Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1901-01-31
THE MEMPHIS REUNION
What tho Surviving Warriors
May Anticipate.
Martial roiats About Msmphis-stirrisg
Events Of the civil war. Of which
the Bian city Was the Center
aud Its People Were
the chief Actors

the chief Actors
MExrHrs. Tenn. Jan. ss-The trail
OF national armies over the State of
Tennessee during the four years of
civil war from 1861 to 1855 made its
map look like spiders web.
More than sixty battles were fought
upon its soil, and 90. 900 Federal soldiers
lie in its seven national cemeteries,
$4,000 being at Memphis. while fully as
many more unknown contestants on
the Southern side are buried beneath
Tennessee soil.
On one OF its battleHeids 1000 men
fought and 5000 fell. . greater per-
centagc of mortality than any shock Of
arms of equal force in history. GA an-
other. at shiloh, nearly 10000 men
also fought, and -, 200 fell. Other
conspicuous fields might be named
where the los was immense aud the
devastation perpetratcd both TO human
life and property by the moving forces
OF both sides was almost incaleuiable.
The force turned out from Tennes-
see to fight under the Confederate dag
exceeded $500 men. while ID, 900
served rs defenders OF the National
colors- Our neighbor State OF Ken
tscky sent $4,000 men to fight the Ma
Southern brethren. This sums up q
total of 2s5.OO0 men who from the two
States in the four years mentioned
stood in the ranks to contest for their
respective political vicws-l02. 900 for
the North and $4,000 for the South.
Kentucky and Tennessee were there
fore central theatcrs of the war. The
sons Of each battlei for their rights,
aud Tennessee was the bloodicst battle
area in the nation next after Virginia.
The two selected leaders of the con-
tending factions Of that unhappy period
were natives of Kentucky. born within
less than one hundred miles Of each
other, both being the sons of pioneers.
and both were born in the log cabin
homes Of the earlier settlers-JefYer-
son Davis in Christian county, in the
western part, Abraham Lincoln nearer
reared among the warn-hearted people
Of the South. and won faufe and fortune
also by his native industry. ambition
AMI mental talents The other labored
in a different school. earned equal or
perhaps greater renown by his gifts OF
nature and determination TO rise above
the common level BY which his early
life was environei- Forrest, the great
cavalry leader. was born barely one
hundred miles from either. and Grant
but little farther from the others.
Memphis, our proud and growing
city by the great rivers shore, lacked
bot one vote OF being chosen for the
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For one short year the stars and bars of
the South foatei above il a. n recog-
nized emblem of authority. Then the
flag went down to give place to the
stars aud stripes, which for the past
thirty-eight years has never trailed -
other flags n far as we here are con-
cerned. IL was in front OF Memphis
city where, on June 8. 1852, the fierce
battle of the gunboats ended in the
destruction of the Confederate feet.
IL was in the streets of Memphis that
FORESTS troopers galloped when the
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