IBiiiii'Si Glass. Booki x^ f>y~p S' ^ FIELD and PPST-R DDM UMUiisnvna, p.i., .1 vmsr, is ii THE GERMAN VOLUNTEER." Tlie Best Military Drama in Existence. Endorsed by the Departments of Pennsylvania and Kansas, and has been played by Oomra-de 'Will. ID. Saptia-r, (IF I'llST N(l. 5, PlIILAllKLl'lIIA, to crozi'JcJ /lo/iscs in all parts of the country. Reasonable terms made zcit/i J'osts and Military < 'ompanies. Address WILL D. SAPHAR, Manager of the German Volunteer, Care "Ledger Job Office,- Philadelphia Pa. I'leasf stafi^ |.omilati..n (if i.hioc, size of hall aud staRC, iiihI quiiutity of scnu-ry. m. m LUTHER R. KELKER, Builders', SaddlBra' & Cnach Iron, Steel, Farmers' and Mechanics' Tools, Paints, OUs, Glass, &c. Mallory, -nTieekr .t i , - I . - I; - ^ u • , .1 nnd Plain Hub Wheels. Sar- gent's Shelf Han! ivn : .' - s, I „ii s«ws, Ijiesaiieake Kails, Porter's Door O.riii : I . .., ill & Co. 'a Pare Lead. N. Y. Enamel Paint Co.v I : . :.. 1 The bent and cheapest in the market. Fully wanaiii. l 6>< Market Sq., Harrisburg, Pa. ROCHESTER BOTTLING WORKS. STEAM BOTTLERS OF Boheniiai] (pale) aijii ^taiidafd ^tocl^ LAG-ER. CANADA PORTER, ALE AM» BROWX STOIT A SPEtlALTY. Agents for Bedford Mineral Springs Water. FAMILIES SUPPLIED. Cor. State and Canal Sts., Harrisburg, Pa. o^FOR A NEAT FITTINGS- G.A.R.UNIFORM FiflE AND Well-made CLOTHifliJ, SAM'L KUHN'B, 6 North Market Square. FLEMIND, BOOKSELLER ^ STATIONER ON iVlARKET ST. at the River Bridge, No. HI, Patterson s O.o Stand, HARRISBURG, PA. q- -P I Six doors From Front St. i Spring— 1886. J Boiy aiii Tapstry Brussels, Inpain ani Rag CARPETS. FLOOR, STAIR A\D TABLE OIL-CLOTHS, SmTrna Rugs, Brussels Rugs, Aurora Carpet Sweepers. T...PHo« coM„u.,c.T,o,. FRED. W. YINCST, No 111 Market Street, Harrisburg. Pa @y\faii papers. A. B, TACK, Window Bhades. Lincrusta Walton. 1210 N. Third Street. MONROE'S PATENT INGRAIN PAPER, JOHN R. NULL, Sarpenteri Builder. JOBBING ProiiiDtly Attended to. SHOP:-- 322 Cranberry Avenue, HARRISBURG, PA. ROSENDALE, PORTLAND AND LEHIGH CEMENTS. 32 North Third Street HARRISBURG, PA. J. E. RHOADS, I Manufacturer of LIME Lyliens Valley, WilKes-Barre and Lehigh COAL Of Best Quality and Sizes TELEPHONE CONNECTION. omce and Yards: Second and Forster Streets, HARRISBURG, PA. MARBLE DUST AND PLASTERING HAIR. Field and Post Room XnL. 1. iiAi!i;isr.r!!( AXTAItV Kainug scar, s tomb debar g.'A.R. Ih.isr Wllnsn-v III.- rniMi, An, k :rE'I l)aiits in the mntiu of arms, to sticnytl fii and iHiiii iii.ii. iiiciidships foniifil aiiiid? hardships and dangers, and throu<,di the stron bonds of fraternity, enjoy the social advantage of fre(|uent meetin.iis with old ccinirades, an. with them ,,lan for the , -are and ,n,,,f..rt of th sirk and disal.led ,,r destitnh- ni th.ir nnndxT ish the order is based. Although but nineteen years liave (lapsed sinee the organization of tlie (iiand Arniy i.i the Republic, the names of those I., u hum thi- order owes its eoneeption are nut mi rei-unl, nients is unattainable. It i< Generally a-reed, however, tliat Dr. ]!. 1* . Ste]ihens(iii. nnw dead, was the orfjanizer, if not the ori-inatni-, of the first post, whieh was formed in lieiatur, Illinois, in the Sprint' pn^ts w,.re .H-anized in that and adj,,inint: States. These hu-U.-d a rentral or ,;;vneral orpinization and retjuhdinns, until a meeting was hehl in Sprin.irtiehl, Illinois, in .lulw lS(i(l by the representatives of over forty posts of that .state. General John M. Palmer was there cliosen (iiand Commander. Dr. Stephenson aetedas ProvisionaK'ommander-in-Ohief, with Colonel .7. ('. Wed iber as Adjutant Genera.;»'l:jlul liead(|narters at Springfield; and wlien s )?ts liad been formed in several States, Col. S-eph- ensmi, in pursuance of General Order No. l:;, dated l),-tnl)er :i1 , lS(i(), eonvene.l their repre- in Inilianapolis, on Xovendier 20, with repre- sentatives present from posts in Illinois, In- i(iteetion of such as have been dis- diled eitbia- by wnunds, sickness, old age, or widows of suci Vr in-:i.n Axn po.st a'ooj/. .ui.port. ■.lu- 8. To establish and seciuv tlic riulits i.l tlicsr (iefenders of their country )>> all iimral. fi.icial and political means in our ((Hitrol. To incuk-at.' nipon the wlml,. cniiitry a ]. ro- per apprei'iatiiiii of their sci\ ices, and a recoi;- nition of tlu-ir just rlaiins. But this associati(jn does not design to niaUc nominations for office, or to use its infJuence as a secret organization for partisan purposes. i To maintain true allegiance to the United St ^ s of America, based uj)on a paramount re- sjil^l for and liilelity to the national constitu- tion imd Uiws. to l)e manifested by the discoun- tenancing of whatever may tend to weaken loyalty, incite to insurrection, treason or rebel- lion, or iji any manner impair the efficiency and permaneticy of our free institutions, togetlui- with a defense of universal liberty, equal riglits and justice to all men. Section three, as given above has been since stricken out, and the introdncti. 1 jiartisan questions has been prohibited : "'So officer or comrade of the (irand Army of the Republic shall in any manner use this organization for partisan purposes, and no di.scussion of partisan (juestions shall be permitted at any of its meet- ings, nor shall any nominations for political office be made." Rules and regulations I'oi- flic ^nvcrnniciit of the order were adoptcil, ami fhe nuanqinicnt adjourned, intrusting t(.) the officers sclcitrd llu' work of systematizing and perfecting f lie ■ nu'a m- ization. These officers were : Comniamlci-iii- I'hief , General Stephen A. Hurlbut ; Senii ir Vice Commander-in-Chief, General James B. McKean, of New York; .Junior Vice Coinman- der-in-Chief, General Xatlian Kimball. ,.f In- diana ; Au:i rt I ■rmaster General ; ( 'onir:ide.Ino. r.cll. 'il Iowa, Surgeon General; and Coimade A. H. tiuint, of Ma.ssachusetts, Chaplain (ien- eral. Gen. N. P. Chainnan was aiqiointed Ad- jutant General. The unorcupicd States :ind Territories were organized int,. dispart iiicnts as rapidlv as pus- arms, encouraged to estalilisli Fosts and li themselves within the benefits and influei of the order, and at file next annual enca ment, which assembled in Cincinnati, on 12th day of May, 1869, we find thirty-se\ ,'n partments reported, rejjresenting t \\ i . t lions and fifty posts, and an increase of sixteen partments during the year. (General Logan was re-elected at the ciiia ment held in Cincinnati, :\Iay ll', isiiii, a-ain at Washhmt.m, Mav IKISTil. anceof Ma. national en incorporate in- the ob l.indin- ..n FIELD AND POST ROOM. ofseftici forevfi- ; .1.1111 ..f t li.- acti..ii. Theivluivi in til.' ti. M.llHiv.-.Tfainlvwas t.-iiili'.l t Mil. 'ir arms. TIi.'.-..) till' risiii ■-.•n.Tati..ni.-ss..i,s.,| ll.lt t.i st Nunquisl r up strife between tli. ed. Alla.lverseeriti.'i ever, liei n silenced, as year aft. euiunies grow in iinpressiv.'ii. number participating. Several of the States have m rial Day a legal h..li.lay, aii.l country its pulili.' .iliseivaii.c : attenti.ii Til.- .1 an.lri-si„.,t. .l.a-.pf (ieiieral L..-aii ati.mal eu.-iii ..f New V..rl<. .iup.,s.-.l,,l .•x.-.-ll.-iit mal, .lames Slu w,.Ir...,f K. 1 t.MJ t.. (he a c,..!..,,/ 1 :;vsan,''a"n;u; .-.■niils, S.,l,liei-s, \-,.t,Tans, aii.l lias r." itii a leu immat.-rial .•ban-..,,, was a.l. y that .•n.ampuH.nt. It was there. le.'i.l..,ltliat all tli.- p. .st , .1. i.ailaii.lnati..nal..tli.'ei-s.an.l ivpivseiih: en- re.piire.l t.i s.-rv. |ir..bati..n f.ir a .-e ill time witli.iut tlii' ri'/ht t.. v..te. bef..ri' a. iii.'.Mii.'iit t.. the se.'..ii.l ..^ra.l.'. Til,' ra.li.-il aeti..ii.,f th.^ nati..iial eii.'ami uitli bei-sli .siti 'x:;.'l I .1 t..thefa.'t l.'.an.l tli.-ir ■.■selltatives. A. Starring, of Illinois, It. '.It nsiilerthesub- FIELD AND POST POO.U. the centre is a cirele of stars, representing the btates of the fnion and the departments composing the Grand Ai iiiv .if the Republic. Credit for the design is due to I Miniiul.' f. A. Warring, at that time Inspector Ueneral some slight modiflcation, the cut here present (. badge ill (ieneral Ambrose E. Burnside, of Rhode Is- land, was elected Commander-in-Chief at the encampment held in Boston, :May 10, 1871, and served two years witli distinuuislied ability, ■ loii^ muc'li t.. |.hirc the or.ler on a hitiher ( oiu lal Louis Wagner, of Pennsylvania, suc- ceeded (iovernor Lucius Fairchild, of Wiscon- sin, as .Senior Vice Commander-in-Chief, act- ing as Commaniler-in-Chief for .some months, during (ieneral Burnside's absence in Europe, (ieneral James Coey, of California, was elected Junior Mce Commander. Head-quarters were transferred to the city gf New York, and Cap- tain Roswell Miller was appointed Adjutant (ieneral, giving for two years valuable service, for which he declined any recompense. Under his supervision the books and records were .so systematized that no ini|.ortant change has since been required. Caj-tain ^Miller is now manager of one of tlic most extensive railway corporations in the country, the ChicaL'o. Mil- waukee and St. Paul. (ieneral Burnside having positively decline(l a third term, General Charles Devens, Jr., of Massachusetts, afterwards Attorney General of the United States, was chosen his successor at New Haven, Ccmn., May 11, 187:i. He was re-elected at the session in Harrisburg, Pa., May 12, 1874. During his administration the headquarters were in Boston, ^lass. Governor John F. Hartranft, of Pennsylva- nia, was elected ("ommander-in-Chief, at Chi- cago, May 12, 1875, and he establisheil heail- quarters at Philadelphia, with Colonel Robert K. Keath as Adjutant (ieneral. (iovernor Har- IS7(i. At the Provideiie,- eiieanipnieiit . in .luiie. 1877, General Jolui ('. Koliiuson, ,,i Xe« York, was elected Commauder-in-Cliiei. and head- quarters were removeessioii uas held in .lune, 1880. any the rule or enstoiu of re-electing II- and Junior \'iee Couinianders-in- s liroUen, in (U'ller that the honors of •St positions might be passed around lei- number of comrades, and this rule elei-teil ( oiniuander-iu-Chief at Dayton, ami he apiioiuted ( olonel Robert B.Beath as Adjutant General, with head-quarters in Philadelphia. A very large gain in mendiership was made during this year. Commander-in-Chief Wag- ner, at his own expense, visited a large num- ber of departments, and attended meetings and re-unions of soldiers at ilistant points, with a view of making more widely kn.iwn the objects of the(irand Army. Comrade (ieo. S. Merrill, of Massa.-luisetts. %vas chosen to sn.-c..ed Comrade Wagner, at the fifteenth annual meeting, held at Indianapolis, June, 1881. Col. Wm. M. Olin was appointed Adjutant General, and the head i. camp e(|iii|,;i rial for r:iiii|i It built l.arriirk-. lio~|iii;,K. .ni.l .-loi-.-l -.'s, provided \\au..ll-,:nMl.lll:ili. ,■>, :ii|.| li:ill|.--, .'X- cept fur cavalry and artillery liorsi^s, ship,-, and Steamers, docks and wharves, constructed rail- road and other bridges, bought clothes for the s charged generally with the pay- I'liiMs attending military opera- regulation .fe some army, and v ment of all tions n..i :i^- other army . That department transjiorted the stores of all other departments from the depots to the camps, upon the march and to the battlefield, until they were finally issued to the troops. What can surpass 1,769 miles of military railways repaired, maintained, stocked, and ojierated liy the agents of this department! AVhat lin.'> ii.ai- Petersburg. He fell on the iiisi.l.. ..i il,,. List line of rebel works, near where his rebel brother lay also badly wounded, him a captain in a Maryland Confederate regiment. They were both taken to the rear in the same am- bulance, and both died in the same hospital. Though divided in life, they were united in death. The Union brother before his death was commissioned a lieutenant colonel of the regular army for "conspicuous gallantry." FIELD AXD POST ROOM. W^ho comes there?" A friend ! " Advance, friend, and give the countersign." " Field and Post Room." PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY ANK B. KINNEARD AND WILSON C. FOX, I NORTH THIRD STREET, HARRISBURG, PA. OUR SALUTE. ■■ FiinwAKii, M.Muii ! " In olu'dienci' to tho cuimiiand of many Grand Army men, we go forward into the line of the American Press, firm £_' patriotic resolution — strong in loyal pnrpoW.' The bugle call sounds grandly clear, "Onwiird," and this initial number of Field .\ND Post Eoo.m is before you. No class of men are better readers than those of the Grand Army of the Eepuhlic. They delight in pre- serving the stories of that war which made them Comrades, and they revel in the exciting narratives rehear.sed around the camp-fire or in the post-room. We propose to give promi- nence to these incidents — to preserve them in our columns — so that not only those who fought by our side on many a memorable occasion, may recall these reminiscences to mind, but also a record for the future, when the Veteran shall have passed Life's final Grand Review. We shall aim to make this journal a welcome visitor, not only in every Post Boom, but in the family of every member of the Grand Army. Each Comrade will learn to prize it, for it will always bring to him the truthful ex- emplications of those three great and cardinal principals of our Order — "Fr.werxity, Char- ity, AND Loyalty. ' ' Established for the bene- fit of all who venerate these principles, we shall look to them for tluit supi.ort wliicli will insure this journal a surccsst'iil •■(Imvanl :^Larch!" WHAT WAR COSTS. It is almost impo>si I ill' id- liniuan calculation to estimate, even :i|i|iOiNiiiiatoly, the wa.ste, losses, and miscrii s atl.naaiil ujion the late civil war. These can ln' un.l.isf 1 ..nly by looking, not merely at tlio iniDioiiM' (■.ilniiuis of the Union army and its l'.siih battles, Imt at the great columns of figures which indicate the immensity of the expenditure. The number of men in the United States armies from 1S61 to 1865, was 2,859,132. This, of course, includes terms of service as short as thirty days, a large proportion of three months men and two years terms, besides a great num- ber of veteran re-enlistments after three years service. The amount of bounties paid was *l',s,-,,;m .():i(i. The number of casualties in the volunteer and regular armies, reported by the Provost Marshal General, was 61,362 killed in battle ; 34,727 died (jf wounds ; 1X3,287 died of disease; makin- th.- t^ial drallis. L'7s,:!,S(i. The total number. ii .li-ntions was r.i'.i.lOo. The number of Unito.l stairs s..l,|ii.|> captured was 212,608. The numljcr of United States soldiers paroled on the field was 16,437. The number of United States soldiers who died as prisoners of war was 29,725. A special report of the Secretary of the Trea- sury to the U. S. Senate, dated June 10, 1880, gives an itoiiiiznl statement of the gross exjien- ditures of the •jo\ riiiiiient from July 1, Isiil, to June .■!(), ls7'.i: showing the expenditure other than for the war, and the expenditure growing out of the war. The gross expenditure was . . . $6,844,571 ,431 The ordinary expenditure was . 054,641,522 The war expenses were,therefore,$0,169,929.li09 The ag,ffregate, of course, includes the public debt, and intonst .m it for that period, but not the intoivM paid sin.o June 30, 1879. Kor does itinclu.l.' tlic\ast sum paid since June 30, 1879, for pensions and arrears of pensions, and for the pay of retired army and navy officers. These additional expenditures will "amount to at least .tsOO.OOO.OOO more. BONDHOLDERS VS. PENSIONERS. Secretary Lamar, in his report as chief of the Department of the Interior, says regarding pen- sions : "I know of no burden of Government that is more cheerfully borne than that of the pension system. I concur fullv in all efforts to demon- uu ,,r.,n,,nu p.,., I I.. 11,.,,. „■/,., .'..„h;l„ltc,l the "•;""■-''■■< '/'"/ /"o,/ /., //„ .l,f.,„l,:rs Of the <;,,,, if,', I. I ^|1I^-I^ III].; c.mi'i mnt ,,i.' excessive .. He might have went furtlier, and said that the man who contracted disease in the army, which develops as the soldier grows older, aiid who is unable to provide his family with the necessaries of life, should be aided by the Gov- ernment he assisted in saving, by standing up manfully in the ranks during his term of ser- vice, although he has no hospital record. When that soldier went to the front, the people said , FIELD AND POST ROOM. •^God bless you. my l.ny, y,,u sliall lu-vrr Ik- foriiMttoii." TI.iw cln tlicy tVcl aliout itiiuw? ( iniiiililiii;^ al"iul lAci'ssixc pensions, after the si.Mi.T has snirnv,! tlic liav.lships of the field, lJi_-rilk-(l lii.s lili' in Injiit uf Ijatti-rios, slept upon the cold ground with the heavy dews drench- ing him, contracting disease, enduring that which now brings on old age rapidly, until the soldier of fifty is where the civilian of sixty stands — after all this to see the prayers and tears of ISlil turned into cursfs and groans in iss.",. l.ceause of the pension fund, is disgrace- ful in llie extreme. Is tliis the way to instill liatiintisni and leacli the rising generation loy- alty ? If it is, (iod save the Republic. It is stated from authority that ef .los.lioo rninn siildiers who gave their lives for the Tniim in the war of the Eebellion, fully 100,000 are buried in unknown graves. This is occa- sioned by reason of the fact, that many bodies were hurriedly buried in isolated sputs with only temi^orary marks, or with n(.)ne at all. and tjiat the ground was often in the hands nI the enemy for a consiileiahle i«eii< id after the ac- tion; when, of eemse. it louhl nut be expected that any permanent marks . .f identity would be established. In the Fredericksburg National t'enieteiy are the graves of IS.OtjS Tnion snldiers, of which 12,(101 are marked "' T'nknowii." These CHARLES RUSSELL LOWELL was the first scholar of his year (l.s.")()) at Har- vard. He had visited Europe for health, and made long riding tours in Spain and Algeria, where he became a cons On the day after the Sixtli fired on in Baltimore, Cha it, and started by the m-x ton, passing thmu'jli P.alt nication between the t s\o r but he arrived on f^ " it at \ eight hours. In tlio •s I. ■seman. t s were leard of ashing- I'. All commu- was suspended, lington in forty- \ s of confusion, iisetts at Wash- ington, anrl brnu'jlii ..ichi- ..m uf chaos, for his own State, liefoie joiiiinu the army. His pow- ers of eonnnaiiil antl or'jani/.al ion gained him i-apid liroiiiotion. lb- served with distinction in the Peninsula eampaignof M'Clellan, and, after Antietam, was selected to carry the cap- tured standard.s tu Washington. He raised a second cavalry regiment at home in the winter of 1862. He was placed in command of the c-avahy loree which protected Washington dur- ing the dark days of ISO:;. In .Sheridan's bril- liant campaign of 1864, he commanded the cav- alry brigade of four regular regiments and the Second Massachusetts volunteer cavalry. He had thirteen horses shot under him before the battle of Cedar Creek; was badly wuse po.