Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-06-07
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py- NATURES GRAND ARMY DECO
RArIoN.-The Columbus, Ga, Enquirer,
Col. a. r, Calhouns paper-in an arti-
Gle on Decoration Day, says;
The dead of both armies sleep side by
side on scores of battle fields, where
they laid down their lives for what they
deemed duty; and the fallen warriors
were only foes when they had weapons
in their hands. They are sleeping by
the white shores of the Gulf, and nature
in her ample charity, at the bidding of
the Great Father, forgets the great strife
of the past, and binds the graves i'll
Towering vine and verdant sod, where
mistaken brothers sleep side by side,
The skeleton forms of daring men
rock ever in harmony to the ceaseless
pulsations of the ocean, along that shore
which each deemed to be his countrys
sacred stand Along the banks of the
Father of Waters, under cottonwood
and cypress, the past foes sleep, lulled
by his requiem, and there they will rest
till the assembly of the mystic angel
calls them TO the presence OF the Great
Captain of all, where each must give an
account, not of what he Gid, but what
he deemed his duty.
Through the hills Of Georgia, where
Johnston fortified and Sherman thanked,
the flowers grow in common on their
graves, and none can Judge whether the
form below wore the blue or the gray.
Along the Tennessee and Cumberland,
and north by the waters Of the historic
James and classic Potomac, nature Is
now decking their graves, and the spring
birds sing their songs of peace above
the dead. BY streamlet and in jungle
they are lying-mcn who made the
greatest sacrifice for principal, and the
mountains whercon they sleep will have
crumbled to the plain, and the rfvers by
which they fell Will have dried, ere the
story of their mutual heroism dies out
or the result of their Caring ceases to
affect mankind.
H.g~ Orn RAILnoAD.-To show
further prosecution Of the S. V. Rail
road, we copy the following articles in
reference to the great work -
:. V. II. RI. l.. Boycc, Esq, of
Clarke county, WAS i'll town last week,
endeavoring TO secure contracts to turn-
ish cross-ties for the Shenandoah Valley
Railroad. Mr.. b. informed us that
thirty thousand ties had already been
engaged, and seemed confident that the
work of laying the track Of the road
would be commenced in very few
days. The graduation and masonry OF
forty-two miles Of the road, from Shop
herdstown, i'll this county, to the cross
ing of the Shenandoah river, i'll Warren
county, will be entirely completed and
ready for track-laying within the next
two weeks.-Spirn.
5. V. r. R.-This morning we are
more than happy TO state that the carts,
horses and workmen have actually ar
rived at Luray, and that ground will be
broken day on the east end of town,
bv good force, and with the determi
nation of completing the graduation
and masonry Of the entire work between
here and Front Royal by the first of
October. Then, we are informed, the
work will be Immediately commenced
South Of here on to the Chesapeake and
Ohio. All of the contractors OF the
work will be along the line, it is said,by
the first of June, with hands sufficient
to carry on the work vigorously.-Pdge
Courier.