The century illustrated monthly magazine . ; itmarched and fought and hungered and thirstedfor four years, hardly ever animated by vic-tory. It showed, in all that it achieved andendured, that it was an admirable instrumentfor the hand that knew how to wield it, but itnever had the good fortune to be commandedby a soldier worthy of it. It fought to the end,it did its work, and gained its crown, but itspath was long and rough and seldom ten thousand Union soldiers who fellin death or wounds before the heights of Fred-ericksburg, and the seventeen thousand lost atChancellorsville, we
The century illustrated monthly magazine . ; itmarched and fought and hungered and thirstedfor four years, hardly ever animated by vic-tory. It showed, in all that it achieved andendured, that it was an admirable instrumentfor the hand that knew how to wield it, but itnever had the good fortune to be commandedby a soldier worthy of it. It fought to the end,it did its work, and gained its crown, but itspath was long and rough and seldom ten thousand Union soldiers who fellin death or wounds before the heights of Fred-ericksburg, and the seventeen thousand lost atChancellorsville, were the equals in braveryof any soldiers in the annals of warfare; sowere the twenty-odd thousand who bathedGettysburgs ridge with blood, or the fourscorethousands carried from the fields of Virginiawhen Grant was in command. The leaderswho guided the operations of our army upon somany disastrous fields will, alone, bear criticismor comparison, and in the calmness of thefuture will be called to judgment. Charles A. Patch, U. S. ?<2L GOING INTO ACTION UNDER FIRE. (FROM A WAR-TIME SKETCH.) TOPICS OF THE TIME, George Washington and Memorial Day. THE intrusion of a mass of new Washington mate-rial into a number of The Century intended to bein especial keeping with the sentiment of Decoration, orMemorial, Day, is surely not an inappropriate or unwel-come intrusion. In bringing out, just a year after theCentennial of Washingtons inauguration, these relicsof the first President, it is well to recall once more thesalutary fact that the first soldier of the New Worldremains also its first citizen. As a soldier, it is easy now to see that his great-ness consisted largely in the way he received dis-aster. He proved his nobility in rising above defeat,in wrenching success from failure; in keeping an im-movable front against reverse, detraction, and infamousabuse. His life was one long struggle; not, as to asuperficial view it might seem, a series of mere fortu-nate successes
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