Wednesday, June 10, 2015

The terrible distinctness of this alternate howling and cheering [during Chancellorsville]--as perceptible to the ear during the thunders of the fight,...--is a striking illustration of the power of the human voice. We were to have another, however, and that of but a single voice, which from the agony of soul thrown into it, and its almost supernatural surroundings, must eternally echo in memory.