Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1859 — An Army at Rest. [ARTICLE]

An Army at Rest.

Tha Albany Evening Journal remarks that “there is one army which will never quit Italy. It sleeps on its arms in an eternal bivouac. New recruits join at an average of a thousand a day. They are picked men, the bravest in both armies—the foremost in every battle. In twenty-seven days Italy has been strewn with twenty-seven thousand corpses—poor fellows that sought an epaulet, and found a grave. A thousand fell in the various early >kirmishes. A thousand marked the invasion of Garibaldi. Nine hundred French and Sardinians perished at Montebello. Two thousand Austrians perished on the same field. Two hundred Zouaves were killed at Palestro. As many Sardinians died with them. Four hundred Austrians were drowned in the canal. More than twenty thousand must have fallen in the action at Buffilora and Magenta.” The Journal then speaks, by name, of the many distinguished.officers killed and wounded, also adding: “But this is the ‘fortune of v.ar.’ There must be death or there can be no promotion. A dozen eager hands are ready to grasp the baton as it falls from the hand of the dying Marshal. A dozen hearts burn for the gold epaulets whose last, owner lies dead i• i the. ditch. From the General of divisions down to the sous-lieutenant, each finds his commander’s corpse a stepping-stone to his own giory.”