And why does my sleeve hang empty? And so you are asking to know Of the cloud that bent down With its blackening frown our Nation, so little ago. And why does my sleeve hand empty? And why, when I fold you so tight Have 1 { nl ¥y one arm That shall st jeld you from harm? Ome was laid on the altar of Right. hat “My means, | Country” f ither’ 8 country and yours. life thi kens, lures, what it means to be free, | wonor those ced ones v whose of God free, in the blo sacriii a8 CO sod t the a fas pl — Xou have learned to be glad in the colors nd swell, with your gay little shout he song dead stones Would cr ry out, shoul Wake not, when the flag fl The time is so little And the valleys grew gad the grape : orgot hardship For joy in i’ ARO, sweet with corn, and the and pa vy, new-born. grain God But a spirit awoke in the air, Lad, And shadowed the light of the bars, And threatened to tear From their regal pla @ there On the blue of our banner—the stars. 1d The story grows old Of the voice that That the brave, ff e ach son of Be pled in the telling, went ringing afar loyal hand the land iged for the life of a star. And son Lad, Leaped up the tread wething, deep down in the breast, at the voice of that call, f a host as marched to their post ae heroes, to cong wuer or fall, Rose, And War rode Through th fair. his terrible charger we vaileys that love had made ut God, i 1 His might »d for right Crush the spirit we in the air. The story Jut--the stars ar The' the myriad graves Where the summer grass waves Are voices to answer us why, tell, dear, ¢ still shining on high. is sad to So I know what “the Union” cost, Lad,, And the flag that no spirit can grieve; And when it shakes ou And I hear your gl I thank God for the ¢ By Carl IT ocer, Federal gener- ore the second day's NecoRsar- als the night bet battle of Gett) fly a frantic the unkn ening ridges and hillsides of that became sngion of scanning itside, on the length- between the abrupt intricate battle field, | ents of the two hos- ominous and fires. OWI. golem At times voice of a sentry rawn out clatter stone pavement tile armies, There were could be heard chall if ngir IE, Or th of a horseman of the The found still liste vision of misfortune ening the tected North front a general ness was ranked ture in his ground that as dim, and the thing point, few camp the comets night passed, the cautious ning to the ry and daybreak General Meade of his di- to their reports commanders stories and plang for strength- line of battle ‘he unpro- in Sas resourceful- and who To pic. nind's eo the battle now obscured and what would be at the given lay at his back; whose n able aom as a n to [oregon wanted there, the moment, on the | Morrow, was well nigh insuper- | able task of the Northern general, The unexpected was certain to bes fall both officers and men, and they must be ready to perform miracles if need be. An instance of this kind was the fight of the Twentieth Maine on Little Round Top, in memory of which the colonel of the regiment, ! Joshua L. Chamberlain, for his great tenacity and his daring heroism, re- celved the Medal of Honor. Little Round Top had escaped the vigilance of the Federal commanders. This was the smaller of two rough hills, strewn with boulders and bare, glippery rock, rising sharply from a wooded swamp, behind which stretched the Confederate battle line. At the foot of Little Round Top a body of Union troops had been posted. Only One Man For Defense, it was now afternoon. Lee's at- tack was expected momentarily, and every man was waiting intently, with his eyes fixed upon the open space that separated the tws aimies, Just at this time, by a fortunate chance, it occurred to General Meade to order Qeneral Warren to ride over the fleld in the direction of the Round Tops. Warren did so, and when he came to the foot of Little Round Top he left dis horse and climbed to the summit, at given the ‘What was his surprise to find at this soldier, an officer of the signal corps He no looked about him that it became in- stantly clear to him that the top of this hill, and which had been abandoned for a signal station, was in reality the key the whole position. His astonish- ment gave place to consternation. With his glass he noted a thickly wooded ridge beyond the swamp: there, he surmised, the enemy was forming his lines, upon the Union troops at where in the screening point only one already to suddenly the base, SA SR JR PAN A with a penciled word to ‘Send Gener al Warren at least a division to hold the position at Little Round Top.” On the summit where the signal officer was the musket balls were be- ginning to fly. He folded up his flags and was going to leave; but at this moment Warren came back, and induced him to keep the flags wav- ing. “It may puzzle those people,” he said, meaning the enemy, may keep them back for a few min- utes.” So the two men waltéd, watch- ing the puffs of smoke that appeared at different distances. A thick cloud showed where the action was already raging at the Peach Orchard; in hot haste the battle was spreading all along the fleld; cannonade and mus- ketry crashed and rattled at right, left and centre of the long battle lines. A movement of the mass of infantry which Warren had detected on the wooded ridge was plainly visi. ble. sending him an army corps! The moments of suspense came suddenly to an end with the arrival of Hazlett's battery of rifled cannon of the Fifth Artillery. The young lleutenant spoke, er ral, what's the matter?" “The deuce is to pay! “Gen. gor was the re- — he held was of great {importance In the battle, Retreat might mean the destruction of an entire corps, was almost certain would be sent him sooner or later. He was resolved never to yield. Yet half the regiment were gone; hardly more than skirmish line was left him. The soldiers, having fired the sixty rounds cartridges they had carried into the fight, were emp- tying the cartridge boxes of thelr fallen comrades. few minutes longer and not would be left alive, “Colonel, let us will drive them off the hi a lieutenant in a hoarse of A a man charge them! We 11!" shouted voice, Last Hope of the Defenders Chamberlain glanced at him in ad- miration. This was the heroic spirit of his men, Yes, why not charge them? he thought. Suddenly, unexpectedly even to himself, he gave the order: “Fix bayonets!” The command, “Charge!” was lost in the deep, long drawn shout of the desperate men; they leaped forward and rushed down the hill. Striking the enemy among the scattered trees on the outskirt of the wood, they WHEN McKINLEY SERV Bronze Tablet to McKinley E ty-third Ohio Volunteers Gave ED COFFEE IN BATTLE. rected at Washington, D. C. Steaming Drinks and Hardtack ply. “1 hope you can old out until the Infantry come up.’ Stayed Until He Was Killed, “I guess | can,” answered Lieuten. ant Hazlett. As a matter of fact, he stayed there until he was killed. The passage of the sit guns roadless woods and up among jutting boulders of the height marvelous; nothing but the eagerness of the th tion, to gethe skilful drivis those cannon on Little R ae was r with their IE have ry summit of und Top. . infantry the 3 3111 it top the far behind ing not regiments clos were the Fifteenth Alabama side: and of the Twentieth Maine, olonel Cha lamberiain, ware and Confe army, nded by C enth the Union comma doerate the wi about three hundred men. This little force had no sooner | reached the portion of the hillside | assigned to them, where they stood | panting from their exertions, i they saw a dense mass of Confeder- { ates coming toward them; for the two strong Confederate regiments, { containing a thousand men, had been ordered to turn the Union flank at ex- { actly that position. fiash the grave peril Sumbe! ring only closed In and the buy Of the ates some fought until they killed; more, how- ever, acted as If thrown into a panic by the wild charge, and they ran for ibtedly they sup- their lives Undo posed that a strong re-enforcement had reached the Union line, and that this had caused the sudden attack The Maine cap- tured hundred pris and returned with them ¢ old posi tion, where they st in the last hours of that t« summer's { afternoon victorious little come i mand wa irust int the struggle for the adi g hill, Round Top. Concerning their leader in this ex- j plot, it may be added that, besides Honor at Get- { receiving the Medal of |tysburg, he was afterward p romoted iin the fled by General Grant; and he so distinguished himself as a briga- {dier that ho was brevetted a major "for conspicuous gal- general in 15865, lantry in action.” After the war he led, and is still leading, a highly im- portant public career in his native State of Maine. then their guns. upon utt ts of with bayonets Confeder Were n¢ brave three regiment BOLErs, 0 the ayed until reihia oO formed a line woods nothing could be known of the movements of the enemy until the Confederates were upon