-k-it, and a ball passed through both. ,mi.I lo-lu,.! m the inside- one, the cases thus sa\ ill- his hh. In the same company of one of the (Jliio legi^ ments, were sixteen brothers by the name of Finch, all from Dayton, in that State, though born in Germany. This remarkable cinaim- stance — sixteen members of one family in one company — is unparalleled. Among the wounded who arrived in Louis- ville, after the battle of Murfreesboro, was Jos- eph Rock, a private in company B, 23d Ken- tucky, aged eighteen yeai-s. who was in the thickest of the fight. lie was shot in the right breast, a minie ball striking the Imekle <>f his suspenders, driving it through a portion of the lungs, and lodging under the skin in his back. The surgeon cut through the skin and took out the ball and buckle, which were fastened to- gether. Besides this, he had three balls to pass through the leg of his pants; and the sto.k of his gun was shivered by a ball while he w as taking aim. The following is a specimen of the news dealt out to the Southern xieopile. It is from a Xew Orleans journal : "All the Ma<-aehiisi'tts troops now in Washington are ne^^ioes, with the ex- ception of two or three drunrmer-huys. Gen- eral Butler, in command, is a native of Liberia. Our readers may recollect old Ben, the barber, who kept a shop in Poydras street, and emi- grated to Liberia with a small competence. General Butler is his son." As General Butler had the pleasure of taking possession of Xew Orleans, the people of that city had an oppor- tunity of testing his "quality." FIELD AND POST ROOM. AROUND THE CAMP-FIRE. A soldier wiio belonged to General Logan's command was in the habit of becoming intox- icated, and the colonel of his regiment remon- strated with him ; the conversation which took place was something like this : "You are a remarkably clean nuui, sir." "Thank you, colonel." "But, sir, you have bad habits." "I am sorry for that, colonel." "You drink, sir." "I am sorry for that." "Oh, I know you are sorry, liut why don't you drink like me." "Col.inel, I covdd'nt do it, it would kill me." Amonir the iclirs i.f tin- late war .stowed away in the United Slates < )icliiaiii'e 3Iuseum, on Sev- enteenth street, A\'asl]in!4t.iu, is a sabre, fully iive feet long, which was found on the battle- field of Manassas. This formidable looking weapon was evidently m^de in some village blacksmith's shop, from the fabled plowshare, at the outbreak of the war, and its handle ap- pears to have been carved with a jack-knife from a cow's horn. A Virginian who visited the museum recognized the sabre as one that had been used by a giant cavalryman in "Jeb" Stuart's command. "The cavalryman in question," said the Vir- ginian, "was nearly seven feet high and broad in proportinii. Tlelia.l that bi- sabic made by a cross-ri.a.U lMii>e-li..i'r, and |ii. aiiiseil to hew his way tlnoimli tin- Yankee lines wilh it, and enter Washington, l>ut, poor fellow, he was shot at Manassas before he could carry out his rash purpose." "Judge, don't be hard on an old vet," said a drunkard who was arraigned at the Central Station court Monday morning. " Were you in tlie war? " " I was, your honor." " What regiment? " '■ Noregiment. I sloshed around by myself." •• AVhat army were you attached to? " "Nuueof -em." " Were you in any battles?" "Heaps of 'em, your honor." " Give me the name of any one battle." "Bunker Hill," w^as the i.n.ni|.t reply. "Bunker Hill! why, that ballli^ was fought a hundred years ago ! " excUiimed the court. " Of course, she was, your honor — of course, she was. Do you think I'd be mean enough to ask you to go light on me for having sloshed around in any of these riots of the last fifty years?" **» It used to be tnl.l of eertain Army of the Potomac colonels that when they were dis- pleased with one of their subordinate officers they sent him before the examining board. This was very likely to prove the last of the officer. The examinations were very rigid. One colonel caught a Tartar in tliis manner. He duly sent the officer before the board. One of the first questions was : " Your regiment in line of battle. Position of the colonel?" " In Wasliington," was tlie prompt reply. This was in the days when many colonels preferred the solace of capital streets to the troublesome tented fiehl. The officer retained his position. "I never had enough oysters at one meal ex- cepting upon one occasion," remarked a Den- ver gentleman, "and that was just after the war, at Norfolk, Va. I had been a prisoner at Anderson ville, and was one of the very last to be released. I was on my way north, and you can imagine that I wasn't very rich or very fat. I took my time getting toward tlie north, and so I stayed around Norfolk for some time wait- ing for health and money enough to proceed on my journey. Two or three times I got pretty hungry on my way to Norfolk, Ijut I wasn't liungry after I got there. "Early the first morning I went down to where the oyster boats lay. I had just ten cents in my pocket, and you know that oysters are as cheap as mud there. I saw an old dar- key sitting on the side of an oyster schooner and nobody else around. "I asked him how many oysters he would sell me for the dime, and he said tliat I could have as many as I could eat. I gave him the money and got on board the schooner. I com- menced to eat raw oysters and throw the shells overboard. "After a while I ate all tlie oysters above the hold, and then I began to dig down into the hollow part of the vessel. That made the dis- tance too far for me to throw the shells over- board, so I just tlirew them up on to tlie deck. I was careless about it, though, and I threw too many on one side, and it was the side of the boat furthest from the wharf, and along about noon the weight got too much and the scliooner capsized. Over she went, just as I had got enough, and was thinking it nearly time to go up town and rustle for a dinner, as I'd spent all my money. I got an awful duck- ing, and I never came so near getting drowned FIELD AXD POST ROOM. THE SONG OF THE LIGHT ARTILLERY. lufl full of hope, sways like a coming set lu- Light Artillery ? "DriPf on!" The gunner cries, with a tug and a jei The limljers fiy, and we bend to our v The "hand-spike" in, and the "imph' We wait for the word, and it conies \v The foes pour on their billowy line: Can nothing check their bold design? With yells and oaths of fiendish glee. They rush for the Light Artillery. "Commtace firing!" Hurrah! hurrah! our bull-dogs bark. And their triple line is a glorious mar Hundreds fall like grain on the lea. Mowed down by the Light Artillery. "Cense flriny!" The battle is over, the victory won. Ere the dew is dried by the rising sun While the shout bursts out, like ii full "Three cheers for the Light Artillery ! CUSHING'S BATTERY AT GETTYSBURG. .f (' i.arti hill' Hall, ui Maine, in your la.st issue, i.s 111 tliiiusaiiils that ought to he written and lished in i-vory paper of our land. There l)een altogether ten niucli history (?) man- tured. The incident ..1 which I am about date is the death ni as l)iavc a cc.inmiander liis (ir any other eotniti y cxcr knew . I.icu- int Cushing, 4th IT. S. .\rtillcry, uIh.ih his- ('.'.) has created anything' Imt a cahu cciul, eeted otHeer, such as he in realitN' was. am engaged in painting the death of Cush- and to be accurate I corresponded witli ■y person 1 c.uld learn anythiii- iV.mi in ti..i, to his services at ( icti \ shiiv.; aii.l his sented twice. Then Cushing is said to have had his Ijowels shot out, and, with one hand holding them together, he pushes a piece fed fr.ini liim, with my pistol in my right haml. When 1 saw tlie Lieu- tenant fall forwanl. 1 ihopiH'.! my i.ist..! ami caught him around the lif hish.ry that but one gun was run down to the stoni> wall is wrong. The report that Lieutenant C'ushiug's bowels were shot out is all nonsense. Again, Lieutenant Cushing never tireil a gun ; there was no occasion f.ir him t.. do so. \\v ha.l enough men left t.. .l.i that. Tlie lientenaiit had enough to do t.i wat.-h the .'neniy an.l '/wr the necessary comnumds. After sending I'ush- iug's body to the rear, I fired a few roini.ls ..f cannister; wlien the enemy was almost .m l.ip of us, I ceased firing, and told the men to |>it.h in with anything they had in their ban. Is, sn.li as pistols, sabres, sponge-staves, an.l han.l- spikes, which, I am glad to say, they di.l in good style, (ieneral Webb's brigade was ii.iw right with us, led by tlie general in pers.m. A few minutes and all was over, tlie reliels n - treating. Ifeneral Armstead was instantly killed right in front of the muzzle of No. :i piece. Understand there was a stone wall be- tween that gun and General Armstca.l. Th.' wall was about fourteen inches in tbi.kn.'ss, and the muzzle projected ..ver it. Th.- iicn.aal was dressed in a gray unif. inn. •! I ..lat, butt. m.'. I up, and wore a black sl.iui'bc.l hat, with sabre .dit ban. -H. K. V.r <.fl!,thhh, l',i., ii, d Mail. en. tiran in tl MEN IN BATTLE. , in bis "Mem.iirs." if invasi.m an.l army the Mexican war in considerabU' haps the most interesting porti.i: rative are the descriptions of inci.l he took a leading part, an.l bis . the men of the day. His first im battle are thus given : As we lav in i.nr tents n|i..n th.' artillery at' th.'f-.rt ..iitli.' i;i..(;n distiutly h.ar.l. Th.- war lia.l b the garrison, and information fr.i could not he otherwise than unfa v. s. Th. nuiiti.ii 1.1. I 1 ■ted like a charm. .me to give them i \V. Stone thus rel; I-IKLP Axn l\ rr h' ()(>.]/. iclicvc any man ever went into bat- Icclina; frightened. I know I never lKI\,>-..lll,-t|||,rj 1.. A.K ^ nil i-lonn :it :ii,N r,,-i Hull, is inj 111 vmil' \r,'\. -,11, ill, J ,1|, isl ; Ihcv whisll,' |,:i-l \,, Hi- nt 111. Irs ill \ ■ ,i,,lliill',. S 1 kill \-,,iir,-,',iiir;„i,vs ;in,| l,-av( s.M.n 'lliciv roiii.'s 11 Ir.'liii- A WAR STORY. .lays licfuiv 1 went tn til, ■liont witli iiiv It wr lui.l a littl,, ,nirl l.aby. .^lir is sni'ial -athering. Well, in our army, I iii-lis came very rarely. When we got c, tlicir was no great i-lianee for a man iiiiic. If was about flirec years after- lat a few 111' us wnc nne night going he IMississippi (jn a river steamer. I '11 silk, ami was returning to my cuui- but ).n'ffy well broken up even tlii'ii. .St 11 flie.ln ■riii>r <'\irtni, Nov. i 1861, and placed in the hands "f -riL-i i Im- II.Kmilk of eompany A, who carried it uniil Vuiu-i 11. Isiy, Cedar Mountain, where he in the foot, \\h>u it »:is .Ir Knox, of (■i,iiip;iii\ c, w li,i . at Rappahiiii k -i.iii^.n, * Gap, and .\iii:ii^t :i(itli, iit r.nl ly wounded, losing his rigl field, into the hand.s of Firt company C, nded then id Lieut. .\l.~:il.iin Si li:ill. .ompany wounded, \\hen it was again taken o carried it to Centreville. Daniel M'pt. 1st, at Chantilly, Sept. 14th, at .1 li'.f li and 17th, at Antietam, where uMl.-l, and it was taken by Private \ I , «ii,, was almost immediately .1 iiiti. ihr hands of forjioral Fred. of wounds, and passed the flag til .s- I J I llihi\ Iiiriu-r. of company E, who retained it niitil Hn - 1 i i lir aitioii. Dee. 12th and 13th, 1862, at the l.atilr i.i 1 i. ili i i. ksbnr!,', it was carried by Corporal John V. Kuhns, of eompany C, until he was three times severely wounded, losing his leg. It was then borne by Cyrus W. Chambers, who was killed, ivhen it was taken by Corporal .Tohn W. Thomas, who was severely wounded. It was brought ofr the field by Captain Benj. F. Haines, of company B. some liii^li Private Mi. during the Corjjoral John H. .M'Kalip, of company C, was next made color bearer, who carried it April .'iOth to May 5th. \mi, at Chanccllorsvilli-. and July 1st, at Gettysburg, wliere be \\ a> mm n 1- imiimI, il ni a charge upon Iver- son's Ncirili I ;ii,,i I '.'■ ,1. i. Hag falling amongst ;'i : ^\.irds discovered by pi' 1. "1 1 iiiy D, who carried it cr of thi- engagements of July 1st, 2d and 3d, and also at Mine Run, Dec. 1st, 1863; in April, lKr>4. he being absent, sick, it was delivered to Corporal .1. .1. Lehman, of company 11. who carried itMay.'Jth and iltli. ill the Wilderness, and .May 8th at Spi.ttsylvania, H line lir was kilh'il. and tlic (lag was brnnght ..IT the (i.-ld by Sreniid Lieutenant MCuteheu, of cuini.any F. May 12t.h, at Spottsylvania. Corporal Wm. Mathews, of company C, carried it during the remainder of the en- yhania. and at North Anna, Cold lii'iiii -il^i ' I 'ii ill Miiiii III r.'tiTsl.nrg, Wei- - ■■ III I'i I iiiii|i;,i,x \, who bore II- I III ■ I || . l-i.l 1 . I. iltlian.lTth, 1,S6.-), '■<'■ IMii I iMiiii.) - Mills;Mareh2gth, Qua- : Miiiili anil, W Inir link Kidge; April Lst. Five |.ril ''111, .\i.|ii.iiiaiiii.\ cuiirt House, and until , l.sii."i. » lu'ii liL u a.s liuuorably discharged. Jno. rnian. of comi>auy A, then carried it until the I was mustered out of service. TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT. Killed in action . . -I Died (d' wounds received .... 1 Died from other causes ."i Died as prisoners of war Tlisclinrtred for wounds received . 1 |ii-rli:ii -I'll .111 surgeon's certificate, -I I li-iliinjiil lor various causes . . 4 Hi.shouorably discharged Absent in hospital, at iiin.sti-r out. Absent in arrest, at muster out Absent, detached, at muster out Resigned I!i Transferred j.'i Deserted Not accouiitc.l for Mustered out with rcL'iiiicnt i':; Entire strength 7S Wounded in action i' Taken prisoners Mustered into service, .\m;. 14, l.siil. Discharged Sept, S, lS(i4. Term of service, ?, ye.-irs, iTi days. The rolls of this iiLiiiiiiiit ,ni- iii,|iirli',t, a- .-virl by the small nnnili.i 1 1 imri- il \\ Ii il i"i".n t piration of its terni ni -i i \ hi i in iinn w Im.-,- ti-r Field and Post-Room. Vol. I. IIARRISBURG, PA., FEBRUARY, 188(5. No. 2. COL. SENECA G. SIMMONS. .Viuiiiii; the bravest of the Iier(jeis of the llv- helUon, who early fell in that great struggle for tlie iiiTpetuity of the Union, was Senec.v Ga- ll sua SiMMo.NS. He was horn on the 27th of I )ecember, 1808, in Windsor county, Vermont, the son of Alfred Simmons and his wife, Debo- rah Perkins. He was brought up on his fath- er's farm, receiving the limited echicatimi oli- tained at the country school. At the ap' <,i fourteen he entered the military school of Cap- tain Alden Partridge, then located at Middle- town, Conn., subsequently accompanying the school on its removal to Gpornetown, in the District of Columbia. In July, isi"). hr ..ntered West Point, by the appointnu'iil of I'rcsident .Tackson, from which institution lie graduated with distinction in 1834, and was assigned to the Seventh U. S. Infantry, as Brevet Second Lieutenant, July 1 , 1 S:U ; promoted to Second Lieutenant on the :;ist of Dcromlier following. Previous to joiuiiiL' his n-iiiit-nt he was as- signed to topograpliiral duty under Major Wm. (i. ^liNril, and assisted in the survey of the harlior of .\pala( hicola, Florida. During the suniuirrs of ls:;ri and 1836, he was engaged, uniler Col. Stephen H. Long, upon surveys in the State of Maine ; first on the coast and then on a contemplated line of railway between Bel- fast and Quebec, Canada. He was promoted First Lieutenant January 19, 1837, when he joincil his regiment, shortly after receiving the appointmentof AidtoCien. Matthew Arbuckle, then in command of the Dei)artment of the South- West. He was also ma.lc Assistant Ad- jutant General, which position he Ijel.l f,,i- sev- eral years, retaining it after < ieneral Ta\lor as- sumed command, and until relieved by Col. Bliss, the General's son-in-law. His regiment was then, the spring of 1842, serving in Florida, and thillii-i- he immediately repaired. At the loni Insion of the Florida war, his regiment was dctailcil for duty in garrisoning posts on the Gidf of Rlexico, and he was stationed at Fort Pike, Louisiana, where he remained during the years 1842 and 1843, transacting, in addition to the duties of his position in his company, those of commissary and quartermaster to the Post. When his turn came for being detailed on re- cruiting service, he was ordered to Syracuse, New York, and was engaged in that duty until the breaking out of the war with Mexico. On his arrival in the field, he was immediately as- signed as assistant commissary and quarter- master at Matiimoras. During the year 1847 he remained at that point, but on receiving his commission as Captain, to date from February 16, 1847, he rejoined his regiment, then under Scott on the way to the Mexican Capital, and distinguished himself at the battle of Huaman- tla, on the 9th of October, that year. At the close of the war he was stationed at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, a portion of his regiment, including his own company, having been ordered to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, on special duty. In 1849 and 1850, he was sent to Florida, owing to the hostile attitude of the Seminole Indians. In 1850, he was stationed at Fort Leavenworth, and while there received a severe injury, which for a time placed his life in a critical condition, and from the effects of which he never fully recovered. Lame, and • was, in the year 1851, ordered '• nii-\ Ivauia, on recruiting ser- il loni d there he so far recovered t,liu duties of active service, and Ai laickle upon -oon afterwards on crutches to Potts vi 1 1. vice. Wliili as to attend was sent to the comman. the frontier. His regime ordered to Utah. Here he reniaiuc'd four years. During the years 1858 and 1859, he was station- ed at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, and at New- FIELD AXD POST- ROOM. port Barracks, Kentucky, but unable thr.ui-h the disability referred to, to perforin the active duties required of him, Capt. Simmons snu.tilit and obtained a furlough, and joined his family- at Harrisburg. He was here when the slave-holilers' riO]el- lion commenced; and when the lirst lall was made for troops, Capt. Simmons was made mustering officer for the Pennsylvania Volun- teers. To him more is due than has geneially been given credit for, the organization, the dis- cipline, and the efficiency of that notable body of volunteers, the Pennsylvania Reserves. From April to June, 18G1, notwithstanding the physical infirmity from which he suflered, he labored most assiduously, and such was tlie high appreciation in which he was held by the men of that brave organization, that he could have had the command of any one regiment. That of the Fifth was unanimously tendered him, although personally unknown to any of the officers of that body. His commission as Colonel bears date June 21, isiil. Colonel Simmons' first service was tuniurcli, in connection with the celelirated "ISncktail" regiment and some artillery, to the support of General Wallace in West Virginia, and thence to Washington City, where he drilled his com- ^ mand and prepared it for service in the divi- sion (Gen. McCall's.) During the remainder of 1861, he continued at the National Capital, engage'. P. Willi.s, in writing from the camps of the army around Washington City, said: "I had never before thought that water could embellish a soldier. As we sat in our hack, at the outer edge of the encampments, watching an incip- ient rainbow, and rejoicing in the prospect of holding-up, a general officer rode past with his aid and orderly, on the return to his tent just beyond. Of a most warlike cast of feature ; his profuse and slightly grizzly beard was impearl- ed with glistening drops, and with horse and accoutrements all dripping with water, he rode calmly through the heavy rain like a Triton taking his leisure in his native element. It was the finest of countenances and the best of figures for a horseman. He looked indomita- ble in spirit, but unsubject also to the common inconveniences of humanitj' — as handsome and brave when tired and wet, as he would be when luipi>y and dry ! I was quite captivated with the ]>icture(if sncli a man, and did not wonder at the comment which was appended to the reply by a subaltern officer, of whom I inquiredbis name. 