Page:War; or, What happens when one loves one's enemy, John Luther Long, 1913.djvu/287

 XXIX

THE LAST DAY

ELL, Kratz had certainly kept us busy drilling and parading, and electing officers as fast as they backed out, and getting uniforms made, and hearing speeches, till it seemed like there were no rebels about any more. I suppose another company could have been raised easy after they saw us drill and parade in our uniforms.

What the people that was left seemed to want now was everything that was Union.

And everybody who wasn't going to fight was just crazy for us to hurry right on to Richmond and end the war and reduce the cost of pork. But I must say, for one, that I wasn't as crazy to take Richmond as I had been. We knew now that it was dangerous. But I don't back out of a game, once I am in it. 271