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An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps., Chapter 2: (search)
that the drums and bugles at tattoo could be scarcely heard in the. unearthly din. Regiments on the hills, in. the woods, in the plain, and from every direction, caught up the shout, and for one full hour the whole scene far and wide was naught but noisy merriment and excitement. The ceremony of roll-call that night was certainly a ridiculous farce: the orderly was laughed at, and coughed at; a general buzz and suppressed laughter ran along the whole company line, and the usual calls for Smith John, Jones James, were received with derisive cheers, as if it were possible any one could be absent on so momentous and joyful an occasion. Tents were soon struck, four days rations were quickly cooked, and all the camp equipage expeditiously packed and carried down to the railroad station and properly guarded. Many journeys were necessary to transfer all our extra baggage to the depot, and from the alacrity of the men in proffering their services to carry things, and the cloudy, mystifi