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Title: Four years in Secessia : adventures within and beyond the Union lines : embracing a great variety of facts, incidents, and romance of the war ...
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Browne, Junius Henri, 1833-1902
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Prisoners and prisons
Publisher: Hartford : O.D. Case and Co. Chicago : Geo & C.W. Sherwood
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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cliing Incidents. The army correspondents had no power, tlirongli loveor largess, to obtain horses on their February campaignin Tennessee, the second year of the War. The talisman of the Press had lost its equine potency,and most of the war-pursuing Bohemians were compelledto go to the field from Fort Henry over a rough and mirytoad in a pedestrianizing capacity. Philosophers complain of nothing; but, to a vividimagination, the prospect of the approaching fight wastnore unique than fascinating, I fancied the Bohemians wandeiing over the field knee-deep in mud, liable, without uniforms or any badge ofdistinction, to be mistaken by each side for foes, and, inthe event of a defeat, to be ridden down and shot at,under suspicion of being Rebels, in the most miscella-neous and magnificent manner. So I fancied; and my fancies were more than halfrealized. No one cares for a Bohemian, I hope, and no trueBohemian cares who cares for him. If, to speak typographically, he- is set up leaded with a
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THE NE vV. YORK JPUBLIC LIBRARY \ ASTOR, LENOX ; TILDE^N FOUNDATION ; BATTLE OF DOXELSON. 67 sliooting-stick, or his form is knocked into everlasting piby a shell, no column-rule will be turned for him. Therewill be merely one journalist less in the World, and onemore phase of boredom exhausted. For any ill-fated quill-driver who may breakfast withProsei-pine one of these dull mornings, I have composedan epitaph, which nothing but regard for my readers, andthe memory of the deceased that is to be, prevents mefrom inserting here. Well I remember how we of the Press wandered aboutthat hard-fought field, half-starved and half-frozen, hav-ing left our blankets and india-rubbers behmd, andbrought no rations with us ; supposing, as did every onein the army, that the capture of Donelson would bea simple before-breakfast recreation. Few of us, as I have said, had horses; and, beingwithout tents, provisions, or sufficient clothing--particu-larly after the sudden change, on the day of our arriv

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