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—_—— regiment, Heth’s division, Longstreet's | and “Seven Pines.” 3 ” | ibaned and never retaree 43. _ of the twenty-first | _ Confederate betilefiag No history. oF tho fourteenth Georgte Ghorgta, Gerton's No. 365. Battlefing ‘ Hieth's division, Longsireet's corps Confederate battiefing cf the ja imfantry, captured by ‘Ulrick ‘her, company M, sixth cavalry, first brigade, first division, Ne. of the seventh Georgia @egiment Ne history. Ne. 1 xo, 495. 495. Flag of the Apelischiccla guards. tly made of women j;_ Blue, stars and desizs in cream- sifk; rent in center as if by a picce of On it an eagle carrying im its beak a en which is the inser: “In God is trast” Be. 72. Confederate battlefiag of the eighth regiment, captured by Sergt. Thomas seventy-second Now York volunteers, dl exceistor brigade. No. 414 Battleflag of tho second Florida. lederate battiefing of the thirtieth infant ribed rmington, + Riehmon Bine fg with white “toss. No history of its ea) Ko. 204. Colors of ‘* e (Mebaves regiments, No Bo. 800. Confederate flag, sixth Arkansas «volunteers, captured by Sergi. John W. Dean, pany (, seventeenth Indiana volunteers, at Ga. ‘and nineteenth ‘No. 492. Battiefiag of the forty-eighth Aln- Pisid’s division, Longstreet’s corps. No Fy of its capture. Ko. 242. Flag of the sixteenth Alabama regi- gent, captured by A. Greenwalt, company G, 04th Okio volunteer infantry, first brigade, ‘Murd division, twenty-third army corps. This fag is shot to shreds and biood stained Medal wef _bonor. No. 347. Battlefiag of the fo =. No history. ja. 0. Confederate batt teenth Alabama regiment, ca ¥ C, first Delaware voluntecrs. Ko. 61. Confederate battles a infantry, capture <i y ¥ York voluateer: r's cor} No. 194 Battlefiag of the sixth Alabam: @egiment, captured by BF. Davis, ¥- ond “Massachusetts volunteer: le, first diviston, fifth army co: fo. 545. Virginia { the thir- ed by com- e fitt ‘ y-veventh Richardson's division, from the co fog the progress of erdered several captured to their captors. from the custo? @elivered to indie Spon the writ great War Secretary. Twen' @aptured confederate flac en the authority of various off as follows: Confederate battiefiag. captured CA t swere taken at Department and 3 or states, anid ¢ Cahiwell br: sixty-first a Fegiment") ¢ about 300 pris. second day the le ene captain Ordered to more by the Inah brig ° to the right of that br: to the fri end moved up over Beary fire found ihe « y lying im a ro Under the brow of t however. a fm the Breaking the cenier of th kil r Bariow (af wounded in the groin by and Lieut. Col. Neisé: fimguished for hi Datties. The fm this action bis courage hix q = December 30, | 1863, by order of Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary | ef War. Confederate battlefiag. taken in 1 in seeing of h ‘Willis Church, Va. 30, 1862, by the sixty- first New York volunteers, Col Francis C. On June 30 the first New York with other reg’ brigade maze! Geing at about 6 p.m. On arriv a front they became rated from the re- Waiader of the brigade in the confusion arising from Union troops firing into each other. ‘Th Fegiment was then reported to Brig. Gen. Rob- | Kearney’s brigade for ordera | fuson of Ge By order of Gen. Robi formed in line upon the b f a large fel ‘anto which the Union 4 were massing. ‘Having stopped the fire of the othe: Gen. liobinson orde the vance into the fic Deyonets at a charge. ‘The colonel ¢ fing says: “By reason of the darkness and thick qmoke I'am unable to sar whether the enemy ‘was occupying the open field or not. I think they were and that they fell back hastily on our approach. as I found one of their colors yng ‘upon the ground. It bore the inscription wen Pines" and ‘Fair Oaks’ upon it and I s@aused it to be sent to the headquarters of ‘Gumaer's corps.” This fag was delivered to ‘the sixty-first New York voi 9. 1863, by order of the Secretary of War, Bou. E. M. Stanton. Confederate battiefing, captured at the New Market Cross Roads (Glenda wate Wm. J. Gallagher, company ment Pennsylvania reserve, jeCall’s division, from the tenth Ala infantry. Gallagher, having killed the origi- Mai bearer of the colors, took prisoner a second Who attempted to recover and raise it and gallantly presented the trophy to Gen. McCall @n the battleficid. This flag was delivered to She mxty-first_ regiment, New York volunteers, December 30, 1963, by order of Secretary Branton. > regiment wag th . ‘ 16, 1862. April 26, 1565, loaned to W. H. der by order of Gen. Niciols, assistant ad- tant Confederate battlefiag, captured at Rappa- Bannock station November 7, 1363, by Philip Smith, company E, one hundred and twenty- Giret New York voluntects. June 6, 1565, | te Col. E. Olcott by order of Secretary Confederate battleting of the at Vir~ try. Loaned to Col Vlcott by Sec- Fetary Stanton. One-half confederate battlefiag, captured from rebel infantry in an engagement near Malvern Hill July 38, 1864, by Private Georg Punk, company K, sixth’ New York caval bundred division, im battle of Little Sailor Creek, April 6, to Col Olcott by Secretary Btanton. Gifford received the medal of honor. Rebel battlefiag, captured in betile at Farm's tf first brigade, second cavalry division, Brovet Maj. Gea. Davies commanding, Loaned to Gea. Davies b; Gen. Nichols, assistant ad- Feoeived the medal of dress goods | enth Alsbama h | country is so . | in climate, soil and productions that every man cers, December | Dattle | by Pri- | Supposed to have been a. of the twent Virgimia infantry. Supposed to have joaned and uever returned. Confederate flag, stars and bars, of the six- teenth Virginia ‘afantry, captured by the fourth regiment New Jersey volunteers Crampton, Pass, Md. Supposed to have