O! thus be it ever when freemen shall stand Between their lov'd homes and the war's desolation, Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n rescued land, Praise the Power that hath made and preserv'd us a nation! Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this is our motto: "In God is our Trust." And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave! THE GREAT THEATRE OF THE CIVIL WAR. II. THE GREAT THEATRE OF THE CIVIL WAR. On to Richmond--Horace Greeley's Editorial Standard--The Conflict's Ebb and Flow--The Two Battles of Bull Run-- Arlington--Manassas--McDowell against Beauregard--Lee and Jackson against Pope--Antietam--The Emancipation Proclamation--Fredericksburg--Burnside against Lee-- Chancellorsville--Lee and Jackson against Hooker--Death of Stonewall Jackson--Guinney Station--The Wilderness--Mine Run--Grant's Southern March--Battles of the Wilderness-- Spottsylvania--Hanover Court-House--Ashland--Richmond-- The Capitol--Washington's Statues--Stonewall Jackson's Statue--Confederate White House--General Lee's House-- The First House--St. John's Church--Patrick Henry--Libby Hill and Prison--Belle Isle--Rocketts--Hollywood Cemetery--Noted Graves--McClellan's Siege of Richmond-- Drewry's Bluff--Chickahominy Swamps--Fair Oaks--Seven Days' Battles--Gaines' Mill--Cold Harbor--Malvern Hill --Harrison's Landing--Grant's Siege of Richmond--Second Battle of Cold Harbor--Bermuda Hundred--Petersburg-- Capture of Richmond--Kilpatrick's Raid--Piedmont-- Charlottesville--University of Virginia--Monticello-- Thomas Jefferson--Shenandoah Valley--Cross Keys-- Jackson's Exploits--Cedar Mountain--General Sheridan-- Cedar Creek--Sheridan against Early--Luray Cavern-- Battlefield of Gettysburg--Lee Marches into Pennsylvania-- Hooker Resigns--Meade against Lee--Gettysburg Topography --Seminary Ridge--Cemetery Ridge--The Round Tops-- Confederate Advance to Carlisle and the Susquehanna--Three Days' Battle--Reynolds Killed--The Round Tops Attacked-- General Sickles Wounded in Peach Orchard--Ewell Repulsed at Cemetery--Pickett's Charge and Repulse--Cushing and Armistead Killed--High-Water Mark Monument--Lee Retreats --Gettysburg Monuments--Jenny Wade--National Cemetery-- Lincoln's Immortal Dedication--Valley of Death-- Massachusetts Color-Bearer--The Reunited Union. ON TO RICHMOND. Lay down the Axe; fling by the spade: Leave in its track the toiling plough; The rifle and the bayonet blade For arms like yours were fitter now; And let the hands that ply the pen Quit the light task, and learn to wield The horseman's crooked brand, and rein The charger on the battlefield.