Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-09-09

creek, Fair Oaks, Savagc's Station.
Malvern Hin. Antietam. Frederickburg
ana charlottesville. or Winchester and
CEDAR Creek the Wilderness and Spottsyl-
Van'a, Cold Harbor, Petersburg. and
many others no less trying. though less
known TO fame. Here, possibly. is one
VINO climbed the bristling heights of
Lookout mountain and shared the triumph
or the Battle above the Clouds" Here.
probably. is one or moro who went with
Butler to New orleans. and witnessed
! that wonderful tact and courage which
established and maintained order ceanli-
ness and health in the midst Of treach-
erous marshes and more treacherous
men.
THE HEROES OF GETTYSBrRG
Here. may be, is one who followed
sherman and Howard from Atlanta to the
sea, and from Savannah to the surrender
or one who sailed with the great
farragut where a fight meant victory
or watery grave, or one who endured
the living death at Andersonville But
why enumerate? Here. know. are men
VINO stood three days at Gettysburg stood
| IN the open field stood where SOC cannons
NoiieNed and Numbered, stood where 10000
| brave men charged against their iron
front in vain, stood whore rebollon's
| highest wave dosbod 49,, M, hrot,o o,d
rolled away.
How tho vision CLEANS before mo
now? Tho tall -rass. tho swcot soe,.-
ed clover and the golden grain waved
| beneath the breeze: the birds sang In
mo trees az swectly as though the
|sWitter- winged messengers SO soon
TO pierce the air were n thousand
miles away The crystal rills muir
INJURED as iovous1v as the trout broo,xs
Of our childhood homes unconscious
that soon they were to run with I'M
man blood Overhead tho neecy clouds
of summer but momentarilv softonod
the intense RAYS that fcu and pl,ntod
across ten miles Of animated bur
nished steel. softer air, a lovljar
Landscape. scene of more impressive
quiet, almost pastoral In it's repose
Wns never seen.
| BEGGING or THE RAT'rIE
Tho tuo ,-roo. or,,ios oo,sro,,,,,-,
eocb otber ou.oi.od tho oval die,osi.
lions md tho words of command that
| should suddcrlv b,tpbt tbie hoautv of
nature and turn It's peace to pande-
monium. It was a time for PRAYER
and thought. The blue and the gray
looked at each other. not with hatred.
but with sympathy and pity Each
knew that the other suffered most in
tensely like himself. Each knew that
the other had left behind home. moth
er, wife, child. and was thinking of
| them that moment Ih"E were AT
human, mostly young. had everything
70 llNe Tor, loved llfc ana dreaded
! death Why should they fight? Why
could not their leaders meet and set
| tic? What grim spector of gigantic
grasp held them in hostile array
against every prompting Of their
hoartso Had tho good God forsakcn
that narticu,ar spot of earth or lost
| His mower,
These reveries wore broken bv a
,u-,o h1ost On tho croet of the low
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.,. , ,o,,, ,oror,
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eN'''oS'o' ~" iee' a'',' '''
gave SiEhal 10 o'"W 'oil /" INV ~ "a gu
internal Ana no" IL came no"
fierce and hot ana long IL came More
than 100 explosions per minute. con-
centrated upon place of attack only
three quarters of a mile in breadth
and continued for nearly two hours
filled the air almost as thickly as Il
hail storm with dvinr iron and
,,ouch.d tho grao, earth until If
,oo,,od h.c,,., and br,.-on r,at unon
.,oI, tooos ,or ,,o 1;ros re ,.oi,tr,
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