The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-03-26

capt SOLOMON TRICK, OF company A,
ID East Tennessee Cavalry, has resign
ed. On taking leave of his company
he addressed them as follows:
| Gentlemen and Felloso-S Soldiers:
Before leaving you, feel it my duty to
give you my thanks for your kindness al all
| times to me, for when your lives were en-
dangered by the hardships Of war, you re-
membered my safety. Brother Soldiers,
you have made yourselves a name by your
brave and heroic deeds in the Stone River
battle, and also in the sharp fight at Fraak-
| lin, and in many other engagements
around MurfreesbOrO, Tenn, and again at
Chickamauga-in all, three battles, and in
many others have you stood nobly, and de-
Tended the flag of your country. You have
hOnOred yourselves, and by so doing have
hOnored me. | therefore return you my
undying thanks. As you know, brother
soldiers, for some months past my health
has been so bad it has become necessary for
me TO leave the army and if l ever had q
painful duty TO perform, it is to leave the
Company to which my feelings are tied ap-
parently never TO be broken asunder; for
the members of Company A seem almost as
near and dear to me as my family. Broth
er soldiers, again l thank you a thousand
In all kinds of weather you have not as
yet complained. You have suffered all the
hardships that are attached to a campaign.
Yea, and you have been without tents, and
had to take the weather as it came, both wet
and dry, cold and holland yet you have not
been heard to complain. When there was
duty to do, you were ever ready and willing.
You have been ever ready 10 make any
sacrifice for the noble cause in which you
are engaged. There are no troops engaged
in the Federal army that has performed
any more duty as soldiers than you, for
which you have had no honor. There are
no men who have made greater sacrifice
than you for the sake of your country. You
have left you homes, your wives and chill
dren IN an eHeHy's land you have made
your way through the mountainous portions
of East Tennessee and Kentucky; even at
the hour Of midnight you were found grow
cling your way across the mountains, as the
Indians trace the wild beast through the
cunebreak, making every effort in the pow
er Of man to catch the sight of blue coat,
and fill the Federal ranks for the redemp-
ton of our once happy country. / think
the time is not far distant when the flag you
have hOnOred will again wave over every
county seat in Tennessee, as the ocean wave
on the approach of a heavy storm.
But We are made to mourn when we look
back and view the anticipation of the past,
to see our swelled ranks and filed cOmpa-
MES, bearing their minimum number then
remember the many pleasant moments We
have spent together IN our camps, when
twilight is shut in, and the moon, with her
bright and sunny eye, makes her appear
ance to illuminate our world. But, alas,
there are many brave and gallant soldiers
gone; but they fell like brave warriors
lighting for their liberties. | too, am not
W thout loss. l had a beloved father and a
brother for whom | am made to mourn.
But when remember the great
cause in which they were engaged,
it gives me great consolation. Oh,
that the time may soon come when we may
rise in the morning and see the refulgeni
lUminary ascending the handicapped noun
tains, making her way unmOlested through
the heavens, throwing her brilliant rays
over our own land, tightening up the dawn
of the day and every thing you may meet
may seem 10 say, Peace, Peace, one time
more over our land, and the Union restored,
and we can say the clash Of arms and the
rafting of drums is no more heard, and the
bright glittering steel has disappeared, and
then we can enjoy the sweet comforts Of life
in the presence Of wives and children, faith
ers, mothers, brothers, and sisters, and walk
the paths leading to our church houses that
have grown up in thistle and knock, the d, "
drops from the flowers that have been trOd-
den down by stranger footsteps in our long
absence.
Fellow-SOldiers, l am 10th to leave you,
whom loved so dear, but it gives me great
satisfaction to know that leave one among
the best officers over you that is in the Fed
eral army, he IS brave officer, much be
loved by his men, this know from stand
ing acquaintance, he is so kind, have full
faith and the utmost confidence in him, he
has proved true and faithful to me for two
years, | now hand him over to you % your
company commander to try, but you have
tried him long since, then l ask you, TO be
obcdient TO him, and he will be likewise.
SOLOMON Trick,
Capt, Co. A, ID Reg. East Tenn. Cav.