them, To verify this strong suspicion, General Warren made his way as rapidly as possible to a battery at the foot of the hill, “Captain,” he said, "fire a shot into those woods." The Captain of the rifie battery did so, and as the shot, whistling, passed over the wood, it must have caused everyone of the concealed Rebels to look in the direction of the sound; for a simultansous flash of musket barrel and bayonet revealed to the Northern general the presence of a long line of the enemy far out- flanking the position of the Union troops. The fact thrilled him; it was almost appalling. A strong force should have been intrenched long ago high up on this hill; perhaps even now if was not too late. He rushed of a to Genersl Meado rest. At this instant the Alabamians attacked them on front and flank, opening with a murderous fire. Colonel Chamberlain with drawn sword moved up and down his lines. The Rebel bullets whizzed incessantly past him: his men were constantly groaning and falling on every side. Outnumbered more than three to one, their position was terrible, and it was apparently a hopeless one, Yet with dripping faces the men loaded and fired their muskets, displaying the cool expertness of true veterans. Smoke walled them in and to some extent concealed from the enemy the terrible execution they were making upon their thin, gaping battle front, However, their Colonel never thought of retreating. In the dense smoke, the deafening and confusing volleys, in the faces of the rapidly ap- proaching annihilation of his com. mand, Colonel Chamberlain thought only of one thing, that the position Our Patriot Dead. Bring ye sweet flowers to deck their lowly graves, And, fighting, fell in freedom's cause, at we Should Jaoid it sacred, while the old flag Ros ng lilies. They diede may The living ee that still a strong heart craves, "Twas for you and me friend, inown or unknown, we hold thy mem. 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B Letters to of the STYLE. daily life of his Texas Brigade days of Civil Polle A Soldier's Charming Nellie, gives musing incidents which monotony of camp life. There is a member of my com pany he writes, whom I shall call Jack, lest by revealing his identity the tale 1 relate should cling to him longer and cioser than did his overccat, Looking more to his own comfort sense of the fitness of things » uniformity of dress and con- uently soldierly appearance, Jack the munificent the Confederate States gov. to furnish him a gray and military overcoat for five dol. lars on eredit, and expended twenty. five I the purchase of one of a qual- r and fashion to commend itself to ost fastidious aristocrat. » first night out from Dumfries weather was ro intensely cold hat he decided not to remove any of iz garments, and so, TH pair of blankets, THE the ¥,. in *' some relieved the & “ nfully rejected of offer erpmen strictly fina close to a huge lo uiled by the genial war ound asleep bout midnight senee of Bob Murray's smell was offende * scent of burning cloth. He had to discover that as Jack nearer had sad to look burned lower and lower dged his back nearer and and at last a stray coal hited a flame that was playing avoc with his blanket and Roused by Bob's shouts, Jack did some rapid hustling round, but alas! foo late to preserve the anatomy, the syinmetrical toul ensemble, of the cherished garment, and prevent its transformation from an elegant {rock intoa nondescript, altogether too open at the back to be comfortable, and with two pointed tails hanging | front instead of in the rear: in short, in two sections, whose only bond of union was the velvet collar. The next morning the crestfallen | owner sought to repair the damage | by sewing the burned edges together: but that herole remedy, although it | reduced the tails to one, and that pointing in the right direction, ren. | dered it impossible to button up the | front, and kept him so busy during the day answering questions that, he declared, when night came he was too hoarse to talk. once fire coat pristine, in Spelling Out Numerals, An amusing instance of typograph. {eal blundering occurred lately in a well-known newspaper. A paragraph read as follows: “Some time ago a fiat in a not unfashionable quarter of the city was let unfurnished to 10 ants, who offered and paid a month's rent in advance.” The explanation of this slip is almost as amusing as the misprint itself. 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