The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1864-03-23

ocans corps has been homo Snd has ro,u rned
Re over aud The veterans agan
AZ the rons a. least greet proporiou. Urcasion
ally regiment passes South light hearted fellows, wt
light step, who go b'ck gladly. You good eople AZ
me may hoct at and rsviie the expression but Is
true Tho were all glad 10 get home and FIR ia
FIRST week they enjoyed ~ but have heard rAany OF
them say mat y was wearsome after lhat. Toys Who
c,me firm home three years have grown gray 70 ex-
perence Men don't live 10 be veterans without iearn.
Ing habta and getting confirmed IN tbems They have
seen an age compressed into that ms and have perhaps
learned more than they would have learned 10 ten years
Of peace You win find them lost TO homo and given
TO the world They have learned to Think TO speak and
acs for themselves. rnsy have, than all this.
learned to grappe with the world overcome time and
circumstance and CONQUER al Opposition. ana mere
among the young.
Bat benefit has been derived from this furough hnsi.
ness Of which do not think the projectors droamod
They did NOS think that in every veteran whom they
for the country aud the fascinating orators
TO the audiences they foundhe orators who th n their
they cad Insn they came away they len behind Ihom
sixteen and seventeen years old luDberiy schooiSoys
whom, On their return. they nsa grown INTO %sas she
70 have sprung up In their absence. And, wish hsse
TO haten, how tho veterans talk The first camp story
ntsress, tha first skrmish tale eyces the first battle
poem influences. They themselves neglected by the
gnls. Boys OF twenty ere very vain. They SEQ tho
veterans made heroes Of md they determine to be vete
and after three years and God willing long before,
thoy will hack be loved and lionized And thus
paas through eo the 'front.' that each hs brought his
follow with him You will be surprised ut the pumber
Regiments thac went home two hundred strong
Tack with throe hundred recrus--hats hearty young
fe,lowswhc taught the ways Of veterans. The
aunbrnt eiow whese elbow touches ne.s In the line,
g the best surgeon in the world and Will tell them how
70 take OF themselves before disability death
comes and musters them out They have at hand the
full experience OF their and venture
TO Say thar tho future records OF the medical corps
win reveal tho fact that far less proportion OF
the recruits for thcso veteran regiments will have
been dismissed for bling diseases then Of the oriena
levies But In regard the bers, i've hundred
turn many instances where two hundred 10 homo
Oftentines the proportion Is less fkeow of several IN
stances where Is greater the Twenty sixth Illinois
went nome two hundred and eighty strong and re-
| turned eight hundred strong. The Seventh Pe1rsv
vania cayary--a regiment viegh has done work
with The sabre than my Other In the field 10 this depart
meet-went oome about five hundrsd strong They camo
back few days ago fourteen hundred stronR. | er-
toto end the chspter which hes incontnently growl
vofrrnnousI told by officer acquainted with th,
mastering in OF the rese1listCg that for every
IL ,usard men sso went homo on furough feeoT
| hundred Lave rsturned.
| GENERAL GRANTS STAFF.
senc you the general order which organized III
BtaT OF Gene raj Grant commander OF this military
division. II lis interesting fer reference, If for NOTHING
| eise:--
1 GEyEnsL ogDEss-No. I.
HHsDQUAR TIERS, MILITARY DIVISION THE MrcslssrrY
NfEHviiLE, Tenn, Feb. II, 1864 !
The folio sing named officers compose the stt OF th
General mmaudng ba oheyed md