been | loaned and never returned, | c mfedorate fing, stars and bars of the twenty-sixth Tennessee volunteers,captured on | Prize steamer Cherokee June, 1963. Loaned and never returned. Confederate flag, captured at Rappahannock station November 17, 1863. The colors were stripped from the staff in order to be saved by the color bearer. Supposed to have been loaned and never retarned. Confederate battle flag, captured by Lieut. Joseph oo company E, Sfth Maine vol- unteers, May 10, 1864. Supposed to have loaned and nevor retamed. Confederate colors, captured by James H. Compston, company D, ninety-first Ohio regi- ment, second brigade, second division, Army lot West Virginia Suj d to have been | loomed and nover returned. Medal of honor. | | Confederate battlefiag, captured by Col. Goo. | M. Love, one hundred and sixteenth New York | volunteers, October 19, 1864, at Cedar Creek, | Va. Supposed to have been loaned and never | returned. Medal of honor, Rebel flag, Austin’s dat » captured at Columbus, Ga, April 1 1805, by Corp. Richard H.' Morgan, company A, {tourth Iowa cavalry, first brigade, fourth | division, cavairy corps, military ‘division of tho’ Mississipp:, inside the line of | works during the charge. ‘The bearer and the | corporal had a hand-to-hand fight for the Also rebel flag captuged by Private John | Hays, compaay F, same regiment, same battle. | Private Hays captured the standard and bearer, | who tore it from the staff and tried to escape, firing his revolver and wounding one man be- longing to the fourth Iowa, Both the above were sent to the state of Iowa by Secretary Stanton, Morgan and Hays received the medal | of honor. | Rebel flag captured by Warren Dockham, pri- yete company H,one hundred and twenty- first New York volunteers, in the eugagement at Sailor's Creek, April 6, 1865. I tion: | “for Our Altars and Our Hearths,” “Savan- nah Volunteer Guards, 1862.” Loaned to Col. Oleott by Secretary Btanton. Medal of honor. | Confederate battlefing, captured from seven- | teenth and eighteenth Texas troops during the | battle of Atlanta, July 22, 1864, by the fifteenth Michigan infantry. at War Department by Hon. W. T. Clark, August 27, 1875. Loaned to Gen. W. ‘T, Clark for use of « panorama about to be exhibited, by authority of the sct- ing secretary of war. To be returned. | The above are ali the captured confederate | fags that reached the War Department from STATUES OF SOLDIERS Memorials of the War With Which Washington is Adorned. TRIBUTES OF COMRADES. Leaders in Battles for the Union Commem- erated in Marble and Bronze—Brave Gen- erals and Gallant Commanders of Fleets ‘Whose Deeds Are Thus Celebrated. AMES A. GARFIELD . ‘once said: “Tt is the singular Province of art to break down the limite- tions which separate the generations of men from each other and allow those of past generations to be com- = rades and associates of == those now living. This ~ capital is silently being filled up with the heroes of other times, Men of throe wars have taken their places in silent eloquence as guardians and guards of thenation they loved 0 well, and as the years pass on these squares and public places will be rendered more and more populous, more and more eloquent by the presence of dead heroes of other days. From all quarters of the country, from all generations of its life, from all portions of its service, these heroes come by the ministry and mystery of artto take their places and stand as permanent guardians of our nation’s glory.” The speaker probably did not dream that in Jess than half a dozen years his own statue would be added to the other silent witnesses of the nation’s respect to the memory of its great men. There are now in this city five statues of generals and admirals of tho civil war, two of the war President, Abraham Lincoln, and one monument erected to the soldiers, saflors and marines. The statues usually stand in one of whatever source. As previously stated, there | were many others taken in battle which never | reached headquartera, oo —___— GEN. SHERMAN’S FAREWELL. | The Order He Issued When He Disbanded His Army. Wasnrxatox, D. C., May 80, 1868. Spectal Field Orders, No. 76. The general commanding announces to the armies of the Tennessee and Georgia that the time has come for us to part; our work is done and our armed enemies no longer defy us. Some of you will be retained in service until farther orders, and now that we are about to separate, to mingle with the civil world, it be- comes a pleasing duty to recall to mind the sit- | uation of national affaire. When but little more than a year ago we were gathered about the twining cliffs of Look- ont mountain, and all the future was wrapped in doubt and uncertainty, three armies came | together from distant fields, with separate his- tories, yet bound by one common cause, the union of our country and the perpetuation of the government of our inheritance. There is no need to recall to your memories 11 Hill, with its rocky-face mountain, and with the ugly forts of We were in earnest and paused ot danger and difficulty, but dashed h Snake Crock gap and fell on Resaca, | the Etowah to Dallas, Kenesaw, and mer found uson the banks of he, far from home and depend- le road for supplies. es, and crossed over and fought four battles for the porsession of the citadel nta. That was the crisis of our history. still clouded our future, but wo solved the problem and destroyed Atlanta, struck boidly across the state of Georgia, secured all life to onr ‘enemy, and us at Savannah. only long enough to fill our wagons, we again began our march, which for labor and results will compare with any ade by an organized army. The floods nnah. the swamps of the Combahee and high hills and rocks of the Santee, quagmires of