The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-01-18

H1SlGSt p6ueStdl, WHO DOIC Lie great
est privations. and contributed most
freely of his blood to win every vic
tory and resist every defeat? / name
the private soldier. Practically with
out pay and on half ratiols, he en-
listed for life or death and served
out his contract. He did not look the
fighting man he was. He was lean,
sunburned and bearded, often bare
foot and ragged. He had neither
training nor discipline, except what
antiquated and inferior arms until
he captured better ones in battle. He
had not even military ambition, but
he had one incentive which was
lacking to his opponents-brave and
loyal as they we're. Meeting him on
his eyes a certain far-away look. He
was fighting for his home. From the
time of Greece to that of South At
RIGA, all history attests the stimulus
| of the thought of home to the SOL
der fighting for it. And if some
young military scientists among your
bright boys can formulate an equa-
ton to express the battle power of
an army, l am sure he will fad the
thought of home to be the factor in
it with highest exponent. So there
was nothing anomalous about the
fighting of our army. We fought for
our homes under men that we loved
and trusted. This brought out the
best in every individual, whether pri-
vate or general.
Upon our President, Jefferson Da-
Wis, there fell from the necessity of
his prominent position not only de-
feat, but obloquy, and woes too many
to enumerate. History, however, will
do him justice as having zee most
worthy to represent us, whether as a
man, a statesman, or a soldier. And
as any compromise of the issue at
stake would have only carried with
it the seeds of another war, the ma
ton is to be congratulated that to
his high courage and devotion to his
cause az compromise was possible.
And how shal | speak to you of the
great Lee, whom it was an education
to know,-never elated, and never de-
pressed, but always calm and auda-
cious in reliance Upon himself and
his troops, who in their turn relied
upon him and loved him unto death;
of stern and grave Stonewall Jackson,
trusting only in the God of battles
and in the righteousness of his
cause, but winning by the fierce cour-
age his personality inspired; of JOS
eph E. Johnston, master of strategy
in the great game of war, whose
brain was reasons self incased IL
bone; of Beauregard, who won Bull
Run by his personal tenacity and
with such science and skill defended
Sumter and Petersburg; of Long
street, whom Lee called his old war
horse doing heavy work on every
field, from Bull Run to Appomattox;
of A. P. Hill, whose name was last
on the lips of Lee upon his death
bed, and of Jackson when he crossed
over the i've to rest in the shade
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art, always ready for any venture
and sanguine of success, who took
NJ the battle left unfinished by Jack
sons fall and carried it to it's brill
liant end; of gifted Hampton, our
Chevalier Bayard, with mis- sabre
SCARED face, who served his state
as effectively in peace as he had done
in war, AID always bore without
abuse the grand old name of gentle
man; of Hood, with his one leg and
crippled arm, under whom the Tex
ans loved to fight; of good old Ewell,
also with his one leg, and bald head
and lustrous woodcock eye, who be-
lieved fighting to be the sole business
of a soldier; of Early, whose unrec-
onciled spirit is perhaps still raiding
up and down the Valley; and of a
thousand others whose forms and
faces tnrong upon my memory, and
whose names history has Inscribed
| upon her roll of honor.
1T were a shorter task to try and
anumerate the great fields of battle
made historic by their valor. Dolor-
Gus and bootless Antietam is con-
| spicuous as the bloodiest single day
in the annals of this continent. Pick
ett's charge at Gettysburg was the
brilliant elimination of a school of
attack which has forever passed
away with the advent of modern
arms. But Jackson's Valley cam
paigl will always illustrate the cor
| rect PRINCIPLES of strategy. aoWeYer