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[75] military qualities had given him. He made no converts; and the remnants of his regiment, obliged to enter into an agreement for evacuating the place with the enemies who surrounded them on every side, returned to the cities of the North, where they met the comrades so long separated from them, who were flocking to the defence of the national cause. New dangers had in fact sought out, in the bosom of civilization, these men thus once more brought together by the same sentiment of duty. The national cause needed all their devotion, for the evil which had sown such seeds of treason in an army must have been deeply rooted, and those sad examples of desertion were but a symptom of the blindness and self-deception which precipitated the South into civil war.
Philadelphia, Jos. H. Coates and co., 1876.
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