United States Congressional Serial Set Volume 7262 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... he is to rest, his own work his halo. We can not, as we ought not, to forget you old veterans, nor your comrades who sleep in our soil. Heroes all, we hail you. With your blood you wrote the epic of your manhood and no true man would now obliterate one word. Indelible is your record, and the climb of the centuries will but brighten your deeds. Never can we become so ungrateful as to forget how in your youth the South stripped herself to very nakedness, gave exhaustingly her last resources, gave the lives of her dearest and her best, gave all save honor. In these precious gifts we find the invulnerable, the unassailable, the inexpugnable proofs of your sincere patriotism, of the honesty of your convictions, of your ingenuous purpose. Unabashed in the light of the glory of the courage and success and sacrifice of her sons and daughters the South canlook the world in the face and hear her record read. You and your comrades were never cursed with that infirmity of mind, that utter lack of chivalry to the man you fought, that inability To honor while you struck him down The foe that came with fearless eyes. Not in the least do you abate your admiration and respect for the firm courage, the tenacious purpose, the heroic resistance of the men who made so bloody your three days work at Manassas, nor for those at Chancellorsville, who even when surprised, so manfully struck back. You rightly give hearty praise to the men at Gettysburg, whom even you, flushed with a success almost unbelievable, could not drive from Culps Hill, Cemetery Ridge, and Little Round Top. We must give honor to the men who made your fight so hard, your many victories ultimately so unavailing; and we do give it readily and without reserve. All the glory, all the benefit of...