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Iv to the distant ethereal crepts of the Alleghany mountains, which gazed solemnly i (l»wn on the broad consecrated coliseum, j where gladiatorial hosts were soon to pour j out their blood in the hideous orgies held ,by loathsome fanaticism, guarded by Fed- j eral bayonets, and canopied by the Stars ' and Slripes, once so pure. jI On the night of the 4th of July—dayever sacred in the annals of the history of I North America—the Confederate army i moved out from Gettysburg in the direction of Hagerstown, Sid., and puraned the even tenor ot its way, over the worst roads imaginable, until the morning of July14th. The command had now been marching almost day and night for about ten days, and wearv and complete!* exhausted. Miose of Heth’s division who had survived the terrors, dangers and perils of the previous fourteen days, threw themselves lt;n the ground near a little place called “Falling Waters,” Md.. and were j soon aroused by the crv of '‘Yankee cav-9airy,” and fonnd the bivouac completely surprised by the enemy’s cavalry. Here ensued a scene which beggars discriptiou. Friend and foe were blended into one common mass. Cries of “surrender,”were heard on nil sides. The sharp crack of
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New Bern Our Living and Our Dead
New Bern, North Carolina, US
Wed, Mar 25, 1874
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