On the twelfth we
arrive at Lowell, and while here we receive the first news of Lee's surrender
to General Grant. Sherman's grand army seems wild to-night. The pineries ring
for Grant and the Union. Victory has come at last, and the bronzed and stalwart
men who have tramped across a continent, make the air vocal with their happy
cheers. The morning of peace cometh; we already see its welcome light peering
from behind the curtains of war's long dark night.
SOURCE: abstracted
from Daniel Leib Ambrose, History of the Seventh Regiment Illinois
Volunteer Infantry, p. 303
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