The book As Seen From the Ranks; a Boy in the Civil War was written by author Benton, Charles E. (Charles Edward), B. 1841 Here you can read free online of As Seen From the Ranks; a Boy in the Civil War book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is As Seen From the Ranks; a Boy in the Civil War a good or bad book?
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Half of them were loaded with ball and the remainder with blank cartridges, so that even in the firing each might think that perhaps his own shot was a blank; that perhaps he did not really take the life after all. After remaining in this camp for a week, we again strapped our knapsacks and this time marched northward for several days until we came to the railroad. Here we loaded into freight cars at the rate of fifty to the car, and sped on northward over Long Bridge and through the city of Wa...shington, — ^then scarce a prophecy of its present self, — -and away westward by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Our course took us past Harper's Ferry again, — haunted by its al- ready historic tragedies, — where the river which we saw a few hours before floating a navy on its calm bosom here assumes the r61e of a roaring giant as it dashes through the narrow gorge, where it so abruptly deserts the Cumberland Valley. We followed up the river, which, as we FROM VIRGINIA TO ALABAMA 93 sped on, changed its character with the con- summate skill of a harlequin.
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