Post by art on Oct 19, 2008 18:51:56 GMT -4
Pvt. A Custer begs to report a successful encampment last week. Two days & one night in the campus Oak Grove. Wave after wave of young men (mostly loyal Union men) came out to camp to hear stories of Company B and learn about the life of a soldier.
I also wanted to share this quotation from Barry Benson, a veteran of a North Carolina regiment (quoted by Shelby Foote in Ken Burns' movie). I always find it haunting:
"Who knows but it may be given to us, after this life, to meet again in the old quarters, to play chess and draughts, to get up soon to answer the morning roll call, to fall in at the tap of the drum for drill and dress parade, and again to hastily don our war gear while the monotonous patter of the long roll summons to battle?"
"Who knows but again the old flags, ragged and torn, snapping in the wind, may face each other and flutter, pursuing and pursued, while the cries of victory fill a summer day?"
"And after the battle, then the slain and wounded will arise, and all will meet together under the two flags, all sound and well, and there will be talking and laughter and cheers, and all will say: Did it not seem real? Was it not as in the old days?"
I also wanted to share this quotation from Barry Benson, a veteran of a North Carolina regiment (quoted by Shelby Foote in Ken Burns' movie). I always find it haunting:
"Who knows but it may be given to us, after this life, to meet again in the old quarters, to play chess and draughts, to get up soon to answer the morning roll call, to fall in at the tap of the drum for drill and dress parade, and again to hastily don our war gear while the monotonous patter of the long roll summons to battle?"
"Who knows but again the old flags, ragged and torn, snapping in the wind, may face each other and flutter, pursuing and pursued, while the cries of victory fill a summer day?"
"And after the battle, then the slain and wounded will arise, and all will meet together under the two flags, all sound and well, and there will be talking and laughter and cheers, and all will say: Did it not seem real? Was it not as in the old days?"