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Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, The Passing of the Armies: The Last Campaign of the Armies., Chapter 4 Five Forks . (search)
Chapter 4: Five Forks.
After such a day and night as that of the 31st of March, 1865, the morning of April 1st found the men of the Fifth Corps strangely glad they were alive.
They had experienced a kaleidoscopic regeneration.
They were ready for the next new turn-whether of Fortunatus or Torquemada.
The tests of ordinary probation had been passed.
All the effects of humiliation, fasting, and prayer, believed to sink the body and exalt the spirit, had been fully wrought in them.
At the weird midnight trumpet-call they rose from their sepulchral fields as those over whom death no longer has any power.
Their pulling out for the march in the ghostly mists of dawn looked like a passage in the transmigration of souls — not sent back to work out the remnant of their sins as animals, but lifted to the third plane by those three days of the underworld,--eliminating sense, incorporating soul.
The vicissitudes of that day, and the grave and whimsical experiences out of which we e
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, The Passing of the Armies: The Last Campaign of the Armies., Military order of the Loyal Legion of the United States : headquarters Commandery of the State of Maine . (search)