Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-08-29

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the admiration of the world, and will foreve
illumine the brightest pages in our country
+ history No State was more fortunate in th
/ character and personality Of the men com
: posing the regiments, batteries and deiacli
ments which she sent into the service. lie,
Il by such men rs Smith, and Stannard, AM
Grout, and Stoughton, and Wells, and Fos
ter, and Henry and Thomas, and Roberts
and Warner. and Mead, and Proctor, ant
Barney and NeaZey, and Randall, ant
Tracy, and the Pingrccs, and Hooker, he
5 own gallant sons, her name was a tower o
strength and her battalions came to he lookcC
, upon as well nigh invincible. With sucl
leaders at the head of her forces in the field
! and with fairbanks, and Holbrook, and Johr
Gregory Smith. and Dillingham;, at the heat
of our councils at home, backed up and sus
taincd AS they were by people whose loyal
ty and patriotism new no bounds, it is NJ
wonder that our gallant little State came out
of the war crowned with victory, all radiant
with glory, and honorcd with the applause
and admiration of the world. in every regi-
ment she sent into the tel'efhght have been
found men who would nave done honor
to almost any position in civil life,
and whose skill, capacity and tcnacity
of purpose, were equal to any un-
dcrtaking, from the building of comfort
able winter quarters at Camp Griffin and
Brandy Station, to the con- -;ution of Gen.
Grants engines and railroads at CHATTANOOGA
and Petersburg. They wee not only the
pride and boast of the whor army hut they
constituted a sheet anchor Of hope to all loyal
men throughout the whole country. When
they were in the front the army was safe
from surprise, and when they were in the
rear it was in no danger of heilg cut off They
nj, ,l
ent To orders, and espet ally if the orders
happened TO accord with what they thought
ought to be done They were not generally
lawless or unnecessarily given TO plumber
and yet we have no record or knowledge that
any Of them ever died of starvation when
Southern mutton, chickens, or pork was to
he found anywhere north and east of the
Mississippi river. The worst SANDER | ever
| heard uttered against you was by a terribly
mean man, who is probably now in the peni-
Tertiary or an asylum 70, the reformation of
liars. He said that those Vermont Yankees
would make more noise when they were
marching and fighting, and less when they
were eating and stealing, than any other
men in the service But notwithstanding
this supposed Islander, the reputation of the
| Vermont troops in camp and in the field, at
rest or in the face of the enemy, stands to-
day without a cloud or a stain, and their re-
cord will not suffer or he tarnished by COM
parison with that of any troops that served
in that war
The first fiery baptism at Bull run, on the
2lst of July. 1861, the bloody charge at
Lees Mills, the stubborn pluck displayed at
Williamsburgh, the heroic coolness at Gold
ems Farm, the gallant charge and l-dog
| tcnacity at Savage Station, the grand rally
| under perfect tempest and whirlwind
| of fire at White Oak swamp, the fiery valor
of desperate and worn out men at Malvern
| Hill, the ascent of the burning mountains at
Champions gap. the famous charge under
Badly Smith. amid the thundcrs and car
mage of Antictam. the desperate pluck in
the slaughter pens of Fredericksburgh, the
| fierce assault upon and capture of Marye's
| flights the charges and recarture of the
| guns at Gctiysburgh, the fearful slaughter in
the Wilderness, the bloody charge and heroic
endurance in front of the breastworks at
| Spottsylvania, in the deadly fight at Win
chester, the brilliant and daring encounter
and glorious victories n, Fishers Hill and
Cedar Greek. and the Crowning triumph at
| Petcrsburgh in April. 1865, make up
record which the people of Vermont and
the whole country may well he proud of.
| Well may we eXclaim, in the
pure and blazing light of
this history. Happy the State which can
boast of such sons, and thrice happy the
country which has such defenders Let ii
| also he remembered to the undying honor of
the women of Vermont that nearly one
third of the soldiers which our State sent
into the service required, on account of their
age, the consent of parents to their enlist
ment into the service OF the country" ITO
give that consent must have involved con-
nIc,a = dcyo,ion 70 cn,,n,r,, as r., ns
voe ey-,r renn;red ot tho hon1s Of on,, o;,i,a,,
in any connirv or in arr are of ,hc ,.nrid's
history And the wives the e;s,ers tho
motbcre tho dauGbtcrs and tho he,rotbed
Ia, ,hnm nove, ho fora,,,on ,,ho-, ,ho Iahor.
and sacrifices of Termon, orc reconnt.
ed" Rnt whiIr we meet hero ,o.day in
ioyous reunion win the living Iet ne MT
inTrrt thns,. whn have "fIlcl the last
full measure of their dcv,,;on In
country answered thci, last roll call
an ,,rtb and rnnr tn their re
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