It's a time of trial and of tribulation;
but it isn't a-going to last. The children of Israel were forty
years in the wilderness, and so it may be with us. The day of
deliverance will come.'
"At this moment the little girl began again to cry, and he
addressed himself to soothe her.
"This was not the only group I encountered. Some women had come,
down to the river with children half-bereft of their senses--some
apparently supposing that we should rob or murder them. The rebel
leaders and newspapers have so persistently reiterated these
assertions, that they have come to believe them.
"The third day was unusually lovely, but our hearts were too
anxious to admit of our enjoying it. The rebels were entrenched
on heights behind the town. It was necessary that these should be
taken, and about noon the movement commenced. Our forces marched
steadily across the intervening plain. The rebels reserved their
fire till we were half-way across, and then from all sides burst
forth the deadly fire.
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