The Conductor and Brakeman Volume 31 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...When the big logs were fairly blazing and crackling, and the candles were lighted in the brass and iron "soldiers' candlesticks' that went through the war and came home in a soldier's trunk, when the seats were all cozy and comfortable, and the silence had given us time to realize that we who had been separated for a year had come together once more, a brave young voice rang out: "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord." He who had been a captain in his regiment and had gone through four years of marching, and fighting, and trenches, and hospitals, spoke first: "We are getting fewer every year." We knew he meant his comrades, "the boys" of the Grand Army. "Every Memorial Day there are fewer of us to march. We are growing old and feeble." The captain of the Sons of Veterans answered: "To us, the sons and daughters of the men of the Civil War, sacredly belong the duty and the privilege of caring for the men who saved the Union. To us especially belong the uplifting of our country, the upholding of our flag." She who had lived in Washington during the war-time, and had known President and Mrs. Lincoln in their home life, and who had read and sung to the soldiers in the camps and hospitals around Washington, told us of some of her experiences. Then one who went through Burnside's expedition, told us of the battle of Roanoke, one of the early battles of the war, and of his general, Burnside. I have observed that men find it hard to give account of battles, but we had a vivid description of the landing of the men, the struggle through the swamp, of the meeting with General Wise's men. of the battle and the coming of the flag of truce with request for cessation of...