. Cullings from the confederacy. A collection of southern poems, original and others, popular during the war between the states, and incidents and facts worth recalling. 1862-1866. Including the doggerel of the camp, as well as tender tribute to the dead . ers of the Federal Army, we have one great class ofheroes—the soldier boys who laid down their lives for whatthey each felt to be a sacred cause. There are the graves ofthese men in every cemetery in the land, and to-day they willbe strewn with flowers and covered with the flag of the unitednation, animosities dead, feuds forgotten, but one
. Cullings from the confederacy. A collection of southern poems, original and others, popular during the war between the states, and incidents and facts worth recalling. 1862-1866. Including the doggerel of the camp, as well as tender tribute to the dead . ers of the Federal Army, we have one great class ofheroes—the soldier boys who laid down their lives for whatthey each felt to be a sacred cause. There are the graves ofthese men in every cemetery in the land, and to-day they willbe strewn with flowers and covered with the flag of the unitednation, animosities dead, feuds forgotten, but one sentimentparamount in the breasts of the loyal people who garnish them—honor to the heroic dead. Suggested by the this in mind it is especially pleasant to know that theidea of Memorial Day was unwittingly suggested by the devo-tion of the people of the South to their heroes. In the earlyspring of 1868 I was one of a party, the other members ofwhich were Col. Charles L. Wilson, of Chicago; Miss AnnaWilson, afterward Mrs. Horatio May, and Miss Lena Farrar, ofFtoston, afterward the wife of Colonel Wilson, to make a pil-grimage to the battlefields of Virginia. General Logan hadlong been anxious to make a personal inspection of this sec-. CULLINGS FROM THE CONFEDERACY. 159 tion of the country, over which the great conflict raged, in or-der to enlarge his knowledge of the entire course of the war,his own part in the actions having been in the West, with theArmy of the Tennessee. Unfortunately, however, circum-stances prevented his accompanying me, and he did not seewith his own eyes what really prompted the first DecorationDay. It is my pleasure to revert to it and to pay a just tributeto the gentle people whose acts gave me the inspiration thatresulted in the Decoration Day of to-day. No one who has never made the pilgrimage that was my lotcan conceive of the desolation of that country immediatelyafter the war. The ruin seemed complete. We found it wellnigh impossibl
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