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ADDRESS Of GENERAL M. L BONHAM Delivered In Clinton at the Unveiling of the Confederate Monument?Glowing Tribute to Those Who * Wore The Gray. Ii is always a labor of love as well {?? a matter of patriotic duty to con tribute In whatever way I may to oc casions which have for their object "he honoring of the memory of the Confederate soldiers. It Is especially a pleasure to be here today to take part in these exercuses. because many )t* the men who composed the brigade if South Carolina troops commanded S y the father of the speaker came 'rom this section. In that brigade .-.as tho Third regiment. South Caro lina Volunteers, commanded at first by Col. Williams, the ranks of which regiment were filled largely by men from Laurens and Newberry. That brigade played a prominent part in '..be events preceding and leading up - > First Mantissas and in that battle ?d subsequently, throughout the four :**:>ars of war, won undying fame as Kershaw's brigade. The Third regl .. ?*it was next u?;ler command of Col. .las. 1). Nance, who gave his life to the cause of the Confederacy, lie \>ns succeeded in the command by o\. Urayton Rutherford, and he. too, ?as a victim of the Meloch of war. ..'cut. Col. Maffett succeeded Id the j command of the regiment till forced his numerous and dangerous < Minds to retire: and th mi and at th< 'ast it was commanded by Col. 15 I. Todd. He, too, suffered grievous . Minds, and years after the war his ath was in a measure due thereto. M was a splendid body of soldiers and :'.,o story of its career In that War of Sections has been graphically told by ol. Dlckett himself a gallant officer ? hereof. Birthday of Lee. ii is singularly appropriate that the veiling of this monument, which Is .-signed to honor the memory of the Confederate soldiers, should be tines! fall upon the anniversar.v of tho rth of (Jen. It. IC. L ie, for he has ?. line, by the unbiased verdict of to y. to he considered the foremost soldier of that gigantic Internecine strife Indeed, by many students ol ' i0 art of war, he is classed wp.h tbo ? remost generals of all times, ancient d modern. His campaigns are frt'.iiled and taucht In the mil It a r> - liools of all countries. Not alone \ as he great In war. but as a man i n'd as a Christian his life is not i Uiiled in history. Hins Kulogium. No fined euloglum was ever spoken i * any one than that of (Sen. Lee, de livered by that Incomparable orator i : Georgia. Benjamin II. Hill, in the nited States senate, in reply to iJain. Said he: "When the future historian shall come to survey the > taracter of Lee, he will find it rising kc a huge mountain above the tm < dating plain of humanity, and he ust lift his eyes high toward heaven 'a catch its summit He possessed t cry virtue of other great commund ? s without their vices, lie was a foe ? ithout hate; a friend without treach ? .y: a soldier without cruelty; a vlc : r without oppression, and a victim Ithoul murmuring lie was a p^ib e'he. r without vices: a private citi /? n without wrong; a neighbor with > .t reproach; a Christian without hvpoerlcy, and a man without guile. ?? was Caesar without his ambition; Prederlck Without his tyranny: Na ?leon without his selfishness, and Washington without Iiis reward. He v as obedient y> authority as a ser in, ami royal in authority as a true kfllg. lie was gentle as a woman in Ife; modest and pure as a virgin in ? lought; watchful as a Roman Vestal ? duty; Submissive to law as Sociale... d grand ;'n halite as Achilles." Albert Sidney Johnston. Many students of war consider that / Iberl Sidney Johnston was a soldier - f unusual ability, and the. highest or. der of merit. Suffering from tho un just criticism of military marplots Ms splendid life went out at Shlloh ?'er he had demonstrated his capa bility as commander of an army, Many think that if he had not died. 1'ion thai fateful field. tli > whole ? >urse ot the war in the West would have been different. Francis (). Tick nor has written this path.tic little nocni ot the great soldier's death: "His soul to Cod! on a battle psalm! The soldier's plea to heaven! ?F>om the victor wreath to the shin ing palm; Proin the battle's core to tin central calm. And peace of Cod from heaven. "0 land! In your lUlduight of mls? t rust The golden gate flow wide And the Kingly soul of your wii e au I just. Passed In light from the house ol dust. To (he Home of the fJlorlfled." Joseph R, Johnston. Joseph