, 1861-10-26

1e writer. Enter hastily, pushing his bony
o1se to full gallop, an orderly from head
uarten. It is dispatch BY military tele-
raph. Gen. Mcclellan is over the river. Or
I'm body guard to make ready for marching
any kour, with one days ratious and t,oo ez-
a rounds Of ammunition.
This caused sensation. That Last little
int suggested and presupposed matters
IT Chicago troopers had contemplated, but
=ver 60 nearly In Washington at least, not to
,b some Of them of 1aure1s won In Western
iIginia- call council Of Hsr, issue my
Wn orders to myself, and In. compliance
herewith take the field. resolve to 60 into
amp. Charley Barker will give me shake
own in his tent. here desire to record the
.ct that were every ounce Of sleep in tho i'm
lutahle srder Of things assigned to that
hakedown, worth one gold dollar, lid not
etson the amount BY pennyWorth. nor
Tactlon Of q mill.
For, mark Jon, just as the clock told ten,
lp c1attered the trooper sadly mIsnamed at
hat hour as orderly, and the dispatch resd
o the effect Of ordering the Dragons to be |
It Chain Bridge, eight miles up the river, at |
h1ec O'Clock, signed Mcclellan. I
Macbeth murdered sleep once remember. t
Not to be irreverent nor unmindful Of the |
.ono1s due head resting On shoulders worth. !
lly ctnBteUated, C muet say know another |
= Msc' that did the same thing that Saturday |
night. All. then and teere Was hurrying to |
ana fro. No sleep till morn II any one
thinks any Of these expressions familiar, I
beg to say I 60 not dare to trust printers
twelve hundred niles away with Quotation
mSrks.
I stuck to my shake down, but did not
sleep. The camp was all alive. It WAS set
tied that there WIS stern work for the NOR
row, and THAT nonow the Sabbath. It Was
probable and impending a. fair construction
Of orders that tue reporters were at last right,
and "a battle imminent"
One days rations ordered after dark re-
CURED cooking, or the meat did, and at the
camp fires the psrk sizzled and eplnrtered as
If it had caught the prevalent zeal aud Vas Ia
was busy maa th.toight; an n unitai,n vas
served out, arms examined. The horses mar
yelled much at midnight feed, but troop
horses neyer allow thenss1 Tres to be surprised,
aid 60 1ouncied away in their nosebag7 as If
determined that # die they must on the NOR
row it should not be Of iuanition. Talking OF
horses, there will be ample time before the
call to"beot and saddle" to give paragraph
to two horses. Amid all the Stir of the camp,
came sounds Of equine distress from the stable
|, Of fine sorre1, Fox" destined to bear the
Captain On the morrow. Fox groaRed and
coughed and groSned again. You wonld, I
equine distress Was seldom more Severe. I
pitieG him. Not so tie boys, with Thon poor
Fo1'a 1anentings we're N abundant cause of
me1riment- They said ii was an old Western
Virginia trick Of his always and ever to be
loud aud lugubEious in his sham suffering, to
escape the saddle If possible, When tell you
tlas Fox went his thirty miles Of the ride sue
ceCdiRg, In excellent style snd, the first Nile
past, complained no more, you will agree that
the animal Is cute enough for the service. He
&c 1,x,f 1,,o1- ~, S, 1fu nF
Chicago and deserves this mention Next,
"old Bunker" he was the anImal I selected
to bear me to the fray. chose him for ser
eral reasons. One was, be Yas thin. in one
direction presenting the slightest possible
mark to the enemy. 10 vas tall, and usefui
points about him, BONE good. some bad, and
come you might hang your hat on. He had
legs wherewith to run, and 1t might be Bull
Rnn again, and to leap, like deer, the boys
said, and We might and did have cross county
riding. For al these reasons I carefully
that I could get no other: Old Bunker I asso-
|. csate in my mind in double harness ss one
| might say, With the steed that carried the
| pnmpki1-pelted pedagogue Of Sleepy Hollow.
| }As midnlgbt, breakfast. stored array pork
! aEd potatoes and bzesd and coffee In my hay.
eIEack and Otherwise about NE. I male .
tearty meal in that noon Of night, and when
shoot and saddle" came, went out and clam
bered up On old Bunker *steed, said I, !" Il
raay be the sun Of Austeriitz tomorrow, viii
thou be true ?" and not neigk said Bunker
"For1eord;n And Of nc. went- The moo1
AID the chill made the heavy army overcoa
comfortable. By fours NE wound out Of tn
camp ont upon Fourteenth street, silently
save to the Gathering Of scabbards and th
tread Of steeds: From my elevated position
Oh old BurIer, bade good to treope
I fripY3a 7kff he t37E n THAR facrHf 'A3thAr
necessary guards Of the camp, or fncapscitt
| ted for duty. Not Z man that night did SC
| who, in the full conviction Of battle Impend
ing On the MORROW, was not even more tha
cheetful Awaited long, it had come at las
We moved off down Fourteenth street on
quiet walk. We hsd started early to spal
our hortea for what might be stiff day
business beyond the PotoEac. Tho who
city about Us lay dim, obscure and Silent, sa1
where the :dtep rumble atar tsld Of passl1
: | wheels snd We Joized them to Ind long tra
! of artillery aud ammunition wagons.
Then eawi some ambnlznces, aud MT
about the same feeling with which you noti'
the sulky Ct the physician in front Of yol
Ie1ghbo1s house. Our column Wended l
way ltlaure}y out over Georgetown brids
capital. Al but we were silent Is the gray
= In lorg grim rows Of buildings not light.
8 miles Of streets L, at tue head Of the colum
G saw before us no aign Of life. It was evide
b that no orderly had gone over to wake up t
orderly borough of Georgetown, snd if ne d
J. It in passing, they nade no sign.
z Ont and over the hill and down upon t
Ie bark Of the Potomac. The long line sf his
wooded shore over the river vas dotted be
u and there BY the tiickcfigg Light Of camp fir
1t Arlington House WEB lighted up. Assured
a. those over fhe 6ater, those encamped on
- SACRED soi'' are even as VIE under orde
u And 10 they were. In III the army Of the T
+ tomac, within cannon shot Of Washlngte
70 e7e1T soldier Was under aIIns. Up anott
n. 1oad comes the head Of long column Of q
q airy, and a. we pas they I'LL IL behind Us:
u al the deeper gloom for itz shadoE.: Passt
d, from the homes OF men, the night air
re broken. Think, h1ys, We gave - I And
- horse opera, the t'star .Spangled Banner
es tole1able style, for two O'Clock n the morai
in. 4 ta1l Ve1msnte5 PAGES up and down ser
=. ~ the entrance. Another he ha.releve1is il 1ol
D., in a blanket and testing tho soft side q
,ta plank He elept not long that night. Grt
lte Mountain boy forgive me for my share Of
'7s l were gutta percba and boiler iron, must b
III gwen yon cold, perhaps the horrors Of
ate tnritis.. Don't know til Happy G. II B.
M A sudden t1emor runs through The hor;
The altitudinous Bunker hath the teri
OF ague, and being ta1lest had the e211iest a.ts
ag' and 10 marvel, tot yonder comes down
er. read something that might test sto1te1 t
~, equine nerves. Dimly and dark It lpom
wv the air, &waJiug to aud fro, and with an u
age rent massiveness to which the obscurit
SOL tie night lent effect.
It Is Lowe's great balloon. EaT them
49, aating it at the gus WoEks YESTERDAY, and 4;
md with three men in the basket, and hesi
80 held closely down BY twenty five men '
ely guy ropes, they toxed It steadily ak
~ mounted the bridge, walked oIer It on
IT'S, string pieces. led it gradually mp the bank
~ Thres, fonT, and presently the gray Of d
; It grew lighter. Nov We could see she 2
bid, mac Is it poured its full and turbid cur
pel aeroes foIds where once Bsauregard N
no have marched his army where now he ca!
1oz. just as once be might have led them :"
4o3' now and never he may not
The wind fresheoa. The clouds begi1
hss move IN large rolling masses, the light tncl
Nv. 60 and night L. gone. A little later aad n
,as stand III The deep shadow Of the eastern
aefe OF the 1iTer, With an effect never shall
aer2- geh gush Of bright mellow sunlight eut1
nsti, w. tHs ofpesate Eee covered slope s:1ess
y <lfeF, lending Q T1chuesH to the varied tin
sN' aua0np, = P, Hecs flood Of sunshine, vel
Ohio to Us night watchers, now fur past the
,ar,y ~hsn nc we're to have beeu ms: by othe
""A'' ders.
Just then above the tree tops over the
riEes huge misahapen mass, rolling, swe
ce In ard swinging rs It a.cend.. It vas the
i to Icon broken lis Eettiug, snd away it
per and We watched until cloud received ]
.k.a If our sight.
soea Now before md behl I'd us, up md dow
R.v. ri1fr. as lar a tau eYs ean roscn, NJ sc
erzy- rn:d filed with tort-m'., cavalry dEa
fox artillery. L little later and \ few fl ID g
r,d= up with their o1der1es. AfsHlo Ion
hat Of directions to this aad that ckptaIi
|ora. ! HrpaTe TO mo,snt," 'sf7sox.&," sad I q