'General Simmons,' said he, 'a man whom any- body would be glad to serve under.' " On the nth of September he was promoted Major of the Fourtli Infantry, but preferred to ■eniain with the volunteer troops. Hepartici- lali'il in the action at Drainesville, Dec. 20, Isill. and until May of the year following his ■dinniand was performing guard duty on the )ran'.;e and Alexandria railroad, the subse- inent months on picket near Fredericksburg, \' a . I n the Seven Days' fight before Richmond lie took a decisive part, especially in the actions :itMecl.anicsvinean.l(;aines':\l"ill. At Charles leading the first brigade with true Spartan valor, he fell in the thickest of the fight. Gen. JlcCall, who was captured on the evening of the battle just spoken of, while reconnoitering, sent to Mrs. Simmons, the following account of her brave husband's death : ■'RlCnMOND, A'lRlilNI.V, "Toi!.\c(.l..1.er, 1SS2, an offi- cer in the Confederate servi<-e. Captain K. L. Lewis, of Pickens .■mnity, S. ('., wrote Mrs. . . . "It was on the :»th of June, 1862, in one of the fights around Richmond, that our brigade was called on to make a charge on a FIELD AND POST-ROOM. liattery of twelve i.ieres, i^upiinrte.l by a brigade frnm iViiiisylvaiiia, cduiuiiuuk'.l by Cul. .'f iiur ambulance corps, and had him carried to a vacant house near by. I took ofT his spur.s and sword, which he gave to me, placed him upon a bed, and gave him all the help I could. He asked me who was commanding the fight. I told him General Q. IT. Anderson. He said, "I know him. I was with him in the Mexican war." He then asked me to tell the General that he would like to see him. I conveyed the message to General Anderson, but he said he could not see him. The next day I called to see how Mr. Simmon.s was doing, but found him in a comatose state. He could not com- municate anything. AVhen I placed liim upon the bed, I noticed he hail mi a watch, 1 think a guard or chain made of hair, but il was gone. Some one had taken it. As I had to go out to the Malvern Hill fight, I saw no more of him, but made inquiries concerning him, and was told that he was carried to the field hospital, where he died. Dr. Gaston, our brigade sur- geon, took from his person three medals, one for services in the INIexican war, one from the State of Pennsylvania, and one from tlie United States for gallant services. Colonel Sims, our Adjutant General, said he took a pin from his shirt, marked with the letter "G." I presume it was a Masonic emblem. I gave the Colonel's sword to Gen. M. Jenkins. He was killed in the battle of the Wilderness on the 6th of May, ISiU, with it on. I presume his family have it." On the 3d of May, 1882, Dr. O. M. Doyle, ..f Toccoa, Georgia, in a letter to Mrs. Simmons, gives the following interesting information : . . . "At the time i.r the battle referred to, 1 was regimental surgeon, and with others of the brigade, in charge of the field hospital. I was told that Col. Simmons fell in front of our part of the line, and as our lim- advani'e.l he was taken U]> ami br.uiLihl tn the licld Ik.s- pital by my aml)uhiiice curps. lie was wound- ed by a minie ball, through the liver and lung, and died, I think, the second day. I treated hiiu in the best manner po.ssible under the cir- cumstances, and had him buried as decently as could be done there at such a time. He w-as reported by our officers as acting conspicuously brave on that saiii:uinary field, as being the cause, in their ..|,ini.ui, nt that part nf the Fed- eral line standiiinas Imiii asit di.l. That report did much towards stiniuliil in- a jk alcr desire on our part to do all llmi \\:i< |i^.-siliie for a brave butfallen foe. 1!( im. ,|i:iili lie thanked us sincerely for our attentions. He gave to some one of our party, (I do not recollect in whose hand he placed them,) a gold watch, a picture of his wife, and I think $60 in gold coin, with the request that the watch and picture, (I do not think he included the coin,) be sent to his wife. I have no knowledge or recollec- tion of a masonic pin or badge. If I had seen one, I am sure I would recollect it from my as- sociation with the order. These articles were placed in possession of Dr. Gaston, our brigade surgeon, (now dead,) with the request made by Col. Simmons, (coin and all.) A few days after this occurrence there was a Federal sur- geon at our quarters, temporarily in our lines. We were all together, this surgeon. Dr. Gaston and myself. J^r. Gaston told me that he had turned those articles of Col. Simmons over to this surgeon, to be sent to hi^ widow. I sup- pose I heard the name of the Federal surgeon wlien I met him, but I have no recollection of what it was. Such is a hasty account of what I know of your husband's death." . . . The foregoing is all the information gained concerniu'-; that intre|iid officer. No braver man drewasw'.id in defence of the Union. No no- bler life was sa. liliee.l in that fratricidal strife. Strict in discipline, amounting to sternness, he had a generous spirit. His face presented or- dinarily a calm and benevolent expression, but when excited every feature seemed to flash fire. He had a big heart, and was as grandly lenient as he was severely rigid. In person he was nearly six feet in hei,ght, of stroiii;- and robust frame, florid complexion, brown hair, lieavy beard, and light blue eyes. Col. Simmons married in August, 1834, El- iiiira Adelaide Simmons, of Harrisburg, Pa., who, with a daughter to comfort her in her FIELD AND POST-ROOM. widowhood. siirviviMl tlie (U'utli of licr distin- guished husband. The first portiun of this arti- cle had already gone to press, when there came the sad news of the sudden decease of her whom the members of the Grand Army of the Republic had eminent cause to hold in grate- ful esteem. Mrs. Simmons was born on the 2d of January, 1808, and died on Saturday, Feb- ruary 6, 1886, having entered upon the 79th year of her age. As woman, wife and mother, slu- had I'lw s\i]ieriors. Tho.se W'ho know her lust apinci iui.il her goodness and nobleness of licait : ail. I thr citizens of Harri.sburg, through her Ions years of widuvvhood, honored and re- vered lier, not alone as the relict of a gallant soldier who lost his life in defence of the Union, l)Ut for her services in the camp and hospital during the darkest hours of the fratricidal strife ; for her devotion to the wearied soldier "going home from the war," and for an unostentatious charity, which will preserve her memory green in the hearts of many long after all that was mortal of her has crumbled into dust. Being a member of St. Stephen's Protestant Episcopal Church, the funeral services were ■ conducted at the late residence of the deceased on Tues- day afternoon by her Rector, the Rev. R. J. Keeling, D. D., assisted by the Rev. Leroy F. Baker. Dr. Keeling paid a loving tribute to her life and services ; but no word of ours can convey the impressiveness of the sad occasion. The family vault being at Pottsville, the re- mains were removed to that city on AVednes- day morning for interment. Post No. 116, G. A. R., acting as a military escort. The citizens who served as pall bearers were Messrs. John B. Cox, A. O. Hiester, Hamilton Alricks, and William K. Verloeke ; they accompanied the body to Pottsville. The Post's guard of honor were John Harvey, Henry Wolhaver, Jacob Reese, B. Kemerer, Frank Mathers and Chas. C. Davis. Over seventy members of Post No. 116, in addition to Mayor Wilson and a num- ber of other citizens of Harrisburg, accompa- nied the remains. On the arrival of the train at Pottsville, the funeral cortege was met by Edward Gowen Post No. 2.3. The procession then formed and marched to the cemetery, on entering which the Rev. Dr. Powers of Pottsville, repeated the impressive burial service of the church, after which the G. A. R. services were held. Com- rade J. R. Cockley advanced to the open grave, deposited a wreath and said: "A wreath to the memory of her whose devotion to this Post ended only in death." Comrade J. D. Saltz- man deposited a rose, wdth the beautiful sen- timent: "I offer this rose as a tribute of re- sjiect in belialf of Pest No. 116. (i. A. K., in memory of one whom we all loved." Comrade George W. Adams, dropping a sprig of laurel on the coffin lid, said : "A last token of affec- tion from the comrades of Post No. 116 to their esteemed friend, Mrs. Colonel Seneca G. Sim- mons — I crown the remains with the symbol of vfctory." And this was the close of a .sad duty, while the comrades turned away with sorrow- ing hearts. Long will they cherish the loving memory of Mrs. Simmons, who has passed to her great reward. The daughter of the veter- ans has the heartfelt sympathy of every Grand Ariiiv man who knew her father's bravery or mother's devi.tinn. The comrades of Edward Gowen Post No. 23, at Pottsville, have greatly endeared themselves to the comrades of Harrisburg for the kindly hospitality on the occasion of the funeral of the late Mrs. Simmons. The words of thanks ut- tered by Mayor Wilson, of this city, were but the echo of the fraternal gratitude of the com- rades wliiiin he accompanied. Post 116.— The biographical sketch of the brave and chivalric Col. Seneca G. Simmons will no doubt be appreciated by every member of that body. When it was deemed proper to organize a second G. A. R. Post at Harrisburg, it was named in memory of him. Col. Seneca G. Simmons Post No. 116, Department of Penn- sylvania, G.A. R., was chartered February 28, 1879. It is one of the most flourishing Posts in the Department, and its present membership, in good standing, is 237. It deserves the .suc- cess it has met with, and the officers are to be congratulated. A LEAF FROM HISTORY. Wlien the disputes, removals and appoint- ments, and what is known generally as " mon- keying" with the commanders of the Army of the Potomac, is considered, the fact that it cohered as an organization through the war is little short of the miraculous. The trouble seemed to arise from the demand that that army should "do" something, whether it was in condition or not. In less than two weeks after his costly and useless attempt to cross the Rappahannock at ■ Fredericksburg General Burnside decided to try it seven miles further down. Generals Cochrane and Newton departed at once for Washington to remonstrate against it as dangerous, in the dispirited temper of the army. They were admitted without trouble to the presence of Mr. Lincoln. General New- FIELD AND POST-ROOM. ton, since distinguished for Hell Gate, spoke, urging tlic the President showed somr that it was a movement to su Newton and Cochrane both (Tiitions at s. at which 1. thinking ' r.iunside. ted against this view, declaring only that the movement was very dangerous and might involve the ex- istence of the whole army and the nation itself. They only wanted the Prcsidnit should inves- tigate for himself. Finally an understanding was had. Lin- coln thanked them for coming and telegraphed Burnside to make no general movement with- out letting him know. General Burnside was surprised and at once went to Washington to see the President, who informed him that some general ofTiccrs of the Army of the Potomac, whose names ho declined giving, had protested against any general movement because the army was demoralized. Burnside was amazed at this feeling in his army which was known to every one but himself, and demanded tliat these officers should be dismissed, which Lin- coln declined doing. Burnside went back to the army, but his plans having thus become known he requested authority to make another, promising to take the sole responsibility. Halleck, General-in- C'lnef , announced himself in favor of a forward nKjvement, but would not take the responsi- bility of ordering one. Burnside, therefore, decided to make one on his own responsibility. When everything was ready a storm of rain came on, converting everything into mud, in which all the pontoon wagons and guns \\ ei-e so badly stuck that neither men nor animals could move them. Lee discovered the movement and massed his army to prevent the crossing. The enemy cried out to the toiling Federal soldiers : "Say, Yanks ! we'll be over in the morning and haul your guns out of the mud /or you;" "We'll build you bridges and escort you over," etc. But the more tenacious the mud, the more tenacious was Burnside, and he determined to cross the river in such pontoons as he had, in the very face of Lee's army. Hooker and other generals protested so vigorously that Burn- side finally abandoned it, but ordered General Hooker's and General Brooks' dismissal from the service for unjust and unnecessary criti- cisms of their superior officers, and by the gen- eral tonf of their conversation creating distrust in the minds .if llii'ir assmiatrs ; also Generals fochrancand N.wton. 1 Ir als., relieved Gen- eral Franklin, General " I'.aldy " Smith, and other officers, from duty. Burnside handed these orders to President Lincoln togetlior with liis own resignation, giv- ing to the President the alternative of approv- ing these orders or accepting his resignation. Mr. Lincoln, after consultation with his ad- visers, told Burnside that with the best and kindest feeling toward him he was compelled to relieve him and place General Hooker in command. Burnside, who expected this to be the out- come, urged the acceptance of his resignation. Lincoln said he could not do that, and it was finally arranged that Burnside should have thirty days' leave of absence. Another hitch occurred because Burnside was announced as relieved ' ' at his own request. ' ' He was indig- nant and again insisted on the acceptance cif his resignation, but by the persuasion of his friends was finally induced to recall it. Hooker took his place, but in about tliire months ended his caiccr at ( 'liancclli)rsville, and was succee.li-d by .\bMdc. In view of this misiiandlinK of the Ai-m>- of the Potomac, Mr. W. H. Mills, who has re- cently reviewed these events in the American Magazine of history, pays the following tribute to its virtues and its cnclurance : "Victims of swaiiij. and I Nphus fevers; baf- fled time and aj^aiu by lloc.d ; liattling at every disadvantage with the Hower of the enemy ; long denied a victory ; matured plans jeopar- dized ; fighting all day, marching all night ; ad- vancin.i;' until tln-y saw llic s|.ir<-s of rjclniiond, thenbarK a-aii, Nnlliiiisii^lil of ll„. «|ii(r,l ,. of the nation's Caial..!; i,.'\ or rlatrd by \ i.-lory or deprrssid by defeat; disaster following dis- aster, but buoyant to the close — until at Appo- mattox that -rand army of the Republic wore its crown just bel'ore that other grand army of the Republic under 1 ho L^roai Hanker,' General William T. Sherman, ailer ils march from 'At- lanta to the sea,' was reaily to appear upon the scene and divide its honors." Considering that nearly 225,000 were killed, wounded or captured, to say nothing of those who died of gun-shot wounds and disease, it is easy to understand why so large a part of the pension roll is devoted to the Army of the Po- tomac. A queer relic is a Confederate musket, in the barrel of which two bullets met, splitting the barrel open like a banana-peel. The bullets . can be seen. The rebel bullet had got about one-third of the way out when it met the pry- ing Yankee bullet on its way in, and then there was trouble at once. Of course the Yankee bullet had no business in there, or at least it should have waited until the other got out. FIELD AND POST-EOOM AN INCIDENT OF THE WAR. The subject of this sketch, (ieo. B. Buzzes, only son of David B. and Kliza M. Buzzee, of the city of New Brunswick, State of New Jer- sey, who entered the army. May 28th, 18(il, having just reached his eighteenth year, de- serves some mention of the service done his c.iuutry during tlic late rebellion. Whc II tlie call for troops was made, he man- ifested a great desire to give his services to his country, and but for the earnest opposition of his parents would have enlisted some time ear- lier than he did. It was not long, however, before his patriotic feelings became stronger than his love of home, and without his parents knowledge or consent, he enlisted as a drum- mer in company G, First New Jersey Volun- teers, which Capt. Alexander M. Way was then recruiting, and was sworn into the United States service at Trenton, before his parents were in- formed that lie had fully determined to go. As . soon as the facts became known to them, they visited the boy and kindly reasoned with liim as to the impropriety of his conduct, and the in- expediency of his course, being so young and inexperienicd, mid promised if he would agree to it to pr.iiin-.' his i-elease. All efforts to in- duce him tnchungc his nnnd proving futile, his parents reluctantly withdrew tln^ir nbjrctions, and endeavored to comfort and sticniithen him in the discharge of his duty. lie j.assed safely through the marches and liafllcs, bc-iiining at the first battle of Bull liun, .1 ul>' L'l . isid , until the battle in the Wilderness. May .">, isi;4, when he was taken prisoner, with inuny of Ins com- rades, and hurriedly carried to the Kchcl prison at Anderson ville, Ga., wliere lie was kept until the 12th of the following September, at which time he was taken to another prison pen at Flo- rence, S. C, and from which he, along with many more, on the 17th of September, escaped, for the purpose of getting back to the Union lines. After traveling several days and nights tlirou'.;h tlir wooils ami swamps of that region, liis fiTt licranifcxtri-nicly sore and his strength so greatly cxliaiistrd that he gave himself up to a rebel farmer, and was returned to his mis- erable captivity. The poisonous briers and mud of the swamps caused gangrene in his feet, which was soon followed by dumb palsy, and chronic bronchitis, and the combined eflfects, with tlie liad treatment received from the rebel prison keepers, soon ended his life. He was taken to the gangrene liospital, being almost helpless at the time of his arrival there. The hospital for our men was a shed similar to those used in brick yards in this locality, being built witliout any ends or side. Under this shed we drove forked sticks in the ground, about one foot long, and on them placeii tlie night before his execution he died on his blankets. He was in the full vigor of years and health, liaving a hearty appetite, and his death has ever remained a mysteiy. There was no wound of any sort on the body, and of tlie five surgeons summoned to investigate, all were certain that he did not take jMiison of any sort. After play- ing on his fiddle for half an hour he lay down on the blankets with the remark that it was his last night to sleep. A guard sat within ten feet of liim, and saw him apparently fall into a slum- lier, but two hours later he was dead. BATTLE PANICS. The slightest cause has led to gravest results in battles. Let a battery ehaime position with a rush, running through a brigade, and those men must be handled firmly to prevent a fall- ing back. Caissons in search of ammunition have stampeded regiments time and again. Let one regiment fall back hastily to secure a new position, and it is a cool line of veterans indeed which will ojjen to let the men pass, and then close up firmly after them. It is not the fear of being killed that unnerves a man fight- ing in the ranks. Men who have fired seventy- five rounds at close laieje have been afterwards stampeded by the leai oi being surrounded and captured. With \eieiaii lighters the fear of being made a prisoner is perhaps stronger than that of death itself. A man falling dead as a line advances produces no consternation. The gap is closed as quick as the men on either side can move up. But, let a man be wounded and call out at the top of his voice, as was some- times the case, and a sort of quiver runs up and down his whole company. Let a second and third be hit, and it requires the stern "Steady, men !" of the captain to prevent disorder in the ranks. The teamsters were the direct cause of more than one panic . Being non-combatants and un- armed, they were, of course, helpless, and for this same reason easily frightened. Let one single shell fall among the wagon train, and nine out of ten wagons were bound to move. If one teamster abandoned his wagon others were certain to follow his example, no matter how slight the danger.