The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-06-09

10 ElictbiGtS idIChE4I NtItit US
to his army: E.,..y .t
uEApQa's Mn. Dry. MISS IN THE FIELp,l
Warrington, D, O., May 80, go. (1u
Especial Field Order, No as,
The General commanding announces 10 the
armies of the Tennessee and Georgia that the
time has come for US 10 PARK. Oar work Is
done and armed forces no longer detan Us.
Some ofyou viii be retained in service uaUl
further orders and now that we are abou, -
separate to mnglc with the civil wotll, it be
comes pleasing dutv 10 recall to mind the
situation OF national aifAigs When bus o lille
more than q Year apo we were gathered ab1ut
the towering cliffs Of lookout Mountain all
the future was wrapped in doubt and unccrr
inty.
TIE armies had come together from different
fields, with separate histories, bound by one
common cause.-the Union OF our country and
the government Of our inheritance. There is
no need TO recall TO your memories Tunnel
Hill, with its rocky.faced mountain, and Buz-
Yards Roost Gap, with It's ugly forts of Dalton
behind. We were in earnest and paused not
for danger aud difficulty, but dashed through
Snake Creek Gap and fell on Resaca. then on
to Dallas; Kenesaw and the heats of summer
found us on the banks of the Chattahoochee
far from home and dependent on q single
line for supplies. Again we were not to
be held back by any obstacle, and crossed
over ana fought Jour nCINS udLtlcS IOT inc
possession Of the citadel of Atlanta. That
was the crisis of our history. a doubt
still couded our future, but we solved the
problem and destroyed Atlanta, struck across
the State Of Georgia, severed all the main ar
teries of life to our enemy, and Christmas
found us at Savannah. Waiting there only
long enough to fill our wagons, We again be-
gan march, which for peril, labor, and re.
suits, will compare with any ever made by an
organized army. The floods of the Savannah,
the swamps of the Combahee and Edisto,
the high hills and rocks of the Santee, the
fiat quagmires of the Pedee and Cape Fear
Rivers. were all passed in midwinter
with its floods and rains, in the face
OF an accommodating enemy. aud after the battle
of AverysborO and BentOnville, we once more
came out of the wilderness to meet our friends
ct GoldsbOro, and even then we only paused
long enough to reload our wagons, and again
pushed forward to Raleigh and beyond until
We met the enemy sueing for peace instead Of
war, and offering to submit to the injured laws
Of his and our country. As long as the enc
my was defiant, mountains, rivers, swamps
nor hunger, nor cold had checked us but
when he who had fought US too hard
and persistently, offered submission, your Gen.
raj the q yht 1t wrong to pursue him further
and negotiations followed which resulted In
surrender. How far the operations OF the army
have contributed to the overthrow of the Con-
federacy and the peace which now dawns on
rs must be judged BY others, not BY us, but
that you have done all that men could do has
been admitted by those in authority, and we
have right to join in the universal JOY that
nus our land, because the war is over and our
Government stands INDICATED before the world
hy the Joint action Of the volunteer armies Of the
service your General need only remind you that
successes in The pact are due to nard work and die.
equine and thai the same work and discipline ere