Christian herald and signs of our times . had been aNorthern New Testament. And when I satdown and took from a South Carolinian dying June 3, 1891. in a barn at Boonesville his last message to hiswife and mother and child, it sounded just likea message that a Northern man dying far fromhome would send to his wile and mother andchild. And when I picked up from the battle-field of Antietam the fragment of a letter whichI have somewhere the name and the ad-dress were torn off, I saw it was the words of awife to her husband telling him how the littlechild prayed for their father every nigh
Christian herald and signs of our times . had been aNorthern New Testament. And when I satdown and took from a South Carolinian dying June 3, 1891. in a barn at Boonesville his last message to hiswife and mother and child, it sounded just likea message that a Northern man dying far fromhome would send to his wile and mother andchild. And when I picked up from the battle-field of Antietam the fragment of a letter whichI have somewhere the name and the ad-dress were torn off, I saw it was the words of awife to her husband telling him how the littlechild prayed for their father every night thathe might not get hurt in the battle and mightcome home sound and come home well, butthat if anything happened to them they mightall meet again in the world where there areno partings, it read just as a North-ern wife wouldwrite to a hus-band away fromhome and inperil conveyingthe messages oflittle , yes ; theywere honest onboth sides. Andthose who livedto sret home and are living yet zrt^.were just as lion-est, and ought. THE START FOR THE WAR. against anotherIt was thunder-was archangel of they not for thesuffering theyendured have acoronal of somekind ? Yea, there was courage on both sides. Theywho were at the front know that. When thewar opened, the South called the Northern men mudsills and the North called the Southernmen braggarts and pompous nothings,but after a few battles nothing more was saidabout Northern mudsills and Southern braggarts. It was an army of lions againstan army of lions. It was a flock of eaglesmid-sky with iron beakflock of eagles iron-beaked,bolt against thunderbolt. Itwrath against archangel of wrath. It was Hancock against Longstreet. It was Kilpatnckagainst Wade Hampton. It was Slocum againstHill. It was O. O. Howard against Hood. Itwas Sherman against Stonewall Jackson. Itwas Grant against Lee. And the men who wereunder them were just as gallant, and some ofthem are here and I detain the tw o garlandsthat I have twisted for the d
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