The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-05-28

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fering. But it arose to smile and
shout, "All hail the power of
Jesus name
Let US more fully inquire into
the cost of the achievements Of
our heroes. Suppose that in the
morning all men between the
ages of IS and As We're to be
called upon to go and free our land
from secession and the bondage of
slavery. How we would crowd
our churches, and without a dry
face, implore God to protect our
loved ores from the dangers of
war and captivity. How our
hearts would beat faster and faster
as the time for departure drew
nigh. The train draws slowly up
to the depot, while hundreds of
aching hearts, almost broken, are
waiting and struggling under what
seems to be last farewell How
they embrace each other! Falling
upon each others necks, saying,
"God bless you;' "God protect
you The train moves slowly
away. After awhile sad hearts
return to almost desolate homes,
only to weep and pray: "God
bless and protect NY son " God
bless aud protect my husband
Days seem centuries while they
wait for letters from loved ones.
Watch them as they receive letter
by letter. How they sean those
pages with tear -dimmed eyes.
How some say, bless God, he is
safe. Others groan and fall under
the biow-he is dead. Watch
them when they receive those let
ters with black borders. A quiver
of the lip and a wall of despair.
This is but slightly mentioning g
the first letter Of the alphabet OF
suffering and cost. The cost can
not be counted in this world. God
can. When He shall call up the
warriors and the battle scenes OF
the earth, will he not remember
our noble heroes and their field OF
action 2 Yes, He saw where one
lost an arm, another o limb; an.
other an eye. He saw some re.
turn to their homes armless; some
limbless, some sightless. and many
wrecked constitution.
When God calls the battles =
Jericho, Al. Babylon, Jerusalem,
Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis,
Rome, Waterloo aud all the wars
of the ages, He will remember the
Revolutionary war, the French ano
Indian war, he war of the Rebel
ion. He will call up to memory
the battles-Fair Oaks, Mechan
icsville, Fredericksburg, Murfees
borough, Gettysburg, Vicksburg,
; Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cedar
Creek. The three thousand tina
fell in the battle of Bull Run; th'
fourteen thousand that fell il
the battle of Shiloh; the twelve
thousand that fell at Richmond
the eleven thousand that fell a
charlottesville; the Seventeen
thousand that fell at Chickamauga
Let the inhabitants of seventeen
villages of a thousand each b.
soldiers, then see them all swep
: down in one battle, and we have
pal tial picture of the last battl
named.
Gen. James F. Rustling re
Gently writing on this subject, use
these words: ''In thinking it al
over now, and recalling what W
1 passed through, in our four Ion!
and terrible years from Sumpter t
Appomattox, it really does seen
amazing that we were not all eithe
killed or wounded, or so DISABLED
by battle or disease that any of u
still survive. If anybody ques
L tions this, let him go out an
rough it, in our fields or forests o
swamps for four years, with onl
: a blankct--often we hadn't any o
. only poor, 'shoddy' one-and g
=, barefoot for days in fall or winte
or spring, as many of us often ha
. to when campaigning and soldier
II ing down in Dixie. Often have
. seen soldiers on the march O
Il standing guard with only graf
Il sacks, or the remains of old blaul
u cts about their feet Valley Forg