Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-07-23
4 SOLDIERS TRIBUTE TO LOGAN


At Blaine and Logan ratification
meeting held at Titusyille, Penn, J. H.
Cogswell, who served during the war as
Lieutenant Colonel of the 15Oth New
York Regiment, Twentieth Army Corps.
made an address from which the follow
ing is taken:
Who is this General John A. Logan?
I see before me good MANY soldiers
bullet-stoppers and shell-arresters from
1861 to 1865. Idon't need to tell them
anything about the old Black Eagle of
illinois, who commanded the Fifteenth
Corps. Is there man in my hearing who
wore the corps badge, the 'fcatridge. box
and forty round" would say. "You
can't tell me anything about General
Logan that don't know better than youn
| see other men here. who know of Lo.
gan. They remember how their hearts
were iightened up during the war as
they read OF his successes at Belmont
Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, Vicksburg.
Fort Gibson, Mission Ridge. Resaca.
Dallas, Kenesaw, Peach Tree Creek and
Atlanta. He was in Congress- in
1861, and when a Michigan. regiment
came through Washington he enlisted in
Its ranks as private soldier and bore his
part ID the first Bull Run Battle, being
one in the last to leave the field. You
remember the poets expression, "the
bravest are the gentlestp' [ will change
the sentiment even at the expense of
poetry and add, "the bravest are the
most magnanimous!" and as proof will
cite you the conduct Of General Logan
when sent to Nashville in December.
1854, to take the command of the Union
army from old Pap Thomas, whose
memory is so deeply revered not onlv
by every remaining member of the
Army of the Cumberland. but everv
true man in the country. Logan had
but to take one simple sheet of paper
from his pocket-on which was writ
ten an order from Stanton-show it
to General Thomas, and the credit of
that overwhelming and crushing victory,
The battle OF Nashville, would have been
his and General Thomas would have
been in disgrace. Did Re do it? Perish
the thought! He saw why Thomas had
been SLOW and he further saw that he
was "sure.' He waited to see the vic
tory come that Thomas had organized.
and then FASTENED back to Washington.
tnen TO Savannah TO meet his own corps.
the 10th, which had been marching.
through Georgia" Since the war nearly
all OF his time has been spent in Con-
gress, and how spent? To know how
goodly part of it has been spent, ask the
man who has an empty sleeve. the flesh.
bone, aDd muscles that should fill it
being buried with scores of others at the
loot of some amruting table in one of the
held hospitals at Gettysburg or the VIII =
derness! Ask the men you see every day
n our streets who try TO make two sticks
take the place of the leg lost at Cold
Harbor or Fort He'll! Ask the widow
who regularly receives her quarterly
allowance from the most benefcient
government the world ever saw in its
treatment Of its unfortunate defenders.
ASK the soldier, who, by the mercy of
God, lived through Andersonyille and
still has his reasen left! Yes, ask any of
those what Logan has done in Congress.
and they will all with one accord invoke
the blessings of heaven upon John A.
Logan for the efforts he has put forth,
and is still putting forth in their behalf.
Ask the pillion colored voters of the
South, who, remembering the political
nights accorded to them by the Constitu-
ton and laws, cry out in their anguish,
I'VE asked of you bread, and you have
given us a stone" ''You promised us
the ballot, but Danyille and Hamburg
reply with the bullet. "They remember
that Logan's voice has failed them not
whenever he could champion their
cause. Have answered who General
John A. Logan is? Fit comrade for our
Plumed Knight our Henry of Navarrel
our James G. Blaine. Let them be as
sociated. The statesman scholar, and
the soldier-statesman, Blaine ard Logan.