Washington as a Camp/“Partant pour la Syrie”

by Theodore Winthrop

“Partant pour la Syrie”.

I should have been glad to stay and see my comrades through to their departure; but there was a Massachusetts man down at Fortress Monroe, Butler by name, — has any one heard of him? — and to this gentleman it chanced that I was to report myself. So I packed my knapsack, got my furlough, shook hands with my fellows, said good by to Camp Cameron, and was off, two days after our month’s service was done.