K. Johnston 'a 'steemotl bj many to have been the ablest strate gist produced on either side during the war. Certainly his retreat to At lanta was a masterpiece of the art of war. Participants in that campaign, and students thereof assert that in its course Johnston put hors de combat more men of Sherman's army than Johnston bad In his. with a minimum of loss in men. stores, equipment and ordnance for himself Such a feat was possible to an army of limited numbers and resources only through the skill of Its commander and the morale of ihe army In a lesser Held of activity Stone wall Jackson acquired the highest degree of fame and reputation as a soldier. Of him an English soldier wrote, "He was the very thunderbolt Gem M. I,. Roitham. of war." (Hcie ihe ftpfeakor sketched I tl*o valley campaign and the cam paign of Second .Manaasas1 ftiid thai of Chanccllorsvtlle). Nathan It. Forrest. In tho West mother ganhls in the art of war bad com-, into notice, viz: Lieut. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest. Uneducated lacking In '.eclinicnl knowledge of. or training in, the science of tho soldier's calling, he de veloped a natural born power of command and leadership, and evinced, by his skillful conduct of operations, a genius for war which marked him as a great soldier. (The speaker gave a graphic description oi tile battle of Brice's Cross Roads, where Forrest with 4,700 cavalry and a battery of artillery, overwhelmed and routed Sturgis with 4,000 infantry and 4.000 cavalry of the pick of the Union army. He also gave an interesting recital of the pursuit and capture of Col. Strelght and his superior force by Gen Forrest). Rut I may not pause to pay a jusi ?need of praise to all the gnllnnl meri torious officers of the Army of North ern Virginia and tbe '.tin I es of the West. Their names are written in til lory In Inextinguishable color.- and in that brilliant story sons of South Carolina has glorious part. The Confederate Saldi? v. What made It possible for these Commanders to achieve such results, handicapped as they were by inferior iry in numbers, anus supplies, muni lions of war and funds, The answer is ensv. The Confcdornte soldier and the Confederate woman' Their cour age, their Icynltv, their devotion over can-e the obstacles which con. fronted the Confederacy, until actual exhaust ion of resources brought its inevitable end. When one s; enks of a soldier, there rises before one's mental vision Ihe Oguro of a man clad in uniform, spick, span and clean and armed with the most approved modern instruments of warfare One thinks of a soldier as one who is sup plied by the government with every thing necessary to his bodily comfort p.lld who is paid a regular stipend; who Is a part of a great machine, every part of which is so oiled anil adjusted as to insure its smooth and easy action. In rotum this soldier is oxpectod to lie amendable to orders and to discipline and to light when necessary to do so. That's the descrip tion of the soldier of every army you ever heard or. save one. It doe-ui't (It the Confederate soldier. Me was strong on fighting- -hi fact, that was his long suit -but when it came to uniforms, rations and pay, arms and equipments, he absolved bis govern ment from ; II obligations I'eglnning with First Mannssas, he had become by habit so accustomed to supply all hi;, wants from the stores and sup ? >ii s captured from his fleeing on? 'titles he had long censed to look to the qunrierinatftor eoinmissnn or orTniuiCo dopa'thionjs o! >is own trmy tor aid. As ibr pay, the p'aj days were bo Irrogttlrti and far he tween, and the medium of circulation so impaired and Nvorthlass It became -8-? .Sgl a Joke to receive? ff. ff&F Confederate" Boldler discipline Ho had an /rWepfen?^nY way of doing', his own thiniftM? ami fighting that lftade blur a terror1' to the enemy and' a Ht'tlc hard for hie ofllcers to mana^ What was it tbeu that made of id)"' what a Northern soldier declared trim to bo?"The finest fighting machine the world ever saw." Owned No Slamesv Controversialists contend* that the war was waged on the one hau 1 for the abolition of slavery, and on the j other for its maintenance. So far as j the latter half of the proposition is concerned it is sufficient answer to i say that one-half of the men who com posed the Southern armies owned no slaves and had no personal or prop erty interest in the continuance of the institution. One may readily under stand that men. prompted