Irving Bacheller
Image Attribution: published by L C Page and company Boston 1903 (Public domain)
Image Attribution: published by L C Page and company Boston 1903 (Public domain)
Well, one night the order came; we were to go south in the morning—thirty thousand of us, and put an end to the war. We did not get away until afternoon—it was the 6th of July. When we were off, horse and foot, so that I could see miles of the blue column before and behind me, I felt sorry for the mistaken South. On the evening of the 18th our camp-fires on either side of the pike at Centreville glowed like the lights of a city. We knew the enemy was near, and began to feel a tightening of the nerves.
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