The army mule and other war sketches . ment. Donelson and Shiloh and Vicksburg; Nash-ville, and Murfreesboro, and Kenesaw; Win-chester and South Mountain and Antietam;Gettysburg and the Wilderness and Appoma-tox—these and five hundred more. How thedeathless names gild the resplendent folds ofthe proud ensign of liberty! Flag of thecontinent, rivers and seas; flag of a reunitedcountry; flag of the glorious past and of the 89 THE ARMY MULE dimless future; flag of freedom; flag of theworld! Washed in the blood of the brave and the blooming. Snatched from the altars of insolent foes ;Burning with
The army mule and other war sketches . ment. Donelson and Shiloh and Vicksburg; Nash-ville, and Murfreesboro, and Kenesaw; Win-chester and South Mountain and Antietam;Gettysburg and the Wilderness and Appoma-tox—these and five hundred more. How thedeathless names gild the resplendent folds ofthe proud ensign of liberty! Flag of thecontinent, rivers and seas; flag of a reunitedcountry; flag of the glorious past and of the 89 THE ARMY MULE dimless future; flag of freedom; flag of theworld! Washed in the blood of the brave and the blooming. Snatched from the altars of insolent foes ;Burning with star-fires, but never consuming, Flash its broad ribbons of lily and rose. Let us never cease to cherish the remem-brance of the days when we followed it andfought for it. Among the soft, deliciousechoes of those days which float boomingacross the ocean of memory will sometimescome, whether we greet it kindly or coldly, asunny recollection of the seductive wink, thetuneful bray and the electric kick of the ArmyMule. 90 THE SUTLER II. OW the time has arrivedwhen this matter of theSutler should be broughtinto its true status should be dif-ferentiated and embalmedin due longitudinal sec-tions of small pica. It should be finally set-tled whether he was the reincarnation of a sev-enteen-year locust, or only a pansy blossom,with lips all mute like a thinking star inthe back row of a ballet. An excess of in-certitude also prevails as to his rank andhistoric area. This latter at least should bestaked out and cross-sectioned for the annalsthat portray scenes when heroes heels wereon the shore of Maryland, my Maryland; 91 THE SUTLER which annals are expected to go shimmeringdown festive centuries clothed in the peren-nial freshness of St. Shamrocks day in themorning. The Sutler was born, not made. That isto say, his tendencies were ingrained, per-haps hereditary, even in cases where hisselection was nepotic or accidental. Once hewas purer than beautiful snow, it may be, b
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