The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-04-13

acquainted with him, and L 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 flame
The passion of the foe;
The battle long hath ceased to rage.
There is no battle line.
The Nations pride engraves the page
It's joy invests the shrine.
The blend of blue lights up the gray,
The blend of gray the blue;
Together now those colors sway
With inspiration new.
'Tis patriot hands that sweep the Tyre:
They chant on high their lay;
The blue invokes 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 vaulted sky
For us o'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
campfires and bearing holes as evil
dence of Confederate craftsmanship,
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 it was
burned by federal troops, was returned
to George NJ Brown, Sr., son of the
former governor. by Maj. E. L. Sivey
of Chicago, whose father borrowed"
1t 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 gavel that was
carried off from the senate chamber by
a young officer of the Union army on
April 2. 1865 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
ly and was accepted by Lieut.. Gov.
Junius E. West, presiding officer of the
senate.
The young officer who carried IL
away was Lieut.. j. 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.
He gave 1T 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 it 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 it's ses-
sions in the same chamber.
Washington, d. C.-Maj.- 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 Spottsylvanian county bat
tlefield memorial commission, which al
so will include Capt. George F. Hobson,
army quartermaster corps. Both Gen.
Glen and Fleming served on the pre-
liminary commission and already have
detailed knowledge of the fields which
will be under their jurisdiction.