Only a yard or two away from the outermost6 drummer-boy these shadows ended, and a picture began that was full of action and color, and flooded with golden sunshine.
The bandsmen, as they played, observed this picture, and thanked their stars they were no part of it. Better a whole life spent in the shade, than sunlight at such a price as was being paid for it out there in the road!
This road had never before been anything but a narrow, grass-grown, out-of-the-way track for mule-carts. Now it had become the bed of a broad, endless, moving human flood—filling it compactly from side to side, with ever a fresh wave of blue-coated men entering at the rear, where the scrub-oak opening began, and ever a front wave gliding7 off downward from view with that sinister9 slipperiness which arches the brow of a cataract10.
The sense of motion conveyed by these thousands of passing men was at its perfection of rhythm just opposite the band. They were marching in eights, so close together that they trod continually on any lagging heel.
The ranks, when they first came in view, seemed pressing forward without much order. Then, as they drew close to the musicians, they fell into step instinctively11, swung along in swaying unison12 for a few rods, and again lapsed13 into jagged irregularity as they swept downward behind the rock.
It was indeed only this shifting section of the dozen nearest ranks that could catch the strains of the band. The others, whether in van or rear, moved on with their hearing numbed14 by a ceaseless and terrible uproar15 which came from the ravine in front, and, mounting upward, seemed to shake the earth on which they trod.
The musicians might blow themselves red in the face, the drummers beat the strained sheepskins to bursting, and make no headway against this din8 of cannon16.
The men of Boyce's brigade, as they came into the little space where they could hear the music above the artillery17, and caught the step it was setting, hardly looked that way, but pushed forward with eyes straight ahead, and grave, drawn18 faces on which the cheerful sunlight seemed a mockery.
When the band had finished "The Faded Coat of Blue" the sky was still clear overhead, but from the gully below a dense19 cloud of smoke had spread upward to choke the morning light. While the bandsmen paused, blowing their instruments clear and breathing hard, this smoke began to thicken the air about the rock which sheltered them.
In a minute more the front figures of the endless moving chain before them seemed to be walking off into a fog, and the atmosphere was all at once heavy with the smell of gunpowder20.
Curiously21 enough, the men's faces brightened at this. There came a block now somewhere on the road ahead, and the column halted. The regimental flags, with the color-guard, were just abreast23 of the band. The sergeant24 took out his knife to cut one of the furling strings25 that was in a hard knot, and untied27 the rest, shaking out the silken folds of the banners.
"I always untie26 'em when we get into the smoke," he said, speaking at large.
The drummer-boy nearest the road moved over to study the flags. He held his head to one side and scrutinized28 them critically.
"No bullet holes in 'em yet, to speak of, I notice," he remarked to the sergeant, raising a clear, sharp young voice above the universal racket. "Guess you'll get enough to-day to make up!" he added.
The old sergeant nodded his head. "Something besides flags will get holes in 'em, too," he returned, lifting his voice also, like a man talking in the teeth of a roaring gale29.
"What are you? Michiganders?" shouted the boy.
"No—Ohio!" the sergeant bawled30 back. "When they changed the corps31, they brigaded us all up fresh, so that we don't know our own mothers. We've got in with some New Yorkers that ain't got no more sense than to chew fine-cut tobacco. You can't raise a plug in a whole regiment22 of 'em. Regular pumpkin-heads!"
"They'll show you fellows the way, down below there, though!" retorted the boy, his injured state pride adding shrillness32 to his tone. "Ohio's no good, anyhow!"
He instinctively moved beyond reach of the sergeant's boot, as he passed this last remark. Some of the men in the crowded ranks close by laughed at his impudence33, and he himself was grinning with a sense of successful repartee34, when he felt a hand laid on his shoulder. He looked up, and found himself confronting a young, fair-faced officer, who was regarding him with gravely gentle eyes.
"Don't say that about any men who are going out to die," this officer said; and though he did not seem to be speaking loudly, the words fell very distinctly. "I've got a brother at home about your size. So have lots of the rest of us here. We want to carry down there with us a pleasant notion of the last boy we saw."
"I was only fooling!" the drummer-boy rejoined.
There was no time for further words, as the preparatory rattle35 on the drum-edge behind warned him. In another minute he was back in his place, and the band was hurling36 forth37 into the general uproar the strains of "The Red, White, and Blue."
The column had begun to move again. The flags, the color-guard, the young officer with the sad, gentle eyes, had passed downward out of sight, and company after company of their regiment came pressing onward38 now.
