Show TRIO THE WASTING KOST one feature 0 ol 01 tile the annual encampment MP 0 t aho he grand army of the 1 alc 1 Is a exceedingly co touch tou chlo log they in their fought the battles ot of the republic and altor after every battle when ilia roll was w called realized how many bad gone down in the shock of till the conflict but when it il wh was over and they separated sepal hod and enlisted in the abo army of peace the thou bt upon their min dinas biag that the iho dangers of the war were pasted and that henceforth all would be ba joyful as the years ebb and law flow with each annall reunion they aliey realize mure more end and more acutely that the disbanding of the army did not cause the battle to end ah that the abrasions of me llo years go on and so 0 now at carli carla roll call they note liow low this hero end that who answered aus arod bicic late list last year Is marked now not among the iho wounded not among the prisoner but balong the deal dead the list last four or five years yeara be hao a been torrI terrible blo in their waste of glorious lives tills this year ila liaa called y one who in some respects was grandest gran dmit of them all and front from the ranks of those aiho fought upon the land and leoso who fought upon the sea ea many a gallant form has van vanished klied in a t little lillo more those annual re r unions m will III havo have to bo be given up tip there bill III bo be but a skeleton il clelon bond band even ten years hence all tile great chiefs on boti bolli sides will have cooled to live inc tho the sales names that wei acio a on the iho lips of millions everyday Over every ilay only a little ago art are A mentioned now with wilh that tono tone which men mark talo take on oil whon when they spook of those who ulio ilia dead and it 11 theio lias has boon been krecic and lose ow among the higher names tile full proportion of those in the tanks ranks in comparison pith ith them haio bao it also I 1 SO gono gone down into the hie silence reading heading over tile tho list of tho the battles and tile losses of the ailous regiments we come COM a upon lipon such items as those these token taken bb at brandoin rAu ran duni doin missionary ridge november 1863 ind liana Sheri dans division bourth comps 21 24 killed 1 wounded ral slug iloilo tot total a 1 again fifty first new york infantry killed and mortally wounded officers 9 enlisted men total second now I 1 ow york infantry hancocks division killed and mortally woun wounded dod 11 14 enlisted men total again eight it pennsylvania pennsylva renn sylva a n candys Url gade gedrys division twelfth corps killed and died of woi inis officers 6 men inen total 11 so halh pon infantry brooks brigade barlows DINI slun second corps killed officers 12 local inen total died of disease 5 men total 11 again fifty fourth illinois infantry kimballs Kim balls brigade nowton s division fourth corps killed officers 0 tit men on ISO total 1351 again first michigan cavalry cos brigado Kil patricks division oo am cera cars killed 14 men man total and so N ith this ihla reunion roun fon if the dead could bo be separated and it would bo be found that when sharman died there WM was just as groat great a proportion of men who served under him who died BS as fell vi when hen ilia on in tho the nar ar it is twenty six years since tho the last run gun was fired in tho the war tho the men inen who served I 1 la a that war acro ere then from 13 18 to 40 yells of ago afo tile youngest who isho served has already reached the three quarter polo of life tho the rosin main alloy that sun ivo are now from 65 3 eara old and upwards so it will ill bo be soon scon whatnot that not many more annual reunions can be held and tile tho lesson of all the terrible 0 story I 1 Is that thai m what hat a man dian has to do ho a must do S quickly because very soon sool tho the night bill ill comedown aud and tho the lights will go out |