The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-07-28

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FAREWELL ADDRESS
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col. w. ). SMITH,
SIKH TESEEssEE c%AyALEY.
FELLOW Soldiers Of the Sixth Tennessee CIR
airy : A r three years If war and blood
shed, the time has come when the Govern.
neot, tor which you have undergone SO
many privations, nc longer requires your
services, aud - now about 70 return you 10
your hOaes, to resume again the peaceful
aVoeatioas Of civil life; and as we srs about
70 separate, perhaps lever to meet sgain this
sac Of the grave, 1 wish 10 tender you my
Dest wishes for your future welfare andhsp
Pinese. A review Of what you have under
gone, and privations you have suffered for
having loved your country and your Gov
ernmentB and IN Findicaging the supremacy
Of the law and defending your homes and
your hresides from the u%nprineipled usurpa-
ton Of those who would destroy the peopl e
6-oyernmsnt; aud rear in its stead q mon
aTchy, an arist0cracy, or a patent nobility,
based upon that WOrstof all evils TO Repub
llcan Governments, human slavery. Be
cause yOus' eiused 70 bow the knee to Baeal,
and render obeisance 70 thenewb born Conted-
eracy, you have suffered much in bOdy and
in mind you have seen your wives murder
ed at their homes YOU have seen you
fathers and your mothers hung by the neck
uGtil they were dead. Simply because you
vera "a liant soldiers in the Federal army
your houses have been burned and pill geo;
your cotton destroyedj your stock taken,
and your hard-earned provisions taken ruth
lessly away from your helpless families
and after all this, your wives have been in
suited, and driven with their little ones from
their homes to seek refuge in the tented
field, and among strangers. These, fellow
soldiers, are only 3 few Of the
wrongs which have been inflicted
upon you because you loved the Gov
eminent Of your fathers you have been
tried in the fire on the field Of battle and in
the hellish Inquisitions sometimes called
Southern prisons but nothing coult change
your devotion 10 the Governments. Soldiers,
you have lone well, and q grateful country
viii bear you in lively remembrance, when
those who espoused secession and its conse-
quenees viii be branded by posterity and a
| civilized world az traitors and rebels, your
deeds Of valOr and patriotism will be re-
membered and applsuded as were those Of
our revolutionary fathers in l776. When
youleh the pillow standing in ths fuTrog and
came out to answer the call OF your country
you knew nothing OF the arts Of war you
were unused to ths life of a soldier your
passions and preiudices we're uppermost in
your mind you felt. and justly too, that
you had been badly treated that together
with the ineticIency o. your officers which
must always occur when men are chosen
from civil life to ELL military positions with
out a military education, and unlike the
troops OF your sister States Of the North,
who were placed in camps Of instruction
and drilled Tor three months be ore entering
the field, yol were enrolled, received your
srms, mounted your horses and sent out to
scCut the country, and d all Ia duties 0
soldiers, without that militsry knowledge
80 essentially Necessary + T the welfare and
discipline of the soldiers it is not Btranee
that ZONE excuses have been committed
ana some duties neglected when bad men
get into Office, and allowed bad men 10 do
that which l do not intend the officers and
men who are nov going h morally out Of
service, shall be responsible for. But time
has regulated these things; unworthy Off
GERS nave been removed, bad men
have been p~unished, god men have be n
promoted 70 fiji their places, aod TO day this
regiment stands sec nj TO ncne in the field,
Tor drill snd toldierly department, as is tes-
titled 10 by Brew. Maj. Gen. B. W JohnsOn,
who is q regular officer in the United States
army. In ais letter, dated April s, 1860, he
says Commanding officer 9th Tennessee
Cavslry-I witnessed the parade Of your
regiment this evening, end was highly pleas
ed vita the app arance Of your men snd
manner in which they executed the manual
Of AIMS. The general appearance of the
reg .ment not only reflects credit upon you,
butupon every officer Gndto.dier in It. Gen.
Knipe, says you are one Of the finest regi-
ments be ever saw. CuL BIddle, yoar brig
ade commander, says you are the best drill
ed aud mot orderly Tennessee regiment he
ever saw, and he was proud 70 have you in
his b igade.
