Luther Register. (Luther, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, May 29, 1908 Page: 3 of 8
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DURING ttie latter part of the
war, is 1864, and until its
close, in 1865, I was con-
nected with the armies under
Gen. Sherman, usually desig-
nated the Army of the Ten-
nessee, the Army of the Cumberland
and the Army of the Ohio, wrote Maj -
Gen. 0. O. Howard. The campaigns
were exceedingly active. From Chat-
tanooga to Atlanta Sherman's soldiers
were under fire every day, except the
three just before crossing the Etowah,
for 113 days. There was not a day or
night in which there were no soldiers
slain. The screeching shells burst
over our heads while we were sleep-
ing, but, wonderful to tell, the sol-
diers had become so used to this con-
flict that they lost very little sleep in
consequence of the fitful and random
firing at night.
In that period of 113 days there were
19 sizable battles fought. In one at-
tack I made at Pickett's Mill I lost
£00 killed and three times as many
wounded within the space of 15 min-
utes. At night I sat among the
wounded and realized something of
the horrors of war. It seems to me to-
day as I think of it like a terrible
nightmare, but it was a more terrible
reality, which I will not attempt to de-
scribe.
Without further detail, imagine the
joy that came over the armies of Sher-
man as they gathered about Raleigh,
N. C., in 1866, and were told that Lee
had surrendered and that Grant had
sent Lee's soldiers home to begin life
anew; that Johnston had surrendered
on the same terms as Lee and all that
belonged o Slocum's, Schofleld's and
Howard's armies were to march on
the morrow toward Washington, the
capital of the nation, soon to be mus-
tered out of service and then to go
home. I remember the sudden depres-
Fion at the news of Lincoln's death;
but still this going home produced too
great a joy to keep ever thts catas-
trophe of their heavy loss very long
before their minds. They marched
habitually at 20 miles a day from
Raleigh to Richmond, and never
seemed weary at the close of any
day's march—the camp fire was bright,
the old songs were sung over and over
again and the comradeship knitted
during the war would never cease—it
was at its best when the word "peace"
filled all the air
I know that we were proud when
we marched past the president of the
United States in our last great re-
view; but, as 1 remember it, it was a
tearful pride even then. A regiment
had gone out 1,000 strong; it had been
recruited and re-recruited; it had been
veteranized and added to in other
ways; and now it was bringing home
less than 300 of all the men who had
gone out from that section of the
country from which it had come. The
joy of going home for the 300 was
great, but it was a tearful joy the lu-
stant one thought of the 800 or more
who could not go home, who never did
go home, who were burled somewhere
in the broad land over which the 30C
had marched, and too often with a
headpiece marked "Unknown."
After the war I stood in the large
cemetery near Murfreesboro, Tenn.,
with Gen. R. B. Hayes (afterward
president) and Mrs. Hayes. I remem
ber how Mrs. Hayes, who was an ex
ceedingly handsome woman, looked
up into the faces of the general and
myself as her large, dark, speaking
eyes were flooded with tears, when she
said: "Just look there, that plot ot
ground is covered with headstones
marked 'Unknown.' Unknown, un
known," she repeated, "and yet h«
gave his life that his country mighl
live!"
It was a touching picture, but every
time I think of it I say to myself:
"Really, that 'unknown' soldier, ap-
parently unknown, recorded unknown,
was not really unknown. Somebody
knew him. His comrades knew him,
A mother, a sister, a wife and children,
if he had them, knew him. There is
a better record somewhere than that
In the soldiers' cemetery." Our faith
is so strong that we all believe in the
resurrection and In the future life and
have a great satisfaction in feeling
that no sacrifices and particularly not
that of life itself for duty, for what
one sincerely believes to be duty, has
ever been or ever will be made in
vain.
The saddest pictures of all, to my
mind, are those connected with a los-
ing battle lilae that of Fredericksburg,
and still more that of Chancellorsville.
At Fredericksburg the army of Burn-
side went straight forward to its own
destruction. The lines of Lee, half en-
circling Burnside's points of attack,
were complete. It was like a trap into
which an animal deliberately puts his
feet. We sprang the trap, and it is
a wonder that Lee had not dealt with
Burnside's army as the sturdy Thomas
dealt with Hood's at Nasville.
Gen. Couch was standing by my gida
in the steeple of a church, near the
close of that battle, where we togethei
were taking a fresh reconnoissanca
when I noticed that his voice trembled
as he spoke to me. He said: "Oh, Gen.
Howard, look there! Look there! See
the ground covered with the boys in
blue, and all to no purpose."
After we had returned, all of us
who could return, to the other shore
of the Rappahannock, the depression
of the soldiers was greater than at any
other time during the war. We could
hardly speak to each other. Now, after
years, we can recognize the fact that
our grief was balanced by the joy of
the confederates over a great victory,
and yet not a decisive one, gained by
them.
At a moderate calculation there
were sent Into eternity more than a
million of men, who left home in the
prime of health and in strength; more
than a million of souls by the terrible
conflict. For one, I am glad, indeed,
that there is an effort on foot to sub-
tle difficulties without bloodshed. Of
course, the waste of human life is not
all of it. There is in every war a waste
of possession, a destruction of proper-
ty and a degradation of character hard
to avoid at the best. I know that there
are some things worse than death. 1
know that the union of our states was
worth all that it cost, and I know that,
humanly speaking, it was necessary
that we should be purged as by flre;
but is it not wise now to do all that
we can to hold up to the world the
blessings of a great peace; even the
peace that passeth understanding,
which never must exclude any of the
noblest qualities of a womanly woman
or a manly man?
A soul full of memorial greetings to
all our sorrowing comrades of the civil
war.
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ORTY YEARS AGO almost every mother thought her child must have
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