The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-31

and was the adjutant of our regiment,
serving on General Lightburn s staff.
A mere boy dying in the arms of "a
child. 1t was one of a thousand sights
to make an angel weep.
The mournfully inspired lines of a
loving mother were silently embroider-
ed in satin and chenille not long after
wards in simple memorial wreath
He died as die the nobly brave,
He fills an honored soldiers grave;
His colors folded DER his breast
Llfe's cares no more disturb his rest -
Not only the men were the heroes of
those days. The noble women, the
mothers and wives, the daughters and
sweethearts gave, as yours would give
today, their hearts treasures, their
hopes of earthly happiness, their home
idols, their all for the glory and in
tegrity of their country, which they
held as sacred as their own honor and
their own faith in blessed Immortality.
Man born of woman is only the hero
that heroic women make him.
After that a spell of fever, lowering
between life and death at Marietta. the
battles around Atlanta where brave
Mcpherson fell, the capture of the city,
the desperate raid of Hood in our rear
our impetuous pursuit back over hun
dred miles already won, the wonderful
defense of our beleaguered garrison at
Altoona. where gallant General Corse
with single division withstood the re-
peated assaults of a whole army, and
wigwagged over their bewildered heads
to our advancing column, Am short a
jawbone and an ear, but can whip all
hell yet
| think that we can afford to over
look syllable of profanity from man
who is fiercely chagrined at having half
his face shot away, and at any rate
it is cheering to think that the rem
nant of his remarkable jaw kept on
wagging then and for long years after
wards with an eloquence that moved
admiring multitudes.
Next rapid retracing of our steps
back to Atlanta leaving Hood to the
tender mercies of General Thomas, who
at Nashville smote him hip and thigh,
scattering him to the four winds,-our
glorious march through Georgia and the
magnificent assault of the 2nd Division,
18th Army Corps, of which I had the
honor of being an insignificant part,
upoH the hitherto lpTtOHdbte FOTL NC
Allister, carrying it, amid carnage and
destruction, by irresistible storm and
thereby opening our way, at the mouth
of the Ogeechee, to the boundless
depths and ceaseleos supplies of the
beautiful sea.
The sea caught nv eye, and after
further marches and battles sought it
again after close of the war and it be-
came my home.
One glance at another wondrous
scene full generation later, now ten
years ago, in the rar-away Philippines,
when small squadron sent by the
President, commanded by Dewey and
guarded by the Supreme Ruler of the
Universe, reached at early morn the
wondering waters in front of the spires
and domes and villas and Notifications
and fleets of Manila.
Then dawned a combination of sub
lime beauty and awful fury such as the
eye of man had seldom if ever seen.
The heavens frightened and the hori-
zon burned with the crimson glow of
morning as the six dauntless cruisers
swept steadily on in single column to
the northward. then swung defantly
around to the eastward under the
frowning, believing guns of Manila,
then again to the southwark, following
the Olympia in her daring lead over
quivering mines, past roaring batteries
along the shore, down among the hell
of Spanish ships in the din and roar of
battle, the mouth of fury and the jaws
of death.
The battle flags, which had been
rounded up in the darkness. opened like
morning glories to the light of day, and
those beautiful embems of Freedom
and Liberty and Victory were greeted
with ringing cheers from the men be-
hind the guns; for when the crimson
folds of the star spangled banner open
ed TO the breeze they fioated in majesty
and power and glory from every Amer
lean masthead, never to know dishonOr
and never to be taken down.
Where the American flag is raised in
triumph and honor let it never be low
cred in sorrow nor in shamei The
American flag is not only the emblem
of freedom and liberty and victory; it
is the greatest guarantee of good gov
eminent on the face of God 8 green
earth.
So back and forth ia angry might,
The stars and stripes waved on the
fight, 4
Mid bursting shells in deadly flight.
The Spanish decks with dead were
strewn,
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