American adventures : a second trip "Abroad at home" . n carries at its summit a great bronze efiigy of*01d Abe, the famous eagle, mascot of the Wisconsintroops. Guides to the battlefield are prone to relateto visitors—especially, I suspect, those whose accentsbetray a Northern origin—how Old Abe, the bird ofbattle, went home and disgraced himself, after the war,by his ungentlemanly action in laying a setting of eggs. The handsomest monument to an individual which Isaw upon the battlefield was the admirable bronze bustof ^lajor General Martin L. Smith, C. S. A., and theone which appealed most
American adventures : a second trip "Abroad at home" . n carries at its summit a great bronze efiigy of*01d Abe, the famous eagle, mascot of the Wisconsintroops. Guides to the battlefield are prone to relateto visitors—especially, I suspect, those whose accentsbetray a Northern origin—how Old Abe, the bird ofbattle, went home and disgraced himself, after the war,by his ungentlemanly action in laying a setting of eggs. The handsomest monument to an individual which Isaw upon the battlefield was the admirable bronze bustof ^lajor General Martin L. Smith, C. S. A., and theone which appealed most to my imagination was alsoa memorial to a Confederate soldier: Brigadier-General States Rights Gist. Is there not something Ro-man in the thought that, thirty or more years be-fore the war, a southern father gave his new-born sonthat name, dedicating him, as it were, to the cause ofStates Rights, and that the son so dedicated gave his 492 o P l=t3o ^3^ r+ <\l tr t/l fD rn O Crq Xi P O o P < PCU O i-t ^r-^ Cfi cro r r+ ir- TO fT o d a^ m ti-. VICKSBURG OLD AND NEW life in battle for that cause ? The name upon that stonemade me better understand the depth of feeling thatexisted in the South long years before the War, andgave me a clearer comprehension of at least one reasonwhy the South made such a gallant fight. Of more than fourscore national cemeteries in theUnited States, that which stands among the hills andtrees, overlooking the river, at the northerly end of themilitary park, is one of the most beautiful, and is, withthe single exception of Arlington, the largest. It con-tains the graves of nearly 17,000 Union soldiers lost inthis campaign—three-fourths of them unknown ! It is interesting to note that, because the surrenderof Pemberton to Grant occurred on July 4, that datehas, in this region, associations less happy than attachto it elsewhere, and that the Fourth has not been cele-brated in Vicksburg since the Civil War, except by thenegroes, who have taken it
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