The
Men, Moreover, Were Less Muddy Than Their Brethren Either East Or
West Of Them - At Any Rate This May Be Said Of Them As Regards The
Infantry.
But perhaps the greatest charm of the place to me was the beauty of
the scenery.
The Green River at this spot is as picturesque a
stream as I ever remember to have seen in such a country. It lies
low down between high banks, and curves hither and thither, never
keeping a straight line. Its banks are wooded; but not, as is so
common in America, by continuous, stunted, uninteresting forest, but
by large single trees standing on small patches of meadow by the
water side, with the high banks rising over them, with glades
through them open for the horseman. The rides here in summer must
be very lovely. Even in winter they were so, and made me in love
with the place in spite of that brown, dull, barren aspect which the
presence of an army always creates. I have said that the railway
bridge which crossed the Green River at this spot had been destroyed
by the secessionists. This had been done effectually as regarded
the passage of trains, but only in part as regarded the absolute
fabric of the bridge. It had been, and still was when I saw it, a
beautifully light construction, made of iron and supported over a
valley, rather than over a river, on tall stone piers. One of these
piers had been blown up; but when we were there, the bridge had been
repaired with beams and wooden shafts.
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