the Peedee and; Cape Fear ivers, were all passed in midwinter, with its foods and rains, in the faco of an accumulating and after the battle of Averysborough jentonville we once more came out of the wilderness to meet our friends at Goldsboro. Even then we paused only long enough to get new clothing, to reload our wagons, and again pushed on to Raleigh and beyond until we met | F enemy suing for peace instead of war, and | offering to submit tothe injured laws of his and our country. As long as that enemy was defiant, nor mountains, nor rivers, nor swamps, nor hunger, nor cold had checked us, but when he who had fought us hard and persistently offered submission your general thought it wrong to pursue him farther, and negotiations followed which resulted, as you all know, in hia surrender. How far the operations of the army have con- tributed to the overthrow of the confederacy, to the peace which now dawns on us, must be judged by others, not by us; but that you have done all that men could do has been admitted | by those in authority, and we have a right to join in the universal Joy that fills the land be- cause the war is over and our government stands vindfeated before the world by the joint action of the volunteer United States, To such as remain in the military service | Four general would only remind you that euc- | ceases in the past are due to hard work and dis- cipline, and that the same work and discipline are equally important in the future. To such as go home I would only eay that our favored nd, 80 extensive, 80 diversified | can surely finda home and occupation suited |to his tastes,and none should yield to the | natural impotence sure to result from our past life of excitement and adventure. You will be invited to seek new adventure abroad, but do not yield to the temptation, for it will’ lead only to death and disappoint ment. Your general now bids all farewell, with the full Belief thatas in wat you have been food | soldiezs, so in peace you will make good clti- zens, andif unfortunately anew war shonldarise in our country Sherma: will be the first to buckle on the old armor and come forth to defend and maintain the government of our ine | heritance and choice. By order of . T. SHERMAx, L. M. Darros, JOHN GREENLEAP WHITTIER, Jonn Brown of Ossawatomle spake on his dying or slave-mother whom I have prayer for mei” a of Ossawatomie, they led him out to | Andiot & poor slave-mother with Rerlittle child | amen Pressed tig. | Then the bold, blue | ag aberah face row mala, Ie stooped between Jeerng ranks and | d the negro’s childs | Te shadows of his stormy Iife thatmomentfell apart; ne, ATly Sighter's hair the martyrs bshamer "ropa ‘Se folly that-seckethrough evil | roog live the generous human bloodi Not the raid of midnight terrom but thethought which under! ‘Not the borderer's < he bor ride of @aring, bathe Ohrie- ‘evermore may yon Blue/Ridges the Northern rine Nor see the Nght of blazing homes fashomthe ne- Butiet the passes scale, ‘4 | To teach that right ts moretham mightsand justice more than mall z 80 shall In vain ‘snow the numerous circles in the city formed by the intersection of several streets and avenues. Some were orccted by the government and others are the loving tributes of comrades of the dead heroes and of army corps, THE FARRAOUT STATUE. In the square at the corner of Connccticnt avenue and I stréets stands the statue of Admiral Farragut, the naval hero, Tho statue is of bronze made from the propeller of the old fighting Hartford, his flagship. It isan excellent likeness and was designed by Vinnie Ream Hoxie, the casting being made atthe Washington navy yard. It was ordered THE THOMAS sTATUE. Gen. Thomas, the hero of Chickamauga, is represented in an equestrian statue of bronze in the circle at the intersection of Massachu- setts avente, Vermont avenue and 14th street, The statue cost $40,000 and was provided by the Army of the Cumberland. It was modeled by J.Q. A. Ward. ‘The unveiling of this statue, November 19, 1879, was made the occasion of an imposing military display. The parade formed five divisions and in the line were Gen. Sherman, Gen. Hancock, Gen. McDowell, Gen. Schofiel Gen. Augar and Gen. Crook. ‘One feature it was the appearance in the line of march of ninety veterans of the Mexican war, under the leadership of Gen. J. W. Denver. to a halt opposite the Marine Band played atriotic airs, the chorus being accompanied By'tho booming of cannon. A battery of artil- lery was stationed on Massachusetts avenue and the guns were fired at thé proper moment by electricity. ‘The assembly sang a grand hymn. the words of which were composed by Mr. Herbert A. Preston and the music by Mr. J. Max Mueller. Stanley Matthews delivered the oration of the day and the statue was accepted by th President of the United States, who made a by Congress and £20,000 was appropriated for it, The unveiling took place on Monday, April 25, 1881, and was attended with the most impos- ing naval and military display Washington has probably witnessed since the war. There was & general cessation of business, the depart- ments turned out and everybody from the President down flocked to see the unveiling. The exercises were in” charge of Admiral Porter, Rear Admirals John Rogers, Warden, ©. RB. P. Rogers and Capt. Babcock. There were two divisions. a military and a naval one, in the parade. The sailors came from the Constitution, Saratoga, Vandalia, Tennessee, Alliance, Yuntic, Kearsarge and Portsmouth. After the addresses were made to the people surrounding the park the statue was unveiled by Quartermaster Knowles and Boatswain Wilers, who were with Farragut when he was lashed to the rigging of his ship in the thickest ofthe fight at the battle of Mobile bay. The