Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-10-06
lied with vague horror of being 'tgOb-

filed with vague horror of being ''gob-
bled"
1t is pleasant to listen to "the CampbeU5
are coming on moonlight ghts, more pleas
ant than 10 be'a Campbell, and in a pair Of
wet horse-hide boots, newly bought Of the
sutIer, undertake to ''come."
"Light marching order, has al easy airy
sound; it suggests the equipment Of an
eagle cutting the air. The Orderly defines
the term by insisting that you fail in with
a load of iron and lead and leather, ant
three days rations, a roll Of blankets and
comfortable" sluug to You land so in that
harness, with bhaterei heels, trip gaily over
the pike, infantry IN pursuit of cavalry.
1t was hot pursuit.
The peril and the hardship of the service
cause It's memories more firmly to endure.
Of al the horses of his youth The boy re-
members most distinctly the one which
ttrea0 him. The impression, being kicked
into him, remains. In the days of the war
death was real presence. A regiment is
family there is always some one sick unto
dying in its house. There is a call being
sounded and detail going forth; no bugIer
can make them hear the recall There are
two camps, where there is one.
Wherever tents are struck, graves are
left behind--WheneYer we marched some o
our men "stood fast" They still hold the
old lines, and will until they are relieved
by he angel on duty
| see again the quiet places where we
laid our dead to rest, slain for the land that
bore them, at Lexington, along the Cumber-
land, and by the Tennessee sick and in
prison the Lord visited some Of ours, and
the doors were opened. Others spared by
the fever, spared by the bullet, surviving the
prison, worn and wasted, almost home, were
shared by the "Suitana" and betrayed to
their death. Her boilers were not so rotten
as the hearts OF the men who assigned her
the task. They may pass human in
Spector as she did but "'tiS not so above
What sails here as a blunder, will sink
there as swift as a crime.
VI these men WGo were thus lost to US, the
Lord has taken charge, and He buried them
III the valley OF the river, and no one Of Us
knoweth the place of their sepulchre unto
this day.
So of the regiment which assembled on a
day like this seven years ago-we can ac-
count ioT some, they are not present, their
ears are stopped to tEeir own praise, their
eyes are dim TO their own glory. can only
braid poor wreath of words and cast it
feet as my worship. They were swept away
IN the storm that cleared the sky above us.
In a cheap way we acknowledge our debt;
white flowers Tor whit lives, easy speeches
for perious fights, headstones for sacrifice.
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Many Of ours were not slain in battle, not
less truly they were slain in the war. Being
struck by lead does not make hero, nor
stamp martyr.
The charge of the six hundred into the
jaws of death, was grand vision, it was
done with the sunlight on their sabres, il.
the sight Of the two armies
'Here goes the last Of the Cardigans with
thirteen thousand year."
For time the work Of the brave English
girl IN the dim hospital does not shine like
that desperate burst of valor done in sorrow
anu silence only the dying rega I'd it, only
the poor bless it. But by and by the angel
OF tue hospital is seen standing in the sun,
lifted by the acclaim of all voices, above the
gutterln9 soldier OF the charge The pur-
pose Is the significant thing. The soldier
found by the bullet is simply a fortunate
cOmrade of him whom the few. found.
The boy slain suffered for US, the mother
mourning for him suffers for US too. Sisters
wrought as well as brothers. When the
bullet hit a soldier by the Cumberland it
did not stop but sped on far north through
loving hearts at home She is the truest
OF soldiers who in cheerful patience sits by a
lonesome Northern hearth, with nothing
LETT OF her son except it may be the tom
blouse he fought in, perhaps not even that
and still content With the proud memory
she Is found worthy to inherit =
Comrades, yearly let the word to assemble
pass down the long line Let heart call to
heart. Let us hear how the fight goes on
the left and on the right, and again in our
places, let US move forward, dressing always
| on the foremost man of us all. = =