Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-09-29

Scrgt Mark BfOWnSON, Jonn Ducn, Jus.
II. Blank, Chas. Conlon, Chas II. Cole.
man, Henry French, Jacob Glass, Isaac
Gill, G. w. Hathaway, w. b. Lanfear
John McBank, JAS. Moore, John Olcr
Benz. Sutton, John Slayin, John A. Tiff
ICoMpANY.-Sergt John II. Robbins
Corpl. s. W. Moody, Corpl J. G. Moore
Corpl. J. Brown, Jas. Beali, Chas. Beau
nicr, A. p. Beaman, S. Craig, Tiffany
Ellis, L. Haskell, II. L. Lewis, W. J
Pardee, L. A. Powell, E. Peabody, Jas
pinkerton, Jas. Stanley, A. Tannehill
X CoMpANY.-Lieut Frank A. Brush
Lieut. J. p. Hatch, Corpl. NJ. f. Elmer
son, A. p. Andrews, II. M. Childs, Ok
Davidson, l.. s. Hardy, H. w. Houghton
w. A. johnson, X. N. Kinyon, j. NJ
Loring, l. b. Moore, L. F. Merrill, Arthur
Slack, M. Schumacher.
These all, with what others whose
decease since mustered out, have
escaped my notice; these all, have
paid the highest tribute that patrio
can pay to his endangered country
his life-his hearts blood. These
all, through disease, exposure, oil
gathering into their heroic Blossoms
the bullets of treason,
On field and redoubt
They were mustered ont.
And mustered into eternal life.
These all are part of that vas
hccatomb, piled four hundred thou
sand high--a sacrifice-oh, an in
estimable sacrifice for the preser
walton of our country and its liber
ties.
i. Think you, the fathers who up.
reared and maintained the standard
of freedom in this republic will be
forgotten in history and song? Nc
more will these. History, co-exten-
sive with time, will recount their
valorous deeds, and every coming
generation that shall look upon yon
star-spangled emblem of liberty,
will sing peans, in their memory as
to Americas truest, bravest and
best. Oh, unreturned and unre-
turning comrade! in memory of thy
costly sacrifice, anew we swear al
legiance, and, by our best efforts as
citizens, pledge the preservation of
that grand republic for which thy
life was given.
Ye more fortunate comrades, who
scathed, manned or unharmed have
survived the dangers of the red
fields of war, have lived to see the
old flag triumphantly indicated,
to see white-winged peace alight
and find resting place on the staff
that bears the ''stars and Stripes"
and to return to your inviting homes
and to your loved ones there; you
have, l doubt not, obeyed you Col. IS
parting injunction, '.bo as good
citizens as you have been soldiers. :"
And yc happy boys, who went out
leaving those sad sweethearts with
4 sigh in the heart and a lock of
your hair close to it, which they
had just clipped with the scissors
as remembrancer, did you OH your
return find them $50 glad when
Johnny came home from the army?"
Let us hope that none of them have
since helped themselves to your
locks without the aid of scissors.
On this, your first reassembling,
let us not forget the tribute of graft.
Jude we owe to those noble mothers,
wives and sisters who Toasted us
with delicacies forwarded to our
camps, and by many methods, thro'
selt-sacritice, personal exertion and
sublime devotion, did SO much to
alleviate suffering in camp and hos
pital, to cheer the heart of the liv-
ing, and to smooth the pillow of the
dying soldier. If their names are
not brazoned upon the pages of
history, who shall say they are not
enshrined in our hearts?
Nor can l pass that noble object
for which You gave SO literally of
your hard earned means whilst yet
in the service. l refer to the Iowa
Soldiers Orphans Home, original
ly instituted by large hearted men
and women of Iowa, and largely en-
dowed by citizens and soldiers
subscriptions. 1t was still dcpen-
dent upon generous donations, until
soon after the close of the war our
noble Commonwealth threw around
it her protecting arm, and gave it
her fostering care. TO day, how
gratifying to behold in a neighbor-
ing town, one of these homes, super
by one of yonr own com
rades, where the children Of him
who died for his country are com
fortably fed and clothed, and are
receiving thorough, practical edu-
cation; preparing to go out into the
world, where a few years hence we
hope to see them occupying posi-
tons of responsibility and Of honor,
as deserving sons and daughters Of
patriotic sires.
Surviving soldiers of the 9th
Iowa Inf, your hard service in the
ranks has doubtless given you a
higher appreciation of the value
of that excellent government for
the preservation of which you i'm
pcrilled your lives. You have lived
to see it become what the fathers
it should be, an editice Of
freedom whose corner stone should
be the personal rights of the indi-
vidual citizen, guaranteed and Sc
cured by. the, fundamental law of
the nation. The bitter sectional
spirit once 50 prevalent is becoming
The different states
are more nearly united in interest
and in sentiment than ever before.
Recovering with unexampled rapid
ity from the terrible scourge of war,
the country appears entering upon
an era of prosperity, unsurpassed
in its own or in the history of any
other nation. se ...
Equality of civil rights before the
law Of his country, is the heritage
of every citizen, in every station,
from oceanic ocean, and from the
lakes to the gulf. The republic
stands on better foundation, and is
to-doy STRONGER than ever in the