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North Shore News-Letter (1907), 9 May 1908, p. 10

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for 113 days... There we: note any or night as which there were“ no soldiers mm The meechins sheik burst 'over bur hold: while we Vere sleep- tug. hut. wonderful to- ',ton the en!- dlem had become so used to this con- Met the? may last very "Mo slim" m eefiquwfioe 01‘ tie mini and [item firing at aunt 3' ‘~ . . URINE the latter part of the -. war, in 1864, and until its close». in 1865, I was cone heated with the «rule: under ‘ Gen. Sherman, usually‘deeig- , . nated the Army of the Ten- nessee. the Anny of the Cumberland and the Army '01 the Ohio, wrote Mad. - Gen. 0. 0. Howard. The campaigns were exceedingly active. From Chat- ,tunooga to Atlanta Sherman's soldiers were undér the every day, except the In than W ‘of 118 days there were 19 sizable battles fought. In one at- t‘uck I made at Pickett'l Mill 1 lost 800 killed and three time: a many wounded within the Waco of 15 min- utot. At night I silt among the wounded ‘md realiged something of the hon-on of war. It seam: to me to as! u I think of it like 3 terrible nightmare. but it w a more terrible rugity. which I wiil not attempt to :19 When I come to think of the‘“lla.rch «gm. fie!” Ind Inter the “March firm the Catalina," what occurs to my memory first Is the exceeding biannual; d the ‘Ioldlen. They re- nown-dime“: from their wounds: I mean hem thou tint were not, too numer- end there we: scarcely any mile“. But when Columbia wn on Iris n untold number oeflehed in the > “Warsaw or re 'st '1)- Without further detail, imagine the r, m a they other-ed about Mom. ;.Nc.,in1m,ndnretoidthetue “had surrendered end thet Grant had em. Lee's midi!” home to begin life :newh tint John-ton had surrendered 'ontheumetermluIaeandalithnt “.me to Slocum’e, Schoiieid’e Ind Howud'l armies were in march on *_.the marrow, toward Washington, the capital of the nation. soon to be mus- tered out of service antithen to go home. I remember the sudden dept-es. um: at the news of Lincoln: death; but still this going home produced too great. a joy to keep ever this catas- trophe of their heavy ions very long before their minds. They marched habitually. at 29 miles a day from Raleigh to Richmond, and .never seemed weary at the cloud;r of hay day‘ I marchâ€"~the camp are was hright. » . ...j’7“.§.3.;ig‘ we: and fiver min and the comradeship knitted during the war would newt- cease-it was at its best when the word “hence" tilled til the air ‘ . ‘ mules.‘ sun more perished from so «deem explosion _°¢ ooniederste shells at Coimbis and Chenv. We like to turn sny from the mended corpses sud distorted {ms of the wounded met cannot be described. I feel the same honor sud depression in View otthese things ss I did". Gettysburg, where on both. sides Ip- wsrd at 60,000 men vote placed I01" do combat. For seven! dsys poor rei- iows. union and oonfederste soldiers, welted in petienee, unattended by sur- geons, simply because there were not enough or them. W s march~the camp fire was ”159$, ”WWK-%%“éfl 1-35;; JL‘QI‘fifid‘fovel-J min and the commieehlp knitted during the war would newer ceaseâ€"it was It its best when the word ’petce" filled til the nit I know that we were proud when ww- , _ :7 > W - .‘~- -,. A '3, - , ,1“ . We. i “alumna/91'7". my“ ‘ ell of it. There is in every nr I. when of mansion. n destruction of prover ty and a degradation of cheructer hard to ovoid hi. the bout 1 know that the" he some thing: worse than death 3 know that the union of our lumen we: aw puuho president of the worth all th t it cost, and I know that no; t 1;- ~ WW “Lam wail! ‘view‘; but, as i rememb‘; it. it wee a central magma thenn A regiment hid gone out 1,000 strong; it hedheen recruited ind ton-certified; it hnd been "tel-Inland end edded, to In other ways; end now it wu bringing home ion the: m of all the men'who had me out-from that section-of the country m which ~it had name. '1‘!» Joy of going home for the 300 was no“, but it we: I turf“! joy the in- ehn Vomthmht o! the 800 or more who d my home, who neyer‘dfd At 'fi'flh '8“ that we uhould be purged a: by are; but is it not wine now to do all the: we gun to hold up to the world tbc blessing: of a great peace; even tho pom that ‘ peeeeth understanding which never must exclude any of thu noblest qualities of a womanly womlx or u manly man? 'A ml full of memorial greetings a ll] our .‘eorrowing.comraden oi the chi WI f. uncontaminated: so hozmao.~ who' vex-é hurled somewhere in the broad land over which the 300 had numbed. and .too often with h Madmen. marked "Unknown? After the Va I stood In- the lam~ «motel-rm:- [Whom Tenn, with Gen. x. 8.1mm (mew-m pmldent) and In. Hun. I remem- ber how «In. Bayou. who m an ex- ceedlnzly handsome wanna. ,lookod is ~a :E' g! i ii ”'Sfigg _S E E ! tho m' cometary.