Identifier: boysof61orfoury00coff (find matches)
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
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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them responsible for the bloodwhich had been shed. It was a sad hour to that body of menin gray, wearing the stars of a perished Confederacy. The intelligence of the capitulation was communicated toGrants army by bulletin. As the news flew along the lines onthat Sabbath morning, the cheering was prolonged and vocifer-ous. For the first time in four years the veterans who hadtoiled in the mud of the Peninsula, who had been beaten backfrom Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, who had stood likea wall of adamant on the banks of the Antietam, and theheights of Gettysburg, who had pressed Lee from the Wilder-ness to Five Forks, who had brought him to bay at last, wereto have a peaceful night. Their fighting was over, and there was to be no more charg-ing of batteries; nor long watchings in the trenches, drenchedby rains, parched by summer heat, or numbed by the frosts ofwinter; no more scenes of blood, of wasting away in hospitals,or murders and starvation in Rebel prisons. It was the hour
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GO m o H Cm OH En CfiJ O 1865.) SUEEENDER OF LEE. 55* of peace. In the radiant light of that Sabbath sun they couldrejoice in the thought that they had once more a reunitedcountry; that an abject people had been redeemed fromslavery; that the honor of the nation had been vindicated ;that the flag which traitors had trailed in the dust at the be-ginning of the conflict was more than ever the emblem of theworlds best hopes.

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