The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1908-02-27

Vile. | should be pleased to hear
from you again. The cruel war is
over and l have nothing but the
warmest feelings for the gallant
boys who wore the Blue. | should
have answered your letter sooner,
but have been absent.
With kindesb regards, | remain,
Your friend and comrade,
j. r.. LoprIN, JE,,
Co, G.. 1st Ark. Reg. G.. S, A.
Logan, o., Jan. 10, 190S.-Mr.
j. G. Moore, Mckinney, Texas.
Dear Sir and Comrode: Your
kind and welcome letter Of the
10th. inst. was duly received and
was read with much interest as
showing the kind and fraternal
feeling existing today between the
Confederate Veterans and those
who wore the blue in the sixties.
Today we view the transactions
from 'G1 to 'G5 in a different light
from what we did then. When
the pass ons of our leaders on
both sides were worked up TO a
degree that plunged this country
into a sectional war that cost
millions of money and hundreds
of thousands of lives. But now
we can reason those things from a
different standpoint and figure it
out as family quarrel and since
it is settled we are again one fam
lily, brothers once more, and one
grand Nation of Patriots. | was
born in Southern State and it
was a slave State (Maryland), but
left there when | was four years
old and came to Ohio with my
parents in 1850, so you can see
that | did not know much about
the South. But | had relatives in
the Confederate army and at the
battle of Chickamauga some of
them were captured and sent to
Camp Chase, Ohio. / did not
know anything about it until sever
al years after the war But now
| consider all the causes of that
war from u fair and reasonable
standpoint and without any
prejudice and say, what would /
have done had ] continued to
reside in the South, ,-gone into the
Confederate army and fought for
what thought was right" A
mans location, circumstances
surroundings and associates had a
great deal to do with his going in
to the Confederate army and | see
by history that the Confederate
Congress and Cabinet had men in
it that were not born In the South,
but their interests and all that they
had in this world was in the South
and they counted the South as
heir home. | know instances of
boys from Ohio being in the Con-
federate army and one of them
was playmate of mine, and he
was located in New Orleans when
the war broke out and went with
his associates into the Confederate
army and received promotion after
promotion until he become staff
officer on the staff of Gen. Bragg
and was seen and recognized by
some of our boys at the battle of
Missionary Ridge, but with the
exception Of few hotheads on both
sides we greet the old boys of the
blue and the gray who stood on the
firing line with, "God bless you old
+" We are once more
band Of brothers and once more
we are bound together by the tie
that was formed on the battlefield,
on the march and in the camp,
The old boys that faced the cannon
and passed through the ram OF
Of bullets and the crash of grape
and canister on many battlefie.ds,
honor and respect each other for
their manhood and devotion to
what they believed was right as
they saw it from their standpoint,
But to return to your lester and
some Of your campfire stories, You
speak of Gen. Leondias Polk. He
was killed on Pine Mountain or
Pire Top as some call it, which
was on the Kennesaw Mountain
line. He WIS killed by the 5th
Indian Battery, which was a part
Of the lst Brigade, lst Division
and 4th Corps, and | was near the