B others in arms, are lot these testimoni-
els cheering 10 the weary soldier, and do
they not n ID more glory to his crown Of
!, honor, as he IS about to leave the service,
with the knowledge that he has not aeaD-
doned the field OF carnage until the last
rebel has bsen compelled 10 bite the dust,
or ley DOVE his arms in submission, and SC
knowledge the supIemacg Of the law, aud
the virtue of your hero SIN. would be Dc
CT. ant TO my duty it J were 20 omit TO re-
!, turn sincere thanks TO II. Col Shearar, Mai.
S. l.. Warren, Mai. Mack J. L aiming, Cap
tain CSok, Deford, Hodges, Lewis, Edwar $,
T Smith, and in TACT al the Ulcers OF the staff,
and line, for the able and efficient services
they have rendered me in enforcing a strict
/ RUS NA discipline anu EAN1AoAAAl = O.
interests Of tue regiment, which now era
bles ,ou to leave the field alter the fghthss
been fought and the victory won with hoaOr
10 yourselves, honor 10 your fami-
lies, end honor to the GOvera-
menL which you have so noble
defended. 1 say again, thsnk you, gentle
men, for the assistance you have given me-
and as our association for the pas. three
years has been pleasant and agreeable, 40
- 49,. - - - nsF,. No
king il the first object OF our social relations
10 continue the contest Of right against
wrong, and fight mantuily TOR the greatpnn-
ciples Of free government.
!, Feli0w-SoIdiers o. the sixth Tennessee
Cavalry, a parting word, ana have done.
You sre about TO change relations 10 your
Government. You have been good and
otedi Mt soldiers to the Government, the
loyal people Of your State applaud you for
I the part you have borne in the past sad con-
hict, end are ready and waiting With anxious
hearts 10 welcome you back sgain 70 your
+, home Nhich have been abandoned and
neglected BY reason OF your service. And
as you are about 10 become citizens, let me
adm nish you to make good, lsw-abiding
J citizens, as you have good soldiers. Re-
member that the war is over, and although
= il is ma ural for YOU to feel indignant towards
those who have been your prosecutors, and
when you think Of those grievances do not
think Of violence, except ia felf-deiehse, but
remember that the civil law is row ia
force. Ifyon have wrongs nave them set
{ tied by the laws, without eliminating
yourself. II your neighbor has done VIC
lence 10 your person or property, seek
your remedy at the Jaw. II he is a muir
derer or a robber, you have the same re
course. And bear It well in mind, that the
bringing others to justice does net neeessa-
riiy criminals yourselves. Commit VIC
lence On no man Let II not be said that
the eixth, or sDy particular member OF Il
has committed a depreciation, o. done any
thing - suIly the fair name that you and me
regiment has 50 m ritori0usly Won. Let me
ndmonish on 70 honor, support anu defend
The State Government which is row being
re established, and "a one Of The results ol
your lhbors In the tented field. And as you
have shown your confidence in his Excel
lencv. ". g. BroEnlow, the pre- ent 6oyern-
or OF the State, by giving him you. sup
port tor thst position, continue that support
as guOi citizens, oy seeing that the laws Of
the state are properly eXeeaieds be sure
when you 20 to the ballot box, 10 vote for
no man who has net shown his 6evO;iOa %
the Government ia the past struggle between
governmeat sud dnerchy, and always be
sure that none but quail led voters ulder
the laws Of yorr State eXereie the privilege
Of the elective franchise; 20 HON With these
principles fully established in your migds.
and your friends viii meet you glsdly,
knowing that secession is dead, that i has
paid IN debt Of lie wi ,kedness, and its end
was characteristics Of 80 vile a thing, when
Young / 8 heart was swollen with prids and
blsckened with psrjury; 4 boasied Of south
ern gua-powder aud Southern steel, ma
tined itsst uFon its throne welding starry
aions and the Incsndiary torch a ID the
~suiletto 4 the e~sasssio. b { thank God il
found the last ditch in NJ. 10 Boots, crime
line snd dimity and its last scene vii be
ne hsngmaa's rope, and the ire that Is not
quenehed. The battle is fought, the victory
Is Woa Ternesses's chosen son now sta 4.