The boy, as he kept up with his part of the familiar work, watched these Ohio men swing past. They seemed young fellows, for the most part, and their uniforms were significantly new and clean. Everything about them showed that they were going under fire for the first time, though they pushed forward as stoutly39 as veterans. The boy found himself hoping that a good many of these Ohio men would come back all right—and most of all that young officer who had a brother about his size.
All this while a group of field officers had been standing40 on the ridge41 up above the rocky mound which sheltered the band. Their figures, with broad hats and big-cuffed gauntlets, had grown indistinct against the sky as the smoke thickened. Now they gave up trying to follow through their glasses the movements in the vale below, and turned to descend4.
Their horses, which men had been holding near the musicians, were hastily brought forward, and the general and his staff sprang into the saddle and trotted42 over toward the road.
The end of the column was in view, with its disorder43 of servants, baggage-carriers, soldiers who had lost their places, and behind, the looming44 canvas covers of ambulance-wagons45 and the train. Into the thick of this straggling mass General Boyce, sitting splendidly erect47 and with a bold smile on his rosy-cheeked face, spurred his way, and the staff in turn clattered48 after him down out of sight. The brigade had passed, and the band stopped playing.
Files of mules49, heavily laden50 with stacks of cartridge-boxes, were still pouring along the road and being whacked51 down the ravine path; but the big wagons, as they came, halted, and were drawn off into the field to the left. Tall poles were taken out and set up. Coils of rope were unwound, stakes driven, and huge cylinders52 of canvas unrolled on the grass.
Soon there arose the gray outlines of tents—one dominating structure fully53 thirty yards long, and around it, like little mushrooms about the parent stool, a number of smaller tents, some square, some conical. The drummer-boy, his task ended, sauntered over with his companions toward the tents.
He paused to watch the heavy folds of canvas being hauled up to the ridge-pole of the big one. In one way it recalled those preparations on the old circus-ground at home which he used to watch with such zest55. But in another way it was strangely different.
While some men tugged56 at the ropes or drove in stakes for the guy-lines, others were busy bringing from the wagons rolls of blankets and huge trusses of straw. Even before the roof was secure scores of rude beds were being spread on the trampled57 grass underneath58.
Bearded and spectacled men, dressed after the fashion of officers, yet clearly not soldiers at all, were directing everything now. Among them, here and there, flitted young women, clad also in a sort of uniform, who seemed busiest of all.
No, this was decidedly different from a circus tent. The thunder of the batteries on the other side of the ridge was alone enough to throw a solemn meaning over this long, barn-like house of ropes and cloths. It was the brigade hospital-tent, and the hundreds of active hands at work could hardly hope to have it ready before it was needed.
It was the morning of the second day of the Battle of the Wilderness59. The men of Boyce's brigade knew only vaguely60, by hearsay61, of what had happened on that terrible yesterday. They themselves, forming the rear-guard of the great army, had been nearly the last to cross the Rapidan on the swinging pontoon bridge of Germania ford62. They had had a night's forced march; a two hours' nap in the open starlight; a hasty bite of rations54 at half-past three in the morning, and now this plunge63 in the chilly64 twilight65 of sunrise down into the unknown.
There had been, just before the general advance across the Rapidan, a wholesale66 shaking-up of army organization. Two whole corps had been abolished, and their strength distributed among the three remaining corps. Regiments67 found themselves suddenly torn from their old associates, and brigaded with strangers. Their pet officers disappeared, and others took their places whom the men did not know and were disposed to dislike.
To add to this discontent, there was an understanding that their leaders had been entrapped68 into this Wilderness fighting. Certainly it was no place which an invading army would have chosen for battle.
It was a vast, sprawling69 forest district, densely70 covered with low timber, scrub-oak, dwarf71 junipers, and tangled72 cedars73 and pines, all knit together breast-high and upward with interlacing wild vines, and foul74 underfoot with swamp or thicket75.
In this gloomy and sinister wilderness men did not know where they were, nor whom they were fighting. Whole commands were lost in the impenetrable woods. Mounted orderlies could not get about through the underbrush, and orders sent out were never delivered.
Though gulches76 and steep ravines abounded77, cutting sharp gashes78 through the forest, there were no hills upon which a general and his keen-eyed staff might perch79 themselves and get an idea of how the land about them lay. The Confederates had plenty of this local knowledge, and used it to terrible purpose. The invaders81 could only put their heads down, and strive to crush their way blindly through.
After a little, the drummer-boy put his snare-drum in the wagon46 where the other instruments were, and started off up the ridge, to see what the general and his staff had been observing earlier in the morning.
