Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-30
AGAIN THEY STREW FLOWERS.
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 their skeleton hands reach out to us from the decks of the Cumberland Others fill martyr graves at Anderson vile, Belle Isle, Salisbury, and Libby Prison. This is their memorial day. Every one of them has part in the glory of this day hallowed to the mem ory of forever absent comrades. Wher- ever in the land there Is a spot that is consecrated as the resting place of Union soldier, there, in spirit, if not in, bodily presence, will the line of the comrades of the Grand Army be halted to lay the floral offering which evi- dence alike the soldiers fidelity to hfs memory, and his own devotion to his country.
 The very services of this day recall, as by magic mirror, the events of the civil war, and cause them to pass in panoramic view before us. The old soldiers recall, in the services of this day. how under the Haunting flags, as he kept step to the wild music of war, he marched to the front to save his country from the division of civil war, and the terror of political death. Clear ly distinct stands out before the mind today many of the events and men of those days, the young and gallant Els worth, the brave Greible, the chivalric Winthrop. the heroic Lyon, and the gray haired Sedwick and Baker. We recall to-day how, under our first Ad- miraI Farragut, our fleet steamed past the batteries to victory, and how he and that grand old hero Porter defied the bursting torpedoes, and how Boggs handled the Veruna, and won his splendid victory on the way up to New Orleans, and how Cushing destroyed the Albermarle, and how Craven went down cOffined in his own Monitor, and how, with the old flag flying at the main, and the guns booming defiance until the waters quenched their utter ance, the gallant Morris went down with the Cumberland in Hampton Roads. The veterans live over again in the services of this memorial day the scenes. and trials. and temptations, and hardships of these days of strife They remember the marches, when so many sank exhausted, to be laid by comrades beneath the friendly shade of the wayside tree, and the bivouac, when with a rubber blanket upon the ground, and boots or knapsack for
  and laid down to dream of the loved ones at home. They think of the picket duty, as in silent watchfulness they paced their lonely beat. knowing that they held in their keeping the key to the slumbering camp. There comes back to them the remembrance of that day when the whistling of bullets, and shrieking of shells told them that the hon old soldiers live over to-day the scenes of those years of the dire conflict. Some of them passed through these scenes on the plains of Shiloh. others with Grant at the gates of Yicksburg, others as they went with Sheridan down the Shenandoah. and others as they followed Sherman from Atlanta to the Sea. For some the scenes were located at Antietam, and Fair Oaks and Mission Ridge, and Chancellor vile, and Fredricksburg, and Malvern Hill. and Spottsylvania, and Gettyburg scenes, that will forever rank with Marathon, Thermopylae, Arabela, and Waterloo
 It-is all n story that never grows old. and the veterans have invited us here to-day to go\over 1t again with them. even though its every scene is familiar to us. There was never a nation so unready for war as our own in 1861; the south, however, was greatly in advance of the north in all military matters The Mexican war had been largely conducted by southern soldiers. and the veterans of that war were largely resident in the south Floyd. the weak seefetary of war, un- der President Buchanan, had emptied the northern arsenals and filled the southern ones. The conflict about the introduction of slavery into Kansas led to the ill-advised raid of John Brown at Harpers Ferry. but his death un- loosed the tongue of the north and the very school-boys sang:
 "John Browns body lies mou1dering in
 the grave,
 But his soul goes marching on.
 Glory. glory hallelujah!''
 Then came the election of Lincoln. which destroyed in the southern heart the last hope of national control, and 1t was made a pretext for secession from the union. At a convention held at Montgomery. Ala. February 4, 1861, the southern confederacy was organ @AA SUI 4(aLtlS DGlllt GuOSpu president. Tn Charleston harbor, at old Fort MouItre, was q garrison of 76 United States troops under command of Major Robert Anderson. Thinking to strengthen his position he moved his garrison into the old Fort Sumpter. In the meantime conferedate volun- teers had gathered in Charleston. and General Beauregard was placed in com mana On the 11th of April General Beauregard notified Major Anderson that unless the fort was surrendered he would open fire upon it. On the fol. lowing morning, at half-past four. fash from q mortar near old Fort Jackson, followed by shriek of a shell told the world that the South had launched out on the sea of war.
 With a picture of the bombardment of Sumpter on the screen Dr Parry then described the opening event of the war. and from that point. by the use of nearly hundred magnfficentIy colored pictures of the war, many of them taken from the most famous nfofuroG fba f1rOnfuop4 rro,, ar,I IA