Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1884-07-26

ulSuayeu ANU OToken. furSulng MIN
from thence, marking your path with
the graves of fallen comrades, you
again triumphed over superior mum.
bers at Dallas, fighting your wayfrom
there to the Kennesaw Mountain, and
under the murderous artillery that
frowmed from its rugged heights, with
tenacfty and conslancy that find few
parallels, you lahored, fought and
suffered through the broiling rays of
Southern midsummer sun, until at last
you planted your colors upon its top
most heights. Again, on the 22d of
July, 1864, rendered memorable
through all time for the terrible strug.
gle you so heroically maintained under
discouraging disasters, and that sad.
dest of all reflections, the loss of that
exemplary soldier and popular leader,
the lamented Mcpherson, your match.
less courage turned defeat into a
glorious victory. Ezra Chapel and
Jonesboro added new luster to a
radiant record, the latter unbarring to
you the proud Gate City of the South.
Thedaring of desperate foe in thrust
ing his legions northward exposed the
country in your front, and through
rivers, swamps, and enemies opposed,
you boldly surmounted every obstacle,
beat down all opposition and marched
onward to 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 breathing
spell had passed when your colors
faded from the coast and your col
umns plunged into the swamps of the
Carolinas. The sufferings you endured,
the labors you performed and the sue.
cess you achieved in those morasses,
deemed impossible, form q ereditable
episode in the history of the war.
Pocotaligo, Salkahatchie, Edisto,
Branchvillc, Orangeburg, Columbia,
Bentonville, Charleston ard Raleigh
are names that will ever be suggestive
of the resIstless sweep OF Your columns
through the territory that cradled md
nurtured, and from whence was sent
forth on its mission of crime, misery
and blood the disturbing and disor-
ganzing spirit of secession and re-
bellion.
The work for which you pledged
your brave hearts and brawny arms to
the Government of your fathers, you
have nobly performed. You are seen
in the past gathering through the
gloom that envelopcd the land, rally
ing as the guardians of mans proudest
heritage, forgetting The thread un-
woven in the loom, quitting the anvil
and abandoning the workshops to vim
dicate the supremacy of the laws and
the authority of the Constitution.
-Four years have you struggled in the
bloodiest and most destructive war
that ever drenched 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
every city, town and hamlet frem the
lakes TO the gulf, and from ocean to
ocean, proudly floats the starry EN-.
blem" of orr National unity and
strength.
Your rewards, my comrades, are the
welcoming plaudts of a grateful
people, the consciousness that in saw.
ing the republic You have won for
your country renewed respect and
power at home and abroad, that in the
unexampled era Of growth and pros
perity that dawns with peace, there
attaches mightier wealth of pride and
glory than ever before to that loved
boast, am an American citizen"
In rclinquishing the implements of
war for those of peace, let your con.
duct ever be that Of warriors in time
of war and peaceful citizens in time of
peace, Let not the luster of that
bright name that you have won rs sol.
diers be dimmed by any improper act
as citizens, but as time rolls on let
your record grow brighter and
brighter still.
JOHN LOGAN, Major General.