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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-07-25

battling grounds of all Europe.
Their appearance showed they were
wider rangers freer lances than the
Army of the Potomac. The men Of
the latter approached more nearly the
Regular Army model of dress, march
ing and manoeuvres. The Western
Army was. rather careless as TO dress
and equipments only caring to have
enough to show that they were Union
soldiers. Nor did they bother much
about proper cadence. and absolute
perfection Of alignment. but moved
with the long, swinging stride which
had carried them with marvellous
swiftness over eleven States.
At their head rode the General-in-
Chief, william Tecumseh Sherman
with the laurels OF Atlanta, the march
to the sea. through the Carounas, and
the surrender of Johnston, still re-
cent and fresh. Tall and sinewy, with
rugged face and cleaning eyes, he
looked the ideal leader of battle and
conquest. BY his side, with armiess
sleeve. rode one of his principal
lieutenants--O1iver o.. Howard the
Christian soldier, and the Commander
of the Army of the Tennessee from
Atlanta to Washington.
Army OF The Tennessee.
There now rode at the head OF tina
Army of the Tennessee John A.
Logan, the greatest volunteer general
of the war, whose sword had won him
that eminence from the starting point
of a colonel of a regiment.
! The Triumphant troops missed on
the reviewing stand the face Of all
others they had most longed to see,
that Of the great-hearted. kindly Lin
coin, who had fallen beneath the
/ assassin's bullet a few weeks before.
/ His place was taken by President
johnson. At his side stood the great
organizer OF victory, the iron-wtlied
Stanton. Secretary of War.
Most interesting Of all in that group
was the rudy bearded, stoop-should-
cred, quiet man with three stars In
his straps, who had commanded all
the armies OF this United States in
the last decisive year Of the war. A
Tanners clerk when the war began;
3 colonel in his first campaign, who
won every promotion BY success upon
the field & battle; who was constantly
: called to come up higher" because
he had done so well below; who had
never fought but to win; and never
organised but to succeed. The end
Of the war saw him the sole COM
lmander Of million battIs-trained vet
Grams. the mightiest host in every way
that the world had ever seen subject
to one mans will, and there was but
one voice as to the eminent fitness for
that pinnacle Of unprecedented great
ness of Lieutenant General Ulysses
Grant.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-07-25

view OF the victorious Union troops at
the closing Of the Civil War win be
enc Of the principal features Of the
Grand Army Encampment. which is
10 be held at tha National Capital
Geptaznher 81 70 October 3. OF this
year.
From the asphodel meadows of the
dead viii troop to each veteran the
spirits Of all those crude country boys
who formed the hrst awkward line of
his company; who held up their right
hands. and In the naany-keyed tones
Of the school room raeited the solemn
cath to defend the United States Of
America against all enemies and OPP
pesefs whatsoevay, foreign or do
mestic; there will troop to him the
splEfts Of the thousand boys Of his
yet loosely joined regiment, who re-
cesved from their governor the bright
new dags which their blood was to
ecnsecrate and glorify.
There will troop to his side those
WHO touched his elbows when they
sank to death amid the thunders of
Chsckamauga or the sulphurous hor-
rors OF the burning wilderness.
H3fty winters have wept over their
clay, and the roses OF nifty springs
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-07-25

