Show ift 0 r axy w WA W ST sy ballade for the ile third he hour r good masters of the market place I 1 you cease your cries and hear A pi grim s message of grace from holy lands I 1 bring your ear nay pass not so u fair caval er nor thou my lady in thy pride no a ms I 1 asie as beyond a tear voi for such as ye my haftor died yea pause and hear me woman frail rail whose jewels have the gleam ot of shame thou crone in rags for thee my tal and ana thee poor foundling without name nam e and unto ye proud priests the same ha i clown and courtier ere burld ou ride e ifray I 1 pray ye answer v as it blame for such as ye my savior died what tears before the minster gate ye blind ye aged and ye sore nai its your festival of state so get ye in the sacred door and join my cry until it roar by every strand and mountain side prom from turret unto dungeon a core for such as ye my savior died prince from thy galleries look down I 1 on our ribald tide and hear me spite thy haughty frown for such as ye my savior died thomas thornas walsh in the independent the beati of stonewall jackson I 1 had be been en with my new command but a short time when the great battle e of chancellorsville occurred it was just before this bloody engagement that my young brother had so accor abely and firmly predicted bis his own death and it was here the immortal jackson fell I 1 never write or pronounce e this name without an impulse to pause in veneration for that amer lean ican phenomenon the young men of this country cannot study the char acter of gen jackson without benefit to their manhood and for those who are not familiar with his character char acteria ls ties tics I 1 make this descriptive allusion alfus lon to him As to whether ne tie fell by the fire of his own men or from that of the union men in his front will perhaps never be definitely determined the gene general ral the almost universal belief at the south is that he was killed by a bolley from the confederate 11 lines nes but I 1 have had grave doubts of this raised in my own conversa tion with thoughtful thought tui union officers who were at the time in his front and near the point where he was killed it seems to me quite possible that the fatal ball might have come from eith er or ar army my this much mooted question as to the manner of his death Is how ever of less consequence than the manner of his life any life of such nobility and strength must always be a matter of vital import and interest but more important than anything chave I 1 have yet said of jackson may be comp compassed assed I 1 think in the observation that he added to a marvelous genius for war a character as a man and a christian which was absolutely with out blemish his child like trust and faith the simplicity sincerity and constancy of his unostentatious piety did not come with the war nor was it changed by the trials and dangers of war it if the war affected him at all in this pa particular reticular it only intensified his religious devotion because of the tre responsibilities which it im posed but long before his religious thought and word and example were leading to the higher life young men In trusted to his care at the virginia military institute gen john B gor don in scribner s carried drum throughout war one of the features of the hooker celebration at boston was the beating drum carried by commander george A cole of gettysburg post from the erness to cold harbor of the long rolls and solos at faneuil hall ball by commander geo A cook of getta gettysburg asburg post on his famous silver drum which he carried through the gettysburg campaign and from the wilderness to cold harbor the drum head has been in use forty years june 9 1903 popular civil war songs one of the most popular of the civil war songs when johnny comes marching home came near being stifled stiffed at its birth it was written by louis L lambert ambert a native of Connect i cut and a graduate of yale at the outbreak of the rebellion he offered his services to the governor of his state but was rejected on account of his youth so he remained at college his father and brother were in the northern arav john lambert sr and john lambert jr A great num her of the connecticut troops were coming home on furlough and the people in the town where the lamberts lived were making great preparations for giving the soldiers a welcome home louis was the poet of his class at yale and was asked to far nish a poem for the occasion he wrote when johnny comes marching home with the reception committee considered too undignified for so im an occasion and the song was rejected not to be outdone young lambert came from new haven to his native village with every m member ember ot of h hie clato cla clas to attend the reception given glien the troops on their home coming the students had memorized lamberts lambert s new song when johnny comes march ing home they had set it to the mu etc sic of one of their rollicking rolli cling college drinking songs what the song lacked in dignity and patriotic spirit it made up in life and action As the soldiers were passing under the triumphal arch the students struck up the song when johnny comes marfaing Marc Marcal aing ng home wasn gasn t on the program but it made such an install ganeous hit th t the multitude bol ua diers and all took up me JOYOUS strain and kept singing it to the ex elusion of all the rest of the fine ceremony that had been arranged when johnny comes marching home was all they wanted anted louls lambert the smart yankee lad had won his point and was the biggest nan man in new britain news of the episode spread rapidly all over the country and requests tor for the song commenced to pour in n from all parts of the north it became one of the most popular of all the war time songs and arld Is to day frequently sung and played the little wounds in battle it was often the case said the major who was in a reminiscent mood that the wound which seemed ling at the time proved more serious than the wound that received the at of surgeons in one battle I 1 was shot act through my sword arm and about the same time was struck on the shoulder li by a falling branch of a tree the wound in the arm alm healed rapidly but the shoulder Is lame to this day A man in aur company had two fingers shot off and receive receives a pen slon sion but in a mountain fight at a later date he sprained his big ankle the wounded hand gives him no pain or trouble whereas the ankle that was only sprained and which received lit tie attention at the time has been for forty years a seat of discomfort and pain at the tast last reunion of our corn pany a man shot through the body at shiloh was one of the most active of all those present A man who escaped all the flying bullets at fort donelson and caught cold the second night was one of the most feeble one of the boys had a toe shot off at cot ton hill was the best dancer and the best marcher of the old days was ae as stiff as a spavined horse A man who had been thrown twenty feet in the air by a mine explosion was waa as lively as a cricket and the fellow burned through putting his lighted pipe la in his pocket to escape the notice of 0 the officer of the guard was a cripple our colonel wounded three times in as many different battles was there in more robust health than he ever had in the army carrying arryl ng his 65 years as he carried his 28 8 on the march to the sea while our captain who had been struck by a pent spent ball in front of atlanta counted himself an invalid ak 1 ta I it what hurt the among the stories told at the reception to general john C dates by the society of the army of santiago the other night said the major was one of captain reeves of the third united states infantry while at west point reeves was asked to show two offic officers erb one british the other prussian about the grounds and build ings in the museum the prussian officers found much to interest him but ut the british officer was inclined to be contemptuous or patronizing fr this british officer by the way belonged to the seventeenth hussars he was particularly annoyed at the display of old fashioned I 1 ettle drums which had been captured from the british in the revolutionary war dt DI vining that the subject would not be a pleasant one to his guest reeves said nothing and the british officer proceeded to enlarge upon the inutile ity of the kettle drum display the prussian officer dissented from this view and explained that he was not able lo 10 understand why the british officer was so prejudiced against ket tie drums thereupon he took up one of the drums and turning it over found an inscription to the effect that it had been captured from the seven hussars in the revolutionary war no one made any further remark inter ocean old ninth in reunion the recent reunion and dinner ot of the veterans of the old ninth eighty third new york volunteers which was held at new lork recent ly the occasion being the forty second anniversary of the departure of the regiment to the seat of war in 1861 was one of the most pleasant and successful ef of these entertainments the old ninth Is one of the very few militia regiments that went into the service of the united states as a unit served three years during the war and when it N as mustered out of the unit ed states 3 service was able to keep up its organization and resume its place in the national guard cuard of the state that it was enabled to do so was due to the efforts of its friends and mem tiers bers who had for various reasons eft left the service before the expiration of t the full term the ninth regiment rational national guard new york to day car les ries on its colors the names of the v arlous actions in which the old anth participated 1 |