Show UP 70 I 1 11 P C EVERAN there never mind years ha hae e passed but sti I 1 I 1 hear teem mothers mother 1 0 us aher I 1 her never neer braind time sery serves es only to endear them ra lo 10 0 me as it ties I 1 frd mother s gone lut tut st 11 1 I often F find 1 1 e if he t c culle 1 L e s nigh I 1 h I 1 half I 1 f expecting pe 0 tl b her e r to s soften iten it as in the da dais ss gon e by years but st 11 1 I see her rocking roeling ho ilo ding n e upon her breast both a ms about me locier locking betting setting all my fears at rest years but still I 1 hear her tel ing me in vo ce so low and kind chile N hile my tears a e sa s swiftly A we ling Sooth soothing lg I 1 ke I 1 iceie het e never m nd all my boi boil ich sh troubles anisley ani antal sled ed when she spoke ta alose ose v wo 0 IR 1 to me all my tears we e qu akly banished binl shed soon I 1 peacefully oft I 1 wish when 1 v beset n e and g im borri s now I 1 find atiat tl at old bather ill liliie ne woud let me hear her say the e ne never neer er mind bide dudley in I 1 ansas city star sheridan a great feat for al at gallantry military skill lill and j confidence in the cour age and patriotism of his troops Us its played by philip it Shri dan on the ot of october 1864 at cedar kun run wl ere under the blessing of pr vl vi dence his routed army was d da a great national disaster averted and a brilliant victory achieved over the rebels philip 11 Is ap pointed major gheral in the united states army so runs the order for the promotion which the president of the un ted states abraham lincoln issued to honor lionor the hero of cedar run and win chester that he had averted a great national disaster was mas eiery every where conceded throughout the bentlie V i j philip halier H slier dan clan north the alley of the doah bad had been overrun by the armies of the confederacy washing on was in a state of chronic terror in fear of the attacks of the enemy the way was open and it if the confederate were not soon repulsed the attack upon the capital seemed inevitable early a army had been re enforced by A part of the command of longstreet street philip sher dan bad been given or ders by the war department to clear the enemy from the shenandoah and to thereby relieve the country orthe strain of the fear of an attall upon washington on the of october 1864 early fording the shenandoah river ap preached rapidly and unobserved up on the arny of sheridan sheridan had been calad to washing washington ton and was even then returning nav n ns reached the town of Wine winchester iester twenty miles from cedar run arder cover of the fog which had rien from the river and the darkness early earlys s army approached to within yards of the left flank ot of the union army which was formed oy the I 1 troops of gen crook the corps was mas rolled up the espos expos exposed d center gave way may and almost instantly the entire army was in retreat madly they luched from the acene of the surprise panic stricken and demoralized sheridan in winchester had heard the found of the battle mounting the hore hor e which had already married him through so many battles he spurred him toward the place where he knew that his troops should be on the cedar run road he met the first of the retreating army stand ing in his saddle he shouted sl to them face the other way boys we are going bad the presence of little phil re stored the confidence they had lost his belief in them gave them a be lie alef f in themselves his courage in their courage his enthusiasm roused theirs back they furred to the field from which they had been so ingloriously routed the tide of battle turned the vie arlous enemy had waited to plunder the camps surprised as had b en their foes a short time before they were completely routed the re treat of cedar run had been turned to 0 a glorious bictory simply beca ise a I 1 leader did not know when ne tie was as beaten eaten an I 1 refus eing to acknowledge ledge defeat lefeat had lr wrested ested from adversity i victory that won for him honors boners and ind commendation and fame sheri dans ans ride Is s of imperishable fame in n the annals of american mil tull try achievements chieve ments but even greater han ban his fame for br arvery is ho 0 characterization that lincoln phrased just confidence in the be enrage and of his troops battles followed by rain the records reco ds show that the follow ng battles or actions were e ater ac om panted or 01 closely followed fol lowel by ain battle of logan 9 cros crossroads roads attle of fort donelson battle of pea bidge ark attack and bartu e of roanoke inland capture ct cf newbern IT C capture of fort macon the na tia ral rat action in hamiton roads the cap ure of new madrid mo attack on stand io no ten bo abard of orts torts jaclson and st philip bom bon ar dment and pa passage sa e of thi cl arg batteries battle cf pitt birg burg landing anding or shiloh apr 1 6 an 1 7 1862 battle batt leipf of bull pasture me estain hay lay 8 1802 battle of Nind winchester hester a may 24 and 25 1862 battle battlo of pross ross ays june 8 1862 capture of habrle cf of williamsburg burg gating gilting on the chickahominy battle of hanover courthouse battle of 0 fair oaks cr seven pines guri guiborat boat firing firm on james river artillery fir n ng n front of hooker s sven davs davs ri lit battle of gaine s mill bat ie to of san saia ae es s S betat tat on battle of malvern 11 battle of cedar mountain ai at g 9 heavy artillery firing at kel ley s fort and station feht at