The uplift [serial] . grand music of thebugles. We hear the din of martial hosts,and squadrons galloping in the rush to the onset amid therattle of musketry arid thunders offield artillery. They defy courageand death; they are torn by burstingshells, they are pierced by bulletsand cut with steel; they staggerand fall on the bloody ground; theresolute survivors close in and presson. In the crash of doom the grayline stands, despising hunger andpain and death. Before the number-less battalions they are Vikings inthe hour of despair. They feel thepulsations of the unconquerablehearts t
The uplift [serial] . grand music of thebugles. We hear the din of martial hosts,and squadrons galloping in the rush to the onset amid therattle of musketry arid thunders offield artillery. They defy courageand death; they are torn by burstingshells, they are pierced by bulletsand cut with steel; they staggerand fall on the bloody ground; theresolute survivors close in and presson. In the crash of doom the grayline stands, despising hunger andpain and death. Before the number-less battalions they are Vikings inthe hour of despair. They feel thepulsations of the unconquerablehearts that beat at home. At homealone, the wives and mothers, theseWomen of the Confederacy, inpatience and suffering, are listening eracy. for the corning of those who willnever return—will never return, butmarch on forever in the militanthosts of the heroic of all kindredand nations, that have redeemed andglorified the world. We dedicate this monument as asymbol of our veneration. We ded-icate this monument as a covenant. HON. CHAS. A. WEBB The head of the company of gentleman,who purchased from Mr. Hilderbrand theproperty of the Asheville Hilderbrand will devote all of histime hereafter to the Greensboro News. that we too, in blessed remembranceof them, shall strive for fidelity andcourage. In unfaltering obedience Abrahamwould have sacrificed Isaac. Forthis, the Angel of the Lord calledunto Abraham out of Heaven andsaid, By myself have I sworn saiththe Lord, for because thou hast donethis thing, and hath not withheld thyson, thine only son, that in blessingI will bless thee, and in multiplyingI will multiply thy seed as the starsof the heaven, and as the sand whichis upon the seashore; and thy seedshall possess the gate of his enemies;and in thy seed shall all the nationsof the earth be blessed. The Women of the Confederacy,in supreme consecration, did layupon the altar of Dixie their firstborn, the fairest and the bravest inthe world. And because they didthis t
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