Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-11-09

battle of the wilderness May D. 1891 died at Wash.
ngt91 D. e. May 30 i Xxx ,iSrnr I1sm Adams. Ans,
/ /, 1861, died at Alexandria, Va, June 10, 1861;
Samuel " Bailey, wounded at the battle of Win
chester, Va oct 49, 1851 died at Winchester oct
| q, 1854. Austin L. benson, wounded at Peters
burg Va April ,, 1855, died at Fortress Monroe,
April 10, 1866
"Far away thy hero calls
Where round the deadly bullet falls,
Aud where the battles thunder sun
Bursts on the storm Of glory won,
Wcr, shot IN flame the shripkiug shell,
An Christ, our dying brothers fell.
Twelve of our noble comrades were killed
on the field of battle. Let their names be
written in letters of gold tell the rising
generation that their blood helped to save
our nation
But Oh the bones that strewed the sod
Were laid upon thine altar God
Alonzo 4. Moore, Joseph S. Hastings and Eben
H. Whitney, killed at the battle Of Fredericksburg,
Dec. -, 1852; Philip W Crosby, killed at Mary, s
Heights. Va, May 3. 1863. Orric Il Ward Joseph
tie Of the Wilderness, May ., 1854; Seneca B. Glea-
son, killed in the battle Of the Wilderness, May g.
1854; Ira D. CLARK Geo a. French aud Elmer g.
Holmes killed in the battle Of Spottsylyauia, Va
May IL, 1864; Albert lIathorn, killed at Peters
burg, Va, March -, 1865.
Comrades. we are on the march to yon
der golden camping ground, where we shall
meet those Of our comrades who have pass
ed in grand review.
'Hurrah through storm Of shot and shell
The colors proudly fly;
Each soldier marks their progress well,
And follows though he die.
The dead behind, the foe before,
Above the plying skies
Aud hark o'er all the cannons roar,
Hufrah' It's victory.
As there is always chaif amid the wheat,
so there was in Co. ! men whom we cannot
honor as we wish we might. While others
may point the finger Of scorn mt them as
traitors, we would throw around them the
broad mantle Of so!dier-charity and welcome
them to our social gatherings and our homes,
remembering that they started well. The
remorse they must bear leaves Il sharper
pang than honorable wounds received in
the face Of the foe. The thirteen men who
deserted from the company were
Artenas W Hall from general hospital at New
port, r ! Sept. ~ 1852; Henry Nolet, from gen
rral hospital at Burlington, Vt, Sept - 1862. JO-
seph Os.r while ON the march near BarnstOwn,
Nd, sept. p. 1862 Addison Webster, at Belle
Plain, Va. jan. ~, 1863; apprehended Aug q,
1863 and deserted again at Camp Distribution.
oct r. 1853: Daniel Pike. from Gettysburg, Pa,
July 3, 1863. Francis Kelly. from New York city.
Aug. 21, 1863; Joseph Smith Ga recruit on his
way to join the company, from Warrentun, Va,
August -. lSi3. Julu sullivan "a Suisttulel
from Warnnton, Va, sept -, 1853; Joseph Shat
nrr. from New Baltimore Va. oct 1863 ,appre
hrnded Nov 10, 1853. ami sentenced by general
court martial tu los. All pay and allowances now
due aud which may b-roine due. and all bounty"
discharged at Brandy Station, Va Jan. u. 1851;
Jared Shufelt aud John Smith doth substitutes,
from Brandy station, Va, Feb ~, 1861: Michael
Gilegan, while at home on a veteran furlough;
May II, 1861. Bradbury II Turner from general
hospital, Sept 81, 1864,
The present address Of most of these men
is unknown to their comrades. He whose
all seeing eye knows all the paths their err
ing feet have trod be their judge, and not
their comrades
We have come together on this Both day
If August, lsss, in this beautiful town,
surrounded 10y so many symbols of the af-
frction of surviving friends, to give evi-
dence Of our appreciation Of the merits and
worth Of our fallen comrades and friends,
to cherish their memories. and to honor
them for their self sacrificing devotion to
the right, for their heroic daring and the
brave deeds so well and faithfully perform
ed by them for US and our common coun
try. We mourn our missing comrades, but
we mourn them with loving and admiring
pride Comrades, we were of that vast
throng who made this country for the first
time truly one we have "A right, in our
selves or 10y our representatives, to control
its destiny and dictate its policy. Who will
guard its interests more wisely than the
men who looked death out Of countenance
on many bloody field, who counted not
their lives dear unto them if thereby they
roes sleep well may no traitor mar their
rest. Patriotism is a country making bust
ness so let US teach our children to be 10y
al to country and faithful to God. And
may righteousness exalt the nation we saved