— >V/(/, Vnrt ni,<\ ri,,t. SHE GAVE IN AT LAST. his colonels left a young wife behind. She was from South Carolina, and a thorough Yankee hater. She was at first comfortably provided with provisions, but as tlie days went bv and slie divided with this neigliboV and that, her stork ran low. She tinally had nothing left but corn meal and dried jieas, and one night a ser- vant girl stole all the meal . Other women were appealing to the Federals, but this one deter- mined to die first. She had pea soup, pea imd- ding, and peas cooked in various shajies, and when the peas gave out she gave a negro a dol- lar to cut her a steak from a mule which had fallen dead in a field across the way. She had made up her mind to brave it through, but the FIELD AND POST-ROOM. STONEWALL JACKSON. About daylight upon the Sunday of his death Mrs. Jackson informed him that his recovery was very doubtful, and that it was better that he should be prepared for the worst. He was silent for a moment and then said : "It will be infinite gain to be translated to Heaven." He advised his wife, in the event of bis death, to return to her father's house, and added : " You have a kind and good father, but there is no one sn kind and ^jond as your Heavenly Father." He stiil exi.res.sed a hope that lie w.-uld re- cover, but requested his wife, in case he should die, to have him buried in Lexington, in the valley of Virginia. His exhaustion increased so rapidly that at 11 o'clock Mrs. Jackson knelt by his bed and told him that before the|sun went down he would be with his Saviour. He replied : "(). no! You arc frightened, my child. Di'utli is unt so near. I may yet get well." She fell upon the bed weeping bitterly, and again told him, amid her tears and sobs, that the physicians declared that there was no longer any hope of his recovery. After a inciment's pause he asked her to call the family jiliysi- cian. "Doctor," he said, as the physician entereil the room, "Anna informed me that you have told her I am to die to-day. Is it so?" When he was answered in the affirmative, he turned his sunken eyes toward the ceiling and gazed for a moment or two as if in intense thought, then looked at the friends about him and said softly : "Very good, very good; it is all right." Then turning to his heart broken wife he tried to comfort her. He told her that there was much he desired to tell her, but that he was too weak for the undertaking. Col. Pendleton, one of the officers of his staff", came into the room about 1 o'clock. Gen. Jack- son asked him ; " Who is preaching at the headcpiartcrs to- day?" When told in reply that the whole army was praying for him, he replied : "Thank God! they are very kind." Then he added : " It is the Lord's day; my wish is fulfilled. I have alwa_vs desired to die on Sun- day." Slowly his mind began to fail and wander, and he frequently talked in his delirium as if in command of his army on the field of battle. He would give orders to his aides in his old way, and then the scene was changed. He was at the mess table in conversation with mem- bers of his Stat}-; now with his wife and child; now at prayers with his military family. Oc- casional intervals of a return of his mind would appear, and during one of them the physician ofl'ered the dying man some brandy and water, but he declined it, saying : " It will only delay my departure and do no good ; I want to preserve my mind to the last, if possible." A few moments before the end arrived the dying warrior cried out in his delirium : " Order A. P. Hill to prepare for action!" ' ' Pass the infantry to the front rapidly ! " ' 'Tell Maj. Hawks ." then his voice was silent and the sentence remained unfinished. An instant later a smile of ineffable sweet- ness and purity spread itself over his calm, pale face, and then looking upward, and slightly raising his hands, he said quietly and with an expression of relief : " Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees." And then without sign of struggle or of pain his spirit passed away. Was death ever so sweet and peaceful ? Was ever rest so antici- pated or Heaven so revealed? AT APPOMATTOX. While Generals Grant and Lee were in con- ference, arranging the conditions of the latter's surrender. Ward's battery from Mississippi oc- cupied such an advanced position in the Con- federate line as not to know what was going on at army headquai-ters, and having received no orders to cease firing, consequently its guns were opened upon the Federals whenever they were in sight or range, notwithstanding the latter called to them to cease firing, and, also, waved hankerchiefs at them. The officers of till' battery thought it quite strange that firing IkuI ccascil everywhere else, and, after a con- sultatinn, dispatched Lieut. T. to Maj. Pogue, who comnuinded the battalion of artillery, for orders. As the Lieutenant rode along he no- ticed an unusual number of blue coats within the lines, and saw groups of Confederate and I'ederal officers in conversation, and said " the thought took possession of him that the Con- federates had won the day and captured a ter- rible big lot of prisoners." Finally, he reached Maj. Pogue's tent, and, after saluting him, an- nounced that "his battery had cleaned out the enemy in its front, and that the Captain was waiting instructions to move further to the front, and had sent him for orders." " Orders !" exclaimed the Major, " why ! the jigs up!" FIELD AND POST-ROOM. "It is?" said tiK' Liuutfiiaiit. "Yes! the surrender occurred uiure tliaii an hour ago," continued the Major, but before he could finish the Lieutenant wheeled his horse, and, giving a big hurrah, stuck his spurs to him and went dashing back to his comrades. As he reached them he whooped and yelled louder than ever. "Hurrah ! boys the jigs up. We've scooped 'em in. Old Grant's surrendered to ]Marse Bob, and his fellows and our fellows are all up the road there a-shaking hands and a- swapping greenbacks and Confed. money for war relics. I swear it's a fact. I saw it with my own eyes, and Maj. Pogue told me so." About that time the Major came galloping ui>, and the Lieutenant exclaimed : "There he comes now. He'll tell you all about it." But before the Major could speak the Lieutenant asked : ' ' Hasn't the surrender taken place, Major?" "Yes," he said, and again the Ijicutcnaut whooped and yelled : "I told you so. Hurrah for our side !" and the officers and men joined in and yelled till tlieir throats were sore. All this time the Major, who was still in his saddle, was trying to get in a word or two, but all in vain. Great tears were coursing down his checks, and when the Lieutenant noticed this he called out : "By granny, boys, the news is so good, see, the Major is actually crying." At last there was a lldl, when the Captain remarked : "Tell us all tlie particulars. Major." The Major, with some effort, and in a husky voice, complied ; but when he told them Gen. Lee had 'surrendered to Gen. Grant, his eyes were not the only ones that were filled with tears. The Lieutenant looked confounded, then bursting into tears, said : "Well, boys, I don't believe it was ever in- tended for us to win." ARMY JOKES. Every old soldier knows how a good joke dis- pelled the blues and waked up some corner of the camp. One or two of these rise up before me and demand recognition. When the Twentieth Ohio infantry entered Camp Chase not a few of them were up to any game that promised fun. One day a tall, awk- ward looking specimen, came to camp as a new recruit. The boys soon found out he was as lie looked. They asked him if he had been mustered in and he answered, " No." "Tin " the sooner You cannot said OIK- nf tin you are mustered in the 1 draw pay till you are." "Well, lam readv, but I don't know what todo." -r.oys," said the wa-(,f the crowd, '■Irfs muster him." A messenger was sent to the Hospital Stew- ard for some mustard for a sick man. The re- cruit was taken to an empty shanty, a large mustard plaster api.lied to his chest, and he was re(iuii'cil to lie still until it would draw. After ten minutes he began to wiggle, and ex- claimed, "By Jove, boys, this bites." " Pshaw," said one, " we've all been there." Ten minutes later he ycHcd, "Fellows, this burns like h — ades." "Oh," said one fellow, "ten minutes more ; don't be a baby." The thirty minutes elapsed ami the jioor fel- low got up and walked about with the air of a conqueror. He was a soldiir anyhow. In a few days he saw the joke, and no one haiLdied louder than he. Poor fellow, in the liattlc of liaymond, :\nss., the end of his tongue was shot oil', it was said by the boys, while indulgingin some tall swear- ing. When the Twentieth reached Fort Gilison, Miss., some of the boys entered a deserted bank. Here they found a pile of notes or bills of various denominations wliieh had never been signed. They to, Post 28, G. A. R., riiicAGi When the loug roll has sounded my last long alarn "When the spirit and body shall part, When my name has heen called and "at rest" returi With my hand folded over my heart. W'hen no more shall the reveille wake with the da And calfme from labor to rest. Then bury me like a soldier should be. With my beautiful badge on my breast. Tnflic flagal myb.v.M .■..uiiiiy'- mil. In life 'twas the emblem of loyalty, truth. And eharity— sweetest and best. Then bury me when the last summons shall W'ith my beautiful badge on my breast. 'Tis a badge that no traitor breast ever can w 'Tis an emblem of loyalty true, 'Tis a broad shield of brotherhood, spotless ■■ The beautiful red, white and blue. 'Tis an emblem that monarcbs ean never bei Of all emblems the bravest and best. And so I desire that I take my last sleep. With my beautiful badge on my breast. Audi L the grand ] uster on that brighter si ur great final review, It will shine on to show that my heart ever To my country and flag ever true. 'Twill be a prized emblem to show in that li The beautiful land of the blest. Then bury me when my last "tattoo" shall i With my beautiful badge on my breast. HISTORY OF POST No. 58, G. A. R. In the Spring of ]. Post proceeded to the clc Col. nth P. R. V. c Benj. p. Thompson, LstLt.Co. A,51stPa.Vols Henry Souher, Samuel Hafkley", sfLt.Co. K.20r.tbPa.Vols 1 resulted in the choice of R. A. M'Coy , ! installed into office ; the election of • officers was postponed for the present. FIELD AND POST-BOOM. William Kuhn, A. K. Kulin, William H. E-le, .Inlm S. Ih'tWcil.'l-, Cliaih'sC. Davis, E. (1. Sava.-c, Jlartiu J. Kupp. The acting Adjutant, ii-o. W. S1mi..i., rc|M.rt- ed the sum of -tll.T."! in The meeting adjnniiK d t.inuTt inU.eotiice of the Auditor General,. nFri. lay evening, June 7, but no record is mad ■ cif a meeting at tha.t time. June 11, /.sv;7,— ('..mn an.lrr K. .\. .MX'.iyin the cliair. But U■^^■ m, ml.rrs present. After reading; the nunntrs..lt lelast muster the Tost closed. Jaw IS, /.W7.— Cnmmand.-r K. .\. ^rc'c.y in the cliair. But few mcmlnTs prrsi-nf. The following recruit was mustered ; Martin J. Rupp, 2d Lieut Co. I, 'iStli r.i. Vols. /unf 25, 7567.— Commander K. .V. [Nl'Cny in the chair. The following were projinsi'd Uiy mcmlier- ship : J. Geiger Ingram, Tlieo \. Gardner, (ieorge L. AValter, Joseph Liness, Michael Forney, Henry Boyle, William Dunlevy, William Elser, Samuel G. Greene. The following recruits were mustcrc.l : J.vcoB H. Saxto, a. K. Ki ]i.v. Adjutant olst Pa. Vols. Capt. Co. D, !i:!d Pa. Vols. Comrade John T. Boyle called attention to the cases of several soldiers residing in the city, who were in necessitous circumstances, and suiiLii'sted that the Post endeavor to obtain em- ]]loymeut for them, or achnission to a National Home. No action taken. Receipts, $2.00. Jiihi 2, ;,W7.— ('(iniii W. W. i-r K. A. M'C The following named recruit was nuistere W. W. Jennings, Col. 127th Pa. VoLs. A bill of .$21.67 was presented for rent ai services of janitor ; it appears that this sum c ceeded the amount in the treasury, as an (ird was drawn authorizing its payment when t ((uartermaster had received sufficient means do so. The following were chosen oflicers fi.r the c suing six months : Commander — R. A. JM'Coy. Senior Vice Commander— W. W. Jenning Junior Vice Commander- Geo. W. Davis. Adjn ant— (iccrgc W. S (^lar crmastcr— .\. K. K The IcctidU.if a Cliaph stl">i cil fur the iircscnt. The cceijits were .$4.1)0. /"/// /, 7,w;.— Comniani is f.l and Surgeon was L'r K. A. M'Coy in i-e.l Jac.,1, ^h•ese, L. .M. Hicks, James N. Bluudin, (llivcr B. Y.ider, Samuel Hamilton, T. V . Zimmerman, Joseph K. Long. The fdllnwing recruits were presented for isti r.. v. J. Geiger Ingkai Priv. Co. I, 77th 1 Samuel Hamilto: .Iac.ih Meese, 1st l.t. (_'o. F, 45th P. V. • iEiiHGE L. Walter, I'riv. Co. B, 127th P. V. L. M. Hicks, Priv. Co. F, 10th P. R. V. C. Com. Sgt. 54th P. V. James N. Blundin, Theo. A. Gardner, 1st Lt. Co. B, 4th P. R. V. C. Sgt. Co. B, 87th P. V. Ciipt. Co. B, 213th P. V. Ciimrades Lane S. Hart and John T. Boyle were chosen as representatives to the depart- ment encampment, which convened at Phila- delphia, July 17th. After the settlement of the accounts of the Quartermaster, (which show an indebtedness to him of ninety-four cents,) the Post closed. Julij 1(1, i56~.— Commander R. A. M'Coy in the chair. The following applications were read and the candidates balloted for ami electcil to mcmlier- ship : George F. M'Farland, Benj. Brightbill, John E. Parsons, O. B. Simmons, Thos. Birmingham. There were mustered into the Post at this meeting : George F. M'Farland, Benj. Brightbill, Col. 151st P. V. Sgt. Co. D, Pith P. R. V. C. John E. Parsons, O. B. Simmons, Col. ]X7th P. V. 1st U. Co. D, 46th P. V. CiiAs. T. Speakman, Hiram D. Dasher, (•..rp. Co. I, isth P. V. 1st Lt. Co. D, 93d P. V. The (.Quartermaster reported the sum of $.3.06 in the Post fimd. Few, if any, men served in the late war dur- ing an extended period, without incurring some detriment to their health. For this reason it requires no great strain of sympathy to show that while disabilities may not be directly trace- able to the service, they are indirectly the re- sults of that service and of the seeds of disease and deliilitv sown at that time. FIELD AND POST-ROOM. Casualties in Pennsylvania Reg-iments during- the Rebellion. Cum piled from the Muster-out Rolls, as given in Bates' Histori/. TWENTY-SIXTH REGIMENT. llffieers. Men. Killed in action 5 9S Died of wounds received 1 30 Died from other causes 2 43 Died as prisoners of war 14 Discharged for wounds received .... 10 Discharged on surgeon's certificate, 5 2.i3 Discharged for various causes . . 7 10 Absent in hospital, at muster out, 1 24 Resigned 1*1 Transferred !' 3s;) Deserted -'4(1 Dishonorably discharged . . . ■ . 3 3 Not accountcil for 34 Mustered o\it with regiment ... 27 2(i3 Entire strength 70 1417 Wounded in action 15 116 Taken prisoners 1 H Mustered into service. May 25, ISOI . Discharged June 18, 1864. Term of service, 3 years, 23 days. This re'giment was organized soon after the election of President Lineoln, in 1860. In the latter part of Jan- uary, isiil, its services were tendered to the government, but believing that pacific counsels would prevail, the offer was declined by the President. When the "Star of the West" was fired upon, it was ordered to report at Washington. On the evening of April 18, it left Phila- delphia, unarmed, and was attacked by a mob in Balti- more, and compelled to return; losing one killed and several wounded. It was then accepted for the three months service but not mustered, and was finally mus- tei%d into the service for three years, being the first regi- ment from Pennsylvania for that term. In the month of February, 1862, a beautiful silk flag was presented to the regiment by Mrs. McCrellish and Mrs. Wm. A. Woodward, of San Francisco, formerly of Philadelphia. A singular fact is connected with the fate of this flag. After having been carried two years, on its return, blood-stained and tattered, to its fair donors, it was on board the Ariel when that vessel was captured by the rebel privateer Alabama. The flag was secured in the bosom of a passenger and escaped detection. During the operations at Mine Run, an ofBeer of an- other regiment was wounded, and the bearers of a stretcher belonging to the Twenty-sixth started to carry him from the field. They had not gone far when a round shot from the enemy's battery struck the bear- ers, taking off the head of one and the ear of another; the stretcher dropped, and the ludicrous part of the story is, that the ofttcer jumped up and ran away to- wards the rear at a high rate of speed, to the surprise of those around. In the engagement in the Wilderness, on the 4th of May, ISM. private (Jhristian Snyder, of company F, was shot in the back, the spinal column being fractured. His last words were, "I do not care to die, but the Flag, the Flag." Benj. F. Thomas, private company F, was wounded six times during his term of service, namely: in the battles at Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, Second Bull Run. Chaucellorsville, Gettysburg, and Mine Run, and was finally mustered out with his company. TWENTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT. \)\r.\ . .Is IV, , ivrd 1 29 Hir.l lV,i;i,oll,rl-,'all-rs 37 ni,-.l as i.iisniuTsnlwar 17 Disc barged for various causes . . 3 .33 Dishnnorably discharged 2 5 KrsiVrned 31 . . Discharged on surgeon's certificate, 4 225 ^Mustered out with regiment ... 27 365 Transferred 2 204 Discharged for wounds received . 2 Ab.seut in arrest, at muster out .... 3 Absent in hospital, at muster out, . . 10 * Ndt aci-ounted for ,12 Missing in action, 11 Entire strength 76 124,s Wounded in action 1 5 Taken prisoners 1 10 Mustered into service, Jlay .'il , ISIil. Discharged June 11, 1S64. Term of service, 3 years, 11 days. The text of the history of this regiment contains the following; "At their muster out they numbered three hundred and thirty-six ofliicers and men. Of the ofB- eers who went out with the regiment, but one, a First Lieutenant, returned with it. now a Lieutenant Colonel, in command of the regiment; all of the other oflicers had been promoted from the ranks. Its original strength was one thousand and forty-six, and it received, at var- ious times, recruits and conscripts to the number of three hundred. Company F, numbering one hundred men, was detached for special duty at Washington, early in the war, and never again returned. Company G, hav- ing about eighty men, was transferred to the Sixty-ninth Pennsylvania. One hundred and fifty officers and men were killed in battle. Two hundred and fifty died from disease and wounds. Four hundred were wounded in action. One hundred and fifty (mostly conscriptsl de- serted: and two hundred and eighty were discharged for disability. In the engagement at Missionary Ridge, Lieutenant Colonel M'Aloon was carried off the field with five wounds, from the effects of whiih he .lir.l. The regi- ment advanced to the chiirf;.' I«" IiiiimIi..! „nd forty strong. Of this number, om- ..IIk .r aii'l iLify-tive men were killed, and six oflicer.s imd iml-Mv inni wounded. General Sherman, in his oflicinl report, says "they dis- played a courage almost amounting to rashness, follow- ing the enemy almost to the tunnel gorge." Field and Post-Room. ii.