| Show THE SOLDIERS 4 1 ilow how ones pulses stir when an afriay an ay 0 united suites states soldiers in their pe perfect order passes there la is moro more I 1 in n them now than there was w of old the flag they carry has ha taken on new sacredness sacred and splendor during tills this past fifty years of 0 great events when tho the pioneers rione cre entered tilts valley the army of 0 gen scott having fought its way up from the coast wag wa waiting at pueblo preparing for the onward march to the Blex mexican ican capital and the series of 0 victories which in the next few weeks pave gave to the nac flag new gioules gi aloi olles lea that war Is obscured obe cured by the mightier battles of 0 the civil war but thele alu ic li 14 no nothing thing in military history liner finer than the march from vcra nera cruz crux to the city of mexico and the battles fought on the way by that little army anny under gen scott the silly billy newspapers had bad been ridiculing west point for several years prior to that war but ridicule ceased atter that history 3 was as made no de think of it gen worth with men stormed und and carried del rey key but hla big loss was one fourth of 0 ills his command including fifty ofIl cern and that was wa 1 but characteristic of the fighting dentine a at t cerro gordo contreras and toe the final magnificent triumph at chapultepec it was in that war that grant and sherman arid and thomas and lee and both johnstons and bragg brauff and mcclellan ellau and meade and hooker and II ancocK and beauregard Beau recard and stuart and scores and scores of other young soldiers received their first vivid ideas of real war but we are arc wandering away from the first thought in this artcle which was wag that soldiers ot of the united states have with the flag above them fl a something to fascinate real american eyes tor for the soldiers are tho the representatives ives ot of the men vi aiho he carried that flag flae through tour four mighty wars wara while this his nation was wa created while it a second time flroa dared all the power ot of the mightiest Ight lest nation ot of theearta the earth while it carried an everlasting evidence of Arne american rican v valor to the same capital pital I 1 that hat cor corbea t es captured and pillaged through the long night ot of the civil we war r in which the nation was la in travail in her second birth and over that stretch ot of one hundred and twenty one sears jeers since the flag was born bom a sanctity and splendor has attached to it so 0 o that when carried by a detachment of 0 the army it Clo rilles the soldiers under its folds |
