. Sponsor souvenir album : history & reunion (1895) . ^Y THE -^ * HERE never was anything like it, is what everybodysays. There never was such bunting, there neverwere such banners and decorations, and so manythings to stir the heart and dim the eye! The win-dows are filled with objects of interest, many of thembeautiful, and many more filled with pathos. Herewas a stained and tattered banner, the legend be-neath it telling in what bloody battle it was borneand where shot and shell tore through it; and theold soldiers gather about and gaze at it with mourn-ful interest, and tell on
. Sponsor souvenir album : history & reunion (1895) . ^Y THE -^ * HERE never was anything like it, is what everybodysays. There never was such bunting, there neverwere such banners and decorations, and so manythings to stir the heart and dim the eye! The win-dows are filled with objects of interest, many of thembeautiful, and many more filled with pathos. Herewas a stained and tattered banner, the legend be-neath it telling in what bloody battle it was borneand where shot and shell tore through it; and theold soldiers gather about and gaze at it with mourn-ful interest, and tell one another, I was there—marched behind that old flag!1 There was a sword,rusting in its scabbard now for many a day, while thehands that drew it once are folded away in their last was an old-fashioned spinning wheel, with the rolls and cards athand, and the woman knitting an old-fashioned sock of coarse, home-made thread, in quite the old-fashioned way; and there in another windowwere the old cannon balls and rusty shot and shell that were the ghastlytro
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