An Idyl of War-Times [Illustrated]

Griswold's battery was not destined for a long sojourn in Kentucky's garden spot. The sweet spring weather had wrought a wondrous change upon the landscape and, enriched with leaf and blossom and the many shades of soft carpeting which lay unrolled, stretching far as the eye could reach, the whole country side was beautiful in the extreme. But other changes, which they were called upon to watch more closely, were occurring upon less peaceful and inviting scenes of action, and Griswold had not long returned from his sad journey to the East, before they were off again, for Vicksburg. But of their participation in that campaign, the struggle against hardship, and exposure and oppressive heat, and the low fevers of the bayous and the marsh-lands, the gradual investment of the city, its resistance, and ultimate surrender, this narrative has nothing to do.