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.
The he lily, | pansy, violet, to blend
Their pertams, with the tears that, oft
Bede the g he ground ‘neath which our
lo
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