\i;i;isiui;(;. i-a,, maim'II. issc, ittcrsnn. [/■, Alter tlic rx >\hu- Watri-s, nii.l was .., tiolis uliirli v.,lin.lr,.iv,l GEN. J. P. S. GOBIN. lM.wnu.nMn.n,n,vi.r..,ni„rnlin,., y than Uu- I V|.arln,..|il r,„,,,,,aii A. i;., (icii..Iuliii I'. S.(.nl,ii,,an. ^,,1' the FlKI.I. AM> I'..si-l;.M,M wil pn^cialr the fnll..uin:j skclcli .>f tl I. .UN 1'. S. (i,>i:iN,iiairi.'.I forliis .•: In.iii - I e, and it was undoubtedly the prettiest pieee ..i fighting ever witnessed. I'. .11. 1, in bis .lesei ip- tion of this campai'jn. say^ the Nini'teeiith .\rmy Corps, in wliiili was tlie F(.rt\ -se\ eiith regiment, hadtbr-iwn up lin'ast-\\cirk>. \\hieli was not the ease. That iii-lit tlie le^lnieiit was the first t.. fellew tlie cavah\ , I Hi the retiiiu. Major (iobiii was placed in e..niiiiand ..f the regiment, deiii^ duty alnn;i tlie line nl the rail- fouglit Mosby all winter. In the early part of ISOo, Gen. Hancock came into the valley, organized tlie \'eteraii Corps, and the Forty-seventh was assigned toil. I'riur thereto, Major (ioliin was promoted, Novemlier 4, 1864, lieutenant colonel, and January .'!, 1SIJ5, colonel. When the spring campaiijtii opened. Col. Gobin, having been brevettcd lui'jadier general, March 13, 18(io. was placed in eimi- mand of the Second brigade. First di\isinn. of the Nineteenth Army Cerps. Wliil 1 the march, the news of Lee's siinender came, and the force returned. On the day ..I the assas- Wasli VI Jl While at Washington, the last u. martial of the Nineteenth \\\u\ (' dered. (uMieral (b.bin was mad. J. Franklin Fitts. the imvelist, l.ei vocate. TheForty-si-ventli regiment partieipat,-d in the (irand Review, and after it was .i\ei- was again ordered South. Gen. William hwii;l.t, in his order disbanding the division. 1;. (i. No. 15, Julv 20, ISGo,; says: ■'Witli satisfaction, I remind you that your line when formed by me, lias never been broken by the enemy, or driven back before his fire." Ordered at first to Sav- annah, subsequently toCharleston, Gen. Gobin was placed in command of that city, and at the same time made Provost Judge. All courts having been suspended, he was the only judi- cial ofiicer in that city during the re-construc- tion period. He was finally discharged on the ninth of January, 18l«). Returning hnme. ( ien. (iobin resumed the practice ..f the law at Leb- anon, where he resides. At the request of Gov. Geary, when the Na- tional Guard of the State was fir.st organized, he I a company, irmed into re .if the Eight lued until h ind i 74.' the Guard ■leeted col- which he n 1SS.'>, of Iter members of Po.st 42, and its ler. I ' nder the old organization. ,nuis Wagner was Department lie wa> the deputy for Lebanon SS.!. he was again chosen post and frequently represented his partnient Encampment. In 1885, ^ate at large to the National En- id in February, 18S(>, at Scrantuii, ment ami conspi .us. Ht has filled tlie position of Grand Commander of Masonic Knights Teiiiplari.flViinsylvania,an ■ ii^.i:;' •! » itij u « li....|, ami a >. ll, sentees, and ascertain who would ":.;'>." and ■ '" "" '"" |>'|"''~ ' "'■' -^'^ 'i-'' > i'' ■ to report at the armory on Monday niiniiiiiLr at ^,j,| ^j!^, |',j|^,,| |,|, j,,^. ^.,ii^,y „ ,,i, ,.„i.,|"!, ,,( ,|n^, ^|,i II) o'clock ; the subject of tlie sketch was .mc i>f lau lianl \va^ tlie tislit aiid inifertuin tliu chiy, the committee of live appointed for that pur- "itli H.nnl,uni ., .laarterof ,. mile «w,iy. l-ose. They reached Harrishur- nn Tuesday ,.,„ „,,,-,,„„,„„;,„ ,i,, ,„i..|,t ,.f ii,,. i,,-.,.,- ,,f v, niarnini."-, Aiiril 1(1, and in the afternoon uiari-h- .,,■.. ,,, , ~ ,,,., „ .,i ,r,ti, ti,. ,. in-r i.,>. tlic Urivinir Park, afterwards Caiiip oi- muster, l)Ut for militarv n'asons s>'r\iceas coniiiany V , l-'iist regiment I'ennsyl- still u e rut Mini ue shished. niid we swoiv .u.il we tirv vania volunteers, of which Comrade lirncke- -^"'1 "'• 'miv.-.I ii|. tin- fee till o\ir riimiTs were tiri-.i; miller was appointed second sergeant, and was " '"''' ,''"""' '|'''' l''-"" ^'^ ^^ """"''"I "'J'J'"^'^''' mustereii out of service July L'S, isiil. l;e- Hut ue iliu to tin- itju- at tin- iIdm- ni the ilav enlisted tis a |iri\ate in company 11, Seventy- W itli Uiinilaiui fuit.v-sovi-n inilrs away. wtismade liist lieuteiuiut, and (jii ( litohei- .S, ISli-' WIS commissi, med ca itain set- ' •■- ■ s JEFF. DAVIS AND GEX. THOMAS. such M,'!ui' nmsi!M.r'oi,t.'''\^-'aranached 't'o '-l Unow," said Mrs. (leneral Thomas, •'ll N,-h-v-s hri-ade and sent to the southwest. ' ieneral felt most keenly . especially durin-1 1 Served in the Fourteenth corj.s. early days ,.f the war, that !.,• was re-ard. Not- when he hccan.c a charter meml.ei- of Post l'lT, wopI and I l,on..ht. lie « as hon, i ,. at Marietta. ,S..rv..d one tern, as ser-eant nia- ton county. Va.. in ISKi. Nearly al XintI th: thon-h he had -ON |la\is was Ih. •n Se ■crel larv .. 1 Wt. '■•■'""' ^'^^'^^• ,lrv was ollicc •re of hy hi 1 hirll r licl,l,,tlic, :Col, aicl , .\lhe rt S> , Siaiior Maj <.r, \V..l .liar dee :'jum 111- .M: in l.ss,-.. aid-de-camp on the sttilf ol De- t'V''s uear.-r than consii meiit ('..mmtinder Curtin. uruiy." « s « The petailiarly delictite J. M. LOWRY, Thomas will ht' hetter i or N'icc lieparlmeut ('ommtindcr, is Ihe referen.-e to tlie facts, ll i-est of the new oHi,-ers. haviii- h.^en l.orn tial reor-aiii/.alion of the UK IStU, hein.irjust his service in the . nk lal, and served hot, it was known as ■•.MeClellan's stew." When pounded fine, nuxed in water, and then baked in cakes, it was called "Burnside pies." When burned to a crisp, boiled in water, and eaten with a spoon, it was "Potomac chowiler." A STRANGE CASE. During the many weeks that Early and Sher- idan faced each other along the Opequan, I was a high private in a Confederate infantry regi- ment. About two weeks previous to the battle which drove us beyond Winchester, my com- pany was ordered to the front to do picket duty along a certain line. Sheridan was even then becoming aggressive, and his pickets were push- ing us all along the front. At the spot where I relieved the old picket the Federals occupied a post not over ten rods away, and during the day time the conversation woidd run about as fol- lows : "Hello! Johnny !" "Hello! Yank!" "How long you going to be there?" "All winter." "Bet you ten to one!" "Why?" " 'Cause we're goingto drive you out in a few^ days ! Better get your knapsack packed !" " You be hanged !" "See if we don't do it !" I went on at ten o'clock at night, and my or- ders were very strict. It was starlight, and be- tween me and the Yankee picket was an open space — a portion of an old field. A dog couldn't cross it without being discovered. I was not to give an alarm unless convinced that the enemy was preparing for some move, and I was not to fire my nmsket except more than one person was seen advancing across the field. So sure as one single musket was discharged the fire would run up and down both lines, and the re- liefs would be turned out and a hubbub raised which coidd not be quieted for an hour. It was a very still night. The whipporwills w ere .singing along the (^peqium , ami from every bunch of grass came the notes of katydids and crickets. At about eleven o'clock, while I sat for a moment on a fallen log, looking straight across the field, a man suddenly stepped out of the woods on the far side and began advancing toward me. I caught the shine of the starliglit on Ins musket, and immediately made up my mind that he was a Federal picket. Indeeil. w lio else could it be? He was exactly opposite me. and advanced at a slow and measured pace, w ith his musket at a " carry." As soon as the nnin stepped out I sprang up. I had been ordere^ll 111 M- 1.1, and was le .ird laiiieutiii i. ■ <» •h. mill for the 1 •neimli'l'enu ■tiiiai In tai 1.-. ing a turnip inbeknownst te llil ISl If!' de, the infield. war of the relxdlion, the Nortl tion of only 2:),000,000, had in ; the close of that contest nearl A party c if Georgia gentlemen were discussing the high prices in the South during the latter part of the civil war. "T paiil %M\ a yanl fur a suit of gray cotton jeans," sai.I the liist speak- er ; "the suit of clothes cost me %^Wi aft.-r being cut and made." "The biggest trade I ever niTide," said another, "was $30 for a spool of cotton thread." "And I," said the third one, "paid .$1.5 for a shave." FfELD AXn POST-ROOM. A. LIGHT THAT WAS PUT OUT EAKLT. Although General Sheniiiin has very wisely denied saying that if General Charles F. Smith had not died early in the war he would have been- the Union hero in place of Grant, he is on record as saying that Smith's "reputation as a soldier was simply perfect." An article on the "Operations bet'urc Fort Pnnelson," by General "Baldy" Smith, in the '•M;i<4iizine of American History," throws some liylit iijiiin this eulogy and indicates that, per- huiis, he, like Albert Sydney Johnston, on the Confederate side, was snatched by inciuatiire death from world-wide renown. On the l.Sth of March, 1862, General McClcr- nand made an assault upon the Confederates at Fort Donelson, which proved a failure. On the 14th the gunboats, under Flag Officer Foote, made an ineflfectual attack upon the rebel bat- teries and retired disabled. On the loth the Confederates made an attack upon the Federal right for the purpose of opening the road to Nashville and escaping. This attack was suc- cessful. The Union army was driven back badly demoralized, and the way out was clear. But for some reason unknown General Pillow at this critical moment ordered the Confeder- erates to return to their intrcncliments. Grant, on l)eing informed of this state of af- fairs, declared that "the position must be re- taken." He telegraphed to Foote to bring up the gunboats, not to go into action, but to throw a few shells at long range, adding: "I must order a change to save appearances." At three p. m. of that day. General Grant rode up to Smith, who was sitting at the foot of a tree, and said: "General Smith, all has failed on our right. You must take Fort Don- elson." Smith sprang to his feet and said : "I will doit." The Second Iowa regiment, the rawest in the army, having just arrived that morning, led the as.sault. He turned to the men and said : "Sec- ond Iowa, you must take the fort ; take the caps oiT your guns ; fix bayonets, and I will support you." He put himself at its head, and, when it show^ed signs of wavering at the flying bullets, said: "Boys, no flinchini,' now : we will do the work." After that, veter.in suldiors <'Ould not have done better. After an hour and a half of terrible, almost hand to hand conflict, darkness came on, aii.l he and his staff lay down in the snow all Satur- day night without food, having tasted nothing since the previous morning. The men were all ready for another attack on Sunday morn- ing, when a Confederate officer appeared, who wished to negotiate terms of surrender. Gen- eral Smith was sent for and addressing the offi- cer said : "I make no terms with rebels with arms in their liands — my terms are uncondi- tional and immediate surrender." The Major said : "It will take me three-quarters of an hour to go to head-quarters and return." General Smith replied: "I will give you one-half hour to be back here with your answer — if not here in that time I will move on your works." Smith sent his adjutant, with an account of this interview, to General Grant, who, with his staff, was taking breakfast. "Tell Smith I ap- ])rove of all that he has done," was Grant's answer. Theij he decided to ride over and see Smith, and arrived there just as the Confeder- ate messenger returned. General Grant then ratified in the dispatch which first made him famous the terms of "unconditional surrender" and the threat to "move atonce on the enemy's works," which Smith had verbally made. When General Buckner, after the surrender, j extended his hand to Smith, he declined tak- ! ing it. Buckner said : "I believe I am right." "That is for God to decide, not me," said Smith, "for I know that / am right." After the surrender Major General Halleck telegraphed to General MeClellan, "Brigadier I General Charles F. Smith, by his coolness and I bravery at Fort Donelson, when the battle was against us, turned tlie tide and carried the ene- my's outworks. Make him a Major General. You can't get a better one. Honor him for his victory, and the whole country will applaud." He was rewarded as suggested, but died soon afterward of disease. It was his reconnoisance of Fort Henry, made on his own responsibility, that opened up the campaign ending in the capture of that and Fort Donelson. "I think," he said, in his report to General Grant, "that two iron-clad gunboats would make short work of Fort Henry." On the basis of this report the movement was made. It is idle to conjecture what might have been his career or how different history would have read had he lived. It is probable, however, that he would not have lived through the war. Generals who personally lead their forces in battle, and recklessly expose themselves, like Stonewall Jackson and Kearney, are not apt to survive a long war ; but "he was held to be the first soldier in the army" is General "Baldy" Smith's opinion of him. A chaplain, while conversing with a soldier, took him affectionately by the arm, and said : "Young man, I likewise iim asoldier — a soldier of heaven." "Well, sir," replied the soldier, "You're a long wav from vuur barracks." FIELD .LVD rOS7'-R()OAf. THE LAST RALLY. ■II,- Will,. cmtiiftlic rniiiii mill ilown tlie stairs, perhaps liaviiii;' a liil nf saWiiess in liis lioart — perhaps (lisInissi^.^■ tlu> matter t'nun liis uiiiid as if the ileath (if a huiiuin beiiij;- was ni im iiiiisi'i|uence til him iir the Wdrld at hirvr. I'li ii:i|is it was iii.t. Why slinulil .me li,' staillr.l u l„.n an old s.ildier— a man i.i li.ils.mu' man-lirs and many liattles— is aliiiul t.i |ia,ss away V Me must die, liki' till' iTst 111' lis. Thr niirsr was an [)Q lives were lost, at an average e.isi ..f ^lii.ooo. In the Austro-Prussian cajnpaigii ..1 isr.ii, which was ended at Sadowa, $7,500 was the price per death. It will thus be seen that it cost this govern- ernment more to extinguish one life than any of the other countries mentioned, and that the cost of killing in any of them, would be a suf- ficient amount to maintain several in times of peace. r/j:/./> AX/) /'o.sv'-A'0(u/. "Wlio comes tUere ?" A friend ! " 'Advance, iiriiwt friend, and give the countersign." "Field and litiops iiislir.l l.y I'riiiis\lvaiiiii w.-is: killc.l ,,r .licl ..t Nvnuii.ls ivo'ivcl.' lo.uM : .lis.^asr, I l.iiliii : t..lal, ■_'l,:;7(. Tlirrn(iiv|..^s..rilH'anii> was: killc.l ..I- ,li.-.| ,.t «. Mill. Is nv.'iv.-.l, ilH.IIS'.i; .lis.'as.'. ,■,• as f<.ll..«s: WE WONDER. il.',s:iL> l.-i.!C)4 l-l.'),ii!i4 L'L'ii.i'i;:! that kill, 1. an. I '■slill tli.^ u..ii.lc .-.(111, Till ,vlK-n It tnf.s tu nil- m suuu-rs I.. , 73s,:^72. .1 only succeeds in gatlicrinji in the xiie aggregate Fc.U-ral f.ivee, Maivli 1, ISii: :litci.us, or than .loes a hanana peel i ^vas as follows : u 11 invitiii'/ly .111 a si.iewalk to invei- I Availal.lc t'..ri'.' nn'si'iit I'.iv .lnt\-, lidL',!!.- lio,,e.l-for fni li.1.1 Imsi si.-k leave, l-}:i,41!) risoners, . 31,00.5 (II till' .-..Liiv.! s .,ii.-.. ,li.l! r( llic.-arlli .s fl.ilii l..u: nil Maixlaii. N.w V..ik aii.l \. ARMY STATISTICS. II-, S. C.aii.l !)..■ last ..n I vvli.ai Kirl.v Sinill, siirn |.,tiv.1ii.-.mI|., . \vitli Ih.' sa u.,iil.l M..n- S..I.1 l'iii..ii .Ivs.ail.a-v It .r uliicli I71.MI i;:;,4:;i;iiiikn..ui 11). .Iiarrli..'a an Finr.n axd post- room. GENERAL HANCOCKS SLIPS OF MEMORY An intinuitv li-icn.l ,,1 (Ii'Ii.tmI Ilaiicork, i icakiniJ ..f the ,lca Ihiii-s ni..\i'.-- .\ll.aansH>a-in,-s..v.Tal ..tlaa- .|ii.-sl i.ais (h.- I'r.'si.lriil wasask.'.l : " IJiit li..« al...iit liranfs «hi.-h ho n.|.li,.l \^itll soin.' .anpha-is an. I lj.'s- tnivs; "(h-aiit is th,. lirsl (Irn.a-al Vs.' ha. I; h.'V a (l.ai.a-al.-- ■• II. .u .1.. y.,n in, an, Mi. Lin,-.,|,r/-- his visit. ir ask. '.I, ■■ \V,-II, Til WW y..n uhal I m.-aii." .•.■|.li.Ml Lin,-., In: •■\,,n kiH.u li..« ifs l..-.ai with II... n-st. .\ss....n as r.l |.nt .a in.ai •.anin.an.l ..f .annv lii'M rh.-\ ail «anl..| I.. I,.- th.^ :.;.ai.'i-a I . I isn't so ui!l, liiant !l.' hasn't t..l.l iin.'.iln iv|.li.:l : ' ' W ivn lli.an. an.l t.'ll n.,' lho> .■oiiMi in Miili'ss th.'y ha. I it-an.l it uas i-allv .-avaliA. \..u. «h.n loanl t \\ .■!!, lla' ..Ih. THE FIELD OF SHILOH. It isin..ivtlianas,-.,iv.,ly,.arssin.-.'thal ino- riit..ns sixth of .\i.ril. an.l >.■! he \nIi.. ri.l.'S .Tth.- ■^r..iiii.l will still tin. I. a th..nsan.l si-ns thalsn.l.l.ainisli ii].. .n Sli.a in.aii . Iliin.hv.ls Ina's 1,,'ai- Ih.' s.'.ais of h.all an.l l.nli.t, an.l ,■ .-an t.-ll insl wli.av tli.' I-V.l.aals lalli.'.l lor I, 111.' .,|- his .L.-uv.l n-lival. h hi.li . I. ..'S not t.'ll f th.- li-hl. In Ih.' ..p. 11 uroiin.l ..ii,' iiiav tin. I Is ..n.' is stai-tl.'.l hv th.' ul.-ai ' li.inrs, ,hi.-li tini.' has wliil.ai.'.l an.l tin- t.-cth ..f the ,il.l-.-at has polish. -.1. FIELD AXn POST-ROOM. t'offtrarfcs;— The ver.v first lessons 1 receivod in my military life, were at tiie openinjj; nf the Harrisburg Military Institute in lS4o, when the principal, the honored Capt. Aklen Partridge, a graduate of West Point, and a hero of the war of 1812-14, forcibly impressed upon my mind thAtorder was Heaven's first law, and ohcdii urr followed as a sequence. I have never forirntti-n them; and w hen your esteemed eommandei re- quested my presence at the Post to-night, I con- sidered that request an order and I am here to obey it. I do not know if what I may say this evening will interest the veterans of the civil war; but thinking perchance they hearand read so nuich relating to that struggle for the perpetuity of the Union, in which they have also been partici- pants and eye-witnesses, I yet hope that the subject which I have chosen for a brief paper, may not fall listlessly upon their ears. When I mention the topic upon which I crave your indulgence for a few moments, no doubt a smile will pass over your countenances, for you will at once recall to mind the emergency troops of 18G2 and 1863, or without disparaging their exploits— the Quixotic heroes of the civil con- flict. My subject is THE PENNSYLVANIA MILITIA IN THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION. AVhen the exactions of the mcnher country la- came too unbearable, and the tyrannical treat- ment of the British ministry no longer endura- ble — rcahtance was the only recourse — ami the fires of Liberty were kindled in every ma»h/ breast. It is true, that here and there among the wealthy, whose families were dependent upon the King of England or the Proprietaries of Pennsylvania for office or enioliuiient, and who were representatives of a quasi-aristocracy, tliere was loyalty to the crown ; or among the peace-loving, war-hating Quakers, of double- faced duplicity, who scrupled to bear arms, but betrayed the poverty of their countrymen, and aided the enemy. With these exceptions Lib- erty was the watchword among all classes of Pennsylvanians, and notably so the farther dis- tant from the metropolis on the Delaware. The people were divided into Wliigs and Tories — there was no half-way. It was either for or against. The frontier counties, as they were called, comprised tlie entire Province or State outside of the counties of Philadelphia, Ches- ter, and Bucks. The latter contained many of the Tories — the former, with rare exceptions, were Whigs, aiiuch nnnoti.c.l heroines. The Walking Skeleton. if Anilers.inville is the title of whicli James ^McLaughlin, a Delaware and Hudson canal boat ca[)taiii, is proud. He relates that he served a longer term of impris- onment in Andersonville than any other Union soldier — namely, thirteen months. On leaving the prison he weighed forty-eight pounds ; he now tips the beam at one hundred and forty-five. FIELD AXD POST-ROOM. OUR MARTYRED HEROES. When the sullen cli.ud of wiir was dark Eaph happy honiestcail like a pall, Krave thousands left their loved and di At our noble patriot-martyr's call; They rallied at their country's need, Our gallant brothers, brave and true. And wide our banner's stainless folds Waved o'er the ranks of loyal blue. On many a )attle-lield they sleep, Our mart> red heroes tried and brav Along .Stone river's rocky shore, Beside .Sa anuahs murmuring wavt on thelaurt 1 heights of Mission Kidgt On Shiloh s dark and bloody plain. On Chiekan nuga's wasted field. They sleep , by traitors slain. In de.serl sw amps they sank to rest. Amid the vilileruess and gloom. Where tangl ed nn)ss and cypress greei Wave o'er each soldiers loneiv t.uni By pathway drear, on mountains wiU Throu.sli ! any a forest dark and dee Kound mai y a prison's eold, gray wa In i-ountless graves our heroes sleep With faltering stops and wasted forms E. C. ,-;AVA(iK, Ikvix S, Boas, I.t. lol. yth Pa. Cav. Musician Co. F, 127th P. V. \ comiuittee, consisting of Comrades Bright- bill, Smith, Armor, Lane S. Hart and Hioks, were appointed to ,. It- -M 1-t P,l; \- I-. Surgeon lUTth l". V. ^- S. Ciiii.i,, A. J. Eacst. Priv. Co. E, 1st P. V. Priv. Co. A. Kioth P. V. .1-,1IN C. IlAltVKV. .I„l[.