. History of the Fifty-third regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, during the war of the rebellion, 1861 to 1865. Together with more than thirty personal sketches of officers and men . within the province of all to becomenurses or officers of the various auxiliary societies having theirbirth during the war period. Yet, in thousands of the humblehomes of America there presided over the destiny of those homesmotherhood just as devoted, loyal and patriotic as that of any ofthose whose names are blazoned upon the pages of history. Adevoted and loving mother, fresh from the altar of prayer bedewedby a
. History of the Fifty-third regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, during the war of the rebellion, 1861 to 1865. Together with more than thirty personal sketches of officers and men . within the province of all to becomenurses or officers of the various auxiliary societies having theirbirth during the war period. Yet, in thousands of the humblehomes of America there presided over the destiny of those homesmotherhood just as devoted, loyal and patriotic as that of any ofthose whose names are blazoned upon the pages of history. Adevoted and loving mother, fresh from the altar of prayer bedewedby a mothers tears, who attaches her signature, giving consent forher only son, and he a minor, to go forth to battle in defense ofcountry and flag, is a noble example, calculated to excite to greaterdeed of heroism and patriotism, and needs no encomiums from theonly surviving member of her family. A widowed mother whobade good-bye to her boy and saw him leave home for the field ofcarnage where sickness, terrible wounds, and horrible death werealmost a certainty, sacrificed in that one act all but life—for sherelinquished, as she expressed it, her only hope, save life SOLDIERS MOMMtNT-Referred to on Paije 302. 53rd OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. 303 The memory of such a woman should be written lii^rh npon thescroll of a Nations fame as a guiding star of the hopes of the Re-public, and an inspiration to devotion and consecrated Americanhomes. As that devoted mother stood upon the porch bcneatli theold roof-tree, where she had spent her all-too-l)ricf married andwidowed life, her right hand tightly grasping my own, iicr kftarm entwined about my neck, with tears coursing down her fur-rowed cheek, she gave the prayerful, and, as she feared, the finalfarewell in the following words : My boy, my only boy ; go, ifyou must at your countrys call ; but at all times, under all circum-stances, remember mother and sisters are at home praving for vouand the success of the cause for which yo
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