River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-03-15

session copy of the farewell address oil
General John A. Logan to his command
at the close of the rebellion. / served
under him at that time. Thinking
some of my old comrades would like to
read over the document again, | send ii
to the Inter Ocean. w ii. LUTEs,
Ex-member Co. E. Tenth Iowa In
fantry.
THE ADDRESS.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY or THE TENNESSEE,
Louisville, KY, July Is, 1s65.-Offi, ets
and soldiers ofthe army ofthe Tennessee:
The profound qualification feel at being
authorized to release you from the oner-
GUS obligations of the camp and return
YOU, laden with lanrels, "a home where
warm hearts wait to welcome you, is
somewhat embittered by the painful re-
Election that am sundering the ties that
trials have made true, time made tender,
suffering made sacred, peril made p roud,
heroism made honorable, and fame ma ie
forever.
FEARLESS OF THE FUTURE.
cit is no common occasion that de-
mands the disarmament of a military
organic tion, before the resistless pow
er of which mountains bristling with
bayonets have surrendered and millions
of brave men been conquered.
"Although | have been but short
period your commander we are not
strangers; affections have sprung up be-
tween us during the long year of doubt,
gloom, and carnage which we have pas
sed through together nurtured by COM
mon perils suffering, and sacrifices, and
riyeted by the memories Of gallant com
rades whose bones repose beneath the
sod of a hundred battle fields nor time
nor distance will weaken or eiface.
"The many marches you have made
the dangers you have despised, the
haughtiness You have humbled, the
duties you have discharged, the glory,
you have gained, the destiny you have
discovered for the country in
whose cause you lave con-
quered-all recur at this moment
with the vividness that the scenes
through which we have just passed
From the pens of the ablest historians
of the land daily are drifting out upon
the current of time, page after page, vol
ume upon volume, of Your heroic deeds,
and, floating down TO future generations,
will inspire the student of history wit h
admiration, the patriot American with
yeneration for his ancestors, AMI the
lover of republican liberty with gratitude
| for those who in
A FRESH BAPTISM OF BLOOD
reconsecrated the powers and enegries
of the republic to the cause of constitu.
| tional freedom. Long may it be the. hap
by fortune of each and every one of you
| to livein the full fruition of the boundless
| blessings you have secured to the
| human race.
"Only he whose heart has been filled
| with admiration for your impetuous and
unyielding valor in the thickest of the
| fight can appreciate with what pride
recount the brilliant achievements which
| immortalizes you and enrich the pages
| of our National history,
Passing bv the earlier but not less
signal triumphs of the war in which most
of YOU participated, and inscribed upon
yourb anners such victories as Dome son
and Shiloh, | recur to campaigns, selges,
and victories that challenge the adj
miration of the world, and elicit the un-
willing applause of all Europe. Turning
your backs upon the
BLooD-BATuED HEIGHTS OF vIcKsBURG.
You launched into region swarmine
with enemies, fighting your way, ano
marching without adequate supplies, tc
answer the cry for suceor that came tc
you from the noble but beleaguered
army at Chattanooga. Your steel next
flashed among the noun aims of Ten
nessee, and your weary Ii nbs found rest
before the embattled heights OF Mission
airy Ridge, and there, with dauntess conr.
age YOU breasted again the enemy S de-
structive fire, and shared with youTcom-
rades of the Army of Northumberland the
glories ofa victory, than which no soldier
can boast prouder.
In that unexampled campaign of vig-
liant and vigorous warfare from Chatta-
nooga to Atlanta you freshened your lau-
rels at ResaeI, graphing with the enemy
behind his works hurting him back dis
mayed and broken. Pursuing him from
thence, marking your path by the graves
of ia Ell comrades you again triumphed
over superior numbers at Dallas, fight
ing your way from there to
KENEsAw MOUNTAIN,
and under the murderouS artillery that
frowned from its rugged heights, with q
tenacity and consistency that finds few
parallels, you labored, fought, and suf-
fered through the broiling rays of mid
summer sun, until at last you p anted
your colors upon its topmost heights.
again on the 22d ofJuly, 1861 render
ed memorable through all time for the
terrible strug lie you SO heroically main
tanned under discouraging disasters, and
the saddest of all reflections, the loss Of
that exemplary soldier and popular
leader the lamented McFherson; your
matchless courage turned defeat into
glorious victory. Ezra Chaple and Jones'
boro added new luster to a radiant
record the latter unbarring to
you the proud gate city of the South.
The daring ola desperate foe in the thrust
ing his legions Northward, exposed the
country in your front, and though
rivers, swamps, and enemies opposed,
you boldly surmountec every obstacle,
beat down all opposition. and marched
ONWARD TO TIE SEA.
without any act to dim the brightness
of your historic page the world rang
plaudits when your labors and struggles
eliminated at Savannah, and the old
STARRY banner" waved once more over
the walls of one of our proudest cities on
the seaboard.
Scarce a breathing spell had passed
when your color faded from the coast
and your columns plunged into the
swainps of the Carolinas. The suffer
ings you endured, the labors you per-
formed, and the success you achieved
in those morasses, deemed impossible,
from a creditable episode in the history
of the war, Pocltaligo, Salkshatchie
Edisto, Rranenyille, Orangeburg, Co
lumdii, Bentonville, Charleston, ard
Raleigh are namt that will ever b. su--
gestiye of the resistless sweep of your
columns through the territory that Grad
led and nurtured, and from whence was
sent forth oni its mission oferime, misery,
and blood the disturbing and disorganlz-
ing spirit of secession and rebellion.
1.-The work for which you pledged
your brave hearts and bra why arps to
the government of your fathers you have
nobly performed. You are seen in the
past gathering throu h the gloom that
enveioped the land, rallying as the guard
ians of mans proudest heritage, forget
ting the thread unwoven in the loon,
quitting the anvil, and abandoning
the workshops to vindicate the
SUPREMACY or THE LAWS.
and the authority Of the Constitution.
Four years have you struggled in the
bloodiest and most destructive war that
has ever drenched the earth In human
gore. Step by step YOU nave borne our
standard, until to-day over every fort
ress and arsenal that rebellion has
wrenched from us, and over every city,
town and hamlet from the lakes to the
gulf, and from ocean to ocean, proudly
floats the STARRY emblem" of our ma
tional unity and strength.
Your rewards, my comrades, are the
welcoming plaudits of grateful people;
the consciousness that in serving the re-
public Won have won for your country
renewed respect and power, ard that
4 lyxt r.