The Indianapolis journal., 1897-05-30


in front am, above the Union soldier The
young child is impressed with the greatness
OF the Confederate soldier and or the merits
~ th lne confederate cause. and IS leIl WIN IN
sIe Impression in his young mlnd tnat ihe
North only succeeded by overpoWerlng
numbers and its immense resources or
w~eaith; that the South was poor ana
brave, and true.
ACTION OF THE G. A. ~
In the next book that comes in the
regular course in all the schools OF
Indiana, Montgomery's history. the
soldiers and patriots of Indiana have
been stirred up over the manner in which
their children are being taught. The G. A.
r. OF the Department of Indiana has had
a standing committee for the past two
years to look after the school-book ques-
ton, and at the Richmond encampment
that committee made its report and in said
report it stated: We regret to have to re-
port that while the work Montgomery
History has been revised as to many points
complained of by this committee, mas
been improved, there is yet an entire alb
sence OF any statement therein indicating
Whlcn sloe was right and which wrong III
the great conflict. The State Board of Edu-
caton required the publishers TO give re-
VlSed and more extended accounts of the
battles of Murfreesboro Missionary Ridge
and Lookout Mountain, and to give more
eXtended biographical sketches or Grant
sketches of Hancock Howard Logan, Nc
Pherson Reynolds and Rosecrans whose
names IS, dld not appear in the books then In
use This work was prepared and printed
IN small type, covering four pages of the
dimensions used in the history but is not
pound into the work as part of the his
Tory Dut aIter the close Of the history, ana
between reference table and the Declara-
ton or independence these four pages OF re-
Tlsed matter are bound into the book.
They are placed where they are
not likely to attract attention
to be used as portion of the
book. Again, in the account of the battle
occasion to interpolate a Iaudatory refer
,ence to Gen. Albert Sydney Johnston, and
TO publish a footnote, stating that after he
was wounded he sent his own surgeons to
care for the wounds of the Union soldiers,
while he bed to death for lack of attention.
This statement we believe to be pure fic-
tion, having no foundation in fact, and if
true we insist that it is of no value as his
tory and is an indecent attempt on the
part of the publishers to neutralize the eff
the book
My comrades, let us put on our armor.
let us assert our rights and see that they
are maintained. Let US see to it that the
young and rising. generation are given a
correct history of the war When YOU go
home. tonight take your little children by
the hand and lead them to the pictures on
the wall. Show them the picture of the
immortal Lincoln, tell them the story of
his life. tell them again and again of the
Grant, of Sherman, of Sheridan, Of Thomas,
OF Logan the greatest volunteer soldier Of
the war. Show them the picture of the
1arher' Ii or the brother or the son,
tell them how the sad news came one
day that he was wounded in battle tell
them how he fell, tell them of their sor-
rows and sufferings tell them of the thou
sands and hundreds of thousands Of brave
men who lie in unknown graves. Keep on
teachlng the lessons of the war as long as
you may live, lest the fruits of our victo-
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