Chapter 36 THE ALPHABET

"I stoop not to despair;

For I have battled with mine agony,

And made me wings wherewith to overfly

The narrow circus of my dungeon wall."--BYRON.

On the next day, the 10th, we marched through Culpeper. I recognized the place; I had straggled through it on the road to Gettysburg. Again we went into bivouac early.

That afternoon I aga