Show our boys whether they wore the union blue in the deadly civil tray fray or gave their lives in the grand 0 old I 1 d fight when the nation was born in a dal da wherever they wait the angel a trump to time a remotest hours they are love 0 of our love our loved and 0 our ur own our boys eternally ours whether wh ether the palms ot of far luzon whis a per above their graves or their ceaseless requiem Is sung by the sunny cuban waves wherever they wait the reveille how ever the future lowers we will never forget we will claim them yet our bos eternally ours whether they pillow weary heads on the homeland a faltot I 1 breast or in unknown caves a es of the stormy deep they have laid them down to rest wherever they sleep on land or sea desert or shady bowers while the old flag waves we will gar land their graves our boys eternally ours and who shall say they have died in vain 0 traitors and taint faint of heart poor curs who snarl at heroic deeds where they dare not take a part godlike to give up life tor for right richest of hum n dowers and to all earth earths s days they have won our praise our boys eternally ours wither the I 1 and that seeks to pluck one leaf of their laurels won palsy the tongue that lisps a word to dim the deeds they have done for we swear by the flag to which they died and by all gods given pow ers we will cherish each n name ame we guard their tame fame our boys eternally ours ind adans at chickamauga at chickamauga one of the most fearful fields of all the war indiana raised her starry banners high she had thirty nine organizations represented she opened tle the battle she fired the last shot sue she captured and held the only Conf confederate ederae battery that met that fate she at one point saved the union army she gave of her most distinguished sons and many went to their last rest upon this field she lost 3 per cent of her troops engaged and she bore one fifth the entire federal loss A roster of her sons almost writes chickamauga s history john T wild er jefferson C davis john M bran nan E M mccook denmam n if scrib ner william grose joseph J 5 rey august morton E t 4 44 1 t L monument to tie ity fath hunter edward A bin b in james A mount Pai lemon baldwin george P buell george I 1 D ck 11 V lawton charles cruft robinson joseph D dodge these are but a few names graven on indiana s shield and fittingly has tl e state paid tribute to her heroes upon Chic kamau gas ga s slopes there are thirty nine menu ments and leverty sever ty six markers to show the positions held by her gallant regiments in every part ol 01 the field may be seen her dis stone the seventy fifth regiment andl ana Int antly was of king kings s brigade and its monument stands in the poe field col miltom S robinson Po binson and col william 0 brien obrien were in command in indianapolis dlana polls new neus s alls Us farin fa r in war my conscience has always hint bull me just a bit about a little thi fill g that lap bened at helena ark during the war said a white hareJ ha red while musing over some of the sidelights of the an I 1 I 1 do not mind telling you in a candent con dent al way that I 1 have prayed over it a good many times price was s firmi aas aing roue I 1 in the hills back of lie ile ena at the time the lines in bad shape they needed provisions clothing and a few other things there was a certain merchant mei chant in helena who had been doing a deal eat of smug gling and I 1 had been deping p etti ett well up with him he ile e was my chance I 1 told him he could sell pell some goods down below town if he could get got out of celera with them and I 1 ordered to li alp lp him dj di it lif life had a large ya vl ihl nhi h i h b as PS i into service I 1 afore it if 1 not t take me a great lenth dpn th 1 ti if t cen vince him that ni e coull coul I 1 arti I 1 yah aal yal I 1 to HP ile MI fell r gilt into the plan one night we 11 IP 1 tie loh down with an a ctr cir c tr ric ch I 1 11 arc food and other thin thins s A him tl e rier chant had in stort stoe at fit tamo ou couldn t hardly get a aa a fl ion orl I 1 tie e bul bijl diers but we manazer to get out int into W the river witt ou raub i oie 1 it was a very dark n ht when we e had read d the e rant of the stream I 1 si rap led ted to r chant ti that at we lay ov r vr vp in th boit until we had drifted 1 in n I 1 ew the city we allo alloi pd tl tc cu ell 0 t to arh e 0 us several miles he tie ov alip city fit in fart as far down a i I 1 to go for I 1 knew exactly where the Coil confederate fed toddlers bold told lers were camped W V a pulled into a small bayou and started to tie up suddenly a squad of 0 men swooped down on us an I 1 placed us under arrest then they their began to un load the boat the merchant did not teem to care so much about the 2 worth of goods he had in the yawl and which the soldiers had confiscated he ile told me we in great danger of being shot