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Show The Stars on the Flag. , untune stars on the flag as it passes And then number the stars'in yon distant dis-tant sky The number would be the brave hearts that would die For the stars on the flag. Count the stripes on the flag-we weave into one, The tears and the sighs for the lives that are done, BUt sun f shadows of ea setting Shine the stars on the flag. Count the tears for the flag! Were they shed In vain? What now seemeth loss even yet will . seem gain, For the nation's great heart will suffer no strain On the stars of the flag. Hats off to the flag! For its life breathe a prayer I That brave hearts and brave hands Its loved folds may bear, Till the stars in their courses, their glory shall share With the stars on the flag. How Families Were Divided. Senator. 'I was able to hobble around a little, on that 9th of April. The old darky who woke -me up when he brought in my breakfast was dreadfully dread-fully scared. His-face was ashy and his voice trembled. "Marse John, ain't dem cannons what's boomin' down de river?" he asked. " 'I listened a moment and could distinctly hear artillery firing, though it is twenty-six miles from Lynchburg to Appomattox. "They are cannon, sure enough," I told him, and he went out highly excited . and scared. I dressed as quickly as I could and got outdoors, where the sound of guns could be heard with great distinctness. '"About 2 o'clock in the afternoon I went out into the street. I could not get along very well, but I managed to get to the top of the hill overlooking the river, where I met a Baptist minister min-ister hurrying toward me. I asked him the news. He was greatly disturbed. "Eminently unsatisfactory, sir; eminently so," he replied. "It is reported re-ported that Gen. Lee has surrendered me civil war saw many divisions in families, it being no uncommon thing for members of one family to be fighting fight-ing against each other. Here is an example: Capt. William A. Winder, U. S. A., died at Omaha, Neb., last week, at the age of 80 years. Capt. Winder was a grandson of Gen. William H. Winder, Win-der, who led an expedition into Canada Can-ada in the war of 1812, repelled the British attack at Stony Creek In 1813, but was himself captured. Gen. Winder's Win-der's son, and the father of the soldier who died last week, was John H. Winder, Win-der, a graduate of West Point In 1820, twice, breveted for gallantry in the Mexican war, who resigned from the United States army on April 27, 1861, and entered the service of the Confederacy. Con-federacy. Made a brigadier general and given command of Richmond, he had charge of the prisons at Libby and Belle Isle, and was subsequently placed in command at Andersonville. To what extent he was justly chargeable charge-able with the cruelties practiced upon the Union soldiers imprisoned there has been disputed, his friends claiming claim-ing that he was villified beyond nis deserts. There is no doubt that in the North he was regarded as a monster mon-ster of cruelty. His son, who died the other day, went into the army in 1848, remained true to the Union and served with distinction during the civil war. To Indiana Soldiers. to Gen. Grant down at Appomattox Court House." And he hurried on evidently evi-dently in great distress. . " 'I made my way on toward the bottom. bot-tom. When not far from the railroad I saw a group of Confederate soldiers, who evidently had a prisoner. When I drew closer I recognized that they were guarding an old friend of mine, Lieut John Stockton of the Monticello Guard of Albemarle county. I was astonished, and as soon as I got to the men I asked why thqy had arrested my friend, Lieut. Stockton. " 'I got a reply at once. One of the men said he was a deserter. "For God's sake, John,- how isthis?"! asked. "Well, I just told them Gen. Lee had surrendered,"' said Stockton, coolly, "and they thought I must be a deserter." desert-er." " 'The men took up the conversation and argued that there could be no doubt that their prisoner had deserted. Of course, Gen. Lee had not quit fighting. fight-ing. I asked Stockton to explain, and he said that while the actual ceremony of surrender had not taken place when he left the field, yet the white flags were out at that time. He had managed man-aged to slip into the bushes and get away. Like a number of others who had fought under Lee, he could not witness the surrender. Of course, we saw then that the news of the surrender surren-der was true. That night we had full confirmation. '"I determined at once to join Gen. 1 ; A , -;Vs2 Biv'wi"'" ffrx uttxaNA jzesrtarr, kz. int. jusepu n,. jonnston m iNortn uaronna, and began to arrange for departure,' said the Senator, with a reminiscent smile, 'but when I found I would have to travel in a buggy, being unable to ride, T concluded that my joining any army wouli be a joke, so I gave up the idea and faced the music with the rest of the boys. " 'Did you ever hear how Fitz Lee surrendered? You know he managed to escape from the field at Appomattox. Appomat-tox. He and several companions got down to Farmville, and Fitz went into the hotel, where Gen. Meade had his headquarters. Fitz said he found out the room in which Gen. Meade was, and when he discovered that it was unguarded, he thought it would be a good thing to capture the Union commander com-mander and make off with him. But he spon saw this could not be done, so he walked boldly in and introduced himself. Of course, Gen Meade was greatly surprised, but I imagined he was glad to receive the surrender of a man whose cavalry had been hitting him such hard blows. Fitz sat and talked with Gen. Meade for some time, - ' Monuments at Chickamauga. The Chickamauga Park commission, consisting of Gen. H. V. Boynton of Washington, who commanded the Thirty-fifth Ohio infantry in the battle and I expect they enjoyed each other's conversation.' " The Hooker Statue. The final casting for the Hooker statue have been completed, and the statue is now being set up at the foundry in New York city. Norcross Bros, have the granite pedestal well under way. The Legislature has passed the appropriation ap-propriation of $23,000 for the dedication dedi-cation ceremonies, and the bill is now before tne governor for his action. Trouble is brewing for somebody on that inscription adopted by the council to go on the pedestal. The "boys" have no use for it. Thursday, June 25, the day fixed upon for the dedication, is the anniversary anni-versary of the engagement before Richmond in 1862, known as Oak Grove or Williamsburg Road, where Heintzleman, Hooker and Kearney advanced the Third corps lines successfully, suc-cessfully, and where our First, Eleventh and Sixteenth Massachusetts Massachu-setts regiments lost heavily. aim was wounaea in tne assault upon Missionary Ridge; Major General I Alexander P. SteWart, who commanded i a division in Breckinridge's corps of the confederate army, assisted by E. E. Betts, an engineer, and J. P. Smartt, a historian of Chattanooga, have been working for eleven years to, ascertain the truth and fix the correct locations for each regiment engaged on either Side in the conflict. They have, of course, been assisted by many of the officers and soldiers engaged, but the enormous labor they have performed ' can scarcely be appreciated without personal observation of the seven battlefields bat-tlefields in this vicinity, which are embarked em-barked in the park project, extending hirty miles from Chattanooga to '.inggold, the scene of the final battle f the campaign for the control of 'hattanooga and the Tennessee river. i When Lee Surrendered. I The Washington correspondent of The Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch Wrote under date of April 8: "'To-morrow is the anniversary of the surrender of Appomattox," said Senator Daniel, in his committee room at the Capitol. "We who followed the fortunes of the Confederacy for four years cannot help feeling sad as we recall re-call that day," he continued. 'We cannot can-not forget the cause we loved, and love I still, though it was lost. "'I had been at my home in Lynch-urg Lynch-urg for some months getting well of winds when the end came,' said the |