The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-04-21
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cord in the hearts % moss q our people.
The NEWS will be glad 20 hear from
Others OF iis readers on the subject.
Now that a SPACE has been set apart
in the Lake View cemetery as a burial
place for those who fought, il they did
not die. in the defence Of their country. it
looks that movement with the object
which heads this article in view should
meet with hearty response.
The News would gladly give its mite
towards a monument and would like TO
hear from Others who would do the
| same:
| CALUMET, Mich, April IL, 1896.
| To the Editor-The county OF Hough-
ton, according TO the latest assessed val
uation, stands third in the list among
the counties of the state.
There are many things connected with
| the growth of this county, the building
| up of it's material industrles, etc, OF which
any public spirited citizen may feel justly
proud. Especially those who have been
identified with il from its formation and
have taken a more or less active part in
making it's history.
And among the records OF its past his
tory there is none that sheds more lustre |
upon il than that OF it's sons who repre- |
scented il on the field ofhonor and OF duty |
during the war of the rebellion:
The Twenty-Third regiment OF infantry |
had among it's number some OF the men /
from this county, and any one who has
read the history of our late war Is famil-
lar with the fact that this regiment was
second TO none among the many splendid
ones furnished by the State of Michigan.
Its service under Generals Rosencfans,
Schofeld and Thomas was one OF stead
fast, faithful devotion to duty, and It's
courage and heroism, tried on many a
field of battle, was made more lustreiul
and Respondent at the battle of Franklin,
Tenn, which, for the numbers engaged,
was the bloodiest and most stubbornly
contested OF any during the war.
Then the Twenth-Seventh. What rec
ord more honorable than theirs Its ser
vices in Kentucky, Tennessee and Missis-
sippi aud during the Virginia campaign
Of 1865 are recognized az being efficient,
honorable and important.
That campaign with its many hard
bought battles, extending from the Wilder
hess, down through TO the siege and cap
ture of Petersburgh and final surrender
1f the Army of Northern Virginia, under
ienerat Robert K. Lee, at Appomattux,
or steady endurance. tenacity OF purpose
Ind persistent, unhagging resolution has
10 parallel in the history OF war.
And the twenty-seventh regiment of
troops never failed TO do its
iuty, when acting on the offensive or
it'ensiye. and in the assault on the crater
IN the memorable 30th OF July, ca. il {
bore itself as gailantly az the braye-t.
Bot cannot do justice in short ar
icle TO the valuable and meritOrious ser
ices OF Houghton couDty's soldiers. d
Although Jew in number. they counted | o
10 o1g them az faithful and brave men
s EVER laced an enemy on the field OF
attic. :
Are not their achievements worthy of Q
Z
Thousands OF towns and cities through
NJ the land have reared monuments TO
the services Of their
Dldiers IN the war to preserve the nation. | q
Is there not in Houghton county, or in q
alumet, enough of public spirit TO re- T.
pond TO the call for such an undertake
u? cl
believe that the citizens OF this place a
I'LL only be too glad to respond 10 call C.
this kind. believe that the citizens Of =
liz city will gladly honor their living
Fad. IL
Living dead? Living, because their
eeds cannot perish and die out Of the
emory OF the grateful living, although ci
leir bodies may long have been dissolved nj
to dust. ~
LivIng Yes, and forever. They are -
lmbered among the immortal ones, u
ho cannot die so long az history en- nj
Tres and there are hearts that thrill and en-
Urn in response to the call OF duty and
no manfully perform it.
ELBRIDGE g. BRowN.