have bloomed In fragrance from the
soil their blood enriched. They are all
living to him. They have been very
much alive to him ever since their
names went down together on the
enlistment roll.
Fully as alive are those who after
touching elbows with him throughout
all the trials and dangers of years Of
terrible war, marched shoulder for the
last time in the triumphal pageant of
May 2a-24, 1885.
Then had come a change al marvel
GUS as that which four years before
had transformed the uncouth coun-
try boys into veterans SURPRISING
those Of CesaTs legtons.
The magic wand OF peace laid a
dissolving touch upon the bands of
steel forged in the fires of battle.
The nrm-knit companies and regi-
ments melted away into the broad
level sea Of American citizenship.
The boys who had bearded into men
while graduating from Wars stern
University of Destruction at once be-
came potent factors Of peace and M
building.
Four Presidents of the United States
came from among them. They sat In
the august Supreme Court and filed
the Senate and House of Representa-
tives, governors, Judges, eloquent
preachers of the Gospel, skilled phv-
sicians. presidents and professors
Of colleges. merchants and man
ufacturers, seemingly without num-
Der came from among lads who had
gone straight from the little red school
house to a four-years' course at the
fiery front.
They built the great railroads across
the continent. they transformed the
savage haunted wilderness west of the
Mississippi into mighty states filed
with homes, schools and churches.
This momentous work was never
too absorbing to prevent their pans
ing in it from time to time to gather
with their comrades in the glad old
equality Of the camp and the march.
in the meetings of the Grand ARMY
of the Republic. There the robed
minister and the dfgnifed Judge be-
came once more "Comrad,s Bill" and
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-07-25

The Ninth Corps-"Burnside's &C.
ography Class"-which had carried
it's cannon and anchor badge from
Roanoke Island to the Antietam, and
then to vicksburg and East Tennessee,
to return to the Army OF the Potomac
for the wilderness and the siege of
Petersburg, was led by another En-
gineer Officer, John q. Parke, with
the memory of the gallant work of the
Corps at Fort Steadman only a few
weeks old.
Many of the loved and trusted lead
ers now belonged to history The brill
liant Kearny and the steadfast Stevens
had fallen at Chantilly, in sight of the
Capital they were defending. Reno
had died at South Mountain as his
Corps had reached the crest it was
assaulting. Mansfield and Richardson
passed into the beyond at Antietam.
Reynolds only saw the beginning of
the battle he opened at Gettysburg.
Grand old John sedgwick had fallen
beneath a sharpshooter's bullet at
SpottsyIvania, and that superb ex-
ample Of genuine American aristo-
crazy, James s. Wadsworth, had re-
ceived the last of his wounds in the
Wilderness.
The next day came another host
mighty as the first. wing with it In
the greatness Of it's history and the
magnitude OF it's achievements
strangely like It in many things,
strangely unlike in others
1t was Sherman's army marching
into the Capital from the conquest of
half a continent, ending on the banks
or the Potomac a march begun four
years before, two thousand miles away
on the banks OF the Ohio.
Men From The West.
They we're all Western men. The
State builders Of the great country
beyond the Alleghanies. Their battle
hags, bore the inscriptions: BEL
mont" 'Donelson," Shiloh" "Cor-
NTH" "Perryville," "stone River %
''Vicksburg." ''Chickamauga,' Mis-
sion Ridge" Atlanta" Savannah -
"carolinas, =" "Bentonville. !" and thou
sand minor battles. each OF which
had thrilled the peoples hearts to the
core.
They were restless, aggressive men;
tiger-like in attack, and Wild bears on
the defense, who had hunted down
and fought their enemies in every
State in the Confederacy. No noun
tain-top was too rugged, no swarpy
fastness too irnpenetrable to shelter
any man who drew a sword OF raised
flag In hostility to the Government
While the Army Of the Potomac was
chained &c Washington, and fought all
its battles within a few score miles of
the Capital. they marched and fought
over territory exceeding that of the
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-07-25

