The Life of General Garibaldi: Translated from his private papers; with the history of his splendid exploits in Rome, Lombardy, Sicily and Naples, to the present time.Garibaldi, Giuseppe
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The Life of General Garibaldi: Translated from his private papers; with the history of his splendid exploits in Rome, Lombardy, Sicily and Naples, to the present time.
Garibaldi, Giuseppe
Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 1807-1882
"1. The place to be given up in twenty-four hours to the troops of
Victor, with the entire armament, arms, clothes, provisions, bridge
equipage, horses, carts, and all else, civil and military, belonging
to
the government.
2. The gates and fortifications to be immediately
given up.
3. The garrison to march out with the honors of war.
4. The forces to go with banners, arms and baggage, 2,000 men
hourly, laying down their arms outside (officers retaining their
swords), and proceeding to Naples on foot, embark for a Sardinian
port. The generals to go to Naples by railroad. The families
of soldiers not to follow the column. The sick and wounded to
remain in Capua.
5. A mixed commission to superintend affairs,
and an inventory to be made," etc.
The scene presented at the surrender is thus described by an American
who was in Garibaldi's army.
"At 7 A.M. we took up the line of march for Capua. The sun rose in all
his glory, after having hid his face for three days. The troops were in
the finest spirits, and decked their arms and colors with branches and
flowers, and as they marched up the road the bands played the opera of
'Don Giovanni,' the troops joining in the chorus, the gay Calabrese
dancing with very joy. With such music as this, with glorious mountains,
and a beleaguered city lying prostrate before us, you can imagine that
we do not sigh for the Academy of Music. At 11 A.M., 12,000 men laid
down their arms in the beautiful plain in front of the city. A sadder
sight I have not witnessed since the surrender of Vera Cruz to
Lieutenant General Scott. The city is now in the quiet possession of our
troops, and all the cities in the valley are illuminated. General
Avezzana's division marched tonight for Caserta, the palace of the king.
Captain Warwick, the young Virginian, is now with Colonel Wyndham, the
gallant commander of General Dunn's brigade (General Dunn having been
severely wounded). General Jackson, a major general of the English army,
has been here for three weeks past, lending his sympathy and his
presence, even upon the field of battle, to this glorious cause. "The
palace and hunting park at Caserta are said to be the most magnificent
in the world."
After the surrender of Capua, the battalions of volunteers were
disbanded, to be reorganized in the regular Italian army, if they wished
to remain in service. They were to be sent to Northern and Central
Italy, and disposed as follows: The Medici division in Parma; the Turr
division in Palermo; the Cosenz in Bologna; and the Bixio in Florence.
Garibaldi asked of the king amnesty for all the soldiers who had
deserted from the Sardinian army to join his expeditions, and the
request was immediately granted to both regulars and volunteers.
Garibaldi decreed as follows on the 15th of October:
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