The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-09-09
ROOSEVELT ST|RS
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plause) Under one Of the Confederate
Generals. General Wheeler, I myself,
served (applause) In my regiment there
served under me in the ranks a son of
General Hood, who commanded at times
the Confederate army against General
Sherman.
HIS TWO CAPTAINS.
The only captain whom had the op-
portunity of promoting to first rank and
to whom this promotion was given for
galiantry on the field was Micah Jen-
kins. of South Carolina, the son of Il
Confederate general whose name you
will find among those who fought at
Chickamauga. Two of my captains, and
by a strange fatality. the best two cap
tains, were Killed at Satiago. One was
Allyn Capron, thehfth in a line who
from father to son had served in the reg
ular army OF the United States; who had
served In every war in which our country
had been engaged. The other was
Buck O'Neill. His father had fought I'M
der Meagher. when on the day at Fred
ericksburg his brigadi left more men
under the stone wall than any other
brigade.
IT had in my regiment men from the
North and South; men from the East
aud West: men whose fathers had
lCuSnC ulueT ITdHl, ana whose laIHeTS
had fought under Lee: college graduates;
the man of ordinary means and the man
who all his life had owed each days
bread to the days toll. I had Catholic.
Protestant Jew and Gentle. Among my
ca plains were men whose forefatherS
aid been among the first white men to
settle on Massachusetts Bay, and on the
ba nks Of tho James and others whose
ireland, from England. from France.
They were all Americans and nothing
else, and each man stood on his worth
as a man to be judged by it and to sue
coed or fall accordingly as he did we'll
Or Ill.
A GOOD SENTIMENT.
compared to the giant death wrestles
that reeled over the mountains round
about this city, the fight at Santiago
was the merest skrmish. but the spirit
in which we handled ourselves there. I
hope, was the spirit in which the men
had handled themselves in the big war,
and the spirit in which we have got to
face our duties as citizens if we are to
make this republic what it must be
made Yesterday, in passing over the
Chickamauga battlefield. I was immense
w struck BIZ the monument raised by
kentucky 10 1uS CulOu sihu ColAeO dlc
soldiers from Kentucky. who fell on that
battlefield. The inscription reads as
follows:
las we are united in life and they
united in death. let one monument per-
petuate their deeds, and one people. for
getrul of all asperities. forever hold in
grateful remembrance all the glories
of the terrible conflict which made all
men free and retained every star on the
ma TONS flag"
That is a good sentiment. that is a
sentiment by which we can all stand.
"And, oh, my friends. that sentiment
has its underlying spirit spirit of
brotherhood I firmly believe III n,v
countrymen, and. therefore I believe
that the chief thing necessary IN order
that they should work together is that
they should know one another, tina, the
men North should know the Southern-
crs: that the men of an occupation
should know me men of another cccuI;a-
ton; so we may all realize that tho
things that divide us are superficial. are
rnimportant. and that we are and ever
must be, knit together into one irii:s-