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Show About Colonel Henry A. Morrow an esteemed contemporary which a few years ago suggested him for promotion to brigadier genoral says: "The death of Colonel Henry A. Morrow will carry-sorrow carry-sorrow not ouly to tho ollicers and men of the regular army, but to his old comrades com-rades of the Grand Army and the Loyal Legion, and to the citizens as a whole. Colonel Morrow united in his own character and career all the qualities of the gallant volunteer soldier and the trained otlicer of the regular army. He was not a graduate of West Point, but he filled his place in tho regular army with no less ability and lidelity. He caught his first material impulse from Abraham Lincoln's call for volunteers. He acquired his knowledge of tactics in the hard school of the camp and the battlefield. He came forth from tlio war with a reputation as honorable as the wounds ho bore, and entered the regular service with a higher diploma than he could have won iu any military academy. In the years succeeding the war he made a host of friends and admirers by his bearing as the commander of an important im-portant post and by his affectionate devotion de-votion to his old comrades. In the grand army and the loyal legion he was an extraordinary favorite, in the com- j munity where he lived he was the most j popular citizen, and no military etiquette eti-quette was allowed to stand as a barrier bar-rier between him and the townspeople. I He was devoted to the best interests of the state in which he lived, and admir- j ably blended the qualities of the citizen and the toldier. j In the death of Colonel Morrow the j public loses a brave soldier, a good citi- .en aud a true man." j |