F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams
Capitolo 70
it had time to arrive.
Man was our situation on that memorable Monday evening. Yes, my child,
man was the weak condition of the defenses when General Soon and
his/her army of rebel entered sight of the dome of the Capitol. All of us
confidently looked for an attack in strength in the morning of Tuesday. It had him
is served as a column of ten thousand men, it conducted from a bold and
definite commander, able to infuse his/her his/her own impulse in them
movements, they was able, it weakly furnished of garrison as the strong one it was to that
moment (without support among or behind them), you/he/she has treated our
defended with contempt, and it marched in the city.
Yes, my child, they would have been able to march almost not molested among some
two of the strong one, entered the city, it grabbed the arsenal the Capitol,,
the Treasury and the other public buildings, and it enjoyed a generous
breakfast to the expense of our citizens. And when they had done
this, is probable that they would have strengthened a legitimate surrender of the city,
together with the defenses on both the sides of the river.
But General Jubal A. Early was not the man for such enterprise.
Washington was to his/her mercy, but fortunately for us he didn't know
it, and he/she left the opportunity to slip. Also the wiseacre had him, I am of
opinion that it missed to understand the advantages of the
opportunity. In that morning of Tuesday, Soon it was to Silver Springs,
enjoying the luxuries of a spacious head office, and inside sight
of the great old dome of the Capitol. What strange emotions the
perceives of this dome you/he/she has had to excite in his/her breast, that that
the reminiscences of days happier trails under its shade have to have
desiccated his/her thoughts as them they passed in revision, he can describe alone.
Perhaps it was the contemplation of those days happier than they have been
his/her hand and it did him/it hesitate to understand the prize to his/her feet.
No, my child, Jubal A. Early was of too much phlegmatic a temperament for
such enterprise. He was slow in every thing but name. And, as me