. The battle of Atlanta and other campaigns, addresses, etc. . ohn Tilsons tribute are most appropriate: Ho! comrades of the brave old band, we gather here once more,With smiling eye and clasping hand, to fight our battles quaff from out the brimming cup of old-time bright relight the pathway of our old myriad sparks of wars romance our meetings warm inspire;The heady fight, the anxious march, the jolly bivotiac fire ;The days of doubt, of hojie. of care, of danger, and of glee ;Oh, what a world of racy thought illumines Tennessee I Our roster thins; as years pas
. The battle of Atlanta and other campaigns, addresses, etc. . ohn Tilsons tribute are most appropriate: Ho! comrades of the brave old band, we gather here once more,With smiling eye and clasping hand, to fight our battles quaff from out the brimming cup of old-time bright relight the pathway of our old myriad sparks of wars romance our meetings warm inspire;The heady fight, the anxious march, the jolly bivotiac fire ;The days of doubt, of hojie. of care, of danger, and of glee ;Oh, what a world of racy thought illumines Tennessee I Our roster thins; as years pass on we drop oft one by one :Ere long, too soon, to yearly call, there will be answer—none ;Then as along the record page these mourning columns creep,The whisper comes to closer still our living friendships thought we forward cast to that not distant left of all our gallant band will be one veteran heres to him who meets alone—wherever he may last, the lone survivor of the grand old Tennessee. <!;■ :■. <;;. §3e. ©M^-;;- : ■?§ <^ mgcO ^<U CO . S<o.;i . ? c gcc S^^c S . 3 — ^tix::^^ r-i = ^oT^^C fa c ~ I > :S I. — THE CAMPAIGN IN THE WEST Address to the Army of the South-West AT National Encampment, G. A. R. Washington, D. C. October, 1902 My eomiection with tlic Tnitcd States forces west of the Mis-sissippi Eiver eoiiniieiued at tlie l)euinninii- of tlie war. when I tookmy Eegiment, tlie Fourth Iowa, to St. Tx)uis, and fell under thecommand of Frciuoiit. 1 took part in the campaigns of thatDeparTmcnt until after the Battle of Pea Eidge, when I left thecomimand and went to the Aiiny of the Tennessee. After the At-lanta campaign, in Xovemher, 1804, I returned to Missouri ascommander of that Department and Army. Of the transactions of the troojis south of Missouri I havevery little knowledge; hut I know that the troop
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