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I remember them all, and many more, and especially the fine theatre on Broadway near Pearl, in 1855 and '6. There were very good circus performances, or horsemanship, in New York and Brooklyn. Every winter in the first-named city, a regular place in the Bowery, nearly opposite the old theatre; fine animals and fine riding, which I often witness'd.
One night in the gloomiest period of the war, in the Patent-office hospital in Washington city, as I stood by the bedside of a Pennsylvania soldier, who lay, conscious of quick approaching death, yet perfectly calm, and with noble, spiritual manner, the veteran surgeon, turning aside, said to me, that though he had witness'd many, many deaths of soldiers, and had been a worker at Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, &c., he had not seen yet the first case of man or boy that met the approach of dissolution with cowardly qualms or terror.
"Aye, the immortal is a-trippin' it i' the New Jeroosalem: but the mortal was very lamentably took wi' a fit, three days back the same day, young man, as thou earnest wi' thy bloody threats." "A fit?" "Aye, sir, an' verily such a fit as thou thysel' witness'd. 'Twas the third attack an' he cried, 'Oh! he did, an' 'Ah! just like that. 'Oh! an' then 'Ah! Such were his last dyin' speech.
The President came betimes, and, with his wife, witness'd the play from the large stage-boxes of the second tier, two thrown into one, and profusely drap'd with the national flag.
Last night and to-day rainy and thick, till mid-afternoon, when the wind chopp'd round, the clouds swiftly drew off like curtains, the clear appear'd, and with it the fairest, grandest, most wondrous rainbow I ever saw, all complete, very vivid at its earth-ends, spreading vast effusions of illuminated haze, violet, yellow, drab-green, in all directions overhead, through which the sun beam'd an indescribable utterance of color and light, so gorgeous yet so soft, such as I had never witness'd before.
Truly 'tis better by far in the wide-spread Danäid leaguer Robbing of guerdon achiev'd whosoe'er contradicts thee in presence! People-devouring king! O fortunate captain of cowards Else, Agamemnon, to-day would have witness'd the last of thine outrage!
The Fool of Nature stood with stupid Eyes And gaping Mouth, that testify'd Surprize, Fix'd on her Face, nor could remove his Sight, New as he was to Love, and Novice in Delight: Long mute he stood, and leaning on his Staff, His Wonder witness'd with an Idiot Laugh; Then would have spoke, but by his glimmering Sense First found his want of Words, and fear'd Offence: Doubted for what he was he should be known, By his Clown-Accent, and his Country Tone.
How the time passes away! To think it is over a year since I left home suddenly and have mostly been down in front since. The year has vanish'd swiftly, and oh, what scenes I have witness'd during that time! And the war is not settled yet; and one does not see anything certain, or even promising, of a settlement.
Bold warriors of Erin, I hereby proclaim, That the world never witness'd your rivals in fame; Bold sons of Macmurraugh, Macarthy, O'Neill, The armies of earth at your sight would turn pale. A flash from your eyes would light England's last pile, And a touch give her sceptre to Erin's green isle.
One of them, J. L., lies there with an amputated arm, the stump healing pretty well. The grand soldiers are not comprised in those of one side, any more than the other. Here is a sample of an unknown southerner, a lad of seventeen. At the War department, a few days ago, I witness'd a presentation of captured flags to the Secretary.
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