F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams

Capitolo 37

Voluntary well it fed recently enlist, well it dressed, and fresh
looking, you/he/she was marching in the city with colors that badminton and drums
striking. The militia that had come to Washington to do ornamental
the duty for thirty days, house was marching with colors that fly and
beating of drums. None of these you/he/she could give us relief in our trouble.
The nation only had the good old army of the Potomac to tilt above himself/herself/themselves in
this his/her day of trouble. And as few of us, my child they think about this
you properly care him, or you/he/she is prepared to give the brave men that composed
that army, accredits for what they had done. As the English, we am,
a people demanding, and plain tilted to ask to too much of those that fight
our battles. Some of our public men were for forgetting that that those
sun-scorched, worn-out, and fever-stricken heroes had done for us on
the Peninsula, and also to dry out their record of heroism.

I confess it was to me a sad and touching sight to see these
soldiers that had served so well their country in that you/he/she had suffered
swamps, and it fought and it defeated the enemy, treated with what seemed
to me the criminal indifference in the very capital one they is returned
rescue. They murmured their dissatisfaction to the loss of their favorite
commander, but it was ready to go on again, lotteries with the
hostile, and struggle for the life of the nation. But not a voice was
raised by the government to thank them for what they had done, not a
consuls to give the welcome one their return. You have to know my child that the,
government was mute with fear. The ghost of its errors frequented him/it this way
what its lips were sealed. The people looked on and saw it, in his
the a lot of weakness, asking stronger hands to come and to help out it
of his/her trouble.

There was, my child but an army and a general that could save the
nation then. George Generale was that man, and the army was the good one
old Army of the Potomac. And the government, as whether to confess his