The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-06-09

r out returned no more he was torn a 4
e by the shell of rebel some are psssen
g who were by his side. Twenty odd year,
, ago babe Jesse Dial and Ross Rush good.
Dye Tor the last time. Jesse sleeps in south.
; ern soil Ross was brought home. and TO-
Gay a little white monument in the GENE.
terry at the old jersey church marks his last
resting place. often think ofthose braye
men knew 50 well. who were killed in
battle, and who died in prisons of the south
we cannot erase these memories. II was a
cruel war, indeed. From that 1911 of April.
1901, when young lads, of a Massachusetts
regiment, was shot down in the streets OF
Baltimore, 10 the man who died but vester-
aay OF Wounds received % odd years ago.
VINO knows of the number of the slain ?
Inc movements, the defeats, the victories
Oh the war are fresh and vivid in our minds
We cannot forget Bull Run, Shiloh. Ante.
TAM Fredericksburg, Gettysburg. Chicka.
manga, Lookout Mountain, Missionary
Ridge, and the Wilderness. We cannot
forget Sherman's march from Atlanta To tho
sea, and Sheridan's sweep through the
Shenandoah and meyer can we forget the
shock of that 18th of April, the day that
followed the assassination of Abraham Lin
coin. An old fable speaks of one who wept.
and says that where her tears fell beautiful
white flowers sprang up.
Our nation has wept bitterly, and from
her loving hands to-day beautiful flowers
are placed upon the graves of the fallen
braves, flowers in wreaths and crosses.
white, and crimson and red. But some :
soldiers graves will be missed to-day they ,
never came home they died without pill e
and were buried in haste by the !
wamps OF the Chickahominy, and along 4
he banks of the Re- river, buried without
hroud and litany. The most suggestive in
above thousands buried in the Ma
.onal cemeteries at Gettysburg and Rich n
Il Is the unknown-unknown, though n
.ther and mother, brother and sister, wife
nd child waited long for tn, If coming un.
nown, though they gayethe best they had,
leir precious lives, for their country un-
to those who may read the inscrip- :
ons, but known to God, who has made q
record of their wounds, and bot
ed their tears. But how many received no
irial at all? No one present to close their
les IN death no one TO take the farewell mi
essaGe from their dying bps. At the -
where their bones lie, no grave is
arked unknown Soldiers, the flowers
u have tenderly placed over the graves
day VIII soon wither and die, but the act S
III never De forgotten it will be p~erpetu- ma
ed oy your children, and your chiIdren's s.
lldren. To-day you have strewn flowers
er heads hat ached, over hearts that bled.
d over feet that 5listered in the weary
irch- fou have searched out the graves ,
the old Reyolutionists, and the soldiers -
war OF ISL, and have placed a flower So
on their graves who, in that war gaye
gland a deserved rebuke for yiolation of
law, in seizing as prizes such
our merchant vessels as were found trans mo,
her arbitrary and unjust CONNER -
regulations, that fight caused our flag 20
honored on all seas. You have placed a
upon the graves of the n,ea who
ght IN Mexico, who in that war gave such =,
iiantdisplays Of American gallantry. mar
ma when with fearful eyes you have ga
the graves of the nations dead
: upon hat unfuried hag-may it wave
y. Those thirteen stripes represent
\ 'een original colonies. Those eoIors msSru
,ed hSning which was officially recog- -
y.ftathers Of the Republic. Red
-a,cb ward, white purity, blue, justice.
,stiee Nav Kte n~ation-Vaior, Purity,
lea live forever. su
sang America of the speaking the m'
TO weyand AvenSformed and march H~i
al previously been pSherc a csnotaph
Ie graves of our soIdiesd, representing
tual ceremony a salute wad. After the Sui
our late deceased O.. D. ard in honor mary
-.rrv vars,ctel qrade RS-F
a salute in honor OF our late
and Hancock, was fired, trals,
Ionors havihsbeen previously peri IN,
his Postin homo, Of Gen. Grant. Assaults mary
of our soldier Tad was fired, and me
Mnonies were endeb By order oil tue =
bers LktioY
wn, ! AdIutan'' n