The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-05-16


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Letter from General Noycs. or ohio.
CiSclSSAr1, Ono. May 5, 1874.
Aet. T. j. -Nackey, Juoge or he Si.cA
Circuit oF SouM CuWoliau, Chester,
s. c.
DEAR SIR: II tile Cincinnati Com.
m"rciu. OF II recent date is copied II let
ter addressed by you to Coluncl Black,
United States army, commanding post,
Columbia, Snnth Carolina, which
states that the remains of two United
States soldiers had been e1humeti from
their neglected burial place by the
roadside and removed to the National
Cemetery ut Florence, in your State,
where they finally rest.
These pious offices to tho dead were
rendered by number Of ex confede-
rnte soldiers OF Lancaster. Honors
worthy Of being paid to departed
heroes were shown by cit;zeus OF yonr
State to the foemen who mud fallen
upon their soil, even in the presence
OF sad monuments which tho wrath Of
war had reared in their midst.
One OF these dead so'liers was a
member of the 9th Ohio Volunteers
regiment belongin to the brigade
with which I hal the honor to serve
while in the military service. On be.
half OF that regiment and brigade, for
myself personally, and on behalf of all
the citizens Of this State, I thank YOU
and your comrades for the generous
act which your letter records.
cannot express to you how deeply
1 have been touched by the noble spirit
which prompted you and your friends
thus to honor those so lately your
foes. and it comes home to 1ae the
more. since one was private soldier
who fought under my own eyes, and
whese last resting place might have
remalned forever unknown, except for
the respect he has so signaIly received
at your hands.
The bitterness Of the late unhappy
war, while the war lasted, was a frenzy
that unseated reason, but. now that
hostilities have ceased, let US hope
that peace returned is not merely a
cessation from strife upon the battle
field, but the beginning of an era that
will bring again its thoroughly human.
'zlng Influences to the hearts and
minds OF men. I am fully persuaded
that those men who actually contend
ed IN arms against each other when
they laid down with honor the wea.
pons they had welded with valor, were
prepared to put aside, and did put
aside, every feeling that caused them
thnt L
enmity. Brave men, who have crossed
their steels in the fury of passion,
when the fury had passed, could re-
cognize the virtues Of those they
fought, and could we'll understand
that to prolong hate until it reached
vindlctiVeness was q narrowness CT
spirit, pertaining only to ignoble souls.
Too much misery has already fallen
upon our common country during the
last twelve years, and no one, least of
all soldier, should desire to keep
aliyo the feelings which have occa-
stoned it; rather is it the duty Of every
citizen, however humble lis sphere, to
exert his energies towards healing the
wounds which have been 50 fearfuIly
made.
- Al ny ocllct that Tue tenuerucSe
yon have thus shown to our Northern
dead will prove itself to be ono of those
victories for which peace is more re.
nowned than war. The sentimen,
which that tenderness has expressed
will be felt throughout the Union
will find Oh echo in every heart that
beats with the pulse of true manhood
or responds to the best instincts OF
humanity.
Thousands in our Northern States
whose sons ore sleeping upon the
plains of the South will remember this
act OF kindness with tho deepest graft.
tude. knowing that the ashes of their
beloved rest among people who are
generously able to forget the acerbity
of OWL strife. while they are noble
enough to treat the dead of thei.
former foes with the same respect
which they show to their own.
Again thanking you and the friends
to whom 1 feel under so great obliga
ton. 1 am, very respectfully, your
obedient servant,
EDWARD F. MOVES.