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91. Western Soldiers
May 26–7.—THE STREETS, the public buildings and grounds of Washington, still swarm with soldiers ...
90. The Grand Review
FOR two days now the broad spaces of Pennsylvania avenue along to Treasury hill, and so by detour...
89. The Armies Returning
May 7.—Sunday.—TO-DAY as I was walking a mile or two south of Alexandria, I fell in with several ...
88. Death of a Pennsylvania Soldier
Frank H. Irwin, company E, 93d Pennsylvania—died May I, ’65—My letter to his mother.—DEAR MADAM: ...
87. Releas’d Union Prisoners from South
THE RELEAS’D prisoners of war are now coming up from the southern prisons. I have seen a number o...
86. No Good Portrait of Lincoln
PROBABLY the reader has seen physiognomies (often old farmers, sea-captains, and such) that, ;beh...
85. Sherman’s Army’s Jubilation—Its Sudden Stoppage
WHEN Sherman’s armies, (long after they left Atlanta,) were marching through South and North Caro...
84. Death of President Lincoln
April 16, ’65.—I FIND in my notes of the time, this passage on the death of Abraham Lincoln: He l...
83. Wounds and Diseases
THE WAR is over, but the hospitals are fuller than ever, from former and current cases. A large m...
82. A Yankee Antique
March 27, 1865.—SERGEANT CALVIN F. HARLOWE, company C, 29th Massachusetts, 3d brigade, 1st divisi...
81. Scene at the Capitol
I MUST mention a strange scene at the capitol, the hall of Representatives, the morning of Saturd...
80. Inauguration Ball
March 6.—I HAVE been up to look at the dance and supper-rooms, for the inauguration ball at the P...
79. The Weather—Does It Sympathize with These Times?
WHETHER the rains, the heat and cold, and what underlies them all, are affected with what affects...
78. Attitude of Foreign Governments During the War
LOOKING over my scraps, I find I wrote the following during 1864. The happening to our America, a...
77. The Inauguration
March 4.—THE PRESIDENT very quietly rode down to the capitol in his own carriage, by himself, on ...
76. The Capitol by Gas-Light
TO-NIGHT I have been wandering awhile in the capitol, which is all lit up. The illuminated rotund...
75. Southern Escapees
Feb. 23, ’65.—I SAW a large procession of young men from the rebel army, (deserters they are call...
74. Female Nurses for Soldiers
THERE are many women in one position or another, among the hospitals, mostly as nurses here in Wa...
73. Burial of a Lady Nurse
HERE is an incident just occurr’d in one of the hospitals. A lady named Miss or Mrs. Billings, wh...
72. Boys in the Army
AS I walk’d home about sunset, I saw in Fourteenth street a very young soldier, thinly clad, stan...