but I 1 onsted ons oed him by say ing that I 1 would fix up a scheme to escape thit night a squad wa was nain named ed to watch vatch us until cayll daylight ahl about 3 a m I 1 nudged the merchant I 1 and told him the soldiers were asleep and we could get away at first he was afraid of being shot but I 1 per him that it was sate safe and we addled I 1 never saw a man run so in my life and I 1 A as so tickled all the while that I 1 could scarcely keep from letting the cat out of the bag 4 up to this day that fellow feel that he ones oes hie his life very ery largely to me when I 1 had deliberately laid the scheme to rob him of a boatload of goods for the benefit of the beracy and I 1 have often debated the moral aspect of the question in my nn mind but I 1 suppose all thing things 1 I are fair in war besides the motive i was to help the suffering confederate soldiers and not to hurt and harm the merchant new orleans times demo cra crat t cries let me in in in the village cemetery at Tyl tylerville erville conn civil war veterans have year by year on oil memorial day placed a wreath to the memory of private george waterhouse the records show that he was shot in 1861 1864 while fighting tor for the stars and stripes in Loui louisiana stana he ile left an aged father and mother and a younger brother frank when I 1 he went to the front with the twenty S fourth connecticut volunteers in 1863 the regiment was assigned to gen banks command and was in the red river campaign frank waterhouse since the death of his parents has kept up the old homestead he ile wa was a aroused roused by a knock at the door one night last week frank waterhouse let me ini a called a voice shaking with emotion I 1 am your brother george t frank opened wide the door de spite the silvered hair of the man who entered frank recognized the big brother to whom he had waved good by thirty eight years ago and their j hands clasped george said that be he I 1 had been left for dead on a louisiana jf battlefield but some negroes found him and observing that life was not extinct they changed his uniform tor for N one of gray took him to a cabin and t nursed him back to health he ile 1 changed his name ana drifted to tex as where he started a cattle ranch and ji became prosperous later he settled in pennsylvania there came to him recently a loading T to see bis his old home he ile will spend several weeks with hia his brother and will then return to lexas to inspect j his ranch wearing gen lees socks the discipline of gen le a socks 1 was an institution peculiar to our hospital mrs lee it Is well known spent mot of her time in making gloves and socks for the soldiers and she gave me at one time several f j pairs of gen lee s old socks so darned 1 t hat that we saw they had been well worn wom by our hero we kept these socks to apply to the feet of those laggard old soldiers who were suspected of pre erring ferring the luxury of hospital life to the activity of the field and such was the effect of the application ol 01 hese these warlike socks that even evern a threat of t it had the result of sending a man 4 to 0 o his regiment who had lingered months in inactivity it came to be a standing joke in the hospital in finitely enjoyed by the men it if a poor retch was out ol 01 his bed over ever a wee eek khe he would be threatened with gen lee lees s socks and through this means some most obstinate cases were ared four of the most determined rheumatic patients who had resisted scarifying scarify ing of the limbs and what waa was worse the tle smallest and thinnest ol 01 diets were mere sent to their regiment regiments and did good service afterward with these men the socks bad to be left on several hours amid shouts of laugh ter from the assistants showing that though men may withstand pain and starvation they succumb to ridicule rally V mason alason in atlantic the rebel yell describing a battle of the civil war in which he participated a writer thu thus talks of the rebel yell on came the confederate line with a terrible yell the most terrific bat tie cry ever known of men in the an i als of war did you eer ener hear the arll ill cf f a charging line of john alpi ris ri s a 9 onre one heard it was never for otten are fl writer nias forcibly re of this fact when attending a tarn arn storming how show with a young 0 Noi thein fiend many years ao ago in n CD nt of 0 ir small new ew figland gland cities the allierce aul auli erce was acry demon stra five in at an I 1 i ise suddenly this young southerner herner let lot out that 5 sell ell instantly a doen eld old veteran were on their apet looking to see where it came farm one old veteran near by haq fo anen ned ed that he said vo arg iri ter if ye do that again I 1 it tie 3 e my hearty laug laughter ter mol lifted the old tello v hot cottoned to the youn ter and soon over whelmed him hin a flood of reminiscence at A t |