The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1867-05-22

ness of the night to greet the cottages in
the suburbs.
At length the last "tattoo" rang through
the woods, in notes clear and strong, yet
of the five thousand stalwart Kentuckians
first brigaded under Breckenridge, atBowl-
ing Green, KY, (the only change made,
the Fifth had the place OF the Third regl-
mert,) not thousand answered to their
names. Of the missing thousands, hun
dreds slept on battle.ields where they had
fallen; their ears forever deaf to the ebugle's
call. In wounds and in sickness many
hundreds had died, their graves being
marked in !. nr,y every State of the Con
tederacy, and many had died in Northern
PRISONS. No wonder the light OF the
camp-fres which reflected in the bronzed
faces of the warriors, that stood up at the
roll-call, revealed traces Of sadness, for
their thoughts were of the absent. The
winds murmuring SO softly through the
leafy branches overhead were even then
chanting solemn dirges among the pines
that grew above the graves of their fallen
comradcs-graves that were scattered far
and wide, and far from the care of loved
ones at home.
Yet, when the ranks were broken, and
while around the fires q moment to finish
their pipes ere giving themselves to slum-
Der, sad feelings were forgotten. and, in
true soldier style, the laughing jest was
sent and the cutting repartee received all
torgetful of the past and careless as to the
future.
Scoa the camp fires smouldered, quiet
the gittering stars, pecring through the
green canopy above, kept sentry over the
sleeping warri0rs-f0g ;. + the war was Y over.
After Sherman had marched from Sa-
yannah into the Carolinas, the brigade was
attached to Young's division, Hamptons
corps, and was on the Santee river, in
South Carolina, contending against a raid
from Charleston under Foster. when John
sons order surrendering the department
was received. The troops had been fight
ing severaldaya after the order was issued.
Their battles ended where Marion fought,
and now they slept under the trees, near
Washington, waiting the new events of
the morrow. For four years they had
been together IN the tcdium Of the camp,
the monotony of the dril-feld, OH the wea-
risolnc march, in the bivouac, and ottimeS
on the ''periluus edge OF the battle They
had marched among the SHOWS of Ken
lucky and Tennessee in mid-winter. and
had marched under the burning sun of
Louisiana in.the heat OF summer. Their
spirits were never down. They had ever
laughed at hardships, and frolicked in the
midst of danger-nevcr despondent in dis
aster. The morrow would free them to
again seek peaceful vocations, yet they
had slept as soundly on battle-felds, sur
rounded by the dca' and the dying, know
inc the morning would bring a renewal OF
the conflict.
BY noon the next day, eth, the troops
were all paroled, and had scattered off,
leaving the grounds deserted. The even
ING before details had carried the arms to
General Lewis quarters, where they were
piled in heap. Soon after, Capt Abra-
haln- Lot, the Federal Provost Marshal,
with his clerk, came out to 81 on the pa
roles. They were the only Federal soldiers
present at the surrender. The paroles of
one or two regiments were signed that
night.
The military bonds that had bound the
members Of the cold brigade" together for
four wears of warfare were severed, but
the ties Of friendship woven between them
during that time will last forever. Now,
when they meet in the civil walks OF life,
the kindling eye and the warm clasp OF
hands indicates their companionship thro
that period, when the God OF War lifted
high the bloody sword and the earth trem-
bled beneath tile shock Of battles.