The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-08-25

cory Is not yeU llAeu. 90 III Is yeJ IOO carry
to declare how much hung upon the is
sues at Antietam and Gettysburg on Shi-
loh and Chickamauga, on Nashville and
Murfeesboro. But one species Of glory we
may claim In consequence Of the civil war
and challenge the world verdict upon it,
for the test Of che battlefield proved it
again and again, and that is that the mar
tial heroes of tho past, whether the Spar
tan braves, the warriors from beyond tho
Rhine or Napoleon's invincibles, recruited
some goodly company to share their eter-
nal bivouaCs from the ranks Of these same
American volunteers whom European mar
tinets lightly classed as a mob. And ora
tors and poets, those ready panegyrists of
physical bravery, shall find in our Spartan
bands, our Swiss guards, our Light Bri-
gades, our Tamerlanes and Plumed
knights, our modern Hales and Jaspers
and Marions and Wayncs, fresh subjects
with which to embellish the grand old
themes. Custer at the head Of 100 sabers,
charging full upon brigade of Hamp-
tons troopers at Gettysburg, his golden
locks streaming behind as the orifamb
of battle, was but another Navarro at Ivry,
and the raiding khans of the orient, those
untamed Ishmaels moving to conquest for
booty and glory, never displayed greater
daring than Forrest when, in broad day
light, with scarcely more than body
guard following, he rode into the circle of
10000 enemies along the open streets of a
city straight to headquarters of the OPP
posing army to capture its commander, or
when for days and even months he played
hide and seek In territory bristling with
hostile camps and fortified posts, recruit
ing and marching out new battalions.
a Marnion, Roland, a Winkelried
have we yet to produce, but the poet Of
the future shall sing of our dashing Kear.
ny, our noble Mcpherson, our fiery A. P.
Hill, each borne by his impetuous valor
far into the enemy embattled ranks, there
to fall single, shining target for myr-
lad of foes There, too, is our Greene, the sill
yer haired veteran Of sixty odd years, hold
ing off for one whole night with u bare
skirmish line ON Culp's Hill at Gettysburg
the assaults Of an entire Confederate diyi-
sion. There is Cleburne at Franklin,
charging at the head Of regiment after
regiment and brigade after brigade, car
rying numberless redoubts and line upon
line Of ramparts, but leaving the glory to
Others while he rushed off to win new vic
tories and to fall at last close to the guns
of the enemy's unconquerable stronghold.
And there is Lytle, Chickamauga's s richest
sacrifice, in crisis Of the battle shouting
to the handful within hearing, the last of
his once noble brigade: Gentlemen. we
can die but once. Now is our time. Let
us chargeP' Already three wounds sapped
his lifeblood A fourth bullet reached his
heart and be fell dead from the saddle.
Tragedies most marvellous and thrilling
also cast their shadows over this new page
Of our history-tragedies like that Of Mel.
son cut down in the house Of his friends
at the opening Of q career promising great
ness, and that, too, simply to appease the
sudden malice Of an angry subordinate; OF
Morgan whsSrode through hostile camps
from the Tennessee to the lakes, and after
escaping from prison bars by cleverness
worthy of an Orsini or Trenck died in Q
midnight skirmish, shot down mistaken
ly for common fugitive, and of dashing
him the Murat Of the Confcderacy, throw
lng his life away for the smiles of simple
country oquette-tragedies of the battle
Held, as when with no other motive than
duty, no other spur than an impulsive gen.
erals command, Farnsworth's three hun
dred galloped on their wild ride to death
among tho rocky bowlders at tho base Of
Round Top dodging double shotted can.
non volleys here and cleaving a pathway
through n line of bayonets there, until thcir
young leader fell, carrying seven wounds,
either of which would have killed him.
his nerveless sword arm pointing toward
the goal for which he rode; or Of those gal.
liant sons Of Maine who, when ordered to
test the fire of Lees batteries and rifle
pits at Petersburg, bade one another good.
by with Spartan GOODNESS and charged di.
rect, with S82 men in line, upon tho enc.
ny's glacis, leaving 682 dead and man.
gled victims along a course over which
the few survivors had marched in seven
minutes. The details Of slaughter so hope.
less as this and of sacrifices so fruitless as
that in Farnsworth's charge can only re-
pei tho mind or fill it with angry protest
but not so with that story Of the bold dast
for the colors Oh Cemetery Ridge when the
First Minnesota, 262 strong, rushed head
aong upon whole Confederate division,
seized their leading standards and checked
shetr advance, leaving, it is true, a15 of
their lumber prostrate upon few square
rods of O., Nth at the point of contact. Nor
was 1t wastt Y yalor when Blgelow's bat
terry on that sue field made a forlorn
stand until horses cannon, officers, gun
ners, all were destroye> nor when at Iuka
tho Eleventh Ohio cam sneers stood by
the guns and repelled three ,>sperate bay
onot charges, losing 40 dead AM DISABLED
out Of Q company Of o., ~