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144 campment by thousands of manly voices, and every loyal heart seemed inspired by the glorious sentiments which it contained. {{block center| Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grape of wrath is stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword; His truth is marching on. Chorus — Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glor}^, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah! His truth is marching on. I have seen him in the watch-fires of a hundred circUng camps ; They have builded Him an altar in the evening's dews and damps; I can read his righteous sentence by the dim and flaming lamps; His day is marching on, etc. I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel : As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal ; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel, Since God is marching on, etc. He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before his judgment seat ; 0, be swift, my soul, to answer Hun I be jubilant, my feet I Our God is marcliing on, etc. In the beauty of the lilies Christ was bom across the sea, With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me : As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marcliing on, etc. }}

The roads were so indescribably bad at this time that the army could make but little progress. I remember it required thirty-six hours for one train to accomplish the distance of five miles. However, after several days wading through mud and water, the troops reached the White House,