The moon, rising above the mountains, revealed the long lines of men and guns, stretching far across hill and valley, waiting for the dawn to shoot each other down, and between the armies their dead lay in such numbers as civilised war has seldom seen. So fearful had been the carnage, and comprised within such narrow limits, that a Federal patrol, it is related, passing into the corn-field, where the fighting had been fiercest, believed that they had surprised a whole Confederate brigade. There, in the shadow of the woods, lay the skirmishers, their muskets beside them; and there, in regular ranks, lay the line of battle, sleeping, as it seemed, the profound sleep of utter exhaustion. But the first man that was touched was cold and lifeless, and the next, and the next; it was the bivouac of the dead. LIEUT.-COL. G. F. R. HENDERSON, C.B. _Battle of Antietam, 1862_ September Eighteenth He's in the saddle now. Fall in, Steady the whole brigade! Hill's at the ford, cut off; we'll win His way out, ball and blade. What matter if our shoes are worn? What matter if our feet are torn? Quick step! We're with him before morn-- That's Stonewall Jackson's way. JOHN WILLIAMSON PALMER [From lines written within the sound of Jackson's guns at Antietam, 1862. Although then a correspondent of the New York _Tribune_, Dr. Palmer was a Southerner by birth and residence.--Editor] _Lee awaits McClellan's attack at Sharpsburg, 1862_ September Nineteenth As a deputation from New England was one day leaving the White House, a delegate turned round and said: "Mr. President, I should much like to know what you reckon to be the number the rebels have in arms against us?" Without a moment's hesitation Mr. Lincoln replied: "Sir, I have the best possible reason for knowing the number to be one million of men, for whenever one of our generals engages a rebel army he reports that he has encountered a force twice his strength. I know we have half a million soldiers, so I am bound to believe that the rebels have twice that number." LIEUT.-COL. G. F. R. HENDERSON, C.B. _Lee repulses attempted advance across the Potomac after Antietam, 1862_ _First day at Chickamauga, 1863_ September Twentieth