Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-07-21
Genera, Logan.
txie Farewell to The Army Of tho Ten.
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rzis Farewell to The Army OF shs Ten
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/ HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE,
a LOUISVILLE, KY, July IL, lS6j.
Officers and Soldiers Of .e d'ray ofhe Tennessee
The profound qualification | feel ii
! being authorized to release you from
the onerous obligations of the camp
, and return you, laden with laurels, Il
homes where warm hearts welcome yo-,
- is somewhat embittcred by the painful
reflection that / am sundering the tie
p that trials have made true, time made
= tender, suffering made sacred, peril
: made proud, heroism made honorable
: and fame made forever fearless OF The
, future. IT is no common occasion tina
, demands the disbandment Ola military
organization, before tile restless power
OF which, mountains hGistl!ng witt
, bayonets have bowed, cities have sur
rendered, and millions of brave men
. been conquered.
Although ! have been but for q shor,
: period your commander, we are ne
strangers: affections have sprung W
, between us during the long years oil
doubt, gloom and carnage we have pas
sed through together, nuItured by com.
: mon perils, suflerngs and sacrifices
ana riveted by the memories Of gallant
comrades whose bones repose beneath
the sod of a hundred battle-ilelds, nor
time nor distance will weaken or efta.e.
The many marches you have made, the
dangers you have de5pised, the haughti-
ness you have bundled, the duties you
have discharged. the glory you have
gained, the destiny you have discoV-
cred for the country in whose cause
you lave conquered, all recur at this
al n " q u
the scenes through which we have just
passed.
From the pens of the ab'est historians
OF the land are daily, drifting out upon
the current Oftime, page upon page, vol
umC upon volume OfyOur heroic deeds,
and floating down 10 future generations,
Will inspire the student of history with
admiration, the patriotic American with
veneTatiou for his ancestors, and the
lover OF republican liberty with graft
tudc for those who, in fresh baptism
OF blood, reconsecrated the powers and
energies Ofthe Republic to the cause of
constitutional freedom. Long may it
be the happy fortune Of each and every
one of you to live in the full frution
( of the bounaies5 blessings you have Sc
cured to the human race. Only he
whose heart has been thrilled with adj
migation for your impetuous and UNI
yielding valor in the thickest of the
| fight can appreciate with what pride
recount the brilliant achievements
which immortaliZc you and enrich the
pages of our national history.
Passing by the earlier, but not less
signal trIumphs of the war, in which
most of you participated, aud inscribed
upon your banners such victories as
Donelson and Shiloh, | recur to cam
paigns, sieges and victories that chal-
iense the admiration OF the world, and
elicit the unwilling applause OF all Eu-
rope.
Turning your backs upon the blood
bathed heights of Nicksburg, you
launched into a region swarming with
enemies, fighting your way, and march
ing without adequate supplies, to an
swer the cry for succor that came to
, you from the noble but beieagured army
ut Chattanooga.
Your steel next flashed among the
mountains OF the Tennessee, and your
weary limbs found rest before the en-
7 hattled heights of Mission Ridge, and
there with dauntless courage, you breast
ed again the enemy5 destructive fire,
and shared with your comrades of the
Army OF tie Cumberland the giOries of
q victory, than which no soIdiery can
! boast IL prouder.
. In that unexamplcd campaign of Wig
liant and vigorous warfare from Chatta-
nooga to Atlanta, you freshened your
laurels at Resaca, graphing with the
enemy behind his works, hurting him
back dsmayed and broken. Pursuing
! him from thence, marking your path
by graves OF fallen comrades, you again
/ triumphed over superior numbers at
! nnf nh XJru- a n
Kenesaw Mountain, and under the
murderous artillery that frowned from
it's rugged heights, with q tenacity and
constancy that finds few parallels, you
> iabored, fought and suffered through
the bToiiing rays Of a Southern mid
summer sun, until at last you planted
your colors upon its topmost heights.
Again, on the 22d of July, 1864, rem
dered memorable through all time for
the terrible struggle you 30 heroically
maintained under disasters, and that
saddest of all reflections, the loss Of that
exemplary soldier and popular leader,
! the lamented MCPHERSON, your match
/ less courage turned defeat into glorious
victory.
Ezra Chapel and Jonesboro added
new lustre to a radiant record, the lat
ter unbarring to you the proud Gate
City OF the South.
The daring of desperate, foe in
thrusting his leEions northward, eX'
posed the country in your front, ano
though rivers swamps and enemies op
posed, you boldly suTmounted every
obstacle, beat down all opposition, anc
marched forward To the sea. Without
any act to dim the brightness OF youl
historic page, the world rang plaudits
when your labogs and struggles culmi
mated at Savannah, and the old starry
Banner" waved once more over the
walls of one of the proudest cities Of tn,
seaboard.
Scarcely a breathing spell had passed
when your colors faded from the coast
and your columns plunged into thu
swamps of the Carolinas. The suffer
ings YOU endured, the labors you per
formed and the successes you achieved
in those morasses, deemed impossible
form a creditable episode in the histor.
of the war Pocataligo, Salkahatchie
Edisto, Branchvilie, Orangeburg, Co
lumbia, Bentonville, Charleston, ant
Raleigh are names that will ever b'
suggestive of the resistless sweep o
your column through the territory tina
Graded and nurtured, and from whenc'
was sent forth on its mission of crime
misery and blood, the disturbing ant
disorganizing spirit OF secession and re
beiiion.
The work for which You pledged
your brave hearts and brawny arms t,
the Government of your fathers yo,
have nobly performed. You are seer
in the past gathering through the gloon
that enyelOpcd the land, rallying ~ tn
guardians ut mans proudest heritage
, forgetting the thread unwoven upon
the loom, quitting the anvil and alan
doning the workshops, to vindicate TIN
, supremacy OF the laws and the authori
ty of the Constitution. Four years hav
you struggled in the bloodiest and mos
! destructive war that ever drenched TIN
earth with human gore; step by stel
YOU have borne our standard, until to
day, over every fortress and arsenal tina
, rebellion wrenched from US, and owe
. city, town and hamlet, from the Lake
: to the Gulf, and from ocean To ocean
1 proudly floats the starry emblem G
our national unity and strength.
: Your rewards, my comrades, are tn
welcoming plaudits Of grateful people