And moreover some of us may reasonably hope that we shall escape the enemy's arms and the Many of us may wish that we could have been born a generation or so later but as we are here we should not endeavor to escape the responsibility, if we are true to ourselves, of doing our best to leave a desirable form of government - an ideal form - to those who shall come after us. The nation is surely making a great sacrifice, but the principle involved is a great one, and when we take into account the benefits that must accrue to future generations if our arms are crowned with success, as they must be, I believe that it will be admitted that the prize is worth much of the best blood of the country But the noble sacrifice of the heroic dead or living should not be regarded lightly, nor soon forgotten by the rising generation. The patriotic spirit which animates these young men, is the kind of patriotic spirit which should animate the children of the future of this great country. The blood that courses the veins of these men is the kind of blood that should flow through the veins of the children of the rising generation. What proportion of these young men will return to their homes sound and healthy as they left them? No one I think can doubt but that most of the strong, healthy and vigorous young men who are full of patriotic pride and feel a deep interest in their country's welfare, if they have not already, are now enlisting into the army. ![]() The duties of citizens, be seriously felt throughout the country for the next few generations? It is this: If the war continues a few years longer, and it is as destructive of young men and men under middle age as it has already been, will not this great loss of young men just growing into manhood, and men just commencing to assume It is well enough to have a good deal of such esprit de corps in an army, if it is properly guided by older and cooler heads.īut there is a thought that comes into my mind in regard to the great number of young men who have enlisted into our armies. ![]() It will therefore be seen that we have a good deal of the spirit of youth among us so much indeed that there is always some one ready to undertake almost any adventure that it is possible to propose. We have quite a number under the age of twenty, counting myself among them. Perhaps it is needless for me to specify and emphasize the young men, for among our white troops I believe that over one-half of the enlisted men are between the ages of twenty and thirty years. Picket duty is very monotonous, and the young men like to do something occasionally for excitement. If either party should attempt to cross the river, then it would of course be perfectly proper for the other party to fire upon them.īut I do not apprehend that the firing will entirely cease immediately, as it will be easy for those of restless dispositions on either side to find some pretext for firing an occasional shot. We can sometimes hear from this post the volleys of small arms at different points along the river, as if the two forces were actually approaching each other in line of battle. This to my mind is a very sensible arrangement, for very little is accomplished by banging away all day long at each other, as if the two armies were skirmishing preparatory to going On June 9th some sort of an agreement was arrived at between General Cooper and Colonel Phillips, by which the pickets of the two opposing armies along both sides of the river shall cease firing at each other as much as possible. an Indian prophet and the superstitions of the Indians. Major Foreman with six hundred men sent to meet Federal supply train ![]() remarks on flogging and severe discipline rebel discipline believed to be more severe in some respects than the Federal the Federals exchange coffee for tobacco Federal and rebel pickets in swimming together the enemy finally driven from the field the wheat crop good, what there is of it a rebel reconnoitering force west of the Fort General Cooper's army moves back twenty miles, perhaps to find better grazing An agreement in regard to the cessation of picket firing.
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