The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-05-31

Lieut. Cushing ia destroyed the Abe
marie under greater difficulties and with
less assistance. The raid Of Cap Andrews
and his twenty men on the railroad
south of Chattanooga will be read as
| long as personal daring is a part OF mill
| tarv warfare critical moment had
arrived at Gettysburg. and Gen Farms
] worth was ordered TO charge Longstreet's
advancing corps, with four companies OF
| troopers. The charge was made, the enc
| my thrown into confusion, the object
| effected. but when Farnsworth's body
was found il had been pierced with I'VE
| bullets Stonewail Jackson had shat
tered Towards eleventh corps at Chan
| celIorsville. and a few minutes of time
were needed to reorganize the Union
line. and replant the batteries. Col kee-
| nan with his three hundred Pennsylvania
cavalry was ordered TO charge the fifteen
! thousand advancing enemy The advance
! was checked by the furious charge
! Pleasanton rearranged his forces and
planted MS battery. but Col keenan,
and his troopers rode the blOOd-stained
| field no more.
over them now-year following yea
Over their graves the pine cones fan,
And the whippoorwiH chants his spec
ter call,
But they stir not again; they raise no
cheer;
They have ceased. But their glory
shall never cease,
Nor their light he quenched in the light
of peace.
The rush of their charge is sounding
still.
That saved the army at ChanceIiors-
vile"
Time would fail to recount the deeds
of heroism worthy OF note. and this
story has furnished entertainments for
campfire and convention for forts years,
and our history has grown rich with The
recital Nothing was more marked in
the whole war than the individual re-
sources Of the private in the ranks On
many a battlefield the common soldier
showed as much skill as the commanding
general and in no other war did scout
and skirmisher render such efficient ser
vice. When Lee surrendered and Tations
were ordered for the hungry captives.
they who had been strong IN the capture
proved equally useful in serving. The
rank and file OF the army never lost their
bitterness OF a later period did not origi-
nate with them. Many a temporary
truce was arranged by the men which
was never reported by the commanding
officer. and coffee was often exchanged
for tobacco unknown to the government.
The good will ana the keen sense Of
humor of the President seemed 10 per-
wade the whole army. and all enjoyed
his reference to Gen Mcclellan when
he said he was a fine engineer for a
stationary engine. The army read a
whole volume of military criticism
in the letter of the President 10 Gen.
Hooker. where he said: If the head Of
Lees army is at Martinsburg. and the
tail of it on the plank road between
Fredericksburg and Charlottesville the
animal must be very slim somewhere.
Could you not break him.? Everyone
appreciated the Presidents description OF
his management OF the persistent appli
cant. who he said, was like d swamp
oak log. that once troubled him, too
heavy TO haul off. too soggy TO burn
too knotty TO split. so he just plOughed
around it. Secretary Boutwell, said that
the three things that crushed the rebel
lion were the army, the Republican par
IL and Petroleum V. Nasty 4 fourth
factor might easily be found in the Big
low Papers The Trent affair appeared
serious until Mr.. Lowell turned the
claims of England into ridicule. Lowell's
message of Jeff Davis. supposed 10 be
read in secret session produced an eff
feet which neither Sumner nor Phillips
ever secured Many a time the humor
OF the scene tended to relieve the intense
strain and the depressing seriousness of
the occasion. At the Hampton Roads
conference between Lincoln and Seward
on the one side and Stevens and Hunter
and Campbell on the other. Hunter urged
that the President might treat with rebels
in arms and cited the instance Of Charles
/ and Cromwell. Mr.. Lincoln replied
that ne was not we'll posted in history.
and upon those points would refer them
TO Seward. but that in the case cited he
did remember that Charles lost his head
When the war was ended and the
Union preserved Grand Review was
held and the army dissolved with as lit
tie demonstration and as much elevated
10Y as a child returns from completed
task The review at Washington on the
Ord and 2ith Of May as a military
triumph -. was not n mere exhibition
of force and conouering power but every
where was manifest that spirit which
began 10 bind up the nations wounds,
TO care for him who had born the battle.
and for his widow and orphan. THAI
spirit which made Us a new nation. and
gave IFS new destiny.
AS We look al this conflict IN retros-
pect- how clear il all seems, how plain
IS the cause. the occasion. the purpose u
the struggle Passions have now cooled
and animosities are allayed; We can now
look face TO face. and We see how useless
it was TO attempt 10 turn q great moral
wrong into national institution. Since
our hundred-day Spanish war. when the
North and the South fought together
under one rag and the blood Of a son II
a confederate soldier was the f-sJ IN
How. we ccn all rejoice that we are one
nation welding a united power. The
dismenberment Of the Union then would
have stayed the hand Of progress IN the
nineteenth century. and the twentieth
century would have dawned without the
leading light Of the American people
We now see WIZ. a citizen soldiery won
by forming az iuvinCible army.
Brought forward by the var. from the
ranks OF the people came Two men. whose
names. but FOR the uDassaiIable great
ness Of Wash. ngton. would stand hrst
in American story. After fo-tv years
we are just beginning 20 take the true
measures q President Lincoln and Gen
eral Grant. the one the head of the na-