Show our heroic dead tb the 0 american nation durino during tile the past li three yearn year has li L pres presented anted to tile the world un all evidence of love of country and of nationality never e excelled by any community and if two centuries hence the bistor historian rat n disposes of this great struggle C between freedo Ire edoin and 1 slavery sl on oil live five pages of manns lie ho will not fail to say that we were vere true to our country to libert liberty yand and to ourselves where a community is ir called upon to endre the war clouds 3 and leaden hall hail of deadly strife even in a cause which can warrant an appeal to god in heaven for success there is ia no true heart throughout that land that thai does not bow in anguish at the of the great sacrifices to be endured war waged for any purpose no HO matter how low pure and lofty is terrible to contemplate and yet we are arc enc engaged 0 aged in one of tile the greatest magnitude al p pressing 0 forward to the end never halting t to 0 count the cost or the sacrifice we read with eager ea ger haste the gallant exploits of our brave soldiers but scarcely think in the flush of victory that the same news which gives us so much cause for rejoicing carries intense sorrow to many man y hearthstones hearth bearth stones of the land and 1 life li re is an allotment of time in which every man is expected to do his duty and it matters but little to in a true man inan whether that life be of brief or I 1 long ong L duration if that duty is well performed perform and upon this principle the loyal men of america have been and are now acting we nc live in the present fighting for the future leaving to history to write immortal tile the names of our heroic dead neither by scores nor by hundreds do we count them their name is legion their bones bleach upon a hundred bundred battle fields I 1 and their blood has quickened tho the green 0 green grass of the sunny south they have carried the flag flar I 1 through 0 the cras crashing crabbing bing tornado of bullets and lett left the impress of their sublime coura courage 9 e upon avei every y plain and mountainside mountain side where the banner of freedom has met tl the I 1 L defiant 1 rebel bars As the flag 0 of the free honored lio nored them they have honored it sealing scaling with the red stream of lire life their love and d devotion L to american liberty in ill the full lush flush of young lire life and vigorous manhood they stepped in the van of the strife rallied raffled around tile the emblem culb leni of freedom and stood on the field of battle pictures of heroic grandeur holding their hearts in their hands crushing out olit every call of af at tb the stern estern demand of duty counting their life and manhood as nothing if the sacrifice of them thein added only one mile to the lionor honor and glory of the old flag who can estinia te the sacrifices of our heroic doad dead who can count the hearthstones hearth bearth stones made desolate by their devotion to country 1 who can tell how flow much of love and happiness this war has lost how bow much of woo woe and despair it has hag brought take all the 8 a C all CC s all a 11 th the 0 des desolate olat c hearth hearthstones stones all the love and happiness lost and woo woe and desmare attained and weigh all against a country saved from treason and destruction and thank goi that lin ho gave M a country saved in exchange for all those america will ever hold in MI gra grateful tefol the memory im emory of her heroic dead they gave all they had to give their wealth their cn entitled titled the te clappi happie ness of their hearthstones hearth stones their th huesto the sacred cause of freedom y and the dear ones who cherish their demor memory y with a holy love and weep in sorrow pit at their fato fate will remember that they fell doing their duty ditty and with the memory and the sorrow will copia come the flush of patriot pridu pride to the face that they lied died not ilot as m cravens but that they entered the valley an ara shadow of death tree i from dishonor and clothed in the panoply of courageous duty 6 |