St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-05-10
VOLUME 4l---NUMBER 2l28.

made for the occasion, and whose ca
pacity enlarged as the emergency be-
came more critical. Such a man was
General Bartlett. Had the war not
come he might have lived the ordinary
life of student and professional man,
distinguished by the domestic virtues,
by much manliness and courtlibess, but
with no hint of the sterner stuff within
him. The war disclosed him as he was
"a later Bayard, without fear and
without reprOach; very knight in
courage and purity and endurance.
We have said that the incidents emu
merated above make up the outline of
the story. But with what infinite gal
lantry and patience and kindliness, with
how many proofs of unfaltering devo-
ton, and noble manhood is the outline
filled in. When he lost his leg at York
town only six lines in his journal tell
the whole story: "while l was visiting
the pickets, watching the enemy with
my glass, sharp-shOoter hit me in the
knee with a mimic ball, shattering the
bone down to my ankle. DR.. Hayward
amputated it four inches above the
knee, and | started for Baltimore in the
again, year later, after being borne in
an ambulance, with a shattered wrist,
from the gallant charge at Port Hud-
son, the entity in his journal is simply
this: "The ride reminded me of mine
from Yorktown to Shipping Point a
year before. 1t was about nine miles,
a rough road" And again, in the
trenches before Petersburg, waiting for
the orders to assault, we find him writ
ing in his journal: "Shells this after
noon come fearfully close. Orders to
be ready to move at a moments notice.
|. God spare me for Agnes's sake
and for dear mothers sake! fear it
will break their hearts if am killed
here" So always the record runs ::
Patient, prayerful, cool and fearless in
action, grateful when dangers were
passed without injury, and when
wounds came, grateful that they were
no woTse-in his letters home, always
tranquil and accomplishing, scrupu-
lously keeping to himself his worst sut-
ferings, and writing down only the
brightest and most hopeful things. His
career after the war closed was scarcely
less noble. He bore his honors mod
ed by compliments; and entered with
all the ardOr of nature unrestrained
10y physical infirmities into the pursuits
of peace. He refused positions the
most influential and lucrative; turned
deaf ear to politicians. and when,
once and again, he was called upon for
public utterances, he spoke with SOL
dierly magnanimity words of cordial
goodwill which were caught up all
over the land. When, at last, business
reverses were added to steadily in
creasing physical weakness, and anxi-
ETY. for his family intensified the grief
he felt at the anticipation of parting
from them, his worn spirit still showed
the same strength and patience, the
same gentleness and trustfulness as be-
fore, and his last words were words of
assurance and hopefulness. We repeat
what we said at the outset, that it is
worth while to pause for moment to
contemplate such character and ca
reer. Gen. Palfrey, in his unpretend-
ing, but profoundly interesting Memoir,
has shown us life worthy of all the
praise we can give it-and, what is bet
ter, worthy of being studied and imi-
tated as an example of Christian and
chiyalrOus manhood. Boston Journal