ander, they rejoiced
at this mark of attention to the necessities of the country, which
removed an Officer, notorious as a leader of reserves, and placed them
under the care of a man high on the list of fighting Generals.
"Waterloo," says the historic or rather philosophic novelist of France,
"was a change of front of the universe." The results of that contest are
matter of record, and justify the remark. At Warrenton a great Republic
changed front, and henceforth the milk and water policy of conciliating
"our Southern Brethren" ranked as they are behind bristling bayonets, or
of intimidating them by a mere show of force, must give way to active
campaigning and heavy blows.

A rainy, misty morning a day or two after the review, saw the Corps pass
through Warrenton, en route for the Railroad Junction, commencing the
change of direction by the left flank, ordered by the new Commander of
the Army. The halt for the night was made in a low piece of woodland
lying south of the railroad. In column of Regiments the Division
encamped, and in a space of time incredible to those not familiar with
such scenes, knapsacks were unslung and the smoke of a thousand
camp-fires slowly struggled upwards through the falling rain. Its
pelting was not needed to lull the soldiers, weary from the wet march
and slippery roads, to slumber.

At early dawn they left the Junction and its busy scenes--its lengthy
freight-trains, and almost acres of baggage-wagons, to the rear, and
struck the route assigned the Grand Division, of which they were part,
for Fredericksburg. "A change of base" our friends will read in the
leaded headings of the dailies, and pass it by as if it were a transfer
of an article of furniture from one side of the room to the other.
Little know they how much individual suffering from heavy knapsacks and
blistered feet, confusion of wagon-trains, wrangling and swearing of
teamsters, and vexation in almost infinite variety, are comprised in
these few words. It is the army that moves, however, and the host of
perplexities move with it, all unknown to the great public, and
transient with the actors themselves as bubbles made by falling rain
upon the lake. The delays incident to a wagon-train are legion.
Occurring among the foremost wagons, they increase so rapidly that
notwithstanding proper precaution and slowness in front, a rear-guard
will often be kept running. The profanity produced by a single chuck
hole in a narrow road appe