These were all blended in an inextricable clamor.

With the unrefined eminently, and in a considerable degree with the most refined, noise is one of the essential elements of festivity.

A thousand men were making all the noise they could in this midnight revel.

Probably never before, since the dawn of creation, had the banks of the Alabama echoed with such a clamor as in this great carouse, which had so suddenly burst forth from the silence of the almost uninhabited wilderness.
This is the poetry of war.

This it is which lures so many from the tameness of ordinary life to the ranks of the army.