Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-06

may lie. 1t speaks to u, alike of the moor
ana unknown soldier who, fell, pefchaHc es
moulders in distant and bloody grave
without name and without stone"
and of that great leaderhim of the lion heart and
eagle eye-that ''thunderbolt OF war; whose name
was the synonym of indomitabe courage and resist
less energy, and whose presence seemed the har-
e sd q BENEATH e s6Sde Onhs ago
I'VE mourn them. each and all,
Prom the private to the chief,
Come they from cabin or princely hall;
For us they fell and for them shall fall
The tears OF a nations grief
And Just above this Inscription you Will see yonder
among the decorations the arms OF the State OF Ten
nessee, partly In front Of If protecting those of
the Confederate States she was wont to do in the
days when her stood In the forefront of the bat
tie, and had "a place In the picture the flash
ing OF the guns" Upon another side you will read
an appeal TO the God of battles and OF Justice, for
the purity OF their hearts and the unsefshness OF
the motives which enabled them, putting all other
things behind, to give their lives for their country
Well may we inscribe Dec Vindjce-''God being the
indicator the head OF those who lie here
with no stain on their crest and no blot their
name,
Looking proudly to heaven from the death-bed of
fame
The third p oclalms as with the voice of prophecy.
that 1.-The fateS which refused them the victory did
not deny them Immortality Shall not accept
the award? The defeat, with much of its bitter
of night vanish before the approaching day,
but the dawn of the Immortality
redden the horlzo n of the morning. 1t Will grow
brighter and brighter the years and centuries roll
by until, in the full eugence of Its meridian spen
DOR 1t shall gid their names with the glory that lu
mines the most llustrous of history. Such "a it Is
with Its beauties and Its imperfecti0nS-Wi Its
wealth of memories and its glorious assocations-we
present this monument to you Here let US gather
with each returning spr1ng-time as TO holy Shrine
and here. long after we have been summoned TO
cross the dark river and take our places in the ranks
of those who lie on yonder hill, may our children
and our chidFen's children come as We do now, not
to dig for roots of bitterness: not to cherish feel
ings OF sectional or political hate but with garlands
In their hands and reverence In their hearts, to
deck the graves of departed heroes; to
listen again and again to the story of
their lives and to learn the real, the true, the
nObing lessons which they teach to learn that true
VaiOr and patriotism tmmOrtal that II Is sweet
and beautiful to die for ones country and that 'the
path OF duty Is theway to glory" These are the les
sons which they, being dead, shall teach to
future generations as they teach them TO us to-day
This Is the everlasting monument which they have
butlded for themselves and which shall endure so
long as honor, and courage, and virtue are reyer-
enced among men.
When the applause which greeted Major
Goodman's speech had subsidized, the band
and choir rendered Theodore OH 4ra's fine
poetical production, entitled The BicOuac
Of the Dead.
GENERAL HUMEs's GRAFTON.
General Pillow introduced the orator of
the day. General w. Y. c. Humes, who de
livered the following tribute to the memory
If the Confederate dead:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN-This noble pur-
pose fondly cherished in our hearts for
years, closely interviewer with our dearest affec-
tons, constantly echoed by nOblest sentiments
of gratitude and admiration, intimately connected
with our past experience and future hopes, has
called US together to-day in this sacred place; and
the visible forms of nature around seem in sympa-
thy with the feeling Of this assembly; the warm
bright rays of a summer sun fall full upon us; the
green grass carpets and adorns the eaTtn beneath
feet; the trees embower lis with their luXuTiant
and beautiful foliage, and the flowers breathe the
full tide of their fragrance and bloom upon the air.
To u.s. there is no holier spot of ground than this
strewn with the SepulchTes of dead heroes or the
thirteen
has returned to gladden. the EARTH the fair hands or
graves in memory of the loved and gallant dead:
but to-day we unveil ths granite shaft from the
locks oil 6 Wien small rase o and ns
trotic devotion of our hero-dead. Here
We erect this day Mecca to- which
the youth Of country may resort In all coming
time and receive lolter aspirations, frmer uUage
and renewed strength for the duties and battle Of
life. Thirteen years have elapsed since the Surren
ders at Appomattox and Greensborough, and the
forms of our herodead have mOuldeied back to dust
unmarked by any fitting monument. The tardy &c
complishment of our purpose, this day consum
mated, evlnces no want nor leSsening of our devo-
of the war found the southern people stripped of
their property oppressed by governmental corrup-
they compelled to struggle with the bitterest adyer
sty. The government we had fought 10 establish
could look to derive the means for this cherished
purpose must be the small and hard-etrned contrl-
buttons of poor and oppressed people. That the
end has been accomplished is due to the unabated
and Wearying love Of friends, 10 e.: at
able 10 the devotion of the iviog and the virtues
OF the dead. 1t is not the iDguage OF panegyric.
