g@neral who ordered this senseless night march! Presently, having vented their wrath till they have become tired of it, it oceurs to them that they aro in for it, heiplessly and hopelessly, and they might as well make the best of it Away up near the bead of the column some- body strikes up “John’s Brown's body lies # moldering in the tomb.” At first only the mclody comos heavily drift ing to the rear rauks through the murky gloom, and no words aro distinguishable. But the plodding men catch it up aud send— “Jobn Brown's body —" cheerily on its march to the rear, where in very tru “His pet lambs will meet him by the way, As his soul goes marching on,” and by the timé the hero of Harper's Berry has reached “Glory, glory, hallelujah” & great army is chanting his “Te Lauda mus” asit tramps on through desolate night, keeping time,time,time,to the measurod rhythm of that incomparably grand march. ‘Ihe queer, nondescript? old tune inspires their souls, swells their hearts and fills their veins with patriotic fire, Gone is the discontent, the gloom aud the hatred. Like the rare philoso- plers they are, they conclude that it “is better to langh than be sighing, they are wise who resolve to be gay,” and gay they grow in spite of their horrid surrourdi From the sublime to the ridiculous is but» step,aud some daredevil shrills out in execrable time and tune “Oh, that girl, that little ‘The girl I left vehind me fed and the bors toss it back and forth down the straggling line till the melody and words are in hopeless confusion and they are out of breath. The quiet is too dense tobe long endured, and some jovial fellow strikes out on ‘Our Jimmy has gone for to live in a tent, ‘They'v@ grafted him into the army; He finally puckered up courage and went When they grafted Lim into the army. I told them the child was too young, but, alas! At tho captain's forequarters they said he would pass, They'd train him well up in the infantry class, So they grafted him into the army.” The humor of the Mrs. Malaprop thing | amuses thom imtensely, but it, too, is worn threadbare and the voices one by one fall into | silence, and only the plod, piod, plod of thousands of marching fect aud the dreary drip, drip, drip of the rain is heard, Then up the line, reaching for miles along the sodden road, comes creeping the shadow of a melody, which gathers suostance as it rolls to the ceat till a mighty volume of music rises and swells | and rolis up and out among the mistyabove the | mountains, up, oP. reaching at iast the great white throne, where the celestial singers in awed silence lean to catch the music of mortals who, while enduriug the supreme desperation of discomfort, with transcendent fealty to a cause already baptized in rivers of blood, can yet sing with such intensity of loyal zeal “The Union forever, hurrah, boys, hurrah! Down with the traitors, up with the stars! While wo'll rally round the flag, boya, We'll relly once again, Shouting the battle ery of freedom.” —_ Driving Home the Cows. Out of the clover end blue-eyed erase He terncd them into the river loner h will only One ef:0: another he let them: pass, ‘Then lastened the w bars again, Under the willows, and over the hill, He patiently followed their sober pace, ‘The merry whistle for once was still, ‘And someting shadowed the sunny face, Oply a boy! and hie father had anid Twoulreniy were tying dod" we } Cider the feo: of the trawpling foe Dut after the evening work was ‘And the froze were lowd in the ‘awamp, Over bis soulder Le slung his gun ‘And steaithiy followed the foot path damp, With resovuve hurt aud purpose Agi ressiats hcastaua pe ¥ ‘Thougt cold was the dew on kee huery m ‘the blind bat's jh Written for The Fvening Stor THE OLD ARMY BLOUSE. ifurms Worn by the Soldiers in the War, SOON GAYE WAT To ao HOW YANCY TRAPPING UNCLE SAM'S BLUE FORAGE ©\P—OAY E TROOPS FIRS WE CORT, BELT 178 0x WutCH PARED IX THE FIELD wcak of the “great American con- the United States in posession of a reguler army of about 13.000 officers and mea 2 told, tt ua! Ggures as given on Janeary 1, 1861, being 1.117 commissioned officers and 11,867 © 1 men, Exclasive of the staff of the ermy comprised two coons, two of exvalry, one of nd ten regiments of in- rm worn by thix small bet of men had andergone bat fe change for many years past, and that je mostiy im the sty color of the nx for oat of dark bi >taine and a frock « rtiliery a dark bine the frock coat, for fotigne regniations ax flaunel, extend ud made loos bu.tons down t of sky b cloth, these being 4,” an th { the trousers, the cape sing down to the coat cuff; the infautry great © ly came The bionse, srousers and to tinis day. save that perhaps better materiais are used and that creater care is taken with the fit of the gar- ment The trousers were for