The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-02-12

CtHiIlIC' IIcSf Ic1TIuI tUuS Il
reached the enormous difference Of
about ti%v.tn"ne. And yet it took
fate with all .hcSr odds nearly four
years To vaLquiSh this great leader.
Out ynuder is IN army OF the finest
soldiers with the best equipment eve
WARRANTED on e1rth up TO that time
aud Under a br I'VE leader in the very
prime Of HE and fun vignr Of healthy
manhOud. Here is an" her bat half
its size. It's artillery is all smooth
bore cannon, its Infantry armed with
antiquated muSketry. And yet Lee
with cOnSumate skill and dazzling
brIIliancy whipped Mcclellan befnre
Pope coulo help him and
straightway flogged Pope before Nc
Clellan could nelp him." The order
Of events i'm those stirring years might
be tersely stated thus: McCiellaa y hip
ped, Pupe ditto, Burnside on1e nf the
same, Hooker like wise and. Meade re-
moved TO prevent a ike calamity. On
ly once in all these stirring years WAS
Lees lines really forced backHat rhe
Bloody Angle" aud then: The
ground lost was scarcely large. enough
to furnish room for graves in which
to bury those who fell in forging it,"
The one minor chord in all tlrwe
brilliant campaigns is GettySturx and
"Ewell or Long>treet could easily
have changed the tenor OF that fate:
full fight" Up To that time Lee
campaigns had been but one cunuln-
uOuS succession Of brilliant victories.
But there is a limit to human tndur-
ance and difficulties that mortal
skill cannot Surmount. bravery in
battle and deathleSs endurance
could not take the place Of bread"
courage and deafness de-
for powder and ball. Even the
genius Of Lee with an army of but
As. 600 poorly clad, half starved men
holding in their hands guns that were
empty for want OF money to buy
powder and ball could not long nuld in
check a picked army Of 200. 600 fresh
and we'll equipped soldiers as brave as
their brothers IN gray. YES as brave
rs they, for did not the anne Anglo
Saxon blood surge IN their veino? The
great constructors folds were tighten
ing. Already Il suit OF jeans was
worth $500. 90, d spool Of thread 800
and a pound u meat Sl9.OO Tne
call for troops had already reached
rom the falr-haired son to the hoary
headed sire-from sixteen to sixty
The call demanded and there we're no
to be had. That ragged army
had been drawn out until its line ex-
for Jhirty-five miles. The
light of that narrow string had been
,urped and the line SO long drawn out
lad snapped. What could be dOne?
prudence and wisdom had
put n thing to snggeSt-surrender.
And on the 9th day OF April 1865 the
event at AppOmattox fell like great
;ruel clOdS upon the hopes Of the
infant nation" that had but SO re-
,eutly risen $50 white and fair but
low had fallen 80 pure Of crime"
But nothing could dim the luster of
he hero who that day bowed his head
% fate. You will be prepared to en-
lorse this last declaration when you
'em mber that the aggregate Fed
raj population at the outbreak OF
mighty conflict was somewhat
Ibove twenty-five millions; that OF
he Confederacy less than ten, four
Millions OF which were negro slaves
bearing armS-a population to
lraw from at the beginning OF nearly
our to one. All told the FederalS {
mustered into service two million six I
hundred thousand; the Confederates
Tut a little more than six hundred :
And yet against these
overwhelming odds he prolonged that
untIl it cost all told the 'lives ]
Il not less than one million men and
light Thousand millions OF dollars to
an end to it," Now with this :
uperb specimen OF matchless man
lOod before us what seems to have :
'een his chief characueristics?" I'M
Of nature, sweetness of
pirit, gentlenesS of character, pa
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