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John Beatty, The Citizen-Soldier; or, Memoirs of a Volunteer, August, 1863. (search)
ear which the General and his son were standing. August, 24 Deserters are coming in almost every day. They report that secret societies exist in the rebel army whose object is the promotion of desertion. Eleven men from one company arrived yesterday. Not many days ago a Confederate officer swam the river and gave himself up. For some time past the pickets of the two armies have not been firing at each other; but yesterday the rebels gave notice that they should commence again, as the Yanks were becoming too d-n thick. August, 26 To-day we were examining a German who desired to be recommended for a field officer. How do you form an oblique square, sir? Black square? Black square? exclaimed the Dutchman; I dush not know vot you means by de black square. As I write the moon shines down upon me through an opening in the branches of the beech forest in which we are encamped, and the objects about me, half seen and half hidden, in some way suggest the half-remembered an