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Reception of Civil War Troops
Reception of Troops
when longing for home and friends, dusty and weary, they were so kindly received and so humanely treated by the manly officers of these steamers, and they will never forget how their steps were made light and their hearts gladdened as their eyes first glanced on the blue waters of Lake Erie, and those steamers that were to bear them so near their homes which they so much longed to reach.
As a general thing the western troops, especially the sick and wounded, on passing throngh cities, towns, and villages, on their way from the field, received, during the entire war, a most cordial and generous reception, and especially so at Pittsburg, Penn., where a continuously open house, night and day, was kept, in which the tables were loaded with bounteous repasts, while the fair daughters of Pennsylvania were the waiting maids. "They shall have their reward. "
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