grim. unconquerable Army Of the Po-
tomac through the Valley of the
Shadow of Death. with only infrequent
ascents to the mountain peaks of
victory, but now IT was fresh from the
complete overthrow of its mighty an
tagonist. These were the men who
had been through all this, the sur
vivors of the host which had accom-
plished 1t all, bearing the flags around
which they had unfalteringly gathered
no matter how disasters thickened.
At the head of this Mississippi of
warlike force rode its Commander,
George Gordon Meade-tall. grim,
specialized, his broad shoulders bent
as if by the weight OF the burden he
had carried from Gettysburg to APP
pomattox,
Sheridan, the whirlwind Of battle.
was missing from the glorious Cavalry
Corps, which he had wakened to its
strength, and fashioned in the forge
OF war into the mightiest mounted
force that ever drew saber. He had
been rushed off to the Rio Grande, to
throttle an exotic Empire planted in
Mexico by Napoleon III, who counted
US of too little worth. Sheridan was
well-spared. however. for awhile later
the imported Emperor was taken out
and shot.
Cavalry Led BY Custer.
The Cavalry was led by such incom-
parable heutenants as the theatric,
dashing George A. Custer, and the
quiet. gray eyed George A. Crook.
The Second Corps. each man in It's
perfectly aligned ranks prouder Of his
clover leaf badge than of peerage in
the United Kingdom, was led by An
drew A. Humphreys, an ideal Ameri-
can soldier and corps commander.
The Fifth Corps, whose Maltese
Cross had badged the dead in the fore
front of every line OF battle of the
Army OF the Potomac, was led by tall,
slender, knightly, Charley Grimm.
who had four years before entered
the Corps as an enthusiastic young
battery captain. and was now wearing
the double stars of naajor-general
well earned in more than q score Of
hard-fought battles.
Those who on breast or cap wore a
Greek Cross as a proud arnorial bear
ing we're the men who had followed
the leonins John Sedgwiek. until his
character had become theirs. They
were led by tall. precise. formal Hora-
tho g. Wright, an Engineer Oficer all
through. But he could drop his
theorems and trianguIations with re-
markable quickness when the buEle
called. and hurl the Sixth Corps like
an avalanche to break the backbone
of the Confederacy at Petersburg, or
smash the heads of Lees columns at
Sailors Creek.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-07-25

NOT m erely
spirits wal n.
D ut spirits
in scores and In
battalions will
march with every
gray and bant vet
eraA in the Grand
Review on Penn
syivania Avenue
in Washington on
Wednesday, Sep
TENDER 80, 1915.
The parade of the
Grand Army vet
Grams along this
historic thorough
fare q half CEN
fury after the
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-07-25

The poet Uhland sang:
Take. o. boatman, thrice thy fee
Take g,7e It willingly:
For. invisible to thee,
Spirits twain have crossed with rae.s'
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-07-25
Remnant Of Victorious Host That Marched On
Pennsylvania Avenue At the Close
Of the Civil War.
Veterans Of the Grand Army Will Again Pass In
Review At Encampment Additional Capital

81 COL SENIOR vICE-CoAnIAN DER IN.
G. A r..
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-07-25

"Comrade Jim" to those who were
giving their years to building up farms
and following useful trades.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-19
This Date In History
world Events OF May 10.

1217--Battie of Lincoln; French defeated and
England released from rule of Louis the Dau
phn, who then holding court in London.
158s-Execution Of Anne Boloyn, Queen OF
England and mother # the famous Elizabeth.
1s22-Osman L. Sultan of Turkey. strangled
by his soldiery. after loss of So.o 600 men in cam
paign against Poland
17SS-Congress named two cannon Han
cock and Adams; these were two Of the four
which made up the artillery of the colonies
when the Revolutionary War broke out. The
other two captured by the British
1S01-Sweden receded from the Northern
Alliance.
1s64-Died Nathaniel Hawthorne. famous
American author. at Plymouth n. Fl.
1Ss5--Jeff Davis imprisoned In Fortress
Monroe.
1s9S-Dled william E. Gladstone. famous
British statesman age Cighty-nine.
1914-Colonel Roosevelt reached New York
after South America exploration trip.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-19

May 10.


