Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-07-19
AN INTERESTING DOCUMENT.
General Logan's Farewell Address to the
Army.
HEADQUARTERS
Army OF THE TENNESSEE,
LII SRE

OffcerS- and Soldiers OF the Amy OF The
Tennessee: The profound qualification | feel
in being authorized to release you from the
onerouS obligations of the camp and return
you laden with laurels to the homes where
warm hearts welcome you is somewhat
embittered by the painful reflection that |
am sundering the ties that trials have made
true, time made tender, suffering made
sacred, perils made proud heroism made
honorable, and fame made forever fearless
of the future. 1t is no common occasion
that demands The dishandonment of q
military organization before the reSlstieSs
power of which mountains bristling with
| bayonets have bowed cities have surren-
dered, and millions of brave men been con-
| quered Although | have been but short
! time your commander, we are not strangers;
| affections have sprung up between us dur
| ing the long years of doubt, gloom and car
mage which we have passed through to-
gether. nurttIred by common perils, sui
! ferings and Sacrifices, and riveted by
| the. memories of gallant comrades,
whose bones repose beneath the sod of an
| hundred battle-felds, nor time nor distance
| will weaken or efface. The many marches
| you have made, the dangers you have de-
! spised, the haughtiness you have humbled,
| the duties you have discharged, the glory
you have gained, the destiny you have dis
J covered for the country in whose cause you
/ have conquered all recur at this moment
in all the Yividness that marked 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 upon page, volume upon vol
ume of your heroic deeds, and floating
| down to future generations. will inspire
| the student of history with admiration, the
| patriot American with veneration for his
| ancestors and the love of republican lib
| erty, with gratitude for those whom fresh
| baptism of blood reconsecrated the powers
and energies of the Republic to the cause of
| constitutional freedom. Long may ii bethe
happy fortune ofeach and every one ofyou to
! livein the ullfruition ofthe boundieSs bless
| ings you have secured to the human race.
Only he whose heart has been thrilled with
admiration for your impetuouS and I'M
yielding valor in the thickest of the fight,
can appreciate with what pride | recount
the brilliant achievements which immor
talize you and enrich the pages of our ma
tional history. Passing by the earlier, but
no less signal triumphs of the war, in
which most of you participated and in
scribed upon your banners such victories
as Donaldson and Shiloh | recur to cam
paigns, sieges, and victories that challenge
the admiration of the world and elicit the
unwilling applause ofau Europe. Turning
your backs upon the blood-bathed heights
of Vicksburg, you launched into region
swarming with enemies, fighting your way
and marching without adequate supplies,
to answer the cry for succor that came to
You from the noble but beleagured army at
Chattanooga Your steel next flashed
among the mountains of the Tennessee,
and your weary limbs found rest before the
embattled heights of Missionary Ridge, and
there with dauntleSs courage you breasted
again the enemv's destructive fire, and
shared with your comrades of the Army of
the Cumberland the glories of victory
than which no soldiery can boast
prOuder.
In that unexampled campaign of vigilant
and vigorous warfare from Chattanooga TO
Atlanta, you freshened your laurels at Re
SAGA, graphing with the enemy behind his
works, hurting him back dismayed and
broken. Pursuing him from thence, mark
ing your path with the graves of fallen
comrades, you again triumphed over sU-
perior numbers at Dallas, fighting your
way from there to the Kennesaw Mountain,
and under the murderous artillery that
frowned from its rugged nights, with
tenacity and consistency that find few paral-
lels, you labored, fought and suffered
through the broiling rays of a Southern
midsummer sun, until at last you planted
your colors upon its tOpmost nights. Again, |
on the 22d Of July, 1864, rendered memoir
able through all time for the terrible
struggle you so heroically maintained un-
der discouraging disasters, and that saddest
OF all reflections, the loss OF that exemplary
soldier and popular leader the lamented |
Mcpherson, your matches courage turned |
defeat into a glorious victory Ezra |
Chapeland Jonesboro added new luster to |
q radiant record, the latter Unbarring to you I
the proud Gate City of the South. The dar- |
ing of a desperate foe in thrusting his |
legions northward exposed the country in |
your front, and though rivers, swamps |
and enemies opposed, you boldly sur !
mounted every obstacle, beat down all OPP
position and marched onward 10 the 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 of the seaboard. Scarce |
a breathing spell had passed when your
cOlors faded from the coast and your col |
umns plunged into the sTamps of the Car !
olin2s The suiferings you endured. the |
labors you performed and the success you |
achieved in those mOrasses, deemed i'm I,
pasSable, forms a CTeditable episode in the |
hatchie, Edista Branchyilie, Orangeburg |
Columbia, Bentonyille, Charleston and
Raleigh are names that viii ever be sug-
gestive Of the resisuess sweep of your col
umns through the territory that Graded and
nurtured. and from whence was sent forth
on its mission of crime, misery and blood
the disturbing and disorganizing spirit of
secession and rebellion.
The work for which you pledged your
brave hearts and brawny arms to the gov
eminent Of your fathers, you have nobly
performed. You are seen in the past gath
ering through the gloom that enveloped
the land, rallying as theguardians Of mans
proudest heritage, forgetting the thread I'M
woven in the loom, quitting the anvil and
abandoning The workshops to vindicate the
supremacy OF the laws, and the authority
Of the Constitution -Four years have you
struggled in the bloodiest and most de- !
structive war that ever drenchcd The earth |
with human gore step by step you have |
borne our standard until to-day-over |
every fortress and arsenal that rebellion |
wrenched from Us, and over city, town and !
hamlet from the lakes 20 the gulf, and from |
ocean to ocean, proudly floats the starry |
emblem Of cur national unity and |
strength.
Your rewards, nay comrades, are The F,
welcoming plaudits ot grateful people, |
the consciousness that in saving the repub- /
lie you have won for your country renewed !
respect and power at home and abroad /
that in the uneXampled era Of growth and |
prosperity that dawns with peace there !
attaches miehtier wealth Of pride and glory |
than every before to that loved boast, / |
am an American citizen
In relinquishing the implements Of war 1
for those of peace let your conduct ever
be that Of warriors in time of war and !
peaceful citizens in tine of peace Let not !
the luster Of that bright name that you !
have won as soldiers be dimmed by any |
improper act as citizens, but Us time rolls |
on let your record grow brighter and |
brighter still.
JOHN LoGAY, Major-General,
The Belle of the Funeral.