James Freeman Clarke

From James Freeman Clarke’s Diary and Correspondence (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1891) [Col. William B. Greene’s Army command outside Washington, DC, November, 1861 – pages 278-282] The whole aspect of the city is changed. It is like a city of Europe,–like Berlin, or Vienna, or St. Petersburg,–but with a difference. For this of ours is not a mere standing army, to be wielded blindly in the interests of despotism, but an intelligent army of freemen, come to protect liberty and law. It is the nation itself which has taken up arms, and come to Washington to defend its own life and […]