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Oh say can you see by the dawn of the day,
The day set apart for the grave decoration,
The remnant of those who in battle array
Had offered their lives for the life of our Nation
That the shackle and chain no longer remain,
Nor the slave block its honor our Nation profane
O S
Then gather the flowers that grow by the way,
And strew on the graves pf the Blue and the Gray.
Oh the havoc of shell and the gloom of the pen,
The ravage of fever, the pang of starvation,
Are past and forgiven by this band of brave men
Who honor the graves with love and elation.
For the sword now is sheathed, they are resting beneath
The sod and the wave for the freedom of slave.
O S
Then lovingly cast on the crest of the wave
The tribute of love for the true and the braved
Then cast on the flowers, deck the monument fair,v
In church-yard and park with thy holy reflection
With malice to none and in charity share
The principles held by the great of each section,
And the flag of the free forever will be
The emblem of peace and of true liberty.
Anqld
Memorial
O S
We will counsel our children to honor die day
That ended the strife 'tween the Blue and the Gray.
Copyright, 1907. by Frederick R. Mere#.
OT with the anguish
of hearts that are I
breaking 1
Come we as mourn
ers to weep for
our dead
Grief in our breasts 1
has grown weary
of aching,
Green is the turf
where our t/.-ars
we have shed.
"While o'er their
marbles the
mosses are creep
ing,
Stealing each name
and the legend
away,
Give their proud
story to mem
ory's keeping,
Shrined in the temple we hallow today.
"3UShmdarchees,helr battlefields'
ended their
Emblem and legend may fade from the
portal,
Keystone may crumble and portal may
fall
They were the builders whose work is
immortal,
into the land of meisaory, though a
comparatively small number of its
veterans still survive to. march in the
procession which is a part of the
day's observance.
The first Memorial or Decoration
day which these veterans of the Grand
Army of the Republic recall each year
was not, as it is now in most of the
states and even in Alaska and Porto
Rico, a legal holiday. It came as the
result of an order issued by Gen. John
A. Logan, national commander of the
Grand Army of the Republic, then a
young organization. It was in May,
1868, that Adjutant General N. P,
Chysman conferred with General Lo
gan concerning the matter of having
the Grand Army inaugurate the cus
tom of placing flowers on the graves
of Union soldiers at some uniform
time. Following this conference Gen
eral Logan issued an order setting
aside May 30, 1868, "for the purpose
of strewing with flowers or otherwise
decorating the graves of comrades
who died in defense of their country
during the late rebellion and whose
bodies now lie in almost every city
village or hamlet churchyard in the
land."
ears to the drum beat that April 26 of that year be set aside
of morn
as the date"'"to wreathe graves of our
Rise from the sod, ye fair columns and
arches! I
Crowned with the dome that Is over us
all!
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LIVER WENDELL HOLMES,
the poet of occasions, wrote
this lyric for the ceremo
nies attending the laying of
the corner stone of Har
vard's great Memorial hall,
built in honor of her sons slain in the
Civil war. Grandsons of the under
graduates who heard it when it was
first read have since been born, and
have passed under the stately roof of
the Memorial hall on their way to the
lofty dining hall of the old college.
To them and to their children the
grief which had ceased to be heart
breaking when Holmes penned his
poem, is no more than a reverential,
Idealized and ