Show f a nn TERRORS OF OUR OWN WAR DAYS l I Sacrifices of ul r Our Civil Struggle Vividly Y The rhO Ff FI B Recalled S 5 s 5 CW l sometimes for Jor foro the theU AR R i war trivial causes but al 11 alY always U 01 Y most moat ways as Woody bloody brutal savage W They IMY may tell about thIs and Ind being outgeneraled and anal Id happened but when ml might M have he hal bat done dome whit what do you ou know tb der Y how they the suffered the tho men I bOut 1 the Ike disrupted unit and In sorrow BorroW tho t and the rho privations In the tho theand thee t march and and sad In la the Held field camp 1 e a Most Mot of ot this Is la eft Jett out ns DB of ot the war and dl n pare aJ Are re the cause what men think about It now I think that no country was waR ever In Inso BO so poor POOl n 1 condition to undertake such sucha a n great war an as was WaR ours oum In 1861 1801 I have been surprised nt at the of ot New Neu Hampshire men Ines tui na to what they the hud bid in to tonet meet net Politicians pseudo and self heroes wont went about try ing lug to make men believe bellevo that It was Willi the tho easiest thing In III the world to go godown g godown down and clean llean those southern follows fellows gut dill On the other side aide tho the same condi condl condition tion tl n existed Yancey and anil other wind wore were goIng round found proclaiming that the tile people p ople of ot the North were pre noth nath j Ing but who would Ijo he swept aWRY away by tho the first dash clash of ot tho the mourned mounted gentlemen of oC tho the blackhorse black blaek horste horae cavalry en At the first call New Now Hampshire sent pent pentone one regiment That call 1111 was for men me showing singularly enough from the trie present standpoint how even the tho leaders of ot the North looked l ok il then upon uron the Ille Issue which grew to Bitch fearful t proportions In the tho second cull for tor New Hampshire sent the thc soc sec second und ond 11 regiment rc I know knew sonic some ot or the boys bo and some Homo and they were erl lu hI that they thc tho the first to PO as us to le get Ket to Washington and amt see e that city before the war was vr II over OCI When wu WI think of ot those days mill and what followed we ought to profit by them and not Imitate those who go we mound around as 18 if iC they had chips on their rs ready WIll to get Het Into trouble with some seine somebody body bol There were many tunny linn who after they had seen what lighting wee uns la were werl riot not mix lams Iou 8 to go lack buck They had lw Item n sur MUI surprised tit ut what they th had hud run rull up against 1 I look back to till the lime time when the Third Sloth Sixth Eleventh and purlieu particularly Imly the tho Thirteenth went away wiy n and when you 01 think of or the boys bo In them whom you 01 went to school w with Ith or who were your companion or neighbor U Ii Unil nil all seems like Ilko u a dream I 1 remember one ono of It my nay playmates playmate who ho went Ho won no line hilo no nu glory ory no nil fame but sickness took kl and his hili fattier father went to 10 tho front to In got ot him nail and brought him bin home deed dead was nH lilt hit by b a n bullet bullit which curled our l along ulong Ills his skull mod ho he lived In suffering until eight yours wars ago ugo My Iy At nt school hool wn shot between tI the eyes Ht Itt Fred 1111 Instantly killed nil all but buthis buthis his hem head t nd he hI lived for Buys In III agony lI nr u perfectly conscious lint that he ht must tile die When I hour hear men declaring that hut we WI ought to light fight about till this chit and the ether the till vision ionic of boyhood with Ith armi arma em ie off erf legs 11 off olT bullets In their bodies ruined health and wo worn in out out nn tutu existence They ahoy rho went off orr In ht excitement True lilt But not aIl ll II 1 I remember hearing a II neighbor In III prosperous talk talking lag ing In with my In father and whether when his hili county country w was s In peril Ill It Mui aus his duty to 10 leave wife and dill chil children dren and tind all nil to II RU go 1 I heard lib hit decision to join the army and he hI hardly ached r the front bent when lie he was WAi shot hol dead It Let w us tee ace twit we Wl tId ld face see are by b looking I no kilts nt lit the Union side stoats lonii I There were Iero enlistment and ami allowing for tor re It IH le estimated that men melt were cro engaged There Is 10 not n a men man In III this thin audience lenco who ho can ran conceive what tills this means There by b death inn Can you ou Imagine how hol tong lung it would tube take for tor an au array army of or 40 to tu march imst this door Dill Did anybody bolly In lit my town Iee r think Wink of ot such nueh west Mist numbers when the war Will started those these dlud In lit These TIMO NI figures irmy IRK astound you ou but hut oven mare mure would the experience within the prisons A woman In III Petersburg asked a n New ew ewH Hampshire H I brother was 9 In lit Inthe Inthe the Ninth oat and he died In cnn can you 01 tell n III lute uny US thing tit ng about abut life lils lire there Nn o I cannot Flue fhe experIences experience there were such Much that 1 I can never de tie describe scribe them to 10 wife ulster sister or mother I were welt 1900 a II battle aUlI 1 a day 1111 for tor tour tau I years and OO over In I I engagements our loss los was or ur more each of ur killed and wound wounded ed Id nod and 12 with a n lo s of ot over each You will remember about tho the First or the bloody Sixth or Ninth Massachusetts I sells ileUM but perhaps you never hover heard of oC the It left the state 1000 strong on April 18 1864 1884 nut and went w to the tho swamps and bayous of ot I tuna On Sept 30 80 after litter five 00 months In hi the Held field It had lust lost killed and GIG BIB wounded In nil and inns mus mustered terell only 60 0 In III line During the He lie there were 2400 2100 actions of ut dent Importance to bo be Identified by 11 byname name iwine two for tor every evey day dl of ot the four fOUl years In IGO our nut losses Boo On the National sloe Ride sl e the lie taut men engaged lost more of tut their theft number 11 II bet killed In ha battle than 1 Unhand hits has lost last lostIn lostIn In lighting In III the 1000 years clr she ho lies has been n nation One Une In III every If Iii of ot our wits killed In III battle ono one In lu six died of lr nearly one In III live five was wim ami ono one In every eol ten wua UJ so badly wounded that lit ho hud hind to 10 ho bo dis discharged d charged harget before his term expired When men talk lalk of or the halo the tho glory glary the pomp not victory of ot var see nee I e that thul the turning cunning generations are reminded of ot the Ihl home the tho sorrow the suffering Buffering wish li ti I sr ar r entails and tutu teach leach tC lh them then to I r love lov and reverence nence 1 J |