Address at the Dedication of the Soldiers´ and Sailors´ Monument
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Excerpt from Address at the Dedication of the Soldiers´ and Sailors´ Monument: Utica, N. Y., October 13, 1891 In our previous history there had been many skirmishes with Indians, the unsatisfactory but not altogether inglorious war of 1812, and a short struggle with Mexico; but we thought of war, - real, great, glorious, desperate, prolonged war, straining the full energies of thirty or forty millions of people and marshaling armies by the hundred thousand, - as something of which substantially the last had probably been seen under Napoleon. How many boys read and read of great battles, and wondered and wondered how it would seem! As their pulses leaped at the description of the great thunderings of cannon, the rattle of musketry, the wild yelling cheers of the charge, they asked: - "Could I go through a battle? How should I feel? How do wounded men look and act? What do they say? And the long night march, the bivonac on the wind-swept plain or in deep woods! I wish I could see it all," said many a lad. At half-past four on the afternoon of April 12, 1861, a cannon-shot of devilish malignity, speeding from Morris Island, South Carolina, toward Fort Sumter, "slapped the face of Liberty." The lightning carried the news. Suddenly arose 75,000 men - 300,000 - 300,000 more - a million on one side only of a great war! Dying men by the hundred thousand, blood in streams, debt by the thousand million, a nation´s life trembling in the balance, black clouds of sorrow and despair covering the whole land! The boys who doubted their own hearts forgot to ask questions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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