unveiling itsolf was full of incidents; an admiral’s flag was displayed, the drums of tho bands beat four rufiles, while a battery of artil- lery in Lafayette Square fired an admiral's salute of seventeen guns, A great shout went up from the multitude as the flag that veiled the statue was withdrawn, showing the figure and features of the grand old naval captain. Ho is represented as stand- ingonthe deck of his famous flagship, the Hartford, with one foot resting on a pulley block anda teleséopic glass in his hand. His expression is thoroughly charactcristic—reso- Tute, watchful, reliant The figure is ten fect in height, ss THE X'PHERSON STATUE. Opposite the Hotel Normandie and just north of the Arlington, in the square formed by the intersection of Vermont avenue and 15th street, is the equestrian statue of Gon. James B. Mo- Pherson. Its history is as follows: When the Army of the Tennessee was about a ‘ wren ber oa a tr put up a | *© be disbanded at Louisville, Ky., at the close of the war Gen. Logan, its then commander, issued the following order: Hopgus. Anxy or THE Terxesszz, Louisvitze, Kr., July 25, 1865. The following named officers are announced ‘tender, and the old | as a committee to secure funds and superintend the erection of a suitable monument over the grave of Gen. McPherson. All correspondence that may be necessary to the furtherance of the ject will be carried on in their names: Mi Gen W. B, Hasen, Cleveland, Obio; Brev Maj. Gen. M. D. Loggett, Zanesville, Ohio; Brig. Gen. A. Hickenlooper, Cincinnati, Obio. thin e year this committee had collected $4,000. ‘Tho McPherson Monument Association of Clyde, Ohio, raised €500 and friends of the deceased general residing in California col- lected $4,500. These sums together with other contributions enabled the committee to select ‘purpose unstained with | a design. es model and Robert Wood & Co. of Philadel- cast the statue in bronze. The committee, ving only sufficient funds to complete the statue pedestal Gat’ dhrouxh the assistance of Gen. . W. Belknap, y Gen. Babcock an Maj. Elliott, ‘of $25,000 for the pedestal, pro- the committee the statue on it ed the name of Scott short addresa, THE DUPONT STATU Atthe intersection of Connecticut avenue, Massachusetts avenue and 19th street is the bronze figure of Rear Admiral Francis Dupont, which was unveiled December 20, 1884. It was designed by Launt Thompson of Philadelphia, was cast in New York and with ita pedestal cost $19,800, which amount was appropriated by Congress. Upon the day of its unveiling amilitary and naval parade was held, in the line being many officers and men who had served in the Mexican war. The President of the United States was present at the unveilin and the naval officers in the city were in full uniform. ‘The oration was delivered by Senator Thomas F, Bayard of Delaware and an admiral’s salute of thirteen guns grected the unveiling of the statue, TRE EMANCIPATION STATUE. The principal statue to President Lincoln is located in Lincoln Park, at the eastend of East Capitol street. accessible by the cars of the Metropolitan Railway Company and the red herdics, ‘The monument on a granite pedestal ten feet in height is of bronze and colossal in size, tho statue of Lincoln being twelve feet high. Lincoln is represented as standing be- side a monolith, on which ia a face of Wash- ington in bas relief. and he holds in his left hand the proclamation of emancipation, while his left hand is stretched over a slave, to whom his eyes are directed. The slave is almost prostrate, but apparently just about to riso, the shackles on his limbs having been sundercd. The statue was designed and executed by ‘Thomas Pall, an American sculptor residing at Florence, Italy. The original cost of the monument was $17,000, and this sum with the expenses of transportation have been paid by the colored people, the first money for tho object being £5 contributed by Charlotte Scott, a colored washerwoman of Marietta, Ohio, on the morning following tho assassination. The statue was unveiled Friday, April 14, 1876. This day was Friday, the first occasion since Lincoln's assassination that the anni versary of his death fell on Friday. The e1 colored population of the city ewelled the enormous crowds who attended the unveiling and many people came from outside towns. The orators of the day were Prof. John M. ——— Fredérick Touglass and W. E. Mat- wa, The bronze statue of James A. Garfield, one of the most elaborate memorials in the city, is at the foot of the Cepitol on the west side at the Maryland avonue entrance. It is. bronze figure, ten fect, in height, a striking w art representing » cost of $55,000, ich sum $25,000 was raised by the Army of the Cumberland and $30,000 donated by Congres, The idea of erecting a memorial to Garfield originated on the day that he died. The Army of the Cumberland was holding a reunion at field's dene | Stra Chattanooga when the news of Gar! death reached them; shortly thereafter came a tele~ Gram_to the society from the late Gen. HD. been of this wag Si — ‘the a e was ‘ashington; Septem- beg 21, 2861, and was a0 follows: sculptor was J.Q. A. Ward. It was;unvetled May 12, 3887, with imposing military cere- monies, ig. Gen. Absalom Baird was grand marshal of the The Society of the Army of the Cumberiand took a inent Part in the ceremonies. Amo! distin- hed ‘soldiers in the line were Phil Sheridan, n, Morgan, Reynolds, Gen. Th ‘Mussey, Gen. Conrad and Gen. Hartigan. Col. John M. Wilson was chairman of the committee on unveiling. On » stand Beet the statue were President Cleveland and inet, the Supreme Court and many members of An address was do- livered by Gen. J. W. Keifer. ‘Two'batteries of artillery, one in the navy yard and one at the Monument fired