The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1884-10-22
Farewell Address Of Gen. John A.
Logan,

Logan,
HEADQUARTERS. ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE.
LOUISVILLE, Ky, July 13, 1855.
officers and Soldiers Of the Tennessee:
The profound qualification feel at being
authorized to release you from the onerous
obligations of the camp, and return you
laden with lnurels to homes where warm
hearts wait to welcome you, is somewhat
embittered by the painful reflection that I
am sundering the ties that trials have made
true, time made tender, suffering made
sacred, peril made proud herOism made
honorable, and fame made forever fearless
Of the future. It is no common occasion
that demands the disbandment Of a mill
tary organization, before the resistless
power of which mountains bristling with
bayonets have bowed, cities have surren-
dered, and millions of brave men been con-
quered. Although I have been but a short
period your commander, we are not stran-
gers; affections have sprung up between us
during the long years Of doubt, gloom and
carnage which we have passed through to-
| gether, nurtured by common perils, suffer
/ ings and sacrihces aud invited by the
memories Of gallant comrades, whose bones
repose beneath the sod of a hundred battle
fields; nor time nor distance will weaken
or efIace. 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 have
conquered-all recur at this moment with
the vividness 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 cur
rent Of time, page after page, volume upon
volume of your heroic deeds, and, floating
| down to future generations, will inspire the
student of history with admiration, the
patriot American with veueratiOn for his
| ancestors, and the lover of republican lib
erty, with gratitude for those who in q
fresh baptism of blood reconsecrated the
powers and energies Of the Republic to the
cause of constitutional freedom. Long
may it be the happy fortune Of each and
every one of you to live in the full fruition
of the boundless blessings you have secured
to the human race. Only he, whose heart
has been thrilled with admiration for your
impetuous and unyielding valor in the
thickest of the fight, can appreciate with
what pride I recount the brilliant achieve
ments which immortalize you and enrich
the pages of our National history Passing
by the earlier, but not less signal triumphs
of the war, in which most of you partici-
pated and inscribed upon your banners
such victories as DOnelsOn and Shiloh,
recur to campaigns, sieges and victories
that challenge the admiration of the world
and elicit the unwilling applause of all
Europe. Turning your backs upon the
bood-bathed nights of Vicksburg, you
launched into a region sWarming with eme-
mics, fighting your way and marching with
out adequate supplies, to answer the cry
for succOr that came TO you from the noble
but beleaguered army at Chattanooga.
Your steel next flashed among the noun
tains of the Tennessee, and your weary
limbs found rest before the embattled
nights Of Missionary Ridge, and there with
|dauntless courage, you breasted again the
enemy's destructive fire, and shared with
your comrades Of the Army Of the Cumber-
land the glories Of a victory, than which nc
soldiery can boast prouder.
In that unexampled campaign of vigilani
and vigorous warfare from Chattanooga to
Atlanta, you freshened your laurels at Res
AGA, graphing with the enemy behind his
works, hurting him back dismayed and
broken. Pursuing him from thence, mark
ing your path by the graves of fallen com,
j
numbers at Dallas, fighting your way from
there to Kenesaw Mountain, and under the
murderous artillery that frOwued from itE
rugged nights, with a teuacity and con.
stancy that finds few parallels, you labored,
fought and suffered through the broiling
rays Of O midsummer sun, until at last you
planted your colors upOnits tOpmost nights
Again, ON the 22d of July, 1864 rendered
memorable through an time for the terrible
struggle you 80 Eeroically maintained under
discouraging disasters, and the saddest oi
all reflections, the loss of that exemplary
soldier and popular leader, the lamented
MCPHERSON, your matchless courage turned
defeat into a glorious victory. Ezra Chape
and Jouesboro added new luster TO a ra
diant record, the latter uubarring to yoJ
the proud Gate City Of the South, TIT
daring Of a desperate foe in the thrustiul
his legions northward, exposed the countr.
in your front, and though rivers, swamp
Z and enemies opposed you boldly sur
mounted every obstacle, beat down oil OI
position, and marched onward to the sea