[A NIGHT IN THE WATER.]
[ON A LATE VENDUE.]
[THE RIDE TO CAMP.]
[THE TRUE STORY OF LUIGI.]
[COMMUNICATION.]
[HOUSE AND HOME PAPERS.]
[SERVICE.]
[MADAME RÉCAMIER.]
[THE WELLFLEET OYSTERMAN.]
[CHARLES LAMB'S UNCOLLECTED WRITINGS.]
[PAUL JONES AND DENIS DUVAL.]
[THE FUTURE SUMMER.]
[DEMOCRACY AND THE SECESSION WAR.]
THE
ATLANTIC MONTHLY.
A MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS.
VOL. XIV.—OCTOBER, 1864.—NO. LXXXIV.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by TICKNOR AND FIELDS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
A NIGHT IN THE WATER.
That was a pleasant life on picquet, in the delicious early summer of the South, and among the endless flowery forests of that blossoming isle. In the retrospect, I seem to see myself adrift upon a horse's back amid a sea of roses. The various outposts were within a five-mile radius, and it was one long, delightful gallop, day and night. I have a faint impression that the moon shone steadily every night for two months; and yet I remember certain periods of such dense darkness that in riding through the wood-paths it was really unsafe to go beyond a walk, for fear of branches above and roots below; and one of my officers was once shot at by a Rebel scout who stood unperceived at his horse's bridle.