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Magnolia and laurel grew richer and glossier; azaleas were budding; dog-wood twigs swelled; and somewhere, in some sheltered hollow, a spray of jasmine must have been in bloom, because the faint and exquisite scent haunted all the woodlands. On the 17th the entire army was paraded by regiments to cheer for the fall of Fort Donnelson.
After the battles in the West particularly after the fall of Fort Donnelson terrible rumours were current in the Army of the Potomac and in the hospitals concerning the plight of the wounded of new regiments that had been sent into action with not a single medical officer, or, for that matter, an ounce of medicine, or of lint in its chests. They were grisly rumours.
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