The Rum, Thanks To Similar Moderation,
Holds Out, And Will Last Some Time Yet.
"New York is be-flagged and be-bannered to a wonderful extent.
Every
street is disfigured by huge streamers, some right across the street,
others out of windows and from the tops of houses - while each occupant
tries to vie with his neighbour in this sort of loyalty, till there
seems almost to be hypocrisy in it. 'Stars and Stripes' everywhere, and
on all occasions, opportune and inopportune. The main public place in
New York is half filled by ugly wooden sheds, used as military store
rooms and barracks, and, every now and then, with a frequency which is
startling, are the head-quarters of all sorts of Volunteer regiments -
American, Irish, German, Dutch, French, and Scotch. These rooms are
adorned with flags, and transparencies showing the costume of the
corps, or the portrait of the colonel, or general, shown generally on a
big prancing horse, and sporting a savage-looking beard. All along the
roads and routes - everywhere almost - are tents and wooden sheds, the
encampments of companies and regiments; and every now and then bands
and recruiting parties parade the street, and draw crowds of people
after them. The mothers of America have taken up the question, too, and
there are societies to make lint and bandages for the wounded, and to
stitch together clothing for the new companies. Little Zouaves are
plentiful - red vest, blue sash, and red fez and breeches.
"The day we arrived, the New York Firemen Zouaves (7th New York)
returned from the defeat at Bull's Run - 380 out of 1,000, who left two
months ago under a young fellow named Ellsworth, as colonel.
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