Or. John Fillmore Hayford noted American
engineer who has been appointed by President
Wilson to the advisory commission on aerorau-
old today. Dr. Hayford is at present director
University. He has spent many years in the
service of the Government In the Coast and
Gcodetic Survey DR.. Hayford born at
Rouse's Point n. Y. May 49, 1863. and at the
Iase of twenty -one won his civil engineering de-
gree at Cornell. He was Immediately appointed
Icomputer of the United States Coast and Geo
detic Survey. In 1892 he had charge of one
of the field parties adjusting the boundaries
between Mexico and the United States He left
the Government service in 1895 TO become
struotor at Cornell, but returned to Government
work three years later expert computer and
inspector Of goodetic work. In 1909 he went
ito Northwestern University head of the en-
cheering school there. He belongs to the big
Engineering societies and Is well known through
out the country. His new government work Is
lin conjunction with the army and navy, the
weather bureau, and scientists with view to
attaining efficient navigation of the air
Honorable John W. CARROT, former amhas-
sador to Argentina, is forty-three years old to-
day. ''t- -
Madame Melba. the famous singer is fifty
six years old today
John A. Mstheson, premier and attorney gen
ersl OF Prince Edward Island, is fifty-two years
cid today.
Louis w HILL president OF the Great North
ern Railroad. 10 forty-three years old today.
Edward ("Big Ed, Walsh, pitcher of the
Chicago White Sox. is thirty three years old
today.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-19
PEOPLES FORUM
senator Brock Again.


Editor Virginian:
Sir.-I regret to appear against Senator Brock.
but feel that justice to the temperance cause
demands It.
! had the pleasure of meeting MIR. Brock In
the home OF mutual friend when he was cam
didating for the Senate and was assisting Rev.
". A. S. Conrad In a meeting near Burkviile
Va. l then asked him the direct question: IF
elected woule he support the enabling act" He
replied either II suppose we oil want that,
or Il suppose they all want that Neither our
friend myself could make out which he
said. as he was driving Off didn't ask him
gain but tne clear inference in either case
was that he favored the bill.
/ greatly surprised after the election to
learn that he was doubtful, the wet srde.
SO when attending the Anti-Saioon League Com
vention in Richmond that winter approached
Mr.. Brock in behalf OF the enabling act and was
told that he had not fully decided, but that there
were certain constitutional difficulties in his way
Since that time his record has shown con-
clusively that he was the wet slde.-And
while we hold out to every man the privilege to
reform, yet would like to feel that IL is not
for the loaves and fishes
Inasmuch. therefore, as the Twenty eighth
Senatorial District, overwhelmingly dry. has not
had representative in the Senate in this respect
during the past term it is simple justice to them
selves that they elect
E. ~ POWELL.
Benns Church, Va
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-19
A FAIR FRANCHISE

Everybody seems to agree that the action of
the Virginia Railway and Power Company In
withdrawing its application, for blanket fran
and leaving 70 the City Council the framing of
new ordinance, was wise action. The task
now facing tho Council is not a small one, but
1t is one Of making, drawing and passing an or
dinanoe that shall be fair to both the owners Of
the company and the owners of the rights TO
the citys streets, the people
Under it's present management the company
has earned rs right 10 fair franchise and
frank treatment from the city 1t has dealt
openly and honestly with the city 1t has az
forded good service. With large investments
Of Richmond capital. larger than most people may
have realized. It is home company entitled to
fair treatment In its home town
But it is not only because of its being home
enterprise. representing large home investments
that the company should be given fair fran
chise II is a most commendabls enterprise and
has done a commendable work. Its service has
been splendid. We do not believe there is oct
ter service In any city in the world Of the size
of Richmond than that which has been given
here by the Virginia Railway and Power Com
lrany. II has met satisfactorily and with credit
the greatest tcBt OF public service corporation
that of transportanng quickly without con-
fusion. and safely large gatherings OF people
on public occacions.
That there will be any spirit of opposition to
the company in the Council cannot conceive.
The task before that body is not light nor
easy one. The task will tax the capacity of the
members, individually and collectively, to pro-
vide for the needs OF the growing city Let
there be wisdom and civic patriotism displayed,
and above all let there be fairness to both the
people and the company.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-19
Lii IoRoE or MoRAL PRINCIPLE"

