The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-03-24
Honor to the Brave.
Glorious Record OF PatFlOtlSm---Gl0W-
Ing Compliments WorthlIy Bestowed.
Reported BY J. W. t. billiard. of the Columbia
Chronicle.

News having reached Columbia that
the l4th Michigan Veteran Volunteers,
which has been stationed here since
September last, was ordered of, meet
ing of the citizens was convened at the
courthouse, and a series of resolutions
adopted, which do credit alike to the
citizens and soldiers. The honorable,
consistent and liberal policy Of the l4th
Michigan has merited and won the es-
TEEN and applause of all true lovers of
their kind and country, and their sud
den removal from our midst has brought
fear and mourning to all classes of the
community They have driven guer-
r.llas and thieves from this country
clear to the Tennessee river, and have
done more to create a feeling of respect
and veneration for the old Government,
than ten thousand bayonets and procla-
nations could have done. They
strengthened the hopeful, confirmed
the faith of the true, won back the err
ring and terrified, and subdued the de-
faint They fought bravely, often des-
perately, captured many prisoners, and
disarrned opposition with gentlemanly
kindness and courtesy. Ever mindful
Of their mission, they treated the PEG
pie as feeling, human beings, and not
as brutes. They will be long and af-
fectionately remembered by our people
The chairman of the meeting, Joshua
B. Frierson, Esq; accompanied by the
committee and large delegation Of
citizens entered the Union Bank Office
Post Headquarters, explained in few
feeling sentences the object of the
meeting to Maj. Fitzgibbon, (who has
been in command since Col Miner
went home on furlough, over a month
ago, and read to him the following reso-
lutions
Resolved THAT we tender to Col. Henry
r. Miner our sincere thanks for the lib
eral policy that characterized his admins
tration among US, an administration pecu-
liarly embarrassing, as his course lay be-
tween the Scylla and Charybdis of civil and
military authority, but to which he brought
the highest administrative qualities, com
bining in an extraordinary manner the pa
tience, the liberality and decision of true
soldier and the urbanity of a gentleman.
Our heartiest good wishes go with him in
all his future career.
ResolUed 2.-That we cordially express to
Mai. T. c. Fitzgibbon our gratitude and
highest respect. The presence of this able
officer among us has been public benefac-
ton. His indomitable energy and bravery
have won for us the suppression Of that
greatest curse of war-guerillaism and to
his bold, manly words, in a larger measure
than to any other is due the restoration of
civil law and order in this district-the
bright dawn of a better day. The national
uniform covers no kinder heart or more gall
liant soldier. Orphans and widows beg
blessings upon the head of the noble Major
of the l4th Michigan.
ResolUed 3.-That to the officers Of the 18th
Michigan generally, we tender our feelings
of obligation, for the uniform courtesy that
we have received at their hands-always
ready 10 do us a kindness. 1t Will ever be
remembered by us.
RESOLVED THAT to the men of the 14th
Michigan our thanks are due. They have
won for themselves, not less than their Off
GERS, "an enduring name" among us. May
the fortunes of war deal kindly with them.
Rcsolred 5.-That these resolutions be
handed by the Chairman of the meeting,
and the committee, in person, to Major
Fitzgibbon, wish the request that they be
published in the newspapers of Michigan,
the home of the gallant 18th.
JOSHUA 3. FRIERS0N, Chairman.