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Show BBBBr BaV f0wm mm Mwmmsm For "Old Ironsides." No longer In oblivion Let was to doiioll hor form Tho quaint old shin whoso lame wn won AmfU tho battle's Hloun Stop atop tho ccaMclcss tooth ot Tlmo Hor nnclcut strencth rcstoro: And then with mu.its, nulls, rigging, clotlm "Old Iron8ldos" onco more. Olvo her tho likeness, through and through, Sho woro In days when sho Was Htnnch, Indeed, and fair, nnd know LOI only victory! Olvo hor hor ffurtn of thundering voice. And certainly! GIo her Her flag, too, that she may rejoice, And feol tho old henrt-stir, As when sho rodo tho dashing wavo, Tho foomnn's prldo laid low, And saved tho country. In tho brave, Young years of long ago. Then anchor her safe by tho town That lives through her to-day. And lot tho glorious deeds go down A horltaco for aye! Oeorgt) Nowell I.ovejoy, In Boston Budget. Budg-et. The Terrors of War. War Is war; somotlmcs for tho most trivial causes, but always bloody, brutal, bru-tal, savage. Thoy may toll about thl3 and what might have happened, but when they havo done, what do you know about tho men, how they suffered, suf-fered, the famillos disrupted and In sorrow, tho discomforts and tho privations priva-tions In tho homo and In tho Held, camp, march and prison? Most of this Is left out, as well as aro tho causo of tho war and what men think about it now. I think that no country was ever In so roor a condition to undortako such a great wnr as was ours in 1861. I have been surprised at tho ignor-nnco ignor-nnco of New Hampshire men as to what they had to meet. Politicians, psoudowarrlora and self claimed heroes went about trying to mako men bolievo that It was tho easiest thing in tho world to go down and clean thoso Southern follows out. On tho other Bldo tho samo condition existed. ex-isted. Ynnccy and othor windjammers windjam-mers were going round proclaiming I that tho people of tho North wore nothing but "mud-sills," who would bo swept away by tho first dash of tho mounted gontlemen of tho black-horse black-horse cavalry. At the first call Now Hampshlro sent ono regiment. That call was for 75,000 men, showing, singularly enough, from tho present standpoint, how oven tho leaders of tho North, looked then upon tho Issue which grow to such fearful proportions." lp tho second call, for 300.000, Now Hampshlro sent tho second regiment. I know some of tho boys and somo ofllcers, and they were lamenting that thoy didn't got Into tho first, so as to got to Washington and see that city boforo tho war was over. When wo think of thoso days and what followed, fol-lowed, wo ought to profit by them, and not lmltato thoso who go around as if they had chips on their shoulders, shoul-ders, ready to got Into trouble with somebody. Thero wero many who, after thoy had scon what fighting was, were not nnxioua to go back. They had been surprised at what they had "run up against." I look back to tho time whon tho 3d, Cth, 11th, and particularly particu-larly tho 13th, wont away, and. when you think of tho boys in them whom you wont to school with or who wero your companions or neighbors, It all scorns like a droam. I romombor ono of my playmates who went. Ho won no halo, no glory, no famo, but slcknoss took him, and his father went to tho frcnt to got him and brought him homo dead. Another was hit by n bullet which coursed nlong his skull, nnd ho lived In suffering suf-fering until eight years ago. My seat-mate seat-mate at school was shot hetwoen tho oye3 at Fredericksburg and Instantly killed, all but his head, and ho lived for days In agony, perfectly conscious that ho must dlo. Whon I hear men declaring that wo ought to fight about this, that and tho other, tho vision comos of boyhood friends with arms off, logs off, bullets In their bodies, ruined health and worn out, ekolng out an existence. - Thoy went off In oxcltoment? True. But not nil. I remember hearing a nolghbor In prosperous business talking talk-ing with my father and considering whether, whon his country was In peril, It was his duty to loavn wlfo nnd children and all to go. I heard his decision to join tho army, and ho hardly reached tho front whon ho was shct dead. Lot us seo just what wo did face by looking at tho Union sldo nlono. Thoro woro 2,700.000 onllatments, and allowing for re enlistments, It Is estimated esti-mated that 2,000,000 different men woro.ongagod. Thero is not a man In this nudlonco who can concolvo what thlB moans. Thero woro 400,000 lossos by death. Can you lmnglno how long It would take for nn army ot 400,000 to march