81 N was the force Of moral principle that
FSrxaa and gave eloquence to President VIII
&nnss note 10 Germany. 1t was the force OF
|i1xoral principe that won for that note the en-
lfusfastie support of nation. 1t was the force
~ mora principle that brought President Wilson
|fhe most tumultuous. liotous heartfelt greeting
&Ax city OF New York million people in the
12Stn. has ever given President And 1t was
|<hls President who realizes the force OF moral
*fincsple. who put out his hand to touch the
4S&arf OF the people Of the United States and
Sasnd II as h. said-anmated and operated by
f&nf same gr3at force.
Ill was from a vigil in which he had sought
IN. found and expressed tine spirit of the coun-
~ that Mr. Wilson went 10 New York sure
~ having found that spirit and eloquent in set
S1nx it out that the people might realize for
fhenseaYes wfry ne had found strength to pen q
n1ssive weighted with the gravest consequences
ND had 1t sent across the Atlantic to orfns
TSrth no man knew what answer. And having
7Snt that note, the President was glad to go cut
|End meet his country. more than glad to find
mad read sts heart Alright and willing to re-
xHrn now TO await what comes with the same
enisdence In the future that he expressed and
Mil the people of the country feel, because both
S5eppie and president have come TO see that
&Ae force OF moral principle which binds them
|xoxether will sustain this great nation as II
does Individuals in whatever trials may come
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-19
War Comment

Iroud Of Their German Blood, But Americans
First.
That fine. eloquent letter of The German
Catholic Unicn of Baltimore to President Will
touches the heart and arouses the pride
of Americans in their fellow citizens of Ger
man birth and lineage. 1t cannot but appeal
strongly to the President himself.
The more than 5000 members OF the union
proud OF their German ancestry. and they
have reason to be, but they know only one
flag, the Gag of our country
They express their confidence in the Presi-
dents "cool Judgment, honest purpose and
brave manhood and tender him their 'undi
vided loyalty
II Is natural and right that Germans should
love the Fatherland and hope for its success
AGAINST other nations, but their loyalty to
america Is first, as has been manifested by the
declarations CT hundreds Of German American
organizations all over the country.-BaItimore
Sun.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-19
Let's Go s-Jitneying!


Perhaps Ii won't be quite five cents to
Atlanta. with stop-over privileges en- route" but
since the jitney has added to the convenience.
to say nothing of the gaiety, of urban life, the
possibility of ,ltney tours suggested by the New
N Georgia opens up fascinating prospect
Such a project, If proposed year ago, would
have been voted impractcable. The roadways
there. II Is true, and the cars existed; but
he convincing magic ot fetching title had no'
come into play This Is half the game of this
,itney business Both promoters and public dare
anything since the easy way in which old as
we'll as pioneer and experimental communities
take to this simple solution of 7he problem OF
surface traffic carries all befors 1t. tia the
crowd psyche ogy that does the trick.
To establish an interstate system OF jifney
services will rot be simple problem; but
save for the POSSIBILITY of bad roads. and they
always with In America, there Is no In
surmountabe difficulty in sight. Indeed, the
cheerful way IN which the jitney promoters
assume that their links OF twenty-five miles
each from Atlanta to Richmond. Washington
Baltimore Philadelphia and New York will
prove feasible. and. what Is more important,
financially successful, is contagious.
BY all means let's go a-titneying through
Ia put into effect IL will do more than the &C.
cosional complaint of touring car travellers to
tring about reforms in roads inas and all tho
comforts ane conveniences that made the old
pest roads and diligence routes famous in their
time. And this would he reform wcrth
xhie.-Philade,phia Public Ledger.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-19
UPsErTTNG THE DOPE.

Mournful walls were heard in the realm Of
local fandom over the preseason showing of the
virginians in the International League. 1t was
pointed out that Toronto. in the same league.
frequently defeated certain minor league team.
whereas the Virginians lost several games to tho
same team. We look to the same doleful prog
nosticians to account for the fact that the vir-
ginians now occupy the third rung OF the ladder
and the Leafs rest on the bottom.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-19

most efficient warships that we have ever
had, but It ia not excelled, except in size. by
the fleet OF any nation in the world; our
ships and guns are as good as any In the
world: our officers are as good as any, and
our enlisted men are superior in training.
education, physical development and de-
votion TO duty to those of any other navy.
As president of the General Board for the
last fifteen years. can say with absolute
confidence that the efficiency OF the fleet
has steadily progressed and has never been
so high as Il Is today"