The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-08-14

uilNluVli LUnU WHOM mo MnlNl
through lds iGdN 6ut VIA prcycnlcd b,
u ronlodcul Sargent throwing hi
arms nruundl him. Notwthstnndlnl
this attempt tho gallant Major pro
toctUd him frtm harm and sont HIN &
the rear RpristSncr Of war.
Ia "A few days after the battle OF Ray
mond, Gen. Grant attacked Jackson, ant
here Col. W, J.. Moody was seriously
wounded, which disabled him for activ,
service in the field, OF his COURAGE an,
efficiency M an officer | shall roiraii
from speaking, M he still
lives and is known to you all
The next engagement whcrs tho rcg
mcnt made itself CONSPICUOUS was nj
Chickamauga. Leaving Ringold on Fri
day morning we skirmishcd all day will
the enemy, and lato In the evening We
came up with Gen. Forrest and escort
who, under cover of our arms, crossed
the chicl:amauga, and slept ON the bat
tlc-lield Friday night. The lighting be
gan early Saturday morning, whom Col
Granbury was wounded aud the com
mand devolyed upon Maj. X. NJ. Van
Xxndt, who led IL herocally in the
thickest OF the fight until lat,
on Sunday evening, when the routed
Fedorals sought safety IN hight across
the river, and behind the entrenchmcnts
of Chattanooga. In this terrible strug'
gle Gen. Gregg was shot from MS horse
and reported M mOrtally wounded, and
SO heavy had been the loss sustained
that his regiments were put in other
brigades, the seventh being added &c
the brigade commanded by Gen. Smith
gen. Smith wax seriously wounded III
Tunnel Hill, and Col. Granbury was
promoted and placed in command.
In the subsequent disaster Mt Mission.
AIRY Ridge, Cleborn's division protected
the Confederate retreat, and the Seventh
Regiment under Granbury, was the last
to leave the field. This regiment, after
wards, in the march of sherman on At
lanta, distinguished itself ut Nowhope
church, Atlanta and JonesborO, and fol-
lowed the banners of Hood in Tennessee,
where mt Franklin the gallant Granbury
fell nj the head of his command-ano noble
martyr to the "l.Ost Cause" The rem
nant of the regiment carried its stand
ard through the various vicissitndes OF
the service. from the fall of Franklin Ia
the surrender of its few survivors in
North Carolina. After the battle OF
Chickamauga, my connection with the
regiment ceased, rs ! went with Gen.
Gregg 10 the command of Hoods old
brigade in the Army of Virginia.; but
in my Judgment no nobler, truer patriots
ever bore arms i'll sny cause than those
who enlisted and fought in this regi-
ment of volunteers. ~ its valor Illus
trated on so many fields, it gave to the
army two general officers of rare dis
tinction, Gen. John Gregg and Gen. III.
B. Granbury, both of whom testified
their devotion TO tho service with their
preciousliVeS. Pardon me, my comrades,
while / pay feeble tribute 10 my
departed friend, Gen. Gregg, on whose
stat / served for nearly three years
from the Time Of his promotion until he
fell near Richmond, II short time before
the surrender at Appon@I0x. In all the
grades and departments Ia which he
served he gained distinction, whether
you view him as tbs colonel OF the
Seventh Regiment loading the terrible
cIarge on the batteries at Fort Dnnel-
son, at the HI al of his brigade when
shot from his horse Il. Chiciiamauga, or
in ne '.rsilfc assault lon on
~ Hoed, G eSGGp the hf 9ha
Wilderness under the eye and drec-
in the last extremity gave up his life
and took up his unfading crown near
the james in defense OF Richmond.
Having the honor Of close, personal re
lation to him as staff officer, | can truth
fully say that as soldier he was with
out fear; as friend without dissimu
lation, and that he was the idol ~
his whole command. "None know him
but to love him, none named him but
to praise" Dear General, thou art
gone, but we cherish thy memory!
Texas loves thee as one Of her brighto..
jewels!
= "Rest thee, there is no prouder grave,
Even in her own proud cline,
For thou art freedoms now and famsa,
In q ma q + I.l IN m ar -
That were not born 10 die"
There is yet another OF our Ia
mented dead, of whom special mention
should be made, for he was II faithful
soldier, an able commander, and ever
obedient to the demands of duty. | re-
fer to Gen. II. Is. GranbUry, who died
for his country at Franklin.
"Be needs no tears, who lived noble life,
We will not weep for him who died so
well,
But will 90 together around the hearth,
And tell the story Of his strife
But it is meet, that the unanswered
names Mt the O lcall should remind us o
the many comrades who fell from the
ranks, and now sleep in the Silent City,
where the footballs Of The march is un-
heard, where martial music quickens no
pulse and eScltcs no emotion. They
fought from principle, in what they be-
lieve to be n just and righteous cause,
with motives as pure as the unsullied
dew fresh from heaven. But they
now sleep in immortal graves,
far away from the homes Of their kim
dred. decorated only by tho flowers of
the wildwoods, while the birds of the
forest chant their requiem. And be-
cause no sparkling pentilic or veined
charistean comes forth from Its quaries
to point posterity to their resting places,
shall we deny them tho homage Of our
hearts? Then would | exclaim in the
sad refrain of the Greek poet:
"My country, on thy v0iccless shore,
The heroic bosom beats no more;
Place me on Summers marble steep,
Where nothing save the waves and |,
Nay hear our mutual murmurs sweep,
There, swan-like, let me sing and die"
1t is true, my comrades, that the cause
the South espoused was lost by the
stern arbitrament Of arms, and that ban
ner has been foiled forever. Yet his
tory nowhere furnishes an example of
SO many people perilling life, homes,
wife, children, and all that man loves
most dearly on earth, except when in
The South believed she was right,
and went fourth to battle under
the promptings Of that patriotism
which, in the language of the eloquent
Clay, ''Catching its inspiration from The
immortal God, and rising above all con
siderations of selfish interest and feel
ings, prompts and animates the soul to
deeds of self-sacrifice, of devotion and OF
death itself" Now that the war is over,
by two Decades broad and con'pre
hensive craftsmanship demands that we
shall bury. out OF sight its
animosities, saying to the boys
in blue: ave were enemies in war,
in peace, we were friends" The people
of the South are now diseharging in
good faith al their. dnties Of citizen
ship, az much as lies in their power,
building up The waste places and en-
deavoring to perpetuate civil liberty in
our National Republic.
The valor Of our soldiers, both North
and South, as illustrated on