“ unnumtIItvoulboflmbm mMNhfloMuuMoad luv. u nest “much In (noun: tint no nettle“ sud unusual: not that o! lit. than for dutyrtor that one sincerely believe. to be duty. in. ever been or over will be and. in an. m un- um w rugs-mum. “that of Chancollonvme, A! (What! tho Inn: of Burn- “ mt 0mm {mud to m on destruction. Tho lino- ot bu. In]! on- circling Banded. palm of flack. moons“... Itmllkontnp Into which III nun-l doliborluly put- in i feet. We um the trip. Ind it In t in“ that Lee had not Mt with Burn-How any it tho sturdy Thom- dnlt with Hood'c a Nashville. 1 on no In my nhd'u eye thou Inna-o plateau- la mm o! the Km. Heights um other confidante lntronchnontl and cadet covered with the do“ and dying. The pluton- were blue. a they wore dotted with. the wearer: of our nnitom. Gen. Couch wu standing by my side In the ammo o! 3 church. ml tho clone of thnt battle. when we loath" were akin; I h'uh recounolunoo. when I noticed that his vole. tumbled n he spoke «a m. H. am: “Oh. Goa. Howud. look than! Look there! See the mud covered with the boy! in blue. and an to no purpose." After We had returned. m of or who mm return. to the othor shore of the month-annex. the dopm'don oftho scum m greater than u my other time during the war. We could hardly [nook to etch other. Now, after yarn. in; can recognize the not um our grief VII balanced by tho joy oi the confederate.’ over a great victory. and yet not a. decisive one, guinea by them. _ At a modem: calculator: than were sent Into eternity more than I' million 0! men. who left home Inna prime of health and In strength; more than I million a! noun by the tern-{bu conflict. For one, I am glad. indeed thnt more in In eflort on foot to let- tlo dlmcfilueu without Mood-had: 0! ‘ Minonuloumm' Next to I lack of mm: In I!“ omcucy of Whit we can do come: the blight!“ dread of expelling our warns-u um our littlonen to othcrg. Bu! .3 it may be. it in yet true “up! many wonky nonl- Ihfig!_.fl°t out! 2:¢um-WWE§‘AV’TI“ rm“ that we shouldbe purged u by are; but In It not Vite now to do all' that we can to hon! up to the world thc bléssim of 0. mm beace; even the pm thug ‘ panseth understanding which never must exclude any of thc noblest gunmen of a Roman]: womb: or a mnniy man? _-_-_ __‘..__,_ ___-_ -v' trm' their Emma. plums-c dunno, but their highs», noble“ opportuni- tleo, from the mere dread of bola; laughed mâ€"Jmkm Lloyd Jon». Romantflanmdau.tony ohm. [mod to W' M b one vacuum! OW ”- mm mum at ooh-Ill sown-OI!- TN Mot calculi m M .1" non! fldicnloulb ml! “In!“ in tho “It". and the! do not our". u percentage of tho bu“- dlot nut 50 Mt to the Insulation. aha lmnhovuullnpmofbtum umhpfldhyfiomuwhw. "MOI“- He ago no" how um ovum wflmuwuuma haovudupoutom «am he: I: out you? Auk-II! ”pied mm M. mm ”W Una-why“ ”I 3 Hon. Information for Human. Eight 'chnrcheo in one of the sub- urbs or Bgmmhon new train“ men to take a church cenwa of that motion, and a ~cgrd' index has 'now been arranged that tell-.1119 minute" at about the rellglodn dilution- at even funny In that loamy. ‘ “mg-n human. The ’onmllnn I. have. pool all bad. scrim-Ind ”punt. b the jour- 1 may WM ‘0’ an... .â€" Inn. 'u-vy- ltuundtbomm annulment m which an an! modern m. In | I‘ll-(040 mu muttâ€"Tho You: In. 88“: lndlvldlnl [M Truth- thu now may m. out at man we" first prochlmed by num- ul "DI. Gnu thoughts um. not an the mom of humanity Mod Iro- m'ccnun o! lndlfldull hum. 1-1!le don. ha been the m m tune! for the purifying and up- mm; or mind. True Poetic Art. After reading {our Imam full mummy hidden muting Morin; the tut am the] so from thy publiuher of t In», it’l unneceoury‘lo touch ucyclopodu for a definition of “tin true poetic touch."-â€"Loui"illo Comi- Egg .Egiga . A Sunday 61311091th had been telling her cm: the watery of the Good Samaritan. When she asked“ them whutnw story meant. a little boy ”Id" "It means that when'l m in trouble my neighbors must harp me." â€"-Unlvornlldt Letter. ‘ - ‘ AMI-Ian CottonMflk. ‘ ‘ m giggésgg~fw§akmwm «Md» thenuelvea_ o I’éur sepame groups: The Bohemian mm: along» the north- ern border, 16;. lower Austrian mm; 1m just s’outbgof Vienna. the Vonrl- but; mm: m‘id the mills‘ troulid Trieste. ' . Amanda: the brevity of lime tour- yoar-o‘m 'Gncia’s nap, her mother asked her whv me awakened no won. “Why," replica Gracie looking up in childish astonishment "I Ilept all thc sleep I had." ~Unlversuljlt Leger. Wu!“ Much Ammunition. Bocantly [our (on: and run}! of bullets werc dug out of a hill behind a rifle range at Yarmouth Eng” the tccu‘muhtion of two yearu' months by the loot! volunteers. They no“! for $122.50 | ton. » , _ MuQunl. ‘ “Bridgetfifl s‘aid Mrs. Grouch”. “I hn't mm the $00k: 0! than um who ‘culed to see you but night." "We“. we! .f' replied Widget, “ain't lt'fumm ml'un'! H0 aid the um. thtnrlbont Learning Early.

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