The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-04-13

der the caption "The Blend of the Blue
and the Gray" / refer to Maj. John
Alleine Brown OF Washington city. /
know that many of you are personally
acquainted with him, and / would like
to leave as my closing plea in behalf
of the proposed joint reunion the in
spring lines by Major Brown:
THE BLEND OF THE BLUE AND
THE GRAY
(By j. Alleine Brown
Oh. swell the song of kindred fame.
And blow, We bugles, blow;
Nor more doth burn with heated fiamc
The passion of the foe;
The battle long hath ceased TO rage.
There is no battle line.
The Nations pride engraves the page.
Its JOY invests the shrine.
The blend Of blue lights up the gray.
The blend of gray the blue;
Together now those coIors sway
With Inspiration new.
IT'S patriot hands that sweep the Tyre.
They chant on high their lay;
The blue involses the Nations choir,
my country" sings the gray.
Then chant the blended blue and gray,
Though once they faced each other;
Those tattered ensigns furled away,
Proclaim the name Of brother
We've found at last the vauited sky
For us so'erspread Away:
Eternally the blue on high
Blends with the morning gray.
Other incidents, similar to the re-.
turn Of battle flags, which are "Oblit.
Grating unpleasant memories" and
which are in keeping with the idea
back of the proposed reunion of Blue
and Gray veterans. have been record
ed in press dispatches recently as
follows:
Atlanta, Ga.-Charred by sparks from
campfres and bearing holes as evil
dence OF Confederate Workmanship, a
wooden bedspread taken from the home
Of the late Gov. Joseph e. Brown at
Canton, Ca, in 1864. by one Of General
Sherman's lieutenants has been re-
turned to Atlanta.
The spread taken from the home of
Georgia's war governor when 1t was
burned by federal troops. was returned
to George M. Brown, ST., son of the
former governor, by Maj. E. L. Sivey
of Chicago, whose father borrowed"
It in the War Between the States.
Richmond, va.--Alfred L. Aiken,
formerly governor of the Federal Re-
serve bank of Boston. has returned to
the senate OF Virginia a gavel that was
carried on from the senate chamber by
q young officer OF the Union army on
April 2. 1855. the day Of the evacuation
of Richmond.
The historic relic, with handle OF
walnut and head of lignum vitae. was
presented at special ceremonies recent
iy and was accepted by Lieut.. Gov.
Junius e. West. presiding officer OF the
senate.
The. young oficer who carried It
away was Lieut.. ]. Lewis Spaulding,
adjutant of the Twenty ninth Connecti-
cut infantry. which was among the
first Union troops to enter the city af-
ter Richmond fell.
Ho gave II to William A. Bucking-
ham. Mr.. Aiken's grandfather. then
governor Of Connecticut, afterward
United States senator. whose home was
at Norwich. For more than sixty%two
years 1t had remained in possession Of
members of the family there.
The gavel was used not only by the
Virginia senate. but also by the Con-
federate senate, which held its ses-
sions In the same chamber.
Washington, D. C.-Maj.- Gen. John
L. Glenn, retired, Union veteran, and
Vivian Fleming. Confederate veteran,
have been designated by Secretary
Davis of the War department as MEM
bers OF the Spottsylyanian county bat
tlefield memorial commission, which al
so will include Capt. George r. Hobson.
army Quartermaster corps. Both Gen.
Glenn and Fleming served on the pre-
llminary commission and already have
detailed knowledge of the fields which
will be under their jurisdiction.