past this door? Did any- uooy in my town, Lee, think of such vnt numbers when the war started? Besides theso, 70,000 died In prison. Those figures may astound you, but oven nioro would the experience with in the prisons. A woman In Peters burg asked a Now Hampshlro officer, "My brother was In tho 9th Massachusetts, Massa-chusetts, and he died In Anderson-villo; Anderson-villo; can you telt ma anything about his lifo thero?" "No, madam, I cun not. The experiences thero were such that I can never describe them to wlfo, sister or mother." Theic were 1,900 general engagements a battle a day for four earH, and 500 over. In 112 engagements our loss was 500 or moro each of killed and wounded, and 12 with s. loss of over 10,000 each. You will romember nbout tho 1st, or the bloody Cth or 9th Massachusetts, Massachu-setts, but perhaps jon never heard of tho 57th. It loft the state 1,000 strong on April 18, 1SG4, and went to tho swamps and bayous ot Loulslann. On Soptcmbor 30, after live months In tho Hold, it had lost 201 killed and 515 wounded 71G in nil and mustered mus-tered only 50 UTlhie. During tho rebellion re-bellion there were 2,400 actions of sufficient Importance to bo Identified by namo, two for every day of tho four years. In 150 our losses exceeded exceed-ed 500. On tho National sldo tho 2,000,000 men engaged lost moro of tholr number killed in battlo than England has lost In fighting In tho 1,000 years sho has been a nation. Ono In ovcry 15 of our armies was killed in battle; ono In six died of dlsenso; nearly one In flvo was wounded, and ono In every ton was so badly wounded that ho had to bo discharged beforo his term expired. When men talk of tho halo, tho glory, tho pomp and victory of war, seo that tho coming generations are reminded of tho home, tho sorrow, the suffering which war entails, and teach them to love and reverence peace. From nn address reported by tho Providence Journal. Saw Gen. Thomas In Actlom "It was ray good fortune," said Major N. G. Franklin, "to seo Gen. Georgo H. Thomas in action at tho battlo of Nashville. Gen. Kimball had ordered po.-rarry A jpessage- to ono of our brigades', and after delivering tho messago I was unablo to find tho soneral to mako my report. A staff officer informed me I would And Kim-ban.lUi.QjThcynaF Kim-ban.lUi.QjThcynaF and, I sought tho latter, ijlo sat on his horso, cool nnd alert, and I romomber how quietly he said to Kimball: 'General, you will order your second brlgado Into action.' ac-tion.' "As r was tho only staff officer and not othorwlso ongaged, I' volunteored to carry the order. I was just starting when a sharpshootor got rnngo of Gen. Thomas' headquarters and a bullet bul-let killed Gen. Kimball's horso under him. After extricating tho general and ordering another horso for him I started with my ordor. Thoro was no oxcltoment at headquarters. Gen. Thomas acted as' though tho Incident wero nn overyday occurrence, and not worth mentioning. "Lieutenant Colonel Hnllowcll, thon only 22 years ot ago, commanding tho Thirty-first Indiana, led ono division 'ikirmish lino, and whon his troops took a strongly fortified position ot tho Confederates on Montgomery, hill, Gen. Kimball and staff followed them through the embrasure. As the General's Gen-eral's horsa mado the- leap he was hipped hip-ped and was useless forovermoro as a war horse. As I saw ono of Kimball's Kim-ball's horses killed and tho other hurt,, ray affidavit mado it possible for tho general to get pay for both horsos. "As tho division skirmish line was filing Into this improvised fort, 1 saw Capt. Kaldenbaugh of the Fifty-first Ohio, dusting the uniform ot a Confederate Con-federate soldier -with n riding whip. It appoarod that tho Captain had ordered or-dered tho Confederate to surrender, and, tho latter replying offensively, tho captain gavo him a good licking. I was so much Intorestod In this on-counter on-counter thnt I did not hear tho zip of rifle balls or tho bursting or shells In my vicinity. Tho captain brought In his man." Chicago Intor Ocoan. Telegraphers to Have Membership. Tho Society of tho Army of tho Cumberland has by unanimous consent con-sent decided to admit tho survivors of the United Statos Military Telogrnph corps to full membership. In thla body of faithful helpora In tho army were such prominent mon ns Gen. Thomas T. Eckort, lato president of tho Western Union Tologrnph company; com-pany; Col. R. C, Clowry, prcaldont of tho Western Union; Col. I C. Weir, pruhlent of Adams Express company, and several others now holding high executive positions throughout tho country. ! |