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age, and men who had been forced into the ranks against their wills;
1 and a large portion of them were even then satisfied that on the part of the slave-holders, for whose special benefit the rebellion had been begun, it had been made, as thousands expressed it later in the contest, “the rich man's war and the poor man's fight.”
at a late hour we left these scenes of woe ,and returned to
Mr. McConaughy's, where we passed another night, and departed for
Baltimore the next morning on a cattle-train of cars, which bore several hundred Confederate prisoners, destined for
Fort Delaware, on the
Delaware River, which was used for the safe-keeping of captives during a great portion of the war. We arrived in
Baltimore in the evening in time to take the cars for
Philadelphia, whence the writer went homeward reaching the
City of New York when the great “Draft riot,” as it was called, at the middle of
July
was at its height, and a considerable portion of the city was in the hands of a mob.
The writer, with friends, revisited Gettysburg in September, 1866, and had the good fortune to go over nearly the entire ground on which the battle was fought, in the company of Professor Stoever, of Pennsylvania College, and the Rev. Mr. Warner, who had thoroughly studied the localities and incidents of the battle.
Industry had changed the aspects of the theater of strife since our first visit, but many scars yet remained.
Tradition had already treasured up a thousand touching stories of the conflict; and John Burns, a solitary “hero of Gettysburg,” was yet a resident of the place, but absent at the time of our visit.
It would be an interesting task to here record the many incidents of personal courage, sublime fortitude, holy self-denial, patient suffering, and Christian sympathy, at Gettysburg and elsewhere,