a national salute. Gen. Keifer then the statue to Gen. Sheridan, who accepted it with a lengthy addres." Gen. Sheridan thon introduced the President, who made a speech. ‘THE RAWLINS’ STATUE. Tho gallant Rawlins, Grant's chief of staff and Secretary of War in 1864, is commemorated in bronze. A figure eight fect high representa this soldier in the uniform of his rank standing in the field, The statue was ordered and paid for by Congress, Fora long time the statue stood in a little reservation known as Rawlins’ Square, in an obscure part of the city, but was recently removed to a prominent place on the south side of Pennsylvania avenue near 9th street, ‘THE SCOTT STATUR Winfiold Scott, the hero of two wars, is memorialized in an equestrian statue which stands in the circle formed by the intersection of 16th and N streets and Massachusetts and Rhode Island avenues, The monument {s a magnificent work of art, costing €45,000, which was appropriated by Congress. It was une veiled in 1874, The figure reprosenting the old general on his famous yar horso stands upon a stone pedostal the blocks of which are the largest ever quarried in this country. * THE PEACE MONUMENT. At the foot of the, Capitol, on Pennsylvania avenue and facing west, 18 what is known as the Pence monument, design to dedicate this to the sailors and marines of tho late war, but Congress decided that it should stand asa monument of peace. | The monument has a‘history. In 1865, at the fall of Fort Fisher, Admiral Porter started a subscription in his fleet for the erection in Washington of a fitting memorial to the sailors of the navy. The sum of $9,000 was raisea among the ‘officers, midshipmen and men of the navy. Civilians contributed about four thousand ‘dollara. Congress. made up the balance of the cost of the monument, which was about €21,000. It was commenced in i871, Franklin Simmons of Maine being the sculptor. feet ie being done in Rome. The monument 4s of Ravacchione Carrara marble, forty-four feet high, The surmounting figure representa History recording the woes narrated by America; west of the plinth Victory crowns Young Neptune and Mars; on tho east side is ace offering the olive branch, surrounded D. C, TUESDAY, SEPPEMBER 2, 1892—PART TWO. os SONGS THAT THRILLED Famous Words and Tunes Produced sby the War. RALLYING FOR THE UNION. ‘When First the Battle Cry of Freedom Was That Were Sung at the Great War Mcetings—Some That Will Live Marching Through Georgia. NE OF THE LINGER- ing superstitions of the war is contained in a Desutiful little poem by Bayard Taylor: “Givo us a song,” the soldier cried, The onter trenches guardi When the heated guns of the camp allied Grew weary of bom barding. . Tt is not at all likely that the soldiers did anything of the kind. Thero were isolated cases when they broke into a song of triumph during battle when the victory was coming their way, but those instances can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Thero are in- stances, too, where wounded men, in the su- Premo moment of dissolution, with the trans- figuring glow of another world irradiating their faces, sang songs which inspired their comrades and sent them with renewed energy into the conflict; but they also are few. When a great conflagration threatens human life and endangers vast property interests men do not go with songs on their lips to pitgt out. When floods devastate populous districts, res- cuers do not sct out on the boiling waters singing triumphal hymns, and the roar and smoke of battlo is ten million times more ter- rible than either. “When the bugles sang truce And the night cloud had lowered” the men sank to rest almost where they stood. Exhausted nature could endure no more. If | music at that period were Dr. George perchance they had themselves escaped the fiery missiles all about them was destruction and death, Dr. Root, in “Just After the Bat- tle,” gives a graphic doscription of the scene. “Still upon the field of battle Tam lying, mother dear, With my wounded comrades waiting For the morning to appear, Many sleep to waken never, In this world of strife and death, And many moro are faintly calling With their feeble dying breaths.” There were hundreds of people who spoiled reams of nice white paper with pieces they called “National Odes” and “Anthems,” “Bat- tle Hymns of the Republic” and ludicrously pathetic drivel of various kinds, The trash in the song world, like drift in a flood, always comes to the surfaco at such times, and like driftwood most of {t piled up on the shore and was buried in the sands of oblivion. But very few of these “‘picces” ever got outside of the music stores, and of those that did, the good was speedily sifted from the bad, and that worthy to live has become part and parcel of the history of the great conflict, A SONG THAT THRILLED, Much of the music now known as “War Songs” was not written until the war was al- most ended. Tho most popular writers of Root, Chas, Carroll Sawyer and Henry C, Work, and the most famous of the few great war songs was Dr. Root’s “Battle Cry of Freedom.” It was written in 1961 and sung firstata big “rally” held in Union Square, New York, just after the first call for 75,000 men. It was sung by a male quartet and took tho loyal threng by storm, It is said by those who were there that the singing of the lines: Originally it was the | ev by the products of the peaceful arta. Sculptors at Rome say that this was one of the finest works ever sent to America, It was brought over in the U. 8. 8. Supply and’ was unveiled in 1877 without ceremonieca, ‘The Attack. ‘THOMAS BUCHANAN READ. In Hampton Roads the airs of March were biand, Peace on the deck, and in the fortress sleeping, Til, in the lookout of the Cumberland, ‘The eallor, with his well-polsed glass in hand, Descried the iron island downward creeping. A sudden wonder setzed on land and bay, And Tumult, with her train, was there ‘to follow; For still the stranger kept {ts seaward way, ‘Looking a great leviathan blowing spray, Seeking with steady course his ocean wallow. And still ft came, and largened on the eight; A foating monster, Pgy ones ntic; In shape, a wave, with long and qhelving helght, ‘Asif a mighty pillow, heaved at night, ~~ Should turn to tron in the mid-Atianilo, ‘Then ship and fortress gazed with anxious ‘Until the Cumberiand’s cannon, allence breaking, ‘Tuundered its guardian challenge, “Who ‘comes \e : But, like a rock-fung echo tn the atr, ‘The shot rebounded, no impression making. ‘Then roared a broadside; though directed well, On, like a ee moved a shape defanty, ‘The tempest of our pounding shot and 6! harmless nothing, thickly fell the sounding armor of the ed, still onward through the storm tt broke, With beak alrected at the veseel's center; Through the constant cloud of sulpharons ‘smoke it struck the warrior’s wall of ‘a gatoway for the wavés to cuter” 4 to note the mischief ‘And then, with alls niunderer fapatiouos Gieaving he'sotle ball ool ee fea Swift the ‘swell, ‘With splash, and rush, and guilty rise White sinking cannon rang theisown loud knelle ‘Then cried the traitor, frown his sulphurous cell, “Do you surrender?” Oh, those words were gall How spake car captain to his comrades thent “Wo are springing to the call your brothers gone before, Shouting the battle ery of freedom, And we'll fill the vacant ranks with a million freemen more, Shouting tho battle ery of freedom, We will welcome to our numbers the loyal trae and brave, Bhouting the battle cry of freedom, | words wore chrried home to friends, and on that Dr. Root founded the song. Just try singing— “Oh, wrap the fing around me, boys, wg die were far more sweet And follow where it led, And now my eyes crow dim, my hands Would clasp ite last bright shred. Ob, I had thought to meet you, boys, On many a well-won field When to our starry emblem, 1 trait'rous foe should But now, alas, am denied My dearest earthly prayer, You'll follow and you'll meet the foe, But I shall not be there. And you will open the heart and unlock the lips of the grimmest old veteran living. He will tell you of the terrible battle of the Wil- derness “and how his the ninth, was driven back with heavy loss, but, reforming again. confronted the enemy and bow in that second charge his messmats went down with a bullet through his lungs and only life enough J the flag, boys, and don’t Or mayhap it will be a er or a survivor of South Mountain. Sing to any one of these war-worn Yetcrans one of the pathotic old songs and be will have a reminiscence ready for you. “Just Before tho Battle, Mother.” was one of the songs worn threa. ro inthe north, Lake “Just After the Battle,” the poetry as postry was simply awful. There was a studied effort a certainty of “jingle” that jars horribly, bat these were two great songs of that day. coxto soNaS, All the songs made for the period covering the war were not sad by any means. One of tho notable comic songs, written by Henry C. Work in 1962 and sung on every concert stago in the north, was “Babylon Has Fallen,” and marked the first general participation of the negroes in war: “Don't you see de black cloud risin’ over yon- er, Whar de massa’s ole plantation am? Nebber you be frightened. dem is only darkeys Come to jine and fight for Uncle Sam, Don't you see do lightnin’ fashin’ in de cane rake, 2 Like as if we's gwine to hab a storm? No! you is mistaken, ‘tis de darkeys’ bayonets Aun’ de buttons on dar uniform, Way up in de corn field, whar you hear de tunder, Dat is our ole forty-pounder gun; When de shells is maisela', den we load wid pun- kins, All de same to make de cowards run, Look out dar now, we's gwine to shoot! Look out dar, don’t you understan'? Babylon has fallen, Babylon bas fallen, An’ we's gwine ter occurpy de lan’.” It took Ifke wildfire and was much sung in the south to taunt the “Johnnies,” who hated it most heartily. One of the topical songs of the nor in "63 by Henry Work, “Corporal Schnapps.” It was so full ‘of homely pathos and contained such a graphic picture of the life “down south” that everybody sang it “Mine heart ish broken into little pits, I tells you, friendt, vat for, : Mine schwectheart, von coot patriot kirl, She trives me off mit ter war. I fights for her der pattles mit der flag, Techtrikes 60 prave gs I can. Put now long time afm remembers me, issued 4 Andt eoes mit anotfipr man, I march all tay, no matter if ter schtorm Pe more ash Moses’ flood, T lays ail night mine headt upon a schtumap Andt s-i-n-k-s to’schleep in der mudt, They kivos me hart pread, toughest a rock, It almost preaks mine shaw, Ischplits him sometimes mit an iron wedge Andt cuts him oop mit a saw. They kives me peat s Like Sodom wife, you some? Teurely dinks dey put him in der prine Von hundred years acoe.” THE VACANT cam, Everybody who can remember anything about the war wil! recall the desolate Thanks- siving of 1861, Thirteen stars in the Union blue had been dimmed by treason and seces- sion. The federal troops had met with repulse and disaster in every directién, The south was acting under its new government and the breach was growing wider each day, while all the strength and manhood of the north was rushing to dam the tide of disloyalty and disunion, Then was born a song worthy of the time and topic, It was not sectional and was sung in southern homes as well as north- ern, Dr. Root composed and dedicated it to the homes made desolate by the war, and it Ww: ung at @ great Thanksgiving demonstra- tion in New York on that day: “We shall meet, but we