The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-05-31

charged lines of br,stfing tayonets.
1t was peculiar that in most Of the
early engagements of the war the
Col federate forces had the advant-
age We remem 1sr the first great
disaster when General Irwin MoDow-
ellis army concentrated beyond Wash
ington, in Virginia, at Bulls Run,
brought on an engagement with
Be7uregard and for a while seemed
to gain some advantages, but bubse-
queutly Longstreet's forces from the
west REINFORCED the Conederates
and hurled back McDowe'rs raw
troops on the defences of Washing
ton There was also the unfortunate
affair at Balls Bluff whera the gal
liant Baker died and Fredericksburg
where Burusides, driven lv public
opinion TO risk an engagement threw
his forces into slaughter pen, and
Char cellorsville where HooPcr failed
and Stonewall Jackson demonstrated
his genius for the strategy g. war.
II was these things that helped the
people in the North TO fei blue at
times. But the tide turned when
the forces OF rebeilion-ten thousand
men-led by the intrepid Pickett
fought their way up to the stone fence
at Gettysburg and a few slivers went
over. But there in the commingled
blood Of East and West, of North and
South, and of a stalwalt valor and
heroism not seen before in a thou
sand years of civilization, the armies
oAthe rebellion were arrest Il and the
,ause OF the Confe1eracy Wa doomed
Most people knew then that
he cause was won burt thty did not
know how much I. wouiC cost yet
n blood and treasure. It may sound
nFrman TO say that they did not care
20 mwh for that but it is true. BY
his time the warm blood o' patriot
SIM had arisen in the most phlegmatic
ems and now that the great North
lad stripped for the dread en7ount-
N, we all know what the end would
De. The Nation had been transformed
~ the shedding pf the best blood Il
ontained by the death OF Ellsworth,
Baker, Lyons, Mcpherson, Kearney
and others just rs splendid men as
hey although not 50 well known
md it was in no rood to trifle with
,reat things. The sentiment for the
Did Union grew stronger and also
here was develuoel by actual con-
act with Lee and Beauregard and
Johnston the real marshels of the
armies. Grant developed quickly at
lorts Henry and Donelson arm Shiloh
Ina after capturing Vicksburg was
allied to Washington and placed IN
.onmand of all the ARMIES in the
leld, He made Lis objective Lees
army and gathering his armies he
'or.ed Lee back through the wilder
les, not stopping for temporary
reversal like Cold HaIbor or a dead
y engagement like SpotsyivanIa, but
With our gallant Sheridan to marshal
he forces and direct on tho field he
'ressed back the broken ano tattered
Confederate army until It surrendered
jnly $4,000 men at Appomatox.
Two other soldiers on tho side OF
The North loomed into hrst-clas gem
erals. These We're General SheIman
another son of Ohio, and GenNal
Thomas, who won his spurs at Chic
mauga and demonstrated his cour-
age and ability at Mlsionary Ridge
and lookout Mountain. Sherman
took command of the Western army
and after the capture of Atlanta led
the grand strategy of severlng the
Copiederacy by his march Do the sea
1t was these capable leaders and their
matchless thinking soldiery sush as
had never been drilled before in the
worlds great armies-never equaled
by the forces of Napoleon which won
at Marengo. and Austerlitz or those
OF Wellington which successfully re-
sisted the mighty genius Of the Cor
sican at Wterloo-that buoyed up the
hearts of the people through the gloom
and distress and sorrow of four years
OF war and carnage and tnat finally
painted the Old Flag on the starry
skies and cemented the riven Union
by the blood of the SLAIN. Those
times were fierce" as they say In
Missouri, but as we have intimated
that Was great age for we saw men
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