The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1861-06-01
rHRorcH THE CITY.

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1HE NEW YORK SEVENTH REGIMENT.
oUR xAkcn nOwAsHixeTox.
| rHRoreH THE crrY.
At 3 O'Clock 10 the afternoon of FRIDAY.
April 18th, We took cur peace maker. n
neat twelve-pound brass howitxer. down
from the Seventh Regiment Armory. and
stationed in the rear Of the building. The
/ twin peaee-maker is som ew here near Us. but
entirely hidden by this enormous crowd.
/ An enormous crowd of both sexes. Of
/ every age and condition. The men offer
1 all kinds of ,ruculent and patriotic hope. !:
the women shed tears and say, 's God bless
| you, boysi"
| This is part OF the town where baddi.b
| cigars prevail. But good or bad, am or.
dered to keep all away from the gun. So
the throng stands back, peers curiou.ly
| over the heads Of its junior members. and
seems to be taking the measure Of nv
coffin.
After1a patient hour Of this, the word i,
given, We fall in, our two guns End their
places at the right Of the line Of m arch, We
move on through the thickening crowd.
At great house on the left, as We pass
the As.or Library. see handk erchief
waving for me. Yes! it is she who made
the sandwiches in my knapsack. They we're
'rife too thick, as afterwards discoy.
cred. but otherwise perfection. Be these
my thanks and the thanks Of hungry com.
/ radTs who had bites of them!
At the corner Of Great Jones street We
/ hasted for half an hour-then, everything
real Is. We marched down Broadway.
! l. was worth life, that march. Ooly
| one who passed, as we die, through that
| icmacs. Of cheers, two miles long, can
/ know the terrible enthusiasm Of the coca.
sion. ! could hardly hear the rattle of our
| own gun carriages, ard only once or twice
/ the music Of cur band came to me mutl
and queled by the upi oar. We knew now,
| il We had not before OWNED it, that our
| great city was with US, as one man, utterly
| united in the great cause We were marching
| to sustain.
This grand fact learned BY two senses
| ii hundreds of thousands roared it into nv
ears, thousands slapped it into my back.
/ Ny fellow citizens smote me on the knap-
| sack rs ] went by at the gun. rope, and en-.
| couraged me, each in his own dialect.
"Bully for you!" alt-rnated with benet,ic.
| tions, in the proportion Of two "buliics"
/ to one blessing.
! was not so fortunate "a 10 receive more
| substantial tokens Of sympathy. But there
were parting tokens showered on the regi-
| mens. enough to establish a variety shop.
! liandkerchicfs, Of course. came coating down
upon Us from the windows, like shower
of snow. Pretty little gloves pelted us with
| lovr.,aps. The sterner sex forced upon us
| peck ct knives new and jagged combs, sonp,
| slippers. boxes of matches, cigars by the
dossn and the hundred, pipes to ,.smoke
~ nS.. s.,
eggs and sandwiches. One fellew got a
new purse, with ten bright qnarter eagles.
At The corner Of Grand stree. or therea-
bouts. a "bhoy' in red nannel shir. and
dress pan,aloens, Icaring back against the
crowd, with IIerculean shoulders, called me
-. Snav. bully, take my dnrg he's one
| Of the kind TINT holds till he draps!" This
gentleman, with his animal, was instantly
showed back by the police, and the Seventh
lost the Sc dorg."
Taese were the comic incidents Of the
mareh, but underlying oil wns ihs tragic
sentiment that We might have tragic work
presently to do. The news OF the rasca!ly
attack in Baltimore, on the Massachusetts
Sixth, had just come in. Ours might be
the same chance. If there were arv Of us
not in earnest before, the story OF the day
would steady us. So We said good bye to
Broadway, moved down Cort'andt street
under bower Of flags. and at half past six
showed of in the ferry-boat.
Everybody has heard how jersey City
turned out and filed up the raiirond sta.
lion, like an opera-house, TO give God-speod
70 ~ rs a representative body. n guaranty
. Of the unauestioning LOYALTY Of the "eon.
serva.iye class in New York. Everybody
has heard how the State Of New jersey,
along the railroad line, stood through the
evening and the night to shout their quota
Of good wishes. At every station tho DER
seymep we're there, uproarious as .jersey-
men. Ia shake our hands and wish us .
thnrpy disratch. think did not see roo
Of ground without its man, from dusk tii
dawn. from the Hudson to the Delaware.
Tpon the tram we made jolly night o'
ii. All knew that the more man sings
> the better he is likely to fight. SO we sans
more than we slept, and in fact, that ha'
l. been our history every since.
: PHILADELPHIA.
At sunrise We were at The station II
: philadelphia, and dismissed Tor an hour
Some hundreds Of Us made ur Broad stree
for the Lspierre House to breakfast. Whe'
| arrived. 1 found every place at the taei
filed. and every waiter ten deep with order
So, being an old campaigner, ] followed ol
the stream Of provender 10 the fountain
head, the kitchen. Half dozen other OH
p campaisne-s were already there, most nos
,, pitatly entertained by the cooks. Ine
served Us hot and hot. with the best OK tnei
best, strnisb, from the gridiron aud the pan
hone, if I live to breakfast AGAIN 40 10
Larierre House. that l may be able 10 nel
myself and choose for myseif below STAIRS
We: We reaaezvoused at tue train,
y found tha. the orders we're for cary man
30 provide himself three days ratieoe N 20
- neigahorheod, and be ready for . 6srs a.
'is moments notice. :,
A mountain Of bread vas already pile
up at the station. l stuck ny oayoo'
through a stout loaf, and. with desc
, comrades armed in the same way, vet
forseins about for other r;rsrs. ~
II vas a poor part Of PhiladslpAia -ns
a. whatever they had in the chops or 10 u
y. houses. seemed to be as our disposition:
sa I ssorped at \ corner shop % ask &c
81 pork, and vas amicahly assaiied By sn es'
nd mes, dame Irish. l am pleased to say. .
,hrus. her last leaf upon me, and sigae
- that il vas not baked that morning Ter
"houor's service.'
.. A little further on, two kindly onss'
ladies compelled me 10 step 10. rn'
ceald they do s"s they asked eagerly. In
=. ~ had had no meat 10 the house; eus ecu
-. We ea, eggs? They had in the house
dozen and half, new laid.s So, sae p
=, to the ere. and the egg. boiled, and oaeg'
hy my.elf and ,ha. tall Saxon. nav iF'e'
va E., OF the Sixth Compsnv. Whiletae 81
- s,mmered. the two ladies ihse- ed q pfsye
fully and tearfally. hoping that God Won
.r. save our country fren blood, uulsss haos
70, mat be shed to preserv. Law and Laoeft
Nothing definite from BAlsimcrewasn
returned TO the station. We stosd g
RI w.s,iue orders. About noon the kien
Massachusetts, Regiment took the ua