The immense stores of provisions at the depot, the stacks of clothing and other necessities, the huge piles of fodder and grain for the horses ;
The flaring illuminations, the sweating gangs work- ing beneath them, ceaselessly receiving, sorting, distributing ;
The field guns, the hea\y artillery, their ponderous steady movements through the villages ;
The stout-wheeled wagons full of dangerous, costly ammunition ;
The roaring trains, arriving and departing, some laden with supplies, some packed with hu- manity, alive or dead ;
The vast and systematic commissariat, the grist of war.
6.
Behold the columns, advancing, advancing, ad- vancing ;
Tramping steadily onward, seen behind on the hills, and seen ahead to the distant turn of the road ;
Streaming along the valleys, gaining and crossing the passes, flanking the mountain ranges, net- ting the land with a lethal web ;
Accoutrements flashing and jangling, thunder of tread, regular motion swaying and undulating the lines ;
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