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Title: The boys of '61; or, Four years of fighting. Personal observation with the army and navy, from the first battle of Bull run to the fall of Richmond
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896
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Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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med defiance.Richardsons artillery, immediately in front, was sending shellsupon the hill and into Sharpsburg, where hay-stacks, housesand barns were burning, rolling up tall pillars of cloud andflame to heaven. At our left Burnsides heavy guns workedmightily, answered by the opposing batteries. The musketryhad ceased, save a few volleys rolling from beyond the willowsin the valley, and a little dripping, like rain-drops after ashower. It was a continuous roll of thunder. The sun wentdown, reddened in the smoky haze. After the retreat of Lee, I rode over the ground occupiedby the Rebels, and surveyed the field from every point. Thedead were thickly strewn. A Rebel battery had occupied theground around the Dlinker church, a small brick building onthe turnpike, a mile south of Poifenbergs. At its door-steplay a major, a captain, and eleven men, all dead. A woundedhorse, unable to lie down, was standing near a dismantled cais-6011. Almost human was the beseeching look of the dumb M&A
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1862.) INVASION OF MARYLAND. 121 beast! Near by was a soldier lying with his eyes fixed onheaven. He had died calmly. His pocket Bible was openupon his breast. Taking it up my eye fell upon the words: Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death Iwill fear no evil, for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff,they comfort me. All the turmoil of life was over. He haddone his duty, and had passed on to his reward.* Lee recrossed the Potomac without molestation from McClel-Ian, and the two armies went into camp, as if mutually agreedupon having a season of rest after the hardships of the cam-paign. * Want of space compels me to give only a sketch of the battle; but a full, cir-cumstantial, and detailed account of the positions and movements of the twoarmies may be found in Following the Flag, published by Messrs. Ticknor andFields of Boston. ■A > -,■■■■ ■■-■■ .VpHlB ■■■•:< - ,, ■■ , : : III ■■»■«

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