but of simple truth to say Drawer soldiers never
died for their country, iofier patriotism nnbler
of duty than theirs yer imp He'd brave men
to endure the hardships an privatons OF wdr, and
to meet The perils of The battlefield They most
worthy OF the perpetual gratitude admiration, and
ing the hearts of this audience, quickening lheir
pulses, beaTning III mutual sympathy ON their
all ages of the world among al nations there has
prevailed tender aad lasting admiration for those
the safety of home, and casting behind them all
ideas of seltinterest have gone to the battlefield
song and Jewish history have preserved for en-
tertainment and Instruction the brave deeds OF
uah: of Gideon, OF Barah, of Deborah.
of the shorn and eyeless captive in GAIA, as he
Dagon, and redeemed the faults of his life By the
heroism of his death; and of the rudy shepherd 5
and running to the battle in Elah VIGOROUSLY M.
the giant warrior that defed the armies of Israel
and their de eds of valor from the fabulous tales Of
Theseus to the certain narratives OF LeondaS,
idea Of God than simple courage they
deifed their heroes. and gave them the attri-
old hard of Sco's Rocky Isle, is only crystaliza-
ton, In poetry of the same grand qualities and SEN
enduring monuments of the pen. the empire of the
Latns have perpetuated the fame OF their soldiers
France cheTlSheS the gOry of her first Napoleon and
his grand army; England enshrines in painting In
sculpture, In history. in poetry: the lives OF
X.
sons her Marlboroughs, her welIingtOns, and her
HaYelOckS. New England and the northern States
have their own memorials to eternizs the fame of
her Greens, her Gates, her Putnams. her Knox. her
Hamiltons of the brave lighting at Bunker HILL and
every form Virginia cherishes the Immortal Wash
ington and his compatriOtS. Tennes Sea in her own
annal points proudly to the battle OF Kings noun,
justly claims TOR her Sewer and his mountaneers
bell land and Kentucky for her sdelby Again, in the
war of 1872, the bright story OF her lame Is con
tinued in the achievements of her sons under the
command of Andrew jackson and the browning ITi-
umph of the battl9 of New Orleans. She won the
proud e9gn3men In the Mexican war OF lS45I OF
other page of glory 70 her grand history. All these
heroes and their achievements gild the pages of
Tennessees history with their glory. She cnerisheS
their memories as her Jewels
"Her meanest rill, her mIghuest river,
Roll mDgling with their fame forever
After this brief historical reference, showing how
all mankind hold in highest regard patriotic courage
how they love its achievements and worship its pos
SCISSORS, recur TO the late war. | do not purpose
crtcising the conduct OF southern generals nor the
administrator of the Confederate government.
propose call attention to the conduct OF southern
soldiers in the various battles OF the west as eX-
hibiting dauntleSS and uncomfortable courage,
surprising that of any other troops of ancient or
modern times. At the battle OF Belmont, missouri,
fought on the eighth day of November, 1861, the
Confederate troops there engaged were under fire
for the first time. The army under General Pillow
con sisted of less than five thousand men; the Fed
erals under General Grant, amounted to more than
seven thousand. In the earlier part OF the battle
the United States troops gained Temporary adj
vantage because OF an omission to supply the men
with sufficient ammunition in the outset. This de
fclency soon came total; the command
ordered to retire TO the bank or the river.
Soon, by the arrival of new troops Colonel Safa-
rams Tennessee Irish regiment. Colonel Marks's
Eleventh Louisiana, and CARROTS Tennessee Irish
regiment followed by the One Hundred and Fifty
fourth Tennessee, under Preston SIN th-the tide
was turned, and the army of the Unitsd States I'M
der General Grant, defeated with immense slaugh-
ter and mpetely routed leaving several thousand
dead and wounded on the battlefield. In this bat
tie James Walker, eldest son of the late or samuel
P. Walker, received mortal wouni and expired a
few days after the battle. Captain Jas. Armstrong,
of Memphis, Vrgnian by birth and education, lost
his life In this battle VIII lie calamity leading bis
company in a charge. So ended this. among the
first battles in the weSt-leSS than five thousand
southern troops, almost wholly composed of Ten
nesseans. and over seven Thousand United States
troops. The victory of the former was complete
and overwhelming, although fewer in number
Next came battle OF Fort Donaldson, on the east
bank of the Cumb rlaTd river, below Nashville.
This battle extended four days, from the twelfth
to the fifteenth inclusive, of February, 1862. The
troops occupying the fort consisted OF twenty
regiments in alI-teD from Tennessee. the Second,
Third the Tenth the Eighteenth, the Twenty
the Thirteth, the Thirtysecond, thu Forty e,ond,
the Forty eighth. and the Firty third five from Mis-
sssippi, the First, Third the Forth Twentieth and
Twenty-sixth; three from Virginia, the Ftttieth,
Fifty first ana Fifty sixth one from Kentucky. the