by ambl- ] tion, the love of glory and the hope . of advancement will endure the bor- j rors of war, the dangers of death and "seek the bubble reputation at the; cannon's mouth."' But that does not i apply to the rank ana file of the army who have no hope of promotion. What motive then induced these men to give up home and all its comforts, j to leave wives, children and parents 1 undefended and unprovided for, to1 encounter untold sufferings, to meet! the dangers of the battlefield and the diseases of the camp and hospital? There can be but one answer: They I were actuated by the promptings of the loftiest spirit of unselfish pa triotism and love of country. No sublimer epitaph can he written upon any monument erected in their honor than the simple words. 'They were patriots." The Women. What should he said of the Women Of the Confederacy! Its men could not fall short of the standard of heroes because their women, who w< re their inspiration, and their guides. would {olcvate no srh'lt akin to their own lofty souls in loyalty and devotion to the cause of the South. In the wry brgMilliltig tli? Groat Architect of the L'nlverse hrotlMhl order out of chaos, and by His simple IVOi'd &??ve light. At Ills command the waters I abova the firmament, and the wafts below the firmament were divided and by His win the dry fand appeared. Vgain He spoke and there sprang Into life tHo grass and the flowers and the trees ami all green growing tilings. At His word the sun shone by day. and the moon gave light by night, and the morning stars sang together their hymns of praise to Ulm. Again He commanded that the waters and the earth bring forth every living creature that nioveth and every liv ing creature of his kind and it was so. Then as if to crown His work with the acme of the perfection of Ills creative power, He made man after His own image and breathed Into his nostrils the breath of life. Surely beyond this not even His omnipotence could go. and as If satis fied therewith He rested from Hi lahors. But not yet was the scheme of creation complete. There was , omethlng lacking, and His infinit" I wisdom discerning the Incompleteness of man. took from his side as he slept, a rib, and made woman. Then, in fact, had His oilimipotcnl hand achieved the final greatness of its ?low:', and slt'/.'o then no other thing ! l,as been created by Ulm. Woman "ilis Inst, liest g|f( to man t.iis marvelous work of His hand. The Women. We men of the South are accused of placing women upon a pedci t.i! an*' worshiping them. out critics sny we oMilled them beyond their deserts. For myself, I rejoice in th> charge, and I know that my country men take equal pride therein When I reflect upon the sufferings they >n. I dured; the dangers they encountered; the hardships they bore; the want, the privations tin1 the Mis thev itudei went; w..i-n I contemplate their imrene courage in the face of dangers; when I recall their sublime fortltuda In face of the death of their loved ones; When I review their undeviaiine loy alty to the cause of their Country, my heart swells with pride that i was born of such a race <.,' women; and I know of no honors no rewards of praise and love too great to he given them Measured by their virtues, the standard of their life and Character, we are well instilled in ascribing lo theth' merit beyond all others, and in naylng, aa did the wise man. many daughters, and their daughters' thou excellest them all." And now coin: the remnant ol this, rate of noble women. and thell daughters and their daughters' daugh ters, and after years of patient loll and waiting have erected this monu men! to perpetuate the memory of the soldiers of the Confederacy, it pei pettiatOs no less the story of their own heroism. And n In meet that it should be so. Kre long there shall I.reeled b.v a grateful people, n noble monu ment in our Capital City to the women Of the Confederacy Tin : > is now ??rected. there will always stand In ih" hearts of all true men of the South a living monument of reverence and respect for them which time can not story oi $ flknt; aroynd . wh'tetf Clint, the fondest, \? saddest,' mwiiprles of a people whose' (fmjlQn of l^bcity la dead. It Is a past of dauu'tibtv* d^eas, of deathless heroism, and fi^Jeat, but a past over which we may truth fully write. "All lost save hono**'" Oh. Silent Sentinel! Guard well the heritage of honor and fame entrusted to your keeping. 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