Theodore Winthrop

“ A track without a train is as useless as a gun without a man. Train and engine must be had. “Uncle Sam’s mails and troops cannot be stopped another minute,” our energetic friends conclude. So, — the railroad company’s people being either frightened or false, — in marches Massachusetts to the station. ”

“ Many of us will remember it, and show the marks of it for months, as the day we had our heads cropped. By evening there was hardly one poll in the Seventh tenable by anybody’s grip. Most sat in the shade and were shorn by a barber. ”