\ .M. HkUSUKV, Atljutant 1st P. K. V. C. Sergt. Co. (J, 2U7tli 1', The committee appointed to imjuire inti, t suitableness of the Lodge Room of the In, l>endent Order of Gooil Templars, reported li orably, and tliey were dischargeil. Amount in treasury, $11.11. ■AiujiiM ..'II, iscr.—The by-laws were c,,i).s ere,l ami adoi)ted, which occupied the att, tion of the comrades for the evening with. transacting any fm-lher business. Aiiiinxt :i7, 18117. — .\ppli,-ati,,Ms t,,r iiiemb, ship were receive,! fiMiu .losKi'ii Li.\i;ss, (iicom^K C. Kki.i.' 1st U. Co, K, :i,l X. ,1. V. .Sgt. (.'o, 1), r,th P. It. H. L. BovcK, .losKPH Seal. Priv. Co. li. 1st Pa. Art. Priv. Co. -. :id .\. -\iu,,unt in treasury, $i:i.ljl. FIELD AXD POST-ROOM. Sept. .i, /A'er.— Nu quoruuj. Sept. 10, we?.— The following api.liuatiuns for membership « ere read : Theophihis II. Stees, H. J. ShaftVr, II. G. Repman, Tliad. ,^. Freehuid. There were mustered : TiiEOPHii.rs II. Stkes, H. J. Sh.\ffek. Priv, Co. — , 1st Pa. .\rt. Major lOTtli P. V. It was decided to meet hereafter in tlie liall of the Amerieaii Mechanics, (Barr'.s building, Second and Locust,) on the second and foiirtli Thursdays of eacli niontli. .\ roiitriliutinn ..f $!),.Vi was uivcn a destitute soldier \\1h.s,. I,n„„. was at I ndiaiiai,. .lis, Ind., tu assist liiii. in n-arlim-liis irirnds. Aninuiil in trrasmv. $L'4..".l. R.pnrlf..r Nninbrr ..1 i -Mustered di -./ S.i,t. .10. ISi leg shot olf." "Why, he hasn't any head!' 'cried the otticer. Tlie soldier looked at his load, and for the tirst time saw that what the oflicer said was true. Throwing down the body he thundered out : .\s a n-siinient was on the niareh to Gettys- II 'J, si.nie mI the soldiers stepped out of the iiks and ■i-onfiscated" a couple of geese, and the sui;i;istii.>n of an ingenious fellow and a ituial ■•Iriiiiiuicj." one of the drummers un- ■aded Ids insdiuiK'nt and jiut the captured ids ill, Slioitly aftfiward the Colonel came 'um w li:icl^>. r. "li- nii ti. him and said : •w AROUND THE CAMP-FIRE. bravery, said he had fought in the battle of Bull Rull. When asked if lie had retreated and mailegood Ids escape as others did on that fam- Th.. (' lielldill- d. •• Well, what hav( .V sti- r frllnw was pulled nut of till stea.id.,,at explosion, aidasynipathizinghystander Fn„H III. i:;r/u„u,„IE, ,c thousand piisoliei-s aivalpiize. IH^nan and a pair. if st..ckiiiijs." Then, brigliteiiiu- up. h.ad.l.-.l. ■I'.ut, thank Gu.l ! I have saved With this I,.- pulK-d,.ut ..1 his vest i...cketa v.'iy w.-t pp.vost inarshars.ertiticate— that he ha.l furnish,.. I a substitute. It uas at the s.'c.nd battle of lUill Run that .1 .■an , l.all .■aiTi<-.| ..If a p<...r s.ildier's leg. . a shoe- .lackest- that is anyu here sntlere.l I. . larry God's breath an. 111). I in a wi.ked .;aii-ass. He is the same in.livi.lnal uh.. was s... in -cut to have the cler- gyman ani-stf.l in .Mexan.lria for praying for till- ('(.iifcihrali- Stati-s, thrown into the negro pen, and then' .•oiitine.l niilil he repented. He \VLisc,|nally a nxiou.-t.. have several of the ladies of Alexan.lria hung as an example ..f the man- ner ill w idch til.- ab..liti..nists iiiteniled to treat se,-.'ssi..nists. .\s y, ,11 now have an excellent ,.pp,.itnnit\ .,1 all, .wing him to test the beaii- ti,s ,.1 his th,,,ry, I w,.uld suggest that the fel- l..« l.ckin.llvtn'at,'dasl,.ngashelives,.nl,n'a,| ■k nnlil h,' is |.eiie,-tly satislied with the •,.iil,rn'.l np..iiliim. .\fterwards I would igf him I'. .r si.me miserable cur, and then FIELD AXn /'<>S7'-RO<)M. Casualties in Pennsylvania Regiments during the Rebellion. TW^ENTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT. J)ii>(l tnimntln'i- causes - Dic'il as jirisDUfrs of war . . . . Disfliargud I'di- wounds received Discharged on surgeon's certificat Discharged for various causes Absent in liosiiital. at muster oi Uesi-ncd . , Translrrrcd Deserted . Dishonorably discharged Xot accounted for Absent witliout leave Missii >Inst. Wounded in action Taken jirisoners Mustered int.. service, June L'S. Discharged July IS, bsc,:,. Term of service, 4 years, 21 days Karly in June, ISBl, Colonel John W. C vns lu-ii,^ musti-n^d i]itii tho sor- ■^, Wlifii completcil, iti'onsiKtc'd u 111 lining one thons.inrl five hun- Misanrl men. From snrplns re- • niMil nnrt nttnnlied to tlie resi- 11 Hv Kiiiiii's HiitfiTy (if tlie Twen- At tlie battle of ChaneellorsviUc. the men performed a horeuleau task in the eonstniction of their temporary lint with nil riiri-v ulii.h «iL'ii;ih/.'H III. in .luring the :!etty,sburs, and on the every ..l.stii. Ir. until, uu the 10th of December, they ap- I.ruiKhed tlie onter works of the enemy at Savannah, w liicli w as at once besieged. On the 21st of December, lieneial Geary, with his command, entered the city, and tlie national colors wore unfurled from the I'nited States On the 27th of .lannary, l.Sfi.->, the cniiniiiind started upon the "war-path tliimijlt ih. ' :ii Mliii:i- ' Tli is cam- paign, although ill it V .J, 111 I I i ■ ■ : - ,i ; iM^iime ii.-i- tnre as that from AtiMiii.i i - , - .- uiinin-li greater labor, and t. -i. .| i m ■ ■ . njlil , ih, power nf enduranee and i l.i-' ■ ' '- nmoiig .American soldiers. Thedi^iii. , , ';, \ i- inneh farther, in- numerable obstiii 1- 1 ' ':i1 and artificial, were the common cxperier qualiti.-^ regiment in the Unit ■d Sta es army, it never lost glc wagon or ambii nice. ir any other descripti property, by allow ii .; it ti fall into the hands , enemy. The otti. . r >M 1. M VH lirlyrlialiLMMl i Field and Post-Room. Vol. I. HARRISBURG, PA., APRIL, 18S6. A Faithful Soldier of the Republic. BRIG. GENERAL ALEXANDER HAYS. Among the most conspicuous of the heroes of the Rebellion, who sealed his faith with his blood in tlie early years of the conflict, was Brigadier General Alexander Hays, of Penn- .syl vania. He was a native of Venango County, where he was born in the year 1820. His father. General Samuel Hays, was a man of mark in the history of Western Pennsylvania. With ordinary advantages, the son prepared himself for and entncd the Military Academy at West Point, and « as -laduated in the class of 1844, with Liriilcnant Crneral Grant and others. Attached to the 4th Infantry, U. S. A., a brevet second lieutenant on the 1st of .Tuly of the same year, he was on the ISth of .June, 1840, transferred to the 8th Infantry, with the rank of first lieutenant, for gallant conduct on the fields of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Pal ma. After these battles. Lieutenant Hays was sent to Western Pennsylvania on recruiting .service. Having in a short time enlisted a large number of men, he i^roceeded with them to Vera Cruz and marched thence to the re- lief of our garrison at Puebla. About this time, General .Joe Lane was ready to start on a more northern line of operations to the city of Mexico, with an ex- licdition against Urrca and the guerrillas in- festing that part of the country. Lieutenant Hays was appointed assistant adjutant general to the expedition. It had frequent encounters with the enemy, inflicting severe punishment. Lieutenant Hays gathered fresh laurels, and was the head, heart, and soul of the com- mand,— making a military reputation for his chief which afterwards sent him to the United States Senate from Oregon. The Mexican War over, his restless nature chafed under the dull monotony of garrison life. Longing for more active employment, and having now a wife and young family to provide for, and hoping to do more and better for them in civil life than the military life pronnsod, he resigned his commission on the iL'th of Ajuil, 1.S4.S. Turning his attention to tlie manufacture of iron in his native county, and not succeeding to his .satisfaction, he us\(a iinu-iit that had educated him for its dcfeiicc and that imw required the benefit of his niilitaiy i-ducation and experience. Taking, from the first, a broad, soldierly view of the situation, he comprehended tlie magnitude of the rebellion, and was among the most active and efficient of those patriotic citizens who resisted the theft and removal of a large number of cannon and a quantity of ordnance stores from Alleghany Arsenal, at Pittsburgh, to a fort, that existed only in name, near the mouth of the Mississipjii river. mutually proud and worthy (if eacli dtlier. Not a finer or nobler corps of young men ever shouldered arms. Embracing in its ranks the sons of the most wealthy and influential citizens of that thrifty and enterprising city, it was among the first to respond with full ranks to the President's call for three months volunteers, and was cast intu tljc organization of the old Twelfth Rruinicnt l'cnns\ I vania Volunteers. Captain Hays was clcitcil major of this reg- iment, and accepted the promotion with the express understanding that he was not to lie separated from his "darling City Guard." After the expiration of tliis short term, most of 46 them FIELD AXD POST-ROOM. lioliirl in the regular army. AIh.iu the 1st of .lanuary, 18G3, before he had eutinly rci-oviTed from the Groveton wound, (ieneral Hays was assigned to the command of the 8d Brigade of Casey's division, Pleintzel- man's corps, then, and for some time after- wards, in charge of the defences in and arounil Washington. This is the same brigade that was di'moralized, surrendered and disgraced at Harper's Ferry just before the battle of Antie- tani . They wanted a general in a double sen.se. They had no general, and they required one who would be so in fact as well as commission and rank. Quaint and grim old Ileintzellnan knew and picked the man for them. We will see if they got what they wanted when " Sandy Hays" first dn-w Ids swor.I over them in com- mand. The general now devoted all his time, talents, and energy to bring order and discipline out of the confusion in which he found his brigade, and to put fight into it. He drilled, punished, rewarded, coaxed, scolded, and stormed at it, — once nearly " with shot and shell." He was preparing it for the eventful first days of .July, 'O.S, when the Fourth of '7(1 was re-endeared to our hearts' affections in a new liaptism of hi 1 and tears. After the indecisive battle of Chancellors- ville. General Lee, commanding the rebel army, with desperate and daring strategy, broke away from Cieneral Hooker's front, pa-ssed around his right flank, crossed the Rappahannock, march- ed into the valley of the Shenandoah, crossed the Potomac, invaded Maryland and Penn- sylvania, and stood with his army for battle on till' 1st of.luly on the heights around Gettys- burg. ( »ii tlic third day nl the month, and the third of the battle, Cieneral Hays, commanding the :M Division of the 2d Army Corps, finds himself opposed to General A. P. Hill, in which is General George E. Pickett, and others of his old class-mates and comrades of the Mexican War,— on the road leading to Eramettsburg. Hill has been cannonading them for some time, without eft'ect, — then moves his troops across the field, thinking, no doubt, that his veterans will drive these mic militia like chaff before the storm. But they meet General Hays and his veterans ; he has put fight into them. Behind the shelter of a stone fence he restrains himself and his men until the enemy is at close quarters. Then, like Wellington at Waterloo, the word is, "t'p, and at them !" His rapirts, captain and assistant adjutant general, reliable an "Since the beginning of the war," said Ihe Pittsburgh " Press" at the time of his death, " although this loyal city has been called upon to mourn the loss of its noblest sons, no event has caused such an overwhelming gloom in this community as the death of General Hays." The city of his adoption and home evinced its admiration of the soldier, its love for the man, and regard for his memory, by inaugurating the most imposing funeral oVjsequies. Tlie mayor and councils expressed their affectionate regards for the memory of the deceased, and sympathy with his afflicted family, reso|\inu to attend the funeral in a body. All business was suspended, and all its marts were closed. The remains lay in state at the First Presbyterian Church, draped in mourning, entwined with the American flag, and flowers, and laurel. Thousands thronged to look for the last time on the face of their brave defender. "The song of the shell" is hushed in the solemn dirge of the organ and chanting choir, mingling with the deep-mouthed boom of the minute-gun . A city, a State, a nation, while they exulted for the victory won for humanity in the Wilderness, FfELD AND POST-ROOM. he bier of . wept ar- feel to win it. The services at the chureli over, tlie funeral eortege formed and received the corpse in proper military order, and moved with solemn step and nnisie to the Alleghany Cemetery. "Dust to dust ; earth to earth." The lastecho of the last volley died away among the hills, and all that was left of General Hays, rested in an honored grave. General Hays, although a man of ratherplain exterior and manners to strangers, was, to those who knew him best, not only as brave and gallant a soldier as ever drew a blade, but a refined and accomplished gentleman. Sound- in-- the dcptlis of science and the principles of philosni.hy, he I'ujoyed the study of elegant liteiature. Admiring and appreciating every tlunu 1 >eautiful in nature and art, he relished the finer fictions of romance and the fascinations of poetry. Nomean wit himself, always clear and pointed, never harsh or cruel, he did not fail to see the point, or the heart of a good joke. " Alas, poor Alex ! I knew him well ; he was a man of infinite jest— of most excellent fancy." On the morning of the day that cost his life, he wrote, — ■■ ■ Lightly and brightly shone the sun, As if the morn were a jocund one.' "Although we were anticipating to march at eight o'clock, it might have been an ajipropriate harbinger of the day of the regeneration of man- kind ; but it only brought to remembrance, through the throats of many bugles, that duty enjoined upon each one, perhaps before the settini; sun, to lay down a life for his country," In 1.S44, Lieut Hays uuirricd Ann Md'adden. seconil daughter of John 1".. :\lcl'"addi'n, i:s.|., of Pittsburgh, who, with several chilchcn. siir- vive.}f. army -watched the shot. They saw her stream- ing up, and they could see the line it made as it began to go down a bit and toward the rebel battery. It seemed as if all the other gunners had caught on to the importance of the occasion, as they had stopped work on their own guns, and stood watching my shot. For a few seconds it was so quiet you could almost have heard a pin drop. Just then a man with a glass cried, 'Look out! the Johnnies are going to shoot!' and a few timid ones ducked their heads behind the breastworks, but most of us kept right on looking. And what do you suppose we saw? Well, sir, just as the rebel gunner pulled the string of their biggest piece — the one that had lieen giving us so much trouble — we saw the shot that I had fired, go right into the muzzle of that piece. There the two balls met with a collision that not only busted that cannon, but completely annihilated the whole rebel battery. Then the silence was broken. Such a cheer as went up you never heard. Tlie boys crowded around me so thick, that it was with difficulty (Trant and Sherman could get up to shake my hand, and tliank me for the shot. Both gen- erals afterward sent me letters of formal thank.s, and offered me any position I wanted to name, lint I declined, and told them I entered the army a [irivate, and a private I would remain to tlie end. I have their letters now at home in a frame, and — " " Did you say that this occurred at Gettys- " Yes. That's I they've got painted aiming a gun in the panorama in Chicago. Before that panorama was painted, tlu! artist came to see nic, anil askeil pcrniission to sketch my face, and,-" " .