The army mule and other war sketches . heir financial views habitually had thering of two metals; their accomplishmentsmight stop short of the mandolin andtheir scholarship shy at an ablative they reached the goal, on the average,and * Get there Eli! was their practicalrendition of the motto Excelsior. Of seven presidents elected since the closeof the war, six were ex-soldiers. Minnesotapoints with pride to her nine soldier gover-nors. The Veterans quietly gathered in thevoluntary and involuntary honors of their ad-miring countrymen, while the chief functionof their traducers seem
The army mule and other war sketches . heir financial views habitually had thering of two metals; their accomplishmentsmight stop short of the mandolin andtheir scholarship shy at an ablative they reached the goal, on the average,and * Get there Eli! was their practicalrendition of the motto Excelsior. Of seven presidents elected since the closeof the war, six were ex-soldiers. Minnesotapoints with pride to her nine soldier gover-nors. The Veterans quietly gathered in thevoluntary and involuntary honors of their ad-miring countrymen, while the chief functionof their traducers seems to have been to cropthistles, grow ears and bray. The surviving Veterans of the Union armywere neither drones in the busy hive of na-tional development, nor a burden on the be-nevolence of their fellow-citizens. Ninety-five per cent, of them made a success inthe civil battles of life—doing mens parthonorably, industriously, heroically in thework of the world. Only five per cent, werefailures, less than three per cent, ever be- 230. The veterans quietly gathered in the voluntary and involuntaryhonors , , . , One state points ivifh pride to her nine soldier gov-ernors, and of seven presidents elected since the close of the war,six were ex-soldiers (Page 230) THE BOYS IN BLUE GROWN GRAY came wholly dependent on public charity forsupport. An appalling phalanx of apparitions attimes menaced the peace of nervous taxpayersover prospective drafts on their plethoric re-sources. A cat may kick at a king. Mengifted with wind and lungs, men with well-shaved voice and neatly-modulated nose,have proclaimed a shuddering dread of futuredifficulty in preparing for wholesale care ofthe thriftless ex-soldier. But those unso-phisticated suspects went on ruthlessly, reck-lessly, paying their own full share of the tax-es and manifestly bent on relentlessly takingcare of themselves. The identical personswho in the honey-dew days of the * * Boys inBlue had gaily floated in geysers of taffy,constan
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