Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-04-01

! These Virginia miles especially are OF
the good Old-fashioned kind and adhere
to their specified number of yards, poles
| and perches with all the tenacity with
which an old-style Virginia gentleman
treasures the imnaculateness Of his shirt
collar.
one o'clock, two O'Clock and a sort of
lull sensation creeps over you and yol
walk as if invoIuntarily, feeling as though
you could go to sleep on your feet anG
still mechanically follow your file1eader
Your brain stupefed by fatigue and loss
of sleep, you seem to move no longer
by force of will but of habit. Suddenly
there is a stop, the column divides in
the middle, half to one side of the road
and half to the other, and in less than a
minute you are dreaming about home, a
feather-bed or something else equally alb
surd and impracticable. Then, in an un-
reasonably short space of time, you hear
somebody say fall in !, you see your
comrades moving off silent as phantoms,
and by an Herculean effort you hasten
to your place in the column
''Who wouldn't be soldier at last
some fellow sarcastically exclaims; 81
fights NIT Sigel, facetously attempts
another, and then the wit of the com
pany who has been perfectly silent and
unthought of for the last four hours
breaks in with something so inexpressi-
bly, droll that you laugh just because you
are-too tired to help it. Blessed are such
wits-and every company has them
Excepting only the very heat of battle,
there is no time when they will not have
their Joke, and good laugh at such a
time as this is better than champagne.
You feel afterwards as though you could
stand 1t uI dayngnt, OF winch the first
faintest blush begins to appear in the
moonless heavens.
August 9th. The sun was Just rising |
as Milroy's Independent Brigade of /
Sigels Corps arrived within sight of Gull |
pepper. Mr.. Greeley's statement in the |
American Conflict (p. rs, Vol. III, |
that Sigel arrived too late to be of use /
this day must therefore be a mistake. |
Equally erroneous must be General |
Pope's declaration in his official report /
that Sigel's delay in obeying the order to /
march retarded the arrival of his Corps I
so as to make it impracticable for that /
Corps to be pushed to the front on the /
afternoon of this day as he (Pope) says
he intended. General AIilroy, on his ar
rival at CulpePper, marched his troops
into clump of woods east of the rail
road as a convenient place to rest them
from their fatiguing night march. Here
they remained until nearly szlna0zOzt.
1t is presumable that General Pope knew
of their arrival, and had he contemplated
moving them to the front had ample op-
portunity to do so. This is true, at least
so far as Milroy's brigade is concerned,
though this part of SigeI's command
must have set out for Culpepper before
he (Sigel) received an answer to his in
quiry about the road, as General Pope
states that that inquiry did not reach him
until 6:3o the previous evening August
8th), and return message could not
have reached Sigel until a much later
hour than Milroy left Sperryville. If,
therefore, Sigel's entire command started
for Culpepper at the same time MilrOy's
brigade did, it must have arrived in time
10 be moved to the front at any hour af-
-er sunrise of the 9th.
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