\nd did you say Grant ami Sherman were there when you ijred tlie gun and stepped up to congratulate you?" ' ' Certainly. They would have put Grant and Sherman in the panorama shaking mo by the band if 1 hadn't modestly declined, and—" "But look here. Grant and Sherman were not at the battle of Gettysburg at all." ' ' Weren't they ! Let me see now. Did I say Grant and Sherman. I must have been think- ing of some other generals. I had so many experiences of that kind, I can't remember them all as well as I once could. The old man is getting old. What, are you fellows laughing at an old fellow like me? You make sport of an old man who did his best to save the country for you ? That's just the way— repub- lics are always ungrateful to their old heroes, and I guess I'll go into the smoking car and see if I can find any gentlemen there," THE SILENT PRISONER OF BELLE ISLE. During the battles and skirmishes along the line of the Weldon Railroad in Virginia, in the summer of 1864, many ITnion soldiers were caji- tured. Prisoners were at once relieved of extra clothing, if they had any, and frociuently also of other articles. They were taken to LiMiy Prison, and there underwent an ofiicial search. Everything taken was put down in a book, witli a promise of return when the prisoner was ex- changed. It came to be understood that flic booking was gammon. No one received bark anything the searching party laid hands on. Knowledge of this caused some idiicky fellows to struggle, hard before surrendciiiii; their property. Resistance never ili.l any L'oi.d. The men were overpowered and stiipped ; their hair if lomr, se.nvched, montlis fonv.l open, stockin:.;s mid rluilii,,,: imne,] inside out, and every hiddi'ii llmiu (li.vrl,i-e,|. Our squad, alter u sho] i stay in Liliby, were marched over to Belle Isle. The tents that covered the north end of the island, were more than full. The new-comers had no resource but the claiii|i -round ior twenty-tlii- lays, at the end of u hieh time eaiiie a snppl\- (jf tents. Rations w.to s<-rved every day al 1 1 o'eleek. Each man ai.)peai-ed al I he -ale, and was handed six ounces of bread, and lour onm-es .if baeoii. There was a great deal of bone in the haeon. \ hungry man would nuike short work of it on the spot, and throw the bone away. I had noticed a half naked man always hanging around the gate. Over oneshoiildi^rhe had an old eanvas bag, and hangin- fi-mii ll tlier, li\- a strip of canvas, was a quart can. He jiiiked iq, the bones, and next wotdd gather a handful of grass froin near ^le dead line, the only jilaee where grass grew, the rest of tin' Held l.ein- trodden bare. The home of this half-naked prisoner was a bit of canvas, lield iqi by four short sticks. To get under shelter of it he was obliged to curl up like a dog. Two flat stones near by he used to pound the bones perfectly fine. Mixino' the bone flour with water, bits of bread and -ra~-, he ^ei it to boil in the ran, ami soprejiared luiiiself a uariii meal. Three times adayhe \veiil llauugh thisoperatiun, managing his fire so as to keep it alive with hanlly any smoke. He ajjpeared to have no comrade, never spoke to any one, answered no questions, and was known as the silent man. I became friends with him about the last of September, 1864. Being sick I could not eat my rations, and pre- sented them to him. This pleased him, and he told me that he was a sergeant in a r<'imsyl- vania regiment. He had sold his clothes to the guard for bread, having had eighty dollars in FIEfJ^ AXn J'OST-ROOM. money taken from him in Libby, but had re- tained good liealth while on Helle Isle. He was six feet three inches tall — a handsome man. On the night of October 1, 1864, I gave him a jiair of shoes, on leaving the prison, and have never heard from him since. DAHLGRENS RAID. There are some circumstances connected with Dahlgren's raid that have never been known, except to a few participants, that are illustra- tive of how small things exercise their inHuenre iin great undertakings. The recklessness of liis attempt to go to Richmond witli one thousand men, capture the outposts and release the Fed- eral prisoners there, is a matter upon wliich there can be no discussion. That it was daring and brave to an extreme no one questions, and that its results were near being very disastrous to the Confederate cause but a few are in a posi- tion to tell. Admiral Dahlgren, in liis narra- tive, says : "About two or tliree o'clock in the afternoon (of March 1, 18(i3) Colonel Dahlgren struck the Virginia Central Railroad about a mile below 'Frederick's Hall' station, to which he rode. A party of rebel ofllcers, who were crossing the woods, little suspecting the pre- sence of Union soldiers, were all captured ; some were released and a few detained, among tlie latter Captain Dement." These facts arc in the main true, and I take no issue with them further than toj^jointoutsome inaccuracies that arc liable to occur in any article where the facts are gleaned second hand. Offering this much, therefore, by way of explanation, I will proceed with a recital nf facts within my ..wn prrsonal knowledge : At the time (jf this rai see I night have been done to (e-neral Lee's lit for Hurry's brazen coolness, rue soldier always respects bravery, and soldiers pay the tribute of highest bra- tlie boy soldier, Dahlgren, no matter on iide they fought. two sol - A 11 anecdote illustrating the contrast lietv the light-hearted pluck of the Southe'in s,,; anil till' patriotic fervor — almost reli-ioii^ the uoithern private, was given but recent a party of friends by a Southern otticer. It after the battle of Cedar Mountain, ; diers, one of the North, the other of the South, lay side by side, wounded, on the battle-liehl. Before the aiiilmhiiH'ecaiiieuptotakethem to more eomloit able qua Iters, the lad in gray turn- ed to the boy in blue and said ina(iuizzical tone : "What are you fightin' fur?" "The old flag!" was the reply. "Sho' ! thar's no use o' doin' f liat ; we don't want it." FIELD AXD POST-ROOM. "■Who comes there ? " " A friend ! " Advance, friend, and give the countersign." " Field and Post Room." PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY FRANK B. KINNEARD AND WILSON C. FOX. 320 MARKET STREET. HARRISBURG. ONE OF WAR'S TRAGEDIES. It is more tlian twenty years since the great war of the rebellion ended and peace settled down upon a divided land. But the heart- rending desolations of that great epoch of con- flict liave not yet ended. The tattered liliie overcoats have ceased to come in from tlie country on loads of wood and produce. The wooden-legged veterans who hobble along the streets have become fewer in number and the empty coat-sleeves, so numerous after the war, are now infrequent. The veterans of the great struggle are passing away. The mighty civil conflict that shook a continent is lapsing from the present to the pages of history. It will not be many years liefore the stories of the war will become talo i .1' a ■jramlfather. But every now and then si.ni. tliin- nri-cs that calls up strong to remembrance all the bitter sorrows and trials of the years of desolation. In a retreat for unfortunates an old lady now lies dying. She has been in this institution for over twenty years, ever since the black days when the news came home that her two darling sons had starved together in .Andersonville prison. It is sometliiiig mnrc than lil'ty years since this poor old lady, then a blitlu' y.miiL' marrird woman, arrived with her hnsKand in the land for which her sons were to sanilirc tlu-ir lives. They came to this refuge of the world from Ire- land. When the war broke out their sons had grown to be brave lads of seventeen and fourteen. Young as they were, these two were among the first of the heroic thousands that rushed to risk their lives on the altar of devotion to country. Both boys enlisted in one of the celebrated fight- ing Irish regiments and made gallant young sol- diers. The elder, a slight, sickly boy, was wounded and taken prisoner at Murfreesboro'. He was soon paroled, however, and found him- self a sergeant for gallantry. The fortunes of war threw the lads again into imprisonment at Chickamauga, and they were taken to live a lingering death at Andersonville. The slender voung sergeant withstood the horrors of this charnel yard of the rebellion for thirteen months and then laid dov\'n the tribute of his life in Oc- tober, 1864, at the age of twenty. His young brother did not long survive this bereavement, and followed him within two weeks, in his sev- enteentii year. When the news of this double loss came back to the northern home the poor old mother was prostrated. The news seemed to daze her. She never rallied from her great depression. She would go about her house wringing her hamls, and crying out for her "poor dear boys." Time passed and her grief increased until her intel- lect fell. She would then sit and fancy herself counting the bones of the dead boys who sloi)t the eternal sleep in an Andersonville trench. She went from bad to worse, and had to be placed in an insane asylum, where she has been ever since without hope of improvement, and where she now lies dying. The daughter of this war-stricken woman lost her husband in one of the battles of the Wilder- ness campaign. The young widow soon learned of the death of her brothers. This daughter, still wearing a widow's weeds for herdea,ililii a year granted to tlie widows of Presidents, Mrs. P(]|k, j\lrs. Tyler, and >[rs. Garfield. The widow of whole Wilderness campaign there to hang a sliadow of death. It was The battle of Spottsylvania happcn- Is Ibr middle of May ; Sedgwick was tlie iith. The temporary intrench- prntcet iiiiv men were made of fence- inliT was gix'en fur the Jersey brigade oil' |jy com|iaiiiesand get behind these iiiparts, I said aloud: 'Now, colonel, move your men to their assigned At this I saw the Jersey boys get nji Lbunove. 'What IT exclaimed ; 'who is, wlh li:illsf: ; elieek, riglit under the e; ""1. which fell upon my fa turned half way and fell ivy man, and we bfith foil fall covered with hi- Lb Mieral,' repeatedly, iilliie. ir me. T was in a divadli 1 r,,nld iK.t believe he wa; .\ltl thr liliiod cmitmued to pour l|-nm his wound tliat smiling expression never left his lips. When he was shot I could see the mon in that instant, depressed as I was, crawling u)) duI of their rifle pits on their hands, looking at us from both directions. I can still see that scene of surprise, astonishment, wonder and grief all along that bine line. We took him back thro' the line of battle, and then I got on mv horse 56 FIELD AXD POST-ROOM. and roile to tirant's lie:iilc|iiartcrs. I \v;is all covered with blood, and wlnii I \\rn\ in liist tlioy thought I was wounded. "Said I : 'No,' interpreting what they meant. "In a minute they all cried out '8edgwi('k.' "I burst into tears and sat nut know h^w the unfriendly feeling arose between Grant and Hancock. It is a most interesting story, and extends back before the war, when Grant and Hancock were both young men. Both were stationed at St. Louis at the time I refer to, and neither of them had been married a great while. Mrs. Hancock came from a Southern family, her feelings were all that way, while Mrs. Grant, on the other hand, was intensely North- ern. At that time the Hancocks moved in lit- tle better circles than the Grants. There never was any good feeling between them, and Mrs. PIani'.„-ksiiul)l.(dMrs. Grant,afactwliirhMrs. (iraiit iic\riini-ave. Afterthe war (irant rainr t /.',/,. /;, js,:s.—l\n' lollowing w.^re muste ister was .li nc.nld 11, ,t J. V.C.Geo. W. Davi A. Van Clell, .T.ilin S. I'.order. The f..ll.. Willi!- recruit was miisteivd; Henry V. Dkmminc, 1st Lkut. Co, I, 77th P. V. A communication was received from head- quarters asking the Post to designate two cdin- rades, whose military history was to be Inr- warded, with a view te a].|>ni]itiiieiit as stall' officers. TheCommanderdesi-iialedCoiniades W. W. .Tennings and .lames X. r.lniidiii as the c.mra.les wIm.sc names sh..nl,l )„■ inrwarded. Ameiiiit in treasury. .fL'il.'.Kl. 1<\I..:'S, Z.W.s-.— The following named recruit was mustered : A. Van- Ci.eff, Tlie full.. wing aiiplieatiniis fnr inemliersliip were read : Thos. D. Caldwell, Warren Cowles. Special Order No. 2, Department Headquar- ters, authorized and directed the Post Com- mander tn pnieeed tn Lykeiis, and organize a Post. Comraile Slmnp presc-nted Ids resignation as Adjutant, which was accepted, and the election of his successor postponed until the next mus- ter. On motion, the Adjutaul was instructed tn procure five hundred l)laiik apiilieatinns for membership. Nodoulit the ( 'nmrades ex]iect- ed a "boom," such a one as is imw upon ns. Comrade Governor (ieaiy was present, and addressed the Post. Amount in treasury, pVlAC-,. FIELD AND POST-ROOAf. Casualties in Pennsylvania Reg'iments during- the Rebellion. TWENTY-NINTH REGIMENT. Killed in action 4 51 I>iril (if wounds roeeived ;i] liicd lr..in othercauses 1 :y2 I lii'il ;is iirisoners of war 7 .Alissiiii; in action, 4 Discharged for various causes . . (i 384 Dishonorably discharged (! g |iis( harmed on surgeon'scertificate, 1 150 Discliar.iied for wounds received . 1 S Transferred 4 411 Absent in arrest, at muster out .... 5 Absent without leave, at iiuister out li' Absent on furlough, at muster out, . 2 Absent in hospital, at muster out, . . 52 Absent on detached service 2 Not accounted for 7.S Kecruits, never joined regiment . . . . 17(1 iMustcred out with regiment - . . 40 575 Deserted ;;()(; Entire strength !i] 11144 Wounded in action :! 47, Taken I'visoners 1 i>r, ^[ustered into service, July 1, ISGl. Discharged July 17, 1805. Term of service, 4 years, 10 days. I'lUlerthe call of the President of tlic third nf May Isr.T. f„i- f„rry ad.liti.iiu.l r,."im,.iif s. .I,,h„ K' \f„,,.i;>. It was first known as the Jackson regiment, bnt ii|i.in its orsanization was designated the twenty-niutii nf 1)11 till' 3d nf Angust, it broke camp and proceeded to Iliui.vrs Ferry, where it was attached to thecommand 111' lifiirriU Banks, and, dnring the autumn aud winter el Murphy and others of the regiment were sur- nided and taken prisoners. The Twenty-ninth, un- r command of Major Scott, remained with General nl.-» ,,,,,1 rnovfd from Winchester to the valley of '■ ' ' """k, and was present at the battle of : 1 i : Mfter which it was doing guard duty *^ " ■!'' I ' '"d Hngerstown, Md., and Chambers- '^'. )'■! Ai III, ii;ittl(' iif Antietam the Twenty-ninth I provn-i .Mill M :ir uimrd duty. >» thi' null Ml 11. 1 1 iiiiiLT, l.Sfi2, it struck tents and, 111 Jill ]Miv.i],i,, iii-p:iirii, was forwarded to Freder- -linm, \:i It irarlinl StalVunl emit 11. .use Feb. 3, ■ r.'L'ini.Mii l.iiik.' .111111,. liaxiim ivi-,.iM'.l orders to nil 1.. rliai,,...i|Mr.\ii|,-. nil Sim. lay. May :-!. the bat- i.|ien,al. an. I tlir rr.yiinrnt had .^i.^; kilk-d and thir- of . uf Fhiladelphii itiful ling, prepared .sunted on their bc- recoived half by H. M. Dichert, of that city, and for the regiment by General Geary. On the 11th of June, ISG.'i, the regimeut, stripped to li^ht marching order, commenced t.. nmv.' .m tlu' I irttysliurg campaign, and took part in ili. ilm. .lays baitl..., losing fifteen killed, forty-tiv.> n. .1111. 1.. I. iii.l i.iiiir.aii inissin,-. On the 23d of Sr|.tciiil.,-r. the I'-'ii' I iiiili ■' I- 'I' I.'. I... 1 from the Army of the Po- M i. Idle Tennessee to reinforce ' 1: , worsted at Chickamanga, ar- Ih.' |ii..ii..-,ii. ;i ,,' . ■>'. ■ t i.'ii.nt for veteran vol- iiiileers ua> i-iiMi-i. I . ,: ■ ii I ..■.ember, and meas- ures wrrr hiini.-l i.n . , i l.i ,, iho officers of the Twenty-uiulh to lune li c.iiisun-.l in as a veteran or- gauization. On the 10th of December, 2110 members re- enlisted and mustered in for a second term. The lirinnpt action of the men secured for them the honor dirertinu of Tabiliassee. The regiment took its i tion in the brigade, and assumed its share of trials hardships througii the memorable march to the sei On the 20th of March, it arrived at Goldsboro, N .storming the redo .ping by the sea ing of the 24th, and ' Field and Post-Room HARRISBURG, PA., IMAY, ISSfi ONLY A STRAY SHOT. "It is tlie stray Vmllct tluit kills!" is an old army .saying in which truth prepcjndci-ates over the poetry. It also conveys the idea that the wayfarer upon tlie outskirts of tlie battle may be in nearly as much danger as the active be- ligerent of the inner circle. Recently Capt. Charley Wise, of Lancaster, Pa., related a little experience he had during the battle of Gaines' Mill. He was at that time a civilian, and connected with the management of the balloon corps : "We had accompanied McClfellan's army from AVashington, and liad with him floundered through the mud, up the Peninsula, through Warwick, Yorktown and Williamsburg to the Chickahoniiny, and across that miasmatic stream as far as the Confederacy would allow us to go. We had fully demonstrated the jjrac- tical uselessness of our ponderous and expen- sive arm of the service, and were now devoting our attention to 'keeping out of the road' with all the ability we could command, while indi- vidually I was occupied with a quite vicious attack of swamp fever. "Fair Oaks had been fought, ami no advan- tage taken of the partial success ncliii'vcd by tlie Union arms. The Confederates waited three weeks for McClellan's next move, but finding that he was likely never to make any, they moved themselves, and to some purpose. As- sisted by his long delay, they had gathered their whole available strength from all over the South, until confident in the power of numbers, they crossed Meadow Bridge on the 26th of June, 1SC,2, and drove in our right wing at Me- chanirsvillf. The Prnnsvlvaiiia H.'sri'ves were r.■^i^(ance in .urkiails were e Keserves at r's Corps at ni-litrall fell back upon (iaincs' .Alill. "Fitz-.liihn Porter commanded the brigades of Sykes and Morrell, the formermade up solely of regulars. He appeared to have been igno- rant of the strength of the attacking party, and telegraphed McClellan that he needed no rein- forcements, and that he could hold his ground. The next morning be was attacked in front and flank ; Stuart's Cavalry fell on his right, aiid turned it at Old Church. He formed at noon in a now line of battle from Gaines' :\Iill ah.n-lbe Mill Road to New Cold Harbor, still stul.l»Hnly persisting in the belief that he nmld not he beaten. By :i n'.l.uk hr bad been diiviai back two miles, and all his rniaiiics wen' unavailiuL; to recoverafoot of the iusl ground. II,. hnilcd lancers and cavalry iii)oii tlir masses niiai'ks.ni and the Hills, butthelintt.Tiiiil infantiv f.innc.l impenetrable squares. Ins ,.1 in with loilsof steel, and as tln' bniscnicii -alln|M.d aiound them, searching: f.a- imt\ i.ms points, tli( y wfvr swept from their saddlis with \ulli\s of mus- ketry. He directed the teniM,. liiv .if bis ar- tillery upon them, but, tlion-li tli(';jivy foonian fell in heaps, others steaddy advanced, cl..sin- up the gaps, and their lines were like long stretches of glaring flame and deadly hail, the destruction of which never abated. "The scene from the balloon was awful be- yond all comparison. Bursting shells, shriek- ing shrapnel and volleys of musketry that awoke the eelmes ,,i (lie hills and lille.l'tlie air with deadly wliispeis. i;e]>,Mled Confederate charges turned the I'nion ri'jht fiom time to time, and to preserve tin' ordiu- of battle, the wdiole line fell back toward ( iiapevine Bridge. At 5 o'clock Slocum'sdivisimi crossed Ibi' ereek from the soutli side and made a desperat.' dash uponthe solid columns of the Confederates. At the same time Toombs •( ieoi-ia rninadi'diai-vd 'Baldy' Smith's redoubt fro,,, li,,. -onlli -ide, and the flght became ,i;einMal all aimi- i h.' line. "Some days before the fexan- had laid up in the house of a 'Secesh' family half a mile from the south side of the riv<-i-, where I had plenty of leisure to reflect upon the chances of my making my next exit at the front door, feet foremost, to slow music. "About 3 o'clock in the afternoon my faithful boy, 'Obe., came in, and, with wildly disten,le.l eyes, announce /'().\V-A-()().]/. field to the safe side, and amnmnition wagons were passing the other way, driven by scared and reclilcss drivers, wlio should have been blown up on the spot. Before I had reached the north side of the creek, an immense throng of panic-striken men came surging down over the slippery bridge. A few carried muskets, but I saw several wantonly throw tlieir pieces into tlie flood, and as the great majority was un- armed, I inferred they had made a similar dis- position. Fear, anguish, cowardice, despair and disgust were the prominent expressions of the upturned faces. The gaunt trees, towering above the stream, cast a solemn shadow upon the moving throng, and as the evening dimness was falling around them, it almost seemed that tliey were engaged in some relentless cataract. I reigned my horse close to the side of a team, that I might not be borne backward by the crowd ; but some of the lawless fugitives soize- ling, and now he weighed some 240 ])oiinds. Late in the day, theboysw^ere formed for paraile, and the adjutant taking jiosition on the Hank, gave the command "Riglit dress" i;\'ery eye was turned to the right, slionlilev tmielied shoulder, and the line was almost perfect, only needing the withbrawal of Martin's "bay win- dow" some twelve inches rearward to m.dce it all right. Again the command was sharjily given, "Rightdress," but it had no effect uiii>n the line. Martin was touching shoulders, his face was on a level with those on his right, and he looked with a frown to the left to learn who was out of position. Just then, he was startled by the voice of the adjutant : "Martin, dress on the front j'ou have now, not the one you had twenty years ago." The offending member was witlidiawn, wlule the smile that "passed along FiKi.n Axn ros/'-R AN INCIDENT. Til Army of tlie Potomac, and of all llic cvciils ..f that eventful year, the one that .iciii|iirs the most prominent place in my n'ciillccli(.ii, is "Musli Day." Chancellorsville may li<- fni'_:(.ttlcii, .