The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1904-02-10
81 MEMoRY 81 eenERAL eoRpoN
General ). c. Jamison Delivers Glow.
ing Tribute to Confederate
Dead.

The Jamison camp, No. "a. held
memorial services last week out OF
respect TO General John B. Gordon.
The chief address was delivered by
Gen !. G. Jamison. He said:
Comrades, Friends: A great man
Fand gallant soldier has fallen. and we
have met on this sad occasion to
mingle cur grief with a nations sor.
row.
The great bosom of mother earth
has received all that is mortal of our
great chief and gallant comrade, Gen
eral John b. Gordon, but while his
form has vanished in the providence
Of God, his memory IS an immortal
Hheritcge 10 remain with the genera
lions Of people while time continues
and heroic deeds are remembered
lie wrote his name high in the
pantheon of gallant achievements and
universal love, where The corrosive in.
fluence Of immovable time can never
mar it or take from # a single leaf
let OF the glory and honor a grateful
people has bestowed upon H.
Entering the Confederate army az
The outbreak Of the civil war ais the
captain Of a Georgia volunteer com
pany, he rapidly rose stop by step to
the rank Of lieutenant general and
when General Lee surrendered to Gen
eral Gram at AppomaJtox he com
wanded the left wing OF the Confed
srate army
n u is a somewhat singular coinci.
dence not unworthy of mention in this
connection. that General James Long
street, who commanded the right wing
of Lees army at Appoma tox, died on
the 9th and General Gordon on the
9th Of January, 1904, thus the two
most eyentful periods in the lives of
these great men occurred at almost
ne same time During the great war
(which divided the country and alien
ated the people, General Gordon be-
7 longed to the south alone, but when
the flag he followed was furled he
oon became the hero Of all the coun-
try and in this hour Of sorrow the
Vmpathy and grief fell AMI expressed
has 70 sectional bounds, and the en-.
tire nation mingles its tears over the
loss of one Of its grandest characters.
One may diligently search the hist
ories Of war and of great battles
fought, and scarcely find a parallel
with that of General Gordon Born
.and reared upon farm, entirely un-
rained in military tactics and the art
Af war. yet when the hour arose and
2'the war clouds hung heavily, and men
acingly over his beloved southland
he was ready to meet It, and how
well and nobly he acquitted himself,
is told in book and song wherever the
English tongue is spoken.
Like The lamentee stonewan Jack
son, General Gordon was a deeply re-
lgious man and reyered in The high
est degree everything which tended
10 exalt human nature anil bring it
fnto closer and moro sacred init
macy with the Creator He had none
Of the 9anaticism which 100 often
BIAS ths personality OF good men,
hut on the contrary was liberal and
lonsiderate. granting TO others upon
al 'eabjects fhe same rights which he
exercised himself. His personality
wEs engaging and persuasive, aud
whether inpeace OF var this magnetic
trail in his character won and held
fast to him all who came in contact
with him His soldiers idolized him,
and his nHighbors loved him. He was
qquiet. kfrl and lovable yet when duty
4 scalled him he was brave and courae-
feous 10 rscklessnesS.
In battle he never followed but led
and at ttiTe Wilderness. spottsylvania,
sharpshIHg, Appomattox, and scores
of other great bataes, and in protect
ing the rear Of Lee's shattered legioas
on the last retreat from Richmond
and wherever shot and she'll fell the
thioksst and the Gealiest there was
Gordon llea4ing, and more than once
he sat HIS horse erect cheering his
men with the life biood trickling down
lis face OF erimsohing his uniform
| Iwath red glare and it is a notable
rAsdoric fac1 that at Appomattocx he
had given Tie order 10 his corps to
prepare 70 cnt their way out through
efe Gordon of General Grants victor
.oHs legioDs which snTroiladed the
a Confederate army when he was in.
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