The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1912-06-06
ADDRESS AT
CONFEDERATE
MONUMENT
DELIVERED BY cOMRiDE ". Y.
fsENkINs On MEMORIAL
DAY.

ine following address was dellE-
ss1 By y Y. Jenkins. commander OF
GreenwJsd Post No. 10. C. \. r.. at
the Confederate monument In Green
wood cemetery Thursday morning.
Comrades. Ladies' and Gentlemen Of
the Various Auxlliaries OF the C. A.
r.. Fellow Citizens OF Fremont
County and especially. Confederate
Veterans that wore the gray during
the Civil War:
''Forty-four years ago on the afth
OF this month General John A. Logan
issued his historical general order NJ.
IL. establishing May thIrtieth as Dec
oraten day. afterwards called Ne
NORA day.
We cease from toll today as a na-
tion and celebrate the day In strew-
ing flowers on the graves OF departed
loved ones. whether they fell In bat
nsshar since the dawn OF peace:
whether soldier or civilian: whether
they wore the blue or tho gray In the
migaty conflict over the slavery ques-
tioE Forty years have elapsed
since the surrender a. Appatomax.
yet We love to cherish the memory Of
cur fallen heroes 1t would be iuhuns-
aniy cruel to ask less Of you that
wore the gray. Il has become a IA
tion-wide custom to meet to thus dec
oraie the graves OF the fallen with
these beautlfu. tokens Of love and !,
is I;alnly fitting and appropriate 1,
do ;ss reyerentIy and In the spiri; o.
fraternity. - =. &. -.
IL want to emphasize here one
thodSat-that no nation known IN
alslory has ever turned loose on the
peo.ie 50 vast an army as did this
nation a, the close OF the civa var
with the same result II had been pre-
dietsd. little prior to Gen Lees sur
re,sser. that to turn loose so great an
army OF men who had been baptized
In nre and blood. would result In an
archy. rapine. theft and murder
throughout the north and south and
that the robber and the murderer
would stalk the streets OF our cities
and the Highways OF our country dis
tric;s without hlndrance
what was true OF the discharge Of
this great army, Not a ripple on the
the surface Of society. All vas peace
ans auietncss. One and a half mill
HON Of men who wore the blue and
nearly as many who wore the gray
turned their faces away from the fF-
ing line and the smoke OF battle and
wended their weary march to take up
their ayocationS where they had laid
down three and four years before. We
werS glad 10 cease the butchering Of
our feiio~-couhtrymen and return
homo TO help build up an almost ruin
ci country. so we of the North r.
tuAped to homes In most cases pleas
ant. with some degree OF plenty. True.
some OF US were MANNED and broken
down in health. yet We had the assur-
ancc that We would be cared for by
the magnanimity of saved and .e-
united country. The boys who wore
the gray were less fortunate. They
qui; the firing line with their cause
lost. They. too. were manned and
broken down In health In many in
stances. but thai was not all. The
money with which they had been paid
for 'hsr services vas worthless.
their obuntry laid waste: their homes
and fSm fences in ashes in many
cases Nothing but the old stone chin
ney lcf, standing.
y have often asked myself the
~ tion. what must have been she
anguish OF the Southern boys when
they returned to that devoted strip u
= mtry In Georgia and South Caro-
MIA sixty miles in latitude. thsoc
hundred to the main." as sung by
.ta.,. -. t......,..-. ~, thv. a.