•md tlic memory of Gettysburg may licrdiiic dim, Imt never "while reason retains lier throne," can I forget the day when the Army of the Potomac, or at least that part of it to which I was attached , had nothing to eat hut mush. "But shtop a little, and I told you all about it." It wasnotloiigafterourreturu to Virginia from the Pennsylvania campaign; we were doing duty along the line of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, and were drawing rations from day to day. Some of the mciliial fiat cm it \- « lio ■'liMitcil" in Washington, dincil at a. Imtcl, ale spring chickens and cussed the waiter if a fly got on the bultci-, coiH'cived (and unfortunately forus, brnuglit Initli) the idea that the health of the^ army wnnM be uiucli improved by a change of dirt, and tliat cuni meal wmdd be the most de- siiablc audit til ciiipldv in bringing about this happy result; consequently, the order went forth that a day's ration of it shonl.l be sulisti- lut(Ml for one of fat pork, beans, etc. I don't know how it was with other regiments at I li is time, but in ours the only cooking utensils we had were onr quart tin-cups and a few frv- iiig-l.ans, ubieh some ingenious soldier ha,l made by melting tlH. solder round ll„. seamsol then they stuck them on a cleft-stick, and there you were, a long-handled frying-pan . But extra canteens were scarce, and it was only a fortun- ate few that had them. Cooking mush is a very simple operation when you have all the conveniences aner iiivi'iition was gotten It w. try toc.ok their shave, s,, they ivsolv.'d them- selves iiil,. an in. hgiiat ion 1 ■tiii-.aii.lai.point,- ed acommitte.. (,. take I heir e bined stork to .some neigliboring hoiis.. and trade itoiri\,ra dog, or even a cat, if th.^v ronid ,lo n,, lirllrr, and thru rriiorttothe mrc'tin-. Til,, roiimiittrr -lid asdiivrird, and aft, a- a timr ivtiinird with a sinail, half-starv.'d dog. medical dignitary by whose oi had been issued, and that a < to try him on the charge of tr Thri-oiiit II, rt, thr oirnid.a- « as t ric'd , loni guilty, srlllr, ,rrd to l,r hail-rd, and th.' sr OBSERVATIONS. Pens Bui- (^cn. Franz Sigel holds a siihoidiiiate |iosition in the office of the county ileilc in New Yoi];. Like so many other great soMiias, (ieneial Grant was a fatalist, an.l hrhrwd that "what is to hr, will lir." Jiuriiii; til., past twrlvi' mouths, tliriv w.av issued from Nati..iial h.M.I.|nait.Ts iijiwanls .,f r>0,OOOG. A. R. ha.l-.s. The sign "Lilil.y iV ('...,■■ whi.'h .,n.-,' a.l., ru- ed that liistorical ol.J prison, is now owned by J. E. Bartlett, Concord, Massachusetts. Archbishops Gibbons and Ryan have con- cluded that there is nothing in th.' aims of the G. A. R. to prevent any g..o.l Cath.jlic from becoming a member. After rca.liiig our pubru-ati..ii, I.-ii.l it to vour nrigtdi.iraii.l in.lurr him to suhs.rihe. FIELD AAV) POST-ROOM. HOW TO OBEY ORDERS. AVlioii till' Kith Mississippi Kegimont was quartered at Corinth, tlie guard around their encampment received all sorts of complicated instructions, some of which were forgotten as soon as delivered, while the others were rigidly adhered to by the sentinels. On one occasion, George Wood, of the Adams Light Guard, was instructed by the corporal of Ins relief, not to permit any private soldier to cross the lines unless accompanied by a com- missioned officer; nor was he to permit any cakes, candies, fresh pork, fruit or whiskey, to enter the lines upon any pretence wliatever. "I b'lieve I've got 'em all," said George. "Let me see ; nary soldier to go across the lines on his own hook, that's one ; no cakes, that's two ; candies, is three ; fresh pork, is four ; fniit , is five ; and whiskey makes up the half dozen. All right, corporal, you can toddle." George walked his beat but a few moments, when an immense porker came grunting aloni;, evidently well satisfied with his prospects of obtaining a good breakfast from the garbage lying about the camp. He by-and-by approach- ed the lines, when George suddenly shouted : "Halt!" A significant grunt was tlie only response from his porcine friend, who still came nearer. "Halt! I say," yelled George, "ef you don't I'll be dad blamed ef I don't shoot."" The pig steadily advanced, when bang went George's musket, and down dropped the |ii,rkcr as dead as a door nail, The colonel, who was enjoying his late paper a few feet off, started up at tli<' re|iMit uf the musket, and exclaimed : "How dare you, sir, discharge your musket without orders? Call the corporal of the guard." "Corporal of the guard, post No. 9 ! The d— I to pay here on my line !" shouted George. "Arrest that man," said the colonel as the corporal made his appearance. "Well, that's nice," rejoined George; "to arrest a fellow for obeying orders in tiglit pai)ers." "Inevergaveyeezanycitlierstoil said tlie corporal. "The deuce yon diiln't," ie|ilie "hold on, here. Dicin't y.iu tell me any soldier cross the line without lie panied by an officer?" "I did, av course !" "Didn't you tell me not to let any r into the lines?" "Thrue for yees !" "How about candies?" ike, "That's all ri-ht!" "Then there was fmit?" "Yis!" "Whiskey?" "Niver allowed !" "And fresh pork!" yelled George. "Yon don't s'pose I was going to let that liog pass my line do you, when I knew it was against orders. When you catch nio on post, you can bet your life I'm thar. I obey orders, I do, alius !" Tlie colonel burst into a roar of laughter, and ordered the sentinel to resume his duty. The injunction against admitting fresh pork over the lines was for the time being laid aside. We are accustomed to tliink of Waterloo as the greatest battle of modern times, but in six engagements of the war of the rebellion the loss upon one side or the other, was greater than than that of Wellington and the allied forces at Waterloo. There is wealth enough, but is there pride and patriotism enough, in the city of New York to construct an elaborate monument over the remains of General Grant? THE IRREPRESSIBLE CORPORAL. W(> had in our company a slab-sided, long legged chap named Aaron Smith. His face wore a constant look of second mourning, and his voice was enough to remind the most careless hearers of gravestones and weeping-willows, ^lore as a joke than for any good reason, the boys elected .\aron a corporal, and ever after he went by the name of Corporal Solemncholy. Bull Run was our first fight. AVo were in the neighborhood of the Henry hou.se, advancing upon a section of artillery, when I saw Corporal Solemncholy take a tumble to the gronnil, roll over and kick, and liad no doubt that he was done for. We were driven back, and by and by the panic followed, and away we went for Wash- ington. About a week after this, while the company was encamped at .\rlingtoii, the cor- lioral walked in on us one day and draw led : "You are a pnrty lot of dog-gasted puiiipUiii seed.s to leave ine dead on a battle-field, and I shan't forgit it." He had been struck in the stomach by a spent bullet, and, after being captured by the rebels, hail made his escape. He was mad at the whole company, and wouldn't give us a civil word for weeks. Our next brush was at AVilliamsburg. The regiment was ordered into some fallen timber, and the position was soon red hot. The cor- ])oral was sighting his musket across a limb. FIELD AND POST-ROOM. when he suddenly rolled over, and I naw Mddd on Ids face as we crowded furtlK-r tu the lul't lor better cover. One-fifth of our company was wiped out there, and wo hadn't got over niourn- ning for them when Corporal Solemncholy suddenly appeared in our midst. This was two weeks after the fight, and his face was tied up with bandages. We rushed to greet him, but he waved us off and said : "Don't nobody come near me ! You wretches went and left me there in the woods, and that night a burial party flung me into a trench, and was covering me up when I come to and told 'em what I thought of 'em and walked off. I kin lick any man in this company. !" He had been shot in the mouth, and the bul- let tore outf three teeth and left a hole in his cheek as big as a walnut. On the morning of the battle of Fair Oaks we were just crawling out of our tents when the rebel wave rolled down on Casey and drove him hack. Our company was badly demoralized, and Corporal Solemncholy was trying to rally three or four of us behind a fallen tree, when a shell exploded near us. I saw two or three men go down, and among them was the corporal. I'd have taken my aflidavit that one side of his face had been torn away. We rallied after a time and regained our ground, but when night came we abandoned the field and fell back to make a new stand. Five men of my company were repcirtpd on the rolls as killed in action, nM.laiii.iii-tliciiMvastli,T.„iH,nil. A week after tl.r l.atll,.,,! .Malv.Tii Hill hruaiked into camp altiTll,, 1 fashinn ai„l l,,..^an: ^ "Durn the hull lot of ye for a pack of cowards ! You went right off that day without stopping to see whether I was killed or not, and I'll dare any two of you to knock a chip ofl" my should- er !" The shell I have mentioin.d did not hurt him, but he was splashed l,y tl„, blood of an nnfor- tiiuate, and receiv,..! a whack over the head from a club era liiid.K iHiring the nightheexchanged chjthing with a confederate, and after many ad- ventures came back to report for duty. After that Corporal Solemncholy was a mark- ed man. We looked upon him with such awe and superstition that nobody would be friendly. He became a sort of outcast; indeed, we all argued that a man who wouldn't stay dead when fail ly killed had a very mean streak in his com- Iiosition. In due time came Pope's fight around Manas- sJis. We yi^r^ fighting at Ciroveton, and as the regiment was ordered to, head its brigade in a charge, a dozen of us had our eyes on the cor- poral. He realized it, and there was a look of b. iiu-au that il he was killed a-aiii he wnuld stav killed. The brigade was in a hot box. The enemy gave us every sort of missil,. kiio« u to war, and we couldn'tcloseup the laiirs plouub- ed through our ranks. I had my cap knocked off and my canteen cut away, and was makliii; a grab to recover the latter when (Corporal Solemncholy got his dose again. I saw him leap two feet high and fall in a heap, and I knew by the way he struck the ground that he was a goner. There were only twenty-eight men in the company after that fight. They had given me the corporal's place, and we had got around to the opening of the fight at Antietam without losing another man. We had sevei-al times talked over the fate of Corporal SoliMimclK.ly, and had expressed regret at till- w.w urli:nl nsi.l him. My brigade was under ibi.ikci- thin, and on the excninu- previous to the fight, we had been piishe^l .n i,,-< the Antietam on the riglit to lie read\ I., advain'c- on Jackson at daylight. About 8 o'clock, as we rested on the lines in the darkness, I hear a voice saying, "I tell you it's dog-gone mean to go and re- port a feller dead and give his place away until you are sure about it !" It was Corporal Solemncholy come back to us ! A bullet had raked his head at Groveton, and he had crawled into the rear after dark and hail been sent to the hospital in Washington. He was hopping mad at every man of us, and we gave him as good as he sent. We told him that any man who had played hookey on death as often as he had, couldn't be trusted by the living, and he was advised to go to the rear and be surely and honorably killed by the heels of some mule. Just at daylight he crept over to me and whispered : "I can't blame the boys so very much. Tell you what, if I'm not killed for sure in this figlit, I shan't come back to the company. I couldn't have the face to. I'll just desert and go home." He advanced with us, and we had worked our way almost up to the corn-field, when I saw him tumble. I bent over him and saw that he had a bullet in the breast. He looked up, and, as I bent closer, he whispered : "I've got it this time, and wish some of the boys would see me planted to stay ; I didn't want to come around and make 'em more trouble!" The day after the fight we hunted up the body and helped to bury it. Corporal Solemncholy was dead enough this time, and there was a smile on his face as if he had won a victory over FIELP AXI> r()ST-IU)()M. Who comes there !" A friend ! " Advance friend, and give the countersign." "' Field and Post Room." 320 MARKET STREET. HARHISBURG. MEMORIAL SERMON. liTMiKl .\niiy ..f tlu' Kr •lill, rnstor of the Firs .1 AW\ rille.«ts.. Iliinis IS llou awi When I stlvint;nintstluM|nir'k rhiMli 1 lia.l licatrn a liar- 1 ivsMc-ss lin-crs luul li,'ai„Ml . nvat.' a n-stiii^ i.l: an.l isti..n. I.attl.-licl.l jn.l- nt sl.^ I ..I life an.l .IrniM l.i'lt.-r lliaii I I nnisii- .,1 li,.ni, —///,// /../v./ ///, ,■; an.l 1.. in.' Calvary s.^ni.-.l ..m Lilll.' i;..un.l T..]., an.l (:,■! ('.•ni.'t.'i-y Hill, an.l tlu- airsi'd .•liant. l.i.....l l..r ..tii.-rs. suir.'.-j ,• w.in.l.'i ir slill .1 Win'.' A inilli..nunsrrn i is....flKilf tli< ■am.'. li..l.lin..i til.' Iiiva.-li,— the man wli.. iva liin- the li'ak in ..nr -...,.1 sli ..•y w.iii, will ni'. sav: Call .llr.l. .Vn.ly.'t liiuli altar lli.a ■i-s. an.l that I. .-.la ■ -.■niTati..n .'an r. ■n lit.'. ..n.-.' s..l.li.- .Mai-.-h." an.l tl,. FJ/-:/./> A\/) /•()ST-/U)()M. 6g try straight lines, llic sipiai-cs witlimit i-.i|-iici ,- lll'rt in our midst a democracy without God, that in some wild tumult may repeat for a brief spell the "reign of terror." Illinois has human dyn- amite hi her midst ready to explode at any mo- ment, and we must calmly and as Christians, meet this condition of things with a larger, dcciier Cliristian consecration. We must go down to the squalid homes and infested thor- oughfares. Yea, we must go into our public schools foretelling the name of dynamite and the power of Godlessness, with the name, and might of the name of Jesus Christ. Wo must go into our pulpits, lifting the salvation of men above every other consideration. I am not afraid of infidelity or organized hostility to the Gospel. The same grace that conquered the men red-handed from Golgatha can prevail over the men red-handed in Chicago. The word that conquered the Paganism of Europe will not fail in its ministry among the Paganism of Europe's later sons ; things are not worse, nor more inveterate to-day than when savages re- nounced their idols for the Cross. The word of God that in the uncultured hands of pioneer preachers was not broken, will not now come to naught or shame us by its weakness. What we have to fear is indiflerence, carelessness the sec- ular temper of the times, that isblindingus to the weapons of our fathers' warfare, and disinclin- ing us to heroic service ; even the love we ought to bear our Master, lacks fire, and has passed from a passion to a sentiment, and we are daily pursuading ourselves that with such a history behind us and measureless possibilities before us, the Nation will run itself without tears or toils. I have feared even as I have read the monuments on the battle-field, monuments none too costly or elaborate for the men whose names they bear, and whose blood sweat they record, that perhaps we have forgotten that we ought to imitate their zeal in the new and nuiy- berless ways that peace will afford us. Breth- ren, we must have the Christian consecration and enthusiasm of the early days, we must reach the point of holy service that our fathers reached, we must have as they had, a vision of Him upon whose head are many crowns, and in devotion to whom is the very splendor of life. Then what has been will be, then the spirit that has burned through all the years of our history to this hour, will not fail us. Then nothing can check our triumphant progress. Oh, believe me, Christ lives, lives for us, ami our final victory is assured in the reality of his consecration to us ; brethren, He, our Captain, went by the ghastly light of the betrayer's lan- tern, to the place of reviling and persecuti..ii ; He went Ijefore the ire of a savage crowd, tlic lie of false witnesses ; He went through hours coarsened by curses, flakened by spitting, ven- omed by gall, baptized in blood; He went through an agony drapened in darkness, echo- ing with the cry of death ; He went, spectre- like, to his burial beneath a sealed stone, went thus to secure our freedom siiiritually and our FTEI^n AXD rOST-NOOM. . .stability nationally, and if wr will scent nur battle from His, if we will rallv armmil the oriflaninie of Christ alone, if wo will seek cur modern victories throngh His powerful 1)1 1, then, because a nobler leader than earth-liuru shall, captain our crusade, and a divine drill shall marshal and direct our war, we shall come -into abiding victory and peace, ajid. when the clouds shall scatter, we shall see the.re-in- forceinents of an army to help us, the sheen of whose heaven touched spears shall shine like the star of the morning. Oh, believe me, Christ lives, and holds in his hand the reins of universal government, and through the motions of all worlds, and in spite of all tl»e devices of all evil, along the pathway of all history, from the morning of time until now, He bas directed the onward omnipotence of redeeming love. . Christ lives, andshall yet stand on the earth, and amid the splendors of His imiversal reign, shall hold America as a glorious diadem in His pierced hands, and the nations of the earth, dissolved into. a universal brotherhood, shall with us. for ^ever serve rejoicingly, America's first, last and. only monarch, the Son. of Man, the King of Kings, the Christ of God. THE SILENCE OF PEACE. Ah ! If they could only speak ! There is a marble slab at the head of every grave in the National cemeteries to tell of war. If there is no name the word "Unknown" signifies that a soldier, who. was killed in some battle, lies buried there. ■ The guns are silent and have nothing to speak for them. Here and there one lias been saved as a relic, bnt the vast ma- jority have disa{)peared in the meUiftf^ furnace, returning molded into .an implement of peace and industry. Whatof the great barbette guns at Fort Sumter; the black-mouthed nioiisters which roared defiance at Beauregard as he struck his first blow at the Union? Whatof the grim muzzles which belched flame from the many port holes as brave Anderson fought to delay the inevitable? A hundred cannon, manned by Confederates, hurled death and de- struction at the fort for hours, and nearly every one of them was called into use in later years. Can one single piece of that ordnance be found to-day? Great siege, guns hustle