shall miss him, ‘There will be one vacant chair; We shail linger to caress him, And although they may be poor, nota man all be a slave, Shouting the battle cry of freedom, So we're springing to the call from the eastand from the west, Shouting the battle cry of freedom, And we'll huri the rebel crew from the land we love the best, Shouting the battle ery of freedom,” caused a frenzied demonstration of patriotism that was allicd to insanity and utterly inde- ribable. The flowing rhythm of the melody was catching, and before the third verse was sung the words of the chorus wero written in ery heart there present, and a great volume of rich melody went up from the throats of the multitude, as all joined in singing the grand rallying chorus, The cong was from thut mo- ment enshrined in the heartof every man, woman apd child in the north. ‘fhe marching columns carried it south and it became the one great song of the northern armies, “Jobn Brown” only disputing its supremacy. Of this nondescript fatherless song Mr. RE. Dana, jr., once wrote: ‘It would have been belief had we been told that the almost undistinguishable name of John Brown should bo whispered among four million of slaves and sung wherever the English !anguage is spoken and incorporated into an anther to whose solemn cadences men would march to battle by tens of thousands.” It is to be regretted that so few of the better class of verse writers devoted their talent to the production of the songs of the war perio3. Butypoor as tho pootry usually was, if it had but'a line or two which touched a responsive chord in aching hearts it became popular at once, and tho airs being simpic were easily learned. Very soon everybody in the noi who was not too busy reading, writing or ask- ing questions about the war, was singing about {¢ (or playing variations on ‘the popular melo- ies, which even the bootblacks in the streets wero whistling. ‘TOO BUSY TO SIXG. ‘The war songs sung in the north were legion. Those that penetrated to the south were very fewand not many of those wore generally eung. The men close to the enemy's guns re too busy dodging bullets and returning guerrilla fire to attend “singing school.” The high falsetto of reb& minie balls as they came screeching through the air was much more familiar to them than the “Star Spangled Banner” or “America,” though they in time learned those, too, It was in the north that most of the songs were “made.” The cities became vast recruit- ing stations, where congregated the gallant boys of all ages and from every section of the . Mighty mass Sightiy to dlocom the great peebt war and to arouse the spirit of in the hearts of the people. Gleo clubs, brass bands and drum corps vied with each other in entertaining the loyal audiences, and the effect that these songs had wero Pract vity of life, Company cothpany, regi- Ghent after regiment’ was formed, sad ca’ the brave boys marched away the new-born songs greeted them on e Tuneful tongues and retentive minds carried these songs south. And how the “old” boys love to hear them today. “They hear the bugle pealing forth its brazen Seeceme Sem Like mocking echoes with the songs they ‘The fire ie burning low, the sentry Jonely All these he seems to see as he listens to those While we breathe our evening pray’, At our fireside, ead and lonely, Often will the bosom swell At remembrance of the stor How our noble Willie fell, How he strove to bear our banner In tho thickest of the fight And uphold our country’s honor In the strength of manhood’s might True, they tell us wreaths of glory Ever more will deck his brow, But this only soothes the anguish Sweeping o'er our heartstrings now, Bleep today. O early falien, In thy green and narrow bed, Dirges from the pine aud cypross Biingle with the tears we shed.” THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND MORE, Then on July 1, 1862, came the call for 00,000 more men! Hearts that beat hich with hope that tho war was about to end almost broke under that stunning blow. Again the song writer was equal to the occasion, and if the measure was mixed and the poetic fect sprouted corns and bunions inan effort “to | An, get thoro” there was nothing the matter with the feet that measured its music into marching time. Right bravely the boys tramped away, and loyally they sung. Wo are coming, Father Abraham, three hun- dred thousand more, From Mississippi's winding stream and from rhyme that was painful in its precision and | How are conscript? How are you today? You'll give us all lock of sour balr Before you go away. . bi . conscript? How are you my boy? Since you're your mother's joy. How are you, conscript? How are you today? Rave you got three handred in greembecks ‘To pony up and pay?” In 1869, thinking thet the war was about over, and looking to the end, the whole north was singing: “Wher Johnnie comes marching home again, Harrah, hurrah’ We'll give him a hearty weleome then, Hurrah, hurrah! The men will cheer, the boys will show, The ladies they will all tarn out, And we'll ail feel gay when Johnny comes marching home” “When This Cruel War is Over” wase mush fung song both north and south, and was pa» ticularly fruitful in parodies, “Heavily falls the rain, Wild are the breeses: and tho chorus, 0 bors are they, Gone at their country’s call, *And y d vet, we cannot forget, prave boys must fall was one of tho best songs of the period and one of the best sung since the war, One of the grand old favorites written in 1864 has been growing in favor with the years, i haifa hundred griazied old veterans will sing it all night, alternating with ‘Marching Through Georgia,” if you'll give them haife ehorus ‘We've been tenting tonight On the old camp ground, Many are dead and gone, Of the brave and the true