. Addresses and reviews .. . its name upon the brazen shield ofFame. The Army of Northern Virginia, led as itsvalor deserved to be led, showed that resolution whichcan accomplish the all but impossible. The Army ofthe Potomac, held in the leash by blunders whichbowed its head in shame, but which it could notrepair, illustrated that fidelity which always shoneforth from disaster with a refulgence which even avictory scarce could lend it. Every virtue whichcrowns the brow of the soldier was typified in theranks of either army. The ability of the conquerorto-day elicits our admiration; the errors
. Addresses and reviews .. . its name upon the brazen shield ofFame. The Army of Northern Virginia, led as itsvalor deserved to be led, showed that resolution whichcan accomplish the all but impossible. The Army ofthe Potomac, held in the leash by blunders whichbowed its head in shame, but which it could notrepair, illustrated that fidelity which always shoneforth from disaster with a refulgence which even avictory scarce could lend it. Every virtue whichcrowns the brow of the soldier was typified in theranks of either army. The ability of the conquerorto-day elicits our admiration; the errors of the con-quered leader have long since been forgiven. Wehold the laurel wreath above the heads of those whofought here and still live; we lay it tenderly uponthe scraves of those from whose devotion to either 122 ADDRESSES AND REVIEWS. cause has sprung that brotherly respect and lovewhich best insures the perpetuity of the to their ashes! Peace to that nobler part,which dieth not! A ROMANCE Fort Leavenworth, Kas., November 20, Dear Colonel :— After having given several days consideration toA Romance of Chancellorsville, which you were kind enough to send mefor publication in the Cavalry Journal, I am compelled, very much to myregret, to return it to you, as, in my opinion, vmsuited to the pages of theJournal. Although I sei-ved through the campaign of 1863, from the battle of Bev-erly Ford until the end of the year, I never made the personal acquaint-ance of Greueral Pleasonton, nor have I ever met him since the close of thewar; but my regard for the man who commanded the Cavalry Corps in themost trying and successful cavalry campaign of modem times, who selectedthe ground on which to fight the battle of Gettysburg, and made the victorygained there possible; who made as energetic a pursuit afterwards as hissuperiors would permit him to make, is too high to admit of my assisting inpublishing an article of so personal a nature, to his
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