The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-10-10
Gen. Lytle,s last Speech.

Gen. Lyle, who was killed at the Battle
OF Chickamauga. was also severely wound
ed at the battle of Perryville. He was a
well known Ohio Democrat. By his devo-
ton to his country he proved that his De-
mocracy was pure and true. Seven weeks
prior to his death the soldiers of his earliest
command presented to him golden NAL
tese Cross, enriched with jewels, as tes-
timonial of their esteem. On receiving it
he made the following speech. tits an elo-
quent outline of the glory and honor of the
soldier and the duty of the citizen in this
hour of the lcountry's peril. 1t is voice
from the dead-the utterance of one who
now fills patriots grave. Will the peo-
pie read 1t? Will they ask themselves, as
they do, if they will give aid and comfort
to his murderers?
TENTH OHIO INFANTRY-MY OLD FRIENDS
AND COMRADEs:-I can not tell you how
deeply am touched by this beautiful tes-
timonial. 1 am very glad to learn that,
although you have not fora long time been
under my command, you have not forgot
ten me; and feel it also an especial honor
that you have taken the trouble to visit me
this present in the midst of a campaign,
and at,..I fear, great personal ineonveni-
fence. In all sincerity / can say to YOU
that never did the heart of soldier of the
Old Guard beat higher-no, not even when
at the hands of the Little Corporal him
| self he received the Cross of the Legion
than does mine to-day. Come what NAV
what may, as under the leadership of our
gallant chief, the invincibie Rosecrans,
this Army of the Cumberland follows his
happy star through the eventful drama of
the war; ut least for me this token, from the
cherished comrades with whom | entered
the service, is secure.
Solong as, in Gods providence, my life
! is spared, I shall look on it, gentlemen.
and be reminded of many a stirring Incl
dent, both in your experience and mime
1t will recall the pale and troubled faces
with which men stood in the black shad-
ows that strove before civil war, and the
horror that thrilled our breasts when the
| rebellion first proclaimed itself by overt
acts; the revered and holy flag of the ma
ton was fred on by paricidal hands at
Charleston. 1t will bring back to me the
| fiery and tumultuous gatherings of armed
men that rallied to defend it. 1 will re-
member, as | gaze on 1t, a thousand Incl
dents connected with our camps at Harri-
son and Dennison. 1t will remind me OF
the long ana weary HarCneS Wnen our sol
itary column threaded the mountain de-
files of Western Virginia, of the memora-
BILE Sth of October at Carnifax Ferry, when
your ranks plowed by shot and shell,
stood fast and firm until the enemy fell
| back across the Gauley under cover of the
night, the movement masked by darkness
| and the roar of the mountain stream. 1t
will remind me of the brave Milroy; OF
Fitzgibbon, the color bearer, of Kavanaugh
and Kennedy, of many a heroic soldier
whose name we will keep green in memo
ry; of that red autumnal day, at Chaplin
Hills, when jackson, Terrill, Jones and
Campbell fell, their names crowned with
the deathless laurel; when, in your own
brigade, the chivalry of Ohio and Ken
lucky, and Indiana and Michigan, added
new and glorious leaf to the somber an
mails of the dark and bloody ground.
will be reminded too, as gaze upon. its
emerald and its shamrock, the significant
emblems with which your taste and the
craft of the artizan have enriched it, of thai
gallant and beautiful island OF the sea, the
devotion of whose children to my coun-
try and their country, has been so glo-
| riousiy manifested i'll this hour of her bit
| tereSt travail.
String with fresh cords the Irish harp
] worn with recounting the triumphs of your