Show X THE GREAT metropolis from oar egolf j TUB measures continue in preparation for alio coming lion after an extensive ival partial settlements upon n time has beon fixed positively for 1883 this i next to the memorable year of our arly early e history ah nothing could be more fitting than it on for a great national jubileo of a practical kind on lie of april 1783 alie close of hostilities was officially proclaim ed to washington s army alien a may the society of alio cincinnati wao formed with and general washington as president on june knox as secretary ath washington issued that famous loiter to alie governors of state in which he pleaded BO eloquently for an indissoluble union of he states under one federal head ft sacred regard for public justice alie adoption of a proper peace establishment and the forgetting of local prejudice adding these are the i and politics pillars on which the glorious fabric of our independency co and national character must be supported who can read these lines asking was washington also a prophet that he should look down the vista of a century tu come and so clearly the precise dangers that should menace his beloved country at its close there is more truth and statesmanship in eliat single letter than the country has had from nil political teachers for fifty years alie celebration of 1883 will do much for our count rys future peace and welfare if it docs no more than turn public attention to this prophetic utterance of its great founder september ad alie final treaty of peace was signed november ad alio army was disbanded november No rember aith the brighh troops evacuated new york and washington formally entered it and on ane of december resigned his commission into the fiands of congress richly freighted as the year 1783 is with hallowed memories and associations alie people will find some means of celebrating events and a great international convention and jubileo will inevitably give a force completeness and unity to these observances which could not otherwise be attained THE BRIGADE can you stand another war incident it is not as grand a as Gettys burgh nor perhaps as big with results but the many ringing responses to my baat which I confess was offered in your new york correspondence with many misgivings leave somehow stir the ghosts of i many thrilling memories winch have chased each other through mind till silencers ceis impossible few americans ever dreamed that among the dark and gloomy pines of was enacted a tragedy worthier to live in epic verse than tho famous charge of the light brigade at dalert klava only once in all tho histories ot the war leave I seen it mentioned and tonight to night my thoughts brood over the nameless graves of those unsun heroes till my soul cries out in pro test t he of historic fame and for heroes I must crave lie meagre of a passing mention in the cars of their countrymen it waa the aught jacks son received his wound lie had completely ed howards eleventh corps and was driving them in tho wildest confusion along towards the centre of our line in their flight they parsed through the woods just beyond which in a clearing lay four sickles batteries and a liying artillery battery and the eighth pennsylvania cavalry of general tho butteries were not in position but were packed waiting orders through their lines dashed the panic stricken fugitives hot pursued by jacksons immense corps of over twenty men tho field became a sight for a painter infantry artillery ambulances pack mules negroes and stranglers the worst scared men I ever looked upon came tearing like mad past us the batteries had no common commander but each acted for himself battery left wheel firo to the rear in battery chaissons caissons Cais sons pass your pieces trot marchl and a frightened buglar caught only tho fprd trot and sounded it and no more it rang out clear above the worse than babel many took it for a general stampede sign ilond across the field and the hill and across a itono stono wall near its foot in that famous ravine dashed several chaissons caissons cais sons and ft few guns fix prolongs to airee tiring with canister load on came the fugitives nearer and nearer through the sounding woods camo that confederate yell and the rush of stonewall jacksons victorious legions sickles was almost a mile away pushing through the with his splendid corps not a federal musket was in sight except what the eleventh men bearing to alio rear as rapidly as lega could arry them wo must make our fight tremendous odd oddi i alono five lotteries Lat teries of us and throe hundred cavalrymen not over six hundred mon all told on swept twenty thousand thou confederate a we were not yet ready to fight v line was confusion borbe guna abood pointing alio excited isted anil at tle first anre one liala ciui n blow tho other half into eternity and iSto would have hooker d and double up our whole anny a cheering prospect that tho sun had sot behind tho wooda and through them yet faster in tho thickening gloom rushed jacksons troops suddenly out in front of our guns rocci tho familiar form of general pleasanton above the din rang his shrill voice align was a work inacy minutes mid stonewall wib now jut aion us oh for ten minute ame how to pot it then f tt miu or keenon with hi tarco horb nien here wa alm s chich if every man mia 11 like arnold winkel rian give us those iu minutes general pleasanton Plea said to boenan major you must charge in those woods with your regiment ami hold ho enemy till I get guns into position you must do it at all cut ton says it was just the bamo as saying you must bo killed but with a smile he replied general I will doit uh what a tight was tut would to cod tome r nce eliut ii lit and lilt hoso humble nam Minto immortals im three troopers with deep net apura and fabres sabres rushed at the of twenty thousand armed men nobody had but homebody anist dio to sava lie army that wai so mad a blow did jackson very that lia itis d roii to 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