As he neared the summit, he noticed that the roar of the cannon directly in front seemed to have died down a good deal. There were still angry outbursts, but one had to wait for them now; and a new kind of noise, made up of peal82 after peal of crackling musketry fire, was rising from the gully farther to the left.
The boy had come now to the top of the ridge, only to find it crowned with a thick fringe of alders83 which completely shut out his view. From the roots of the farther bushes the hillside dropped precipitously. He worked his way along until, by a cleft84 in the rocks, an opening offered itself.
Here, stooping low and bending aside the alders, he could creep out upon a big, flat, moss-grown boulder85, which overhung the ravine like a balcony. He had not thought he was so high up. The other side of the gulf86 spread out before him could not be seen for the smoke—but the tops of tall pines growing on its bottom were far below him.
The steepness of the descent made him dizzy. The rock on which he stood seemed to be suspended in mid-air. He drew back a little. Then curiosity got the upper hand. He laid himself face down on the boulder, and edged cautiously forward till he could peer over its front.
The fog-like smoke was so dense that at first he could see nothing. Even when the bearings of the land below, masked as it all was under forest, began to be apparent to him, his ears were still the best guide to what was going on. The confused sound of men's shouts and yells mingled87 now with the intermittent88 volleys of musketry to the left. The cannon-firing had stopped altogether.
He discovered all at once that a good many of the tree-tops in front of him seemed to have been broken off very recently. Some were hanging to the trunks by their bark; everywhere the splinters were white and fresh. Now that he listened more intently, there were weird89 whistling noises among these shattered boughs90 and an incessant91 dropping of leaves and twigs92.
Suddenly a big branch not far away shook violently, then toppled downward. At the same moment a swift ringing buzz sounded just over his head, and a bunch of alder-blossoms fell upon one of his hands. He pulled himself back abruptly93.
Crawling backward out through the alders, he did not venture to lift his head until there was a comfortable wall of rocks between him and that murderous ravine. Then, getting to his feet, he looked amazed down upon the brigade camp, which he had left an hour before. The big tent, and the little ones about it, only a while ago the scene of such bustling94 activity, were all deserted95.
Some of the wagons could be seen rolling and bumping off toward the road to the left under drivers who stood up to lash96 their teams. The white, canvas-hooped tops were the centres of wild confusion.
Other drivers were scurrying97 off on horseback, leading with them in a frantic98 gallop99 groups of the team horses, pulled along by their bunched reins100. The people on foot—doctors, nurses, camp-guards and the rest—were all racing101 pell-mell toward the road for dear life.
Thunderstruck at the spectacle, the boy turned to the right. A long, double line of men had come out through the woods in which the ridge lost itself, and were advancing upon the camp at a sharp run. They seemed dressed in a sort of mud-colored uniform, and they raised a sharp whoop102 of triumph as they came. At the farther end of the line, some of these men lifted their guns as they ran, and fired into the receding103 mass of fugitives104.
Down in front, meantime, the foremost of the advancing line had reached the camp and entered upon possession. They had begun overhauling105 the captured wagons, and were tossing out loaves of bread and hardtack boxes, which their comrades fell upon eagerly. The boy reflected now that he himself was hungry, and he scratched his head with perplexity.
The sound of panting breath close beside him made him turn swiftly. A man had clambered up the side of the ridge, away from the camp, and had rushed up to him, his eyes starting from his head with excitement. He waved something like a short stick, with wild gestures, and tried to shout, but could only pant instead.
He stopped as he came up, stared at the boy, then shook his head dolefully as he gasped106 for breath.
"Is dot you, Lafe?" he managed to groan107. "Oh, my jiminy priest!"
"Look out!" cried the boy. "Lie down!"
Some of the men below had caught sight of them, and two or three sparks and jets of smoke told that they were being fired at. Though they were probably beyond range, it was safer behind the alders, so the two crawled out on the overhanging ledge80.
"I say, Foldeen, have they scooped108 the old band wagon? I couldn't see from here," was the boys first remark.
"Dey von't get 'em my flute109, anyhow," the other responded, holding proudly forth the ebony stock with its silver keys, which he had been waving so vehemently110. "I don't catch me putting him in de bant vagon."
Even as he spoke111 he clutched the boy fiercely by the arm, with a smothered112 exclamation113 of horror. The rock on which they crouched114 had stirred from its foundations, and as the two instinctively strove to turn themselves, it lurched outward, and went crashing down the steep declivity115.
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cataract
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cannon
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artillery
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