one looked for it he saw only peac^jful citizens engag'ed in their 

 usual occupations. 



The General whose martial achievements had been repeat- 

 ed in almost every lan^uaofe under the sun, was seen amid his 

 papers in his old law office, which he had left at the call of his 

 country — the brave Colonel, who had led many a gallant charge, 

 was in his counting house, acting- as though he had been absent 

 only a few days on business, while the veterans of the rank and 

 file, whose battle shout had rung over many bloody fields, could 

 only be found by name as one bent over his saw and plane, and 

 another swung his sythe in the harvest field, or plied his humble 

 toil along the streets, ft was a marvelous sight, the grandest 

 the world ever saw. ft had been the people's war — the people 

 had carried it on, and having finished their own work, quietly 

 laid aside the instruments with which they had accomplished it, 

 and again took up those of peaceful industry. Never on earth did 

 a government exhibit such stability and assert its superiority over 

 all other forms, as did this republican government of ours, in the 

 way its armies disappeared when the struggles was over." 



A few days was spent in Washington during which we 

 visited the Capital building, the White House, the Patent office, 

 the Smithsonian Institute and other places of interest. 



Left Washingten June 7th via the Baltimore and Ohio 

 R. R.. arriving in Parkersburg, Va., on the 9th, One interesting 

 feature of this trip was our passing through 29 tunnels between 

 Washington and Parkersburg, one said to be a mile long. Con- 

 tinued our jouney by steamboat to Louisville, Ky., where we 

 remained in camp several days, during which time we were paid 

 off, those of us who had veteraned receiving in addition to the 

 regular monthly wages, the four hundred dollars bounty, and 

 having plenty of money, circuses, theaters and other amusements, 

 were well patronized. 



Mustered out of the United States service, July ITth, 1865. 

 by First Lieutenant Aug. P. Noyes, A. C. M., Third Division, 

 Seventeenth Army Corps. 



Arrived at Camp Butler, Illinois, July 20. Received final 

 payment and discharo-e, July 27th, 1865, and next day was taken 



