The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-06-12
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! OUR BOX HEROES.
/ Far be It from nae to say these words with
other than feelings of the deepest reverence. -
One year ago they were in the school room, in
the workshop, ia the store, on the farms scat
tered far and vide over all our northern hIllsides
and prairies. Boys they were, in thought and
feeling, wild and jovial as boys will be, when
the sound of war broke the suspense that inter
vened between the 4th of March and the fall
of Sumter. That sound fell on their young
smooth brows like the breath from the unseen
land. Instantly they folded up boyhood as a
mantle, and laid it aside and took upon them the
duties and consequent hatdships of ripper men
and years.
Their heroic days had come and they accept
ed them at once as their higher design The
mind refuses longer to call those boys, who have
exhibited in twelve short months more herosm
than is ordinarily shown in a long lifetime.
Some one has well said, The spirits of the
sires return in their descendants once in a CEN
tury." Whether the spirits of Washington and
Warren, Montgomery, Moultrie, Marion, Knox,
Putnam, and that grand old hero, Jackson, ami
mated these young lives not, posterty will
write their names in the same category
It is not difficult to imagine that the Lincoln
Of the old revolution has returned TO the Lin
coin Of tho new, intensified.
If it is grand and noble for young blood to so
control and discipline Itself as TO stand firmly,
doing 4 mans duty where the fight is hottest, it
is sublimer far to see them stopping amid the
iron hail of bullets and those death bowling
shells, to heIpIa wounded comrade, doing some
little act Of kindDess-it may be to carry them
to place of safety, or it may be 30 carry them
drink of water to quench the dying thirst, or TO
never more to see.
That boy hero at the battle of Lees Mills,
proved that he was as meEcifui us he was brave,
by rescuing fourteen wounded and drowning
men, when bullets fell so fast that he said the
water seemed to "boil like sap" He is too fair
type Of noble manhood for his name TO be I'M
known. Il should be written ia gold and set
with diamonds.
Abound the batteries Of our own beloved
Northwest, stands many boy hero-we wish we
could name them all now-but history will write
them on her bright page, side by side with the
illustrious, that have gone before.
It may be well to ask what are the youth of
the other sex doing Have the same events
wrought a corresponding change in them .
Have they as readily accepted their heroic time
and proved themselves worthy compeers of our
heroic boys? Not that they need work bat
terry or shoulder the rifle and lead scouting
s squadron to show their patriotism. No; their
ath is certainly not less eevating, if they chose
to tread in it, and there are already illustrious
names who have travelled on it.
Behind the military base Of operations there
is yet another, and that is the social influences
{ bat are working at home. BY this mean benz
Gcent and appreciatiye manifestations of SYM
patty. Our sex can hardly form an adequate
idea of the hardships cur soldiers in the army
OF the Southwest must suffer from the climate
of the malarious. low coast district which this
evacuation of Corinth, seems to indicate that
they will have to follow the enemy to.
Every mother, wife or daughter should pause
and ask herself this question: What would l
have others do if my son, or my husband or my
brother lay in the hospital, in his hot woclen
uniform, burning with fever, Or if wounded his
clothes yet saturated with his own blood, dry.
ing and atifening upon him Some say, ooh
government provides for them" Let such a
one ask herself, If she would like to leave hel
lo8n dear ones to the care of the government
and their fellow soldiers, whose duty is to fght
and who know far more about that than nursing
the sick.
Let each one Of us remember while we are en-
Iioying our comforts here, that it is the soldiers
who have made wall of their own bodies t.
fence the enemy out from our homes, and thu:
made them to differ from the Union homes o
the Border States. We should not wait to be
urged to do this as our duty, but we should
claim it promptly and proudly, as our peculiar
role in this--our great heroic national drama
Our little girls, our young misses, our vooDa
ladies', should engage as heartily in this work
as our heroic beys have done and DO, in theirs
Each one, however small can do little, car
! deny themselves a little, to save, to give
tyoung lady in Boston, in April, 1861, had beer
promised handsome silk dress. 1t was yer,
essential that she should have it, you know how
that is-well, she went out to buy it, and tn,
silks looked very tempting; but she remember
ed that there were hundreds of soldiers waiting
for their uniforms, before going to the defence
of the capital, in the city at the time. She pur
chased a calico dress worth dollar and a hal
and sent the remaining eighteen dollars and q
halt to the subscription fund for the purchas
of uniforms. That silk would have been soilet
; and faded by this time but the luster of tina
heroic womanly act will never fade, it onl,
grows bright with time. The inward conscious
ness of it blesses her today, more than he
money did the soldiers backs, a thousand fold
Such a consciousness is happiness. and that i
the commodity we are all in search of, and thi
D is an easy way to find it. Who will go and d
likewise Those who have done so again an
again are certainly very worthy to do more
o they can, and those who have not done any
I thing, ought certainly to begin now, By report
ing themselves ready, to the first Ladies' So
L diers' Aid Society that meets in their vicinity
n or organize one if there is none.
ANNIE LITHONIA.
KeHosha, jana 3D. 1862,