San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1890-07-24
ADDRESS OF CAPT. fRRG KYLE
At the Reunion OF Woods Regiment,
LockhArt, Texas, July 4, 1880.

Vnekhart Q'exas. July A. 1890
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am proud OF shis moment given mo-
mon of the send. TO address this the rem
nsnt OF your glorious regiment. The
proudest suloey that could 10 given you is
this vast asssmblage here, come ~ they |
have solely 10 do honor 10 Woods Regi- |
ment. To be present at a reunion OF those
that have been endeared one to another by
having stood shoulder TO shoulder where
there was danger. will not bs able to-
day TO speak In detail Of your services AZ
soldiers engaged In the greatest civil war
In all recorded history. The fields on which
We operated were far apart with the turbid
waters of the Mississippi furnishing an enc
mics gun boats facilities to patrol In efforts
TO sever all communication between us.
Hence you see II will DO impossible for me
70 follow you on your onerous marches, TO
know Of your privations in camps, OF your
lonely watches, Of your bivouacs, or OF
your yalor when in the whirlwind Of the
charge. But OF what heard Of you In tho
fall of sixty.four am egotistical enough 10
believe that whether on the march. In
camps. on post, In bivouac or whore the
shafts of death fell thick, that YOU were all
that could have been expected or required
of you.
Soldiers, at a timo when was on de-
taohed service at Nacadoohes I met General
John A. Wharton, then in high command
Of cavalry In this department In speaking
To me of tho forces on this side OF the river,
when speaking Of your regiment with much
warmth, he remarked, Captain, l have
found here body Of heroes that remind
me so much Of Terry's eighth, they look,
they talk they ride. they fight like your boys.
Now will you allow me one word for John
A. Wharton, I ask this for have knowledge
of the fact that you knew him in his mis-.
takes on that fatal day on the Yellow Bayou.
In connection too, will ask you who was
it first to meet those hitherto invincibie
Southern cohorts as they recoiled from that
hill spot (the Round Top) at Gettysburg
with that eyer memorable confession, Boys.
this ia all my fault. But our own immortal
Leo, yes General Lee, AMI can ! not hope
fully appeal to you to cast the mantle OF
over this mistake Of gallant Whae-
tong We are told that whom the eulogist
stood in tho presence of the casket that
contained all that was mortal of the Whar-
ton of early Texas revolutionary fame
with vehemencs and much eloquences,
exclaimed that tho keenest blade flashed
ON Jacinto's plains lay broken before them.
Rsl;eve me when say that he who made
that mistake Oh 'he ie"o" "".'"'
sheathed for W when the first bugle called
the most trenchant blade aud watered with
~. ,,,od morv of the battle fields of the
Sontb Ia Il strange that the trained eye of
this soldier should see similarity between
Jarvis eighth md Woods thirty second
Texas regiments2 They were enlisted from
the same counties. same neighborhoods,
friends they we're ut home. perhaps in
mapy instances. relatives. am re minded
on TODAY that it was the same blood. for
together with the spirit of Sidney johnson
and .a.bost of our patriot dead up at Shiloh,
there went that of our roldier boy Storey,
brother of YOUR CAPT. j, G.. Storey. To
Won can not turn to share with me my
sadness when I reflect that my coinrade,
even while speak. on that bloody field rest
IN an unknown, unguarded soldiers grave.
nothing to guide loving hands where they
would want, year by year, to place there
memorial flowers. Unguarded did I say,
NAV I retract that word for It's
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u;" s;Io,t ,ont ;s anreai
And glory guards with solemn rounds
The bivouac of our dead.
Men NJ the 32nd. may continue this
,,ara,e, Our. Terry went from his farm to
those distant battle fields to erQanlze and
lead his band of Texas youths. Yonr battle
ecorred Woods went from his farm on the
Blanco. So hard By, our Terry's lifecord
WAS severed by the whizzing bullet your
Woods tbouoh torn by this same instru-
ment of death. was spared to you, and the
ora, .bo;red veteran that he is, ls with you
On today. 1t was my fortune to know, my
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