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Show In Memory and in Hope. j: Forty-two years ngo tho appalling campaign of the Wilderness, with nil ftyji Its. magnificent devotion on both sides, j& was but two-thirds over, Its guns slow- t!l ly wheeling southward day by day, Jfej opposed with a brilliancy und daring Wfl, tho nnnals of war have rarely seoa wjUi1 cqunlud, whllo around tho heart of tho &8jJ confederacy Sherman wus drawing a, girdle of fire. Now, on May 30, all ovor tho land, south as well ns north, wherever the gravo of n national soldier who fought In tho great war is known, his old comrades und his descendants will lay nn offering of thu flowers which ore tho perpetual rebirth t earth's beauty. |