front.” mounted men THE FORAGE CAP. A rogulation dress hat was brought into the army under I War, but the best known article of headwoar the forage eap of dark-blue cloth with rounded vizor, the crown of the cap pulled well to the front to dieplay the insignia of the arm of the sorvice (crossed sabers for the cavalry, crossed cannon for the artillery and « bunting bugle for the infantry, for which has since boon substituted the crossed muskets), the regimental number and the company let ter, Practically speaking the whole war was fought through on the Union side by mon clad | in this cap, the dark-bluo blouse, the sky-biae pantaloons, with, in winter time, the sky- bine overcoat ated theroto, This was em: phatically Uncle Sam's uniform, all that he ever served out, and the uniform that was universally worn by our boys during the greater part of the struggle for national ex- istence, It was plain, but meat and service- able, and if made of the proper materials (which alas! it very often was not), woul4 compare favorably with any European ur form, save, perhaps, that worn by certain im- perial gnd’ monarchial “crack” corps. There were two belts worn, one a shoulder belt eup- porting the cartridge box, and ® waist belt supporting the bayonet. ‘They were perhaps the shabbiest parts of the equipment, A plain 34, bearing tbe lot brass dise filled out with Ie. tors U.S. comprised the buckle of the waist belt, and a plate of the snmo material, with an eagle samped on it, was worn on the front center of the shoulder belt. a, to modern usage the old fashion of burnishing the barrel of the musket was in vogue during the war, being dropped immediately after ite close. 4 MOTLEY WUED MOTITTA But the call to arms of 1861 also found in the United States number of militia regiments ‘and innumerable volunteer organizations whose uniforms were as fanciful and varied os could well be conceived, being fashioned after the pattern of almost every known military type in Europe, from the Highland costame of the famous British infantry to the hybrid, cireus- like, usoless dress of the French souave, and the banditti-like clothing of the Sardinian ber- saglieri, France had two years before besten Austria, and there was sort of French mili- tary craze on us just then, and our soldier boys affected their style. England had just decided that gray was the best and most serviceable color that could be adopted for the uniform of her volunteers, and many state troopsand companies were clad in that color, But corps dressed according to its own fancy, the frock coat, the swallow-tailed jacket, the blouse, appeared in shape and color, head dresses tm equal vari ety, black belts, white belts, all terments could be seen, grorything save the one thing most needfal andnow — uniformity. This, thanks to hard, practical experience, was devel later on in the war, but the first months found the boys ine very e motley if gay and georgeous apparel, This ante-bellum state of affairs applied equally to the military organizations the southern states, and though perhaps the Highlander aid not obtain there to any great exteat the zoa- ave certainly did. When the seventy-ninth New York Highlan- ders parnded on June 1, 1861, to for Washington we learn that “all the ofticers ard many of the men wore the kilts, while the rest of tho men were dressed in handsome state jackets_with red facings, blue fatigue and Gimeron tartan ‘pants; these wil the kilted oficers and men made our appear- ance quite picturesque,” as may be readily imagined. Dut by the time regiment marched to the battlefield we are told by its rian that “our kuapsacks containing our uniform jackets and tartan pante were packed upandleftatcamp. If any of our men wore thor than the regulation dark-blue blouses and light-blue pants durmg the cam it a the exception, and they were ap Og ing tells us that “the costume of Duryee's corps was thatof the second regiment of the French zouaves, composed of a biue jacket trimmed with red and blue shirt trimmed with the same, full scarlet trousers with leather leggings, and scarlet cap with blue tassel, partly arranged in turban form.” ‘The tamous venth New ork came to Washington dressed 3 the celebrated sixth Jiassuchusotts was also Cressed in pray when it marched through Baltimore, while there were some few corps dgessed in green, Buta I have before stated, the hard, stern reaiity of actual warfare soon stripped the lads of all tinscl and gaudy colors; they became veritabie “Boss in Biue,” and remained so. And when that monument is raised to the private soldier that is now being agitated, and it cannot be done too soon, by ail means let it represent lim clad im the jd army blouse,” forage cap om head, of the vd —o pattern ¢ =o —— tit laced on the proudest em the city. 4 avin Frrzcnnaa,