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Show Cheered on by OTiinIc. Tho cry was "On to Richmond!" in the early spring of 1862, and the army of the Potomac separated. Some were sent to Fort Monroe and other points south. Tho German division went down through tho Shenandoah, Sumner Sum-ner in csmmand at iirst, then Fremont and afterward Sigcl. I was with the latter, nnd many and many a long and 'wearisome inarch we had, says a writer in the New York Tress. Finally, one day, we came to a branch of the Shenandoah. Shen-andoah. There were no pontoons and we waded across, the water up to our shoulders. We kept marelring along, our wet clothing catching and retaining the dust. We were just about getting dry when we struck tho same river and waded it again, to our exceeding discomfort. dis-comfort. Later on the same day we were sickened sick-ened with tho sight of another turn of the river. The Thirty-ninth regiment, New York volunteers, were in advance when the order was given to wide across. They kicked and refused, and, the rear coming up, a block and con-' con-' uslon ensued. A musician of the Thirty-ninth, an E flat cornet player, who was one of the jolliest men I ever knew, made a rush for the river, wadod in until the water reached nearly to his armpits and began playing an exquisite ex-quisite waltz. The sight of that fellow playing under un-der such circumstances was so comical that the soldiers, forgetting all diseom-foilo, diseom-foilo, cheered him, nnd when he had finished followed him with a rush, and the division encamped on the other side for tho night. |