bristow station I 1 I 1 at tie of bull pun run of chantilly b atle of antietam battle of pen mil till or chart chapins n s creel ky battle 1 of prairie grove arl art capture of van van buren ark battle of murt murf ee boro or stone river battle of freder cl s burg va bat ie le of chancellorsville battle of beverley Be ford va battle of gettysburg pa affair at mine aline run destruction of confederate steamer nashville battle of caine a bridge I 1 a assault on port part hu huion icon par e s pa sag of the vicksburg arg bat tell tees teer battle of raymond mias MIs na val vat lotion off charleston harbor at tac tae on defenses of keces onville at tad on morris Is it and attall en on gen terry en on jimes james island boma bomor dment of fort wagner attack on port fort sum ter battle of mrs mits on red river campaign battle of marks mill battle of dallas ga battle of the wilderness battle of spott aha nia courthouse battle of north anne hi RI er battle of cold harbor or bethesda church battle of hatcher s run fight at bubl n R dge leattle of NeAma newmarket rhet cf the cedars L great battle of nashville and many others have wrong inscription at the last jennion of the army of the cumberland a very singular state of affairs was dev developed elored by a letter to the society from whitelaw reid challenging the correctness of the official inscription upon the mon currents un ants to the ohio regiments aarl bat teries erected by the state of ohio through its battlefield in the shiloh nat onal anal park the follow ing extract from mr air reid s letter peal s tor for itself I 1 should like to ask this to consider if it does net yet et owe a duty to itself and to its honored dead of fie fic al at publications have only recently come to my knowledge in which affie from personal errors that need not now be noticed there appears a strange distortion of facts as to when the several parts of the army of he the ohio becan a e engaged with mith the enemy on the ath and ath of april 1862 an old book of my own ohio in the war printed long before the of faial reports were mere access ble Is ed as one auth authority crity for these state ments but in ome come few cases I 1 have been abl to collate they ne tie ther agree with m ith that work par or w th the al at reports with mith themselves and the time wien certa n regiments v went ent into action is set down on the very monuments the state have erecter on the spot or four hours after they lad 1 ad been hotly engaged and the field bad had been well nigh re reclined dined nether this Is due to a blundering efort to shield names wh ci need no uch treacherous rous prop to their olid renown and to do it at the expense of the army of the oh a or whether ft it Is cue to me e income tence the effect is the ame came can your see ace ety la 11 loyalty to iteld and to Us its martyrs on that field permit these misrepresentations to stand in consequence of the rec apt of the above letter a reolus on was passed that the earr spending secre ary for vard v ard copies of the san sam to the gov arnor of oh OIL a and the secretary of at T ar recasting recH sting them to take meas ires to test the accuracy ct cf the in ons that hai have e been challenged d brought broucht back pipe after a ep epard tion of thirty eight years abraham all alln an a prominent cit izen of mainard maynard mass and one of the 1 iding members of isaac davis post G A R shock the hand cf f his old ahlm abi m john welch of los an geles cal alien allen and welch sl sned ined through h the war as members of the old thirtieth massachusetts regiment mr air alien allen in company B while mr welch was in company H the two men were the closest of friends dunn during their term of enlist kent ment I 1 ut bad not met since they were mustered out in 1865 mr welch enli ted from cambridge and went west at the close cf the war dunn during t e campaign in virginia mr welch ost act his pipe in an engage ment and was mas presented with one that mr mil alien allen had to spare on their meeting IN r welch had the identical pipe in his possession the two friends a smoke from it while talk ing over old times V a grand prize nith ith asburg was surrendered the largest fores force of 01 men wen and guns ever known in the history of war fare a which was exceeded only by th germans when they forced bazaine to yield the fortress cf of metz in ohp franco prussian war brown gives the figures of grant s capture as mere more than 42 men 65 stand of arms and cannon large and I 1 small grant crant found there 25 COO s and of Fill english lish anfield rifles which were at once t arned over to the union troops to take the place of the interior inferior guns they had been us ng 1 I Batt battlefield lefeld uner the hammer cammi recently sold old at p pub u D I 1 he lie arct on the famous bati bait edfield of aine alne al 11 near cold harb r han ilan over cointa va there Is still stani stan I 1 ire a ro r t cn of the brick trill aro arkind ind wl mi ph rb te fi feht bt raged between stole e N all jackson s nen men and tl it northeim Nort Nor heiti their t c i s q ind 1 nd r gen fitz john dorfer port er in fn i DC e ibbs aci r thou thousand vand of 11 lie e tarn wen en I 1 gilld and abbat to two thoi thol sand wounded mounded or taber taken prison prisoners eis ni 1 IP lp the confederates prates had about ej echt ht thousand tilled ind wounded the figi t at gaines iiii was the sec see I 1 ond and of the seven days battles which marked the close of mcclellan Mc CleIlan s pen insular cam rt |