Evening journal., 1890-05-29
LAST EDITION
WHO FOUGHT AND DIED.
Memorial Services in Honor of Soldiers by
the Union Veteran Legion.

the Union Veteran Legion.
The memorial services of encampment
No. "a, of the Union Veteran Legion,
held in the Board of Trade rooms last
evening, was attended by about 300
persons. The services opened precisely
at s o'clock, by the bugler sounding
the Assembly call to which St
Paul's M. E. Church choir responded
by singing, America" s. A. Mcallister
colonel commander, read the open
ing, which was answered by Lieutenant
Colonel File, on what Are WEI"
Charles A. Foster on the duty of first
chaplain; Harry A. Sheetz, duty of
second major; James Mcdowell, third
duty officer of the day and
the colonel commander on "Our Whole
Duty. Music by the choir was followed
by short address by s. A. Macallister
Charles A. Foster. the encampment chap.
lain, made an address to the Throne of
Grace" Mrs. s. A. Macallister sang
solo in a beautiful manner. Harry Trab
bold made Call of Honor to the dead on
a muffIed drum. The quartette sang
"Coyer Them Over With Beautiful
Flowers. A short address was read by
the past encampment commander Gen.
eral w. S. McNair After this Miss f.
j. Pickels sang the solo, "Land of Rest. +"
General j. II. Wilson delivered a
beautiful Grafton on the dead. He said !,
1--WE have come together this evening to
do honor to the memory OF the Union
soldiers who fell in the great war. We
do we'll to honor those who left home a t
the call of duty, to uphold the Union
and defend the "Old Flag" How
nobly they did their duty, and
how they fought and fell for
the majesty of their country.
The story has been told over
and over again by the soldiers, and in
history.
It has been handed down by tradition
that for centuries after the Thermopylae
Spartan tragedy, mothers taught their
children to recite the roll call of those,
who by their deeds of valor, and sacrifice
of life, turneds back the tide of AsiatiC
invasion. Tue fame of Leonidas and his
companions whose bones nave moulderec
in the dust, comes down to us as price
less heritage to humanity.
We shall never find words TO describe
the character, aud deeds. and the exalted
patriotism of General Washington, anC
his generals and statesmen whose service
on the field and in the cabinet with him
What words shall sound the fame o.
Washington and his companions If the
warriors and statesmen who proceeded
him are worthy of endless gratitude
Coming to a later day we find that tn,
names of Lincoln, Stanton, Grant, Raw
lins. McClelland, Thomas, Meade ant
Sheridan, and those less conspicuous, bu
as worthy. are household words il
American homes. | know these men a
soldiers only can know each other
although the youngest, it was my goo
fortune to call each one of them friend
From the first to the last of tn
great rebellion, have serye
with and have been neR
each of them. ! enjoyed the clos
companionshiD of several of them an
some felt they revealed their inmost soul
to me. | therefore speak with the III
most confidence, and say nothing but th
simple truth.
'Hrhey differed very much in race an
education. Some were learned and wisl
while others were retired and modest an
eloquent and iInpassioned, but they a
had like patriotism Each of them con
manded armies and had control {
thousands of lives and millions of do
lars worth of property, and yet say thi
not one of them ever sullied his fam
by an ill-gotten dollar, or stained h
name by an unpatriOtic or dishonel
thought Without the intelligence, I'll
eonstancy, the courage and PATRIOTS
within the ranks of the Union Army
which it drew from the people, we shou
never have had the generals or victorie
The Union would never have been estal
lished or the shackles taken from Il
unfortunate slaves without these"
Harry Zimmerman sang solo, 90
Loyal Tried and True. and was ioin'
by the chorus and the quartet SAL
Peacefully Rest" There were brl
addresses made by Department Cor
mander Thomas E. Lewis, Mayor sof t
City, Austin Harrington, the Rev Z.
Barrett. The choir rendered the bea
tiful piece, ''Well Deck Their Graveswi
Beautiful Flowers The services WI
dismissed with the benediction by DR..
II. Simms, and the bugler sounding ia
Judge Houston, who was TO deliver
Grafton was unable to be present, as
was not well enough to leave his home
Dover.
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