. A California tramp and later footprints; or, Life on the plains and in the Golden state thirty years ago, with miscellaneous sketches in prose and verse ... Illustrated with thirty-nine wood and photo-engravings. Overland journeys to the Pacific; Agriculture. ket©f^e§ ir^ ^PO§e f?o€>erf J^ S FAR as the writer can learn, this young soldier was the only native of Bucks County who lost his ^^ ^^^ life in the battle of Gettysburg. This, irrespective ^considerations of kin and friendship, makes his short career entitled to record; and there are other reasons for writing this. Tho
. A California tramp and later footprints; or, Life on the plains and in the Golden state thirty years ago, with miscellaneous sketches in prose and verse ... Illustrated with thirty-nine wood and photo-engravings. Overland journeys to the Pacific; Agriculture. ket©f^e§ ir^ ^PO§e f?o€>erf J^ S FAR as the writer can learn, this young soldier was the only native of Bucks County who lost his ^^ ^^^ life in the battle of Gettysburg. This, irrespective ^considerations of kin and friendship, makes his short career entitled to record; and there are other reasons for writing this. Thousands of the voters of to-day were born since the war. They know nothing of this terrible time, save as they hear of it through the survivors of the struggle. They who were opposed to the war, and those seekers for office who are anxious to keep from their number such claimants for popular favor as men who had saved their country from ruin, are telling these young men that the war being over, the issues that brought it on are dead, and recollections of the animosities of the strife should be buried with it. This involves the forgetfulness of the participants in that strife. The survivors of these are getting fewer and fewer. Their deeds should not be hidden by plausible platitudes. Three hundred thousand of their comrades Avent down to death, without hope of reward, that we might have a united country. Typical of these was Robert Kenderdine. He was born in 1841. In his school days, as well as after- ward, he was a diligent student and reader. Before the age of nineteen he was a writer of verses and descriptive prose, and a participant in those debates which of old were common at the cross-roads school houses, and in which, for his age and (317). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Kenderdin
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