Who've loft their homes Others been wound long.” “Many are the hearts that are weary tonight, Waitiag for the war to cease; Many are the hearts looking for the night To see tho dawn of peace,” MARCHING THROVOM @FORGTA. The song of all songs, however. to the vet eran soldier is “Marching Through Georgia,” the production of Henry C, Work, in 1865. Age cannot wither nor custom stale the infinite va- riety of ways in which this song is served up, from the newsboy on the street to the tenore robusto who sings campaign songs, and from Gilmore's band to Dago organ the gamut of human and artificial instrumentalities is run with varying success, Since Sherman was “mustered out” the “boys” have taken a mel- ancholy delight in singing: “Dring the good old bugle, boys, We'll have another song; Bing it with the spirit ‘That will start the world alomgy Bing it as wo used to sing it, Fitty thousand strong, While we were marching through Georgia, How the darkies shouted hen they heard the foytul sound, How the turkeys gobbled Which our commissary Tlow the sweet potatoes Even started from the ground While we were marching through Georgia, ‘Sherman's dashing Yankee boys Will never reach the coast,” So the saucy rebels said. It was a handsome Mea shay net tergetion, shat To reckon with their host, While we wero marching through Georgia, to the maing Treason fied before us, The old general hated the song with aholy horror. And in Boston, where the 250 bands and over a hundred drum and fife corps passed him in the reviewing stand where he stood for seven mortal hours listeuing to the never-end- ing din, the tail end of the tune played by the last band fairly dove-tailing in with the same oldtune played by the next one in line, the general got wild.and swore a great round oath that he never would attend another national encampment until every band in the United States had signed an agreement to not play “Marching Through Georgia” in bis nce. That was his last encampment, ‘When next the-tune wasplayed in his presonce it fell ase dead march tpon unheeding eara. “The mufiied drum's sad roll hed beat ‘The soldicr’s last tattoo,” ——_+e+__ Massachusetts Battle Flags. The following words from the lips of the sturdy war governor of Massachusetts in 1865 welcoming the surviving and returning volun- teers of the state are inscribed in tho Yotunda of the state house of the commonwealth of Massachusctts, where are enshrined the battle flags: “Those banners returned to the government of the commonwealth welcome hands, borne one by one out of this capitol during more than four years of civil war, as eymbols of the nation fo the commonwealth, under which the battalions of Massachusetts departed to the fields. They came back again borne hither by surviving representatives of the same heroic regiments and companies to which they were intrusted. Prond memories of many fields; sweet memories of valor and friendship; sad memories of fraternal strife; tender memo- ties of our fallen brothers and sous whose dying eyes looked lust upon their flaming folds; exult- ant memories of a deliverance wrought out for human nature itself; unexampled by any former achievement of arms; immortal memories with immortal honors blended, twine around the splintered staves, weave themselves among the warp and woof of there familiar flage, war-worm, Fimmed and baptized with blosd.= ‘The tents that whitened Arlington have vanished from the fields, 4 ‘The rushes birds’ song, And bend to the riverside thrill with the ree- New England's shore, We leave our plows and workshops, our wives ‘snd children dear, ‘With hearts too full for utterance, with but a silent tear, If you look acrors the hill tops that meet the northern sky, Long moving lines of rising dust, your vision may descry, And now the wind an instant tears tho cloudy Teil aside, And floats aloft our spangled flag in glory and in pride, If you look all up our valleys where the grow- ing harvests shine, ‘You may see our sturdy farmer boys fast form- ing into line, And children at their mother's knees are pull- ried henry ‘and sow against And learning how to reap sow their country's needa, You've called us and we're coming by Rich- mond’s bloody tide, i To lay us down for freedom's sake, our brothers’ bones beside, R Or from foul treason’s savage gtasp to wrench the murderous blade, And in the face of foreign foes it's fragments to Six hun thousand loyal men and true have we saps Snr Abealicen) these buss jo are, coming, fred thousand more.” ‘When at last the north had been drained of | How its best biood and still the gaping hell of war | oy yawned for more gore to feed its thirst the “draft” or conscripting and pressing into eer- vice was resorted to. Many and ludicrous were the incidents of this method of raising troops, and the crop of comic songs with “drafting” for their theme was unusually iss the ripples as the waters flow along; ‘The rebins stray beneath the oaks, the partridge alia, its Nrood, wd And whisties down the valleys with # confidence renewed. AN thronph the an Seite “pa Fine pits the grass ts nd wuiumn wid-Nowers piutuma | wild-towers blossom where the ‘The days seem like asuniy dream, and night falls gently down . Inslence, ‘broken ‘only by the murmar from the cs But thongh the camps have vanished and the teuts are laid away, An army waits upon the Knolls in undisturbed am A legion without banners, that Knows no music ‘The walling of : vauing of the ead-march and a/volley o'er Here comrates that together strove, with all of life sake, Tio mide by wide, in slumber that Ro bugie-call can No shock can ever break their ranks, no blast their or cums, we one deserter leave the corps their grim Chief amusters in. Gen. 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