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Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz), I. First months (search)
es of prisoners, some 600 in all, were marched past, on their way to Washington. They looked gaunt and weary, and had, for the most part, a dogged air. Many were mere boys and these were mostly hollow-cheeked and pale, as if the march were too much for them. Their clothes were poor, some of a dust-color, and others dirty brown, while here and there was a U. S. jacket or a pair of trousers, the trophies of some successful fight. Some were wittily disposed. One soldier of ours cried out: Broad Run is a bad place for you, boys. Ya-as, said a cheery man in gray, but it's puty rare you get such a chance. An hour before daylight came General Warren, exhausted with two nights' marching, and a day's fight, but springy and stout to the last. We whipped the Rebs right out, he said. I ran my men, on the double-quick, into the railroad cut and then just swept them down with musketry. I got up and gave him a little brandy that was left in my flask; he then lay down and was fast asleep in