. The battle of Atlanta and other campaigns, addresses, verses of General John Tilsons tribute are most api)ropriate: Ho I 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 bivouac fire;The days of doubt, of hope, of care, of danger, and of glee:Oh, what a world of racy thought illumines Tennessee! Our roster thin
. The battle of Atlanta and other campaigns, addresses, verses of General John Tilsons tribute are most api)ropriate: Ho I 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 bivouac fire;The days of doubt, of hope, of care, of danger, and of glee:Oh, what a world of racy thought illumines Tennessee! Our roster thins ; as years pass on we drop off one by one ;Ere long, too soon, to yearly call, there will be answer—none;Then as along the record page these mourning columns whisper comes to closer still our living friendships thought we forward cast to that not distant day,When left of all our gallant band will be one veteran gray,And heres to him who meets alone—wherever he may last, the lone survivor of the grand old Tennessee. 2<^. 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 connection with the United States forces west of the Mis-sissippi River commenced at the beginning of the war, when I tookmy Regiment, the Fonrth Iowa, to St. Louis, and fell under thecommand of Fremont. I took part in the campaigns of thatDepartment until after the Battle of Pea Ridge, when I left thecommand and went to the Army of the Tennessee. After the At-lanta campaign, in Xovember, 1864, I returned to Missouri ascommander of that Department and Army. Of the transactions of the troops south of Missouri I havevery little knowledge; but I know that the troops which servedwest of the Mississippi never had credit for the amount of work,liardships and exposures they endured. Owing to the fact of therehaving been fought there but two great battles, Wilsons Creek andPea Ridge, and two minor ones,
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