Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1864-04-08

THEIR REC1UITs.
The Nashville correspondent Of the New
York Herald, writing Of the return Of The
gay old veterans to the front, with the boys
who have gone with them, says:
The rnsnwere all glad to get home, and
for the first week they enjoyed it; butI have
beard many q thcn say that it was weari
some after that. Boys who came fremh ONE
three years ago have grown gray in expert
cnce. Men don't live to be veterans without
learning new habits and getting confirmed in
them. They have seen IN age compressed
into that time, and have perhaps learned more
than they would have learned in ten years of
peace. You will find them lost to home and
given to the world. They have learned to
speak, think and act for themselves. They
have, more than oil this, learned to grapple
with the world, overcome time and circum.
stances aud conquer all opposition, and there
Is fascination in such struggles which al.
ways wins devotees among the young.
But benefit has been derived from this
furlough business, of which l do not think
the projectors dreamed They did not think
that in every veteran whom they furloughed
they were sending home an orator to plead
for the country, and the most fascinating of
oil orators to the audiences they found-the
orators who tell in their own plain style, the
inexhaustable pleasures Of the life they lead.
When they came away, they left behind them
sixteen and seventeen years old lubberly
schoolboys, whom, on their return they find
grown into what the veterans were three
years ago. A new generation seems to have
sprung up IN their absence. And with these
10 listen how tho veterans talk The first
camp story interests, the first skirmish tale
excites, the first battle poem Influences
Ihey see themselves neglected by the girls
BOYS oftwehty are very vain. They see the
veterans made heroes Of, and they determine
to be veterans; and after. three years, and
God willing, long before, they will come back |
to be loved and lionized. Aud thus each vet |
eran is recruiting otflcefs and weAsee. N he |
passes to the front, that each hae brsusht |
his fellow with him. You win b surprised
q the number Regiments that went home
two hundred strong come back with three
hundred recruits-hale, hearty young follows
who are soon taught the war Of veterans.
The sun.burnt fellow whose elbow touches
TIERS in the line, Is the best surgeon in the
world, and will tell them how to take care Of
themselves before disability or death comes
and nusters them out. They have at hand
the full experience of their veteran compan.
ions; and venture to say that the future
records of the medical corps will reveal the
fact that far less proportion Of the new re-
eruits for these veteran regiments will have
been dismissed for disabling diseases than of
the original levies. But in regard to the
number, five hundred return in many instan-
ces where two hundred go home. Oftentimes
the proportions is less. know Of several in.
stances where it is greater. The 26th Hin.
eis went home 2Sl strong and returned 800
strong. The 9TH Pennsylvania Cavalry-a
regiment which has done more work with
The sabre than any other in the field in this
northumberland home about 500 strong.
fhey came back few days ago l, 400 strong.
am told-to end the chapter which has in
grown voluminous-I am told by
an officer acquainted with the mustering-in
Of the Ie.cnlisting men, that for every thou,
sand men who went home on furlough over
Fifteen hundred have returned.