The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-03

: Hill already referred to that from that day the brilliant dash that had distin-
 guished the southern soldiers on hum
 dred battle fields was gone forever. He
 fought stoutly to the last, but after
 Chickamauga, with the sullenness of
 despair, and without the enthusiasm of
 hope, that barren victory sealed the
 fate of the Southern Confectionery"
 The losses were: Union, 16,636; Con-
 federate, over 10000; about two in sev-
 en on both sides were killed. wounded
 or missing. Altogether it was one of
 the bloodiest battles of the war.
 The fifth vital affair will relate to one
 individual only After the battle of
 Lookout Mountain and of Missionary
 Ridge General Grant was summoned to Washington to receive from the hands
 of the president his commission of lieu
 tenant-general.
 After looking over the situation he de-
 termined to remain in the east and take
 up his headquarters with the Army of
 the Potomac. Tn the two months that
 elapsed before the Wilderness cam paign opened the plan of the whole field had been formed by him and he
 was ready to move. From the last vis-
 it to Washington he was returning to
 the field of Culpepper. As the train in
 which he was approached Warrenton
 Junction he saw q heavy cloud of dust
 made by troop of cavalry in pursuit.
 It was the famous rider, Colonel Mose-
 by, in full pursuit of body of Federal
 cavalry, A few minutes later and Gen
 eral Grant, wholly without escort, 1 hnyY fta ri s,riu N1,nr
 was not a man that could have taken
 his place. The Army of the Potomac
 would not have had that magnificent campaign that ended the rebellion.
 Sherman would not have had his march 1 to the sea. Sheridan would not have | been the most famous cavalry leader of
 the war and one of the most famous of | the century. In word no living man
 can compute the possible effects of that
 one act. I will not quote the text here | for you; do it in your own minds; it is a living truth of our civil war.
 | Now for the last critical event and | the last one of the war alone.
 l The heading off of Lee at Apomattox Court House.
 After the evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond by Lees army they were
 marched southward with the intention of joining the army of Johnston and to- gether fall on sherman and defeat him
 before the army of the Potomac could come up, and then turn upon and defeat
 that Grant surmised the plan as well as though he had formed it. That was peculiarity with that general. Put ting his adversary in a place where he would be compelled to do particular thing and then head him off from doing 1t. He did that to Lee Sheridan the | incarnation of war, was put on the track and run his cavalry in ahead on the only line of communication left with the south. There was one way open west to Lynchburg. And to that what was left of the Confederate army was directed They were on the shorter line and had a few hours advance. But their old antagonist was soon in full pursuit If the confederates marched for their lives. the Federals were as horse cavalry. They were not stopped long by any rear guard but as at Sail ors Creek swept them in by thousands The destruction of bridges delayed them more; nevertheless with them were the cheer and the hurrah. At length Appomattax Court House was reached and a long days march would have brought Lee to Lynchburg But Sheridan was already across his path All the intervening night at his relent- less command the Fifth and the Twen- ty- fourth corps had marched until they had reached point in his rear just be- fore the Confederates moved out to brush him from their path. They didk that and then beheld the wall of bayo nets advancing to meet them. It was a wall of anguish that came from their lips, for every man of them knew the 1 hopelessness of the effort Then the | white flag went up. That practically ended the war. What they would have | done if they had reached Lynchburg | did not appear. They had boasted of their ability of carrying on the war for years in their mountain fastnesses. It could not have been done. The trium- phant armies at their heels would not have stayed long out of Lynchburg if | the prey was in it. But the surrender when it was and under the circum- stances of it's occurrence was in the highest degree honorable, and produced | the best possible effects on both ar mics. There was nothing ugly in one There was nothing boastful in the oth- CT. The terms of the surrender were in l the highest degree creditable and left | no sting behind. After it was over the \ officers and men of both armies min gled together as friends whom crcum- stances over which they had had no control had kept apart for years. The terms of the surrender was made the basis of the surrender of Johnston's army to Sherman, and that was speed fly followed by the breaking up of the armies beyond the Mississippi, It had been a serious question of the feelings that would survive the war But that ending was as the Divine Benediction upon the whole land Under it's cloud and jealousy were impos- sibe. The south was won back honor ably, and they have as honorably re- nained. There is now no division on the ground of labor, and there should 1 be none on the flimsy pretext of sec .ions As never before what concerns )pe part concerns every part. What a we have! Who is not proud of 1t? What heroes in war! What gen. us in invention and art! Peace and tight are here enthroned. And the