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who may be our next e-President.
She had succeeded in being appointed
an Army nurse. and in reaching the
fled in time to be present and nurse
her husband, who received his fatal
wounds in that battle.
And we never forget our townsman,
DR.. John&S. McGrew, an assistant sur
geon in the Mexican War, surgeon OF
an Ohio regiment, and medical director
in the Army of the Tennessee. We know
| the Doctor,-we are sure that he took
the gentlest care of sick and wounded
soldiers
Among our interesting comrades to-
day sits a sailor from the Bennington.
1 do not know his name, it is enough
for me that he was in the landing of
bluejackets under Ensign RobleY d.
Evans at the capture of Fort Fisher.
In this American community are
those whose fathers did all that men
could do to sustain the National cause.
Here live the daughter and the grand
children of Major General Philip Van
Cleve, who commanded a division in
our left wing at the Battle ST Stone
| River. was promoted for gaIlantry on
that occasion, and who, withstood the
] desperate onslaught of Longstreet at
NLlA
| townsman, E. Faxon Bishop. was a
Lieutenant Colonel OF Illinois cavalry;
/ Warden Henry's father was Ser
geant in a Massachusetts regiment
which had a fighting record surpassed
4 by few regiments in the field: and I
| am sure there are many others among
| US whose fathers marched to the music
\ of the Union.
] And here are men like Professor
| Scott and DIR. Meyer, who fought for
/ the cause of the Southern Confederacy,
! and a near neighbor, my fair country
| woman, whose father rode with Nor
gan's very rough riders.
| say these things, because [ wish
| the young Americans Of Hawair to
| take an interest in the far distant War
of the Rebellion; to study its causes
and its incidents with no less interest
| than they have studied the history of
the War of the Revolution.
Lt.-Commander Amy: 1t is the wish
of the members of this Post. that in
their behalf I here and now say
through you to Admiral Terry ard Adj
miral Glass, and the officers and men
of his squadron, whom we are so glad
to welcome here, that in our opinion.
due credit has not been given to the
Navy for it's work in saving the Amer
lean Union.
The country knew all about The cam |
paigns on land, the frightful loss in |
killed and wounded in the great bat t
ties of the war; but the work of the |
blockading squadrons was not 50 fully |
emphasized.
The Southern Confederacy had more /
guns and more ammunition than we
wished them to have, more than was
good for US; but if it could have sent I
its cotton to England, and Europe
could have sent in abundant material
and supplies for the Southern armies,
no one can say how long the war
would have been prolonged.
If the Manchester Mills had been kept
at work, even good Queen Victoria
might not have held back England
from joining France in intervening.
No one believed it was possible, that
with our small navy of that day, an
effective blockade could be made along Z
the Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf of
Mexico. But to the establishment of
the world, the task was accomplished
in a manner which entities the navy
to a proud niche in the Temple Of
Fame
In March of 1852, the movement on
Richmond by McClellan's army of $780,
900 men was beginning. Hampton
Roads was full of transports for his
troops, guns and supplies. Europe was
getting to think that the South would
succeed. On Sunday, of March s, the
rebel iron-ciad "Merrimac'' came out
from Norfolk and sank the "Cumber-
land and burnt the Congress. .
When Commodore Joe Smith, in
Washington, whose son was in COM
mand of the Congress- was told,
while coming from church that Sunday
morning, that the Congress had sur
rendered, he said: Then Joe is dead"
He knew.
If the "MerriInac'' could have put in
her work the next day. the other naval
vessels, and all the transports lying at
Hampton Roads, were at her disposal.
The destruction of the army of the
Potomac, the capture of Washington,
Were in sight. And then Europe would
have thrown its power against the
Union, and who can say what would
have followed?
But Capt. Worden was coming with
the Monitor Like Sheridan at Win
chester, he and his brave sailors were
to change the fortunes of the day.
not only the fortunes of the day. but
the fate of the Nation.
At 8 o'clock in the evening of that
Sunday, Capt. Worden brought the
Monitor TO anchor in Hampton
Roads, and the next day. when the
.'N1erriInac" again came on, she met
her match, and more. A fight of four
hours between the two iron-clads set I
tied matters, and Europe was polite
again. An English Admiral has. writ
ten that IF the fAferrimae' had gained
that victory, there would scarcely now
be the United States of America. The
fate of that Nation was decided then
and there
The story of Farragut at New Or
leans win never grow old.
There is no better reading in all his
tory than the battle of Mobile Bay,
and among last words of dying men,
none are grander than the words of