Chapter 26 A BROKEN MUSKET

"What seest thou else

In the dark backward and abysm of time?

If thou remember'st ought, ere thou cam'st here,

How thou cam'st here, thou may'st."--SHAKESPEARE.

When the train of wounded arrived in Richmond, it was early morning. Many men and women had forsaken their beds to minister unto the needs of the suffering; delicacies were serv