Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1864-10-21
From the Chicago journal, October 18Th. .r
YESTERDAYsSB BATTLE FOR THE

Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiann--all hail the
United States Over the old dcbatable
ground, through the old partisan traditions
as il they were spiders webs, out of doubt
ful shadow into glorious sun they have
marched in tremendous column, and swept
the grand home fields for Union and Liberty.
Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana. to their
gallant sons in the trenches Of Virginia,
among the mountains of Georgia, along the
Bay of Mobile, wherever they are, in all the
iron vsneering Of our Federal front, send
greeting, and all the loyal people say amen !
The battles yesterday were fought and won
with two edged swords, that cleft with a
single sweep the enemies Of the Union TO the
chin, and set the head Of rebel hopes to roll.
ing on the ground" 30 much for Bucking.
ham I! " The figures over which you rejoice
to day, will be read by other eyes than
yours the focks Of loyal camps, that glitter
white in Southern suns to many a distant
bastion Of red earth; to many IA block house
built on dark and bloody ground to freshly
washed down decks, just FLASHED with loyal
blood perhaps to some grim line Of battle
those tidngs will be sent. They read them
while VIC write--and cheers will ring where
cannon roared before, and soldier hearts will
warm to home as the Duke Of Argyle's new.
or warmed to the tartan. u- ..."5.
The greeting will be worth ten thousand
men at arms, for wherever groups of the
boys in blue are gathered, like patches of
clear heaven in s. ormy sky, there sinews
will s,itfen in sturdicr blows for God and
country Each man shall know that all be.
hind him is q solid, loyal North each man
shall feel that he is only in the van, the
mighty skirmish line Of the grand reserve,
whose ranks his father, brother, son, close
stoutly up, with ballots and with bullets oil
true alike.
Aud still other eyes will read these tdings
and not brighten as they read: the masses
of butternuts and grey that cluster like wssps
in the stroDgholds OF Richmond and lurk in
Georgian mountains. Our pickcts will shout
the words across the narrow breadth Of neu,
trail ground to theirs, and il will put lead in
their hearts and rain in their powder. The
story will be borne from border to border of
rebeldoin as if the birds Of the air had car
ried it, and all glances will be gloomy and all
lips dumb.
Let US place the valley triumphs together
Let US glorify Sheridan and his bold riders
for sweeping the Shenandoah let us place
him in the same battle roll with the heroes
Of the valleys Of the Ohio and the Wabash,
and give to the stout hearts Of the .A1rgha.
nies place beside the brave nountaineers
of Kencsaw. We will not forget that the
achievements in the three United States that
have closed SO magnIficcntly up. ore no mere
political and partisan triumphs; that it is
march TO the music Of the Union, over the
crushed cohorts Of party idolators, and aid
crs of rebellion, and their gods and their
champions together. Let it be forever re.
rnembered that these fields have been car
ried by the strong hands of men who, casting
off all meaner loves, have risen to the grand
or heights Of patriotism, wheeled Indiana in
to the Union line, cast off allegiance to the
degraded and desecratcd name Of Dcmoc.
racy," and have stood in the fore. front Of the
struggle, true and great hearted citizens Of
the Republic. God save il and them when
the graves Of our gallant dead are grown
over and dim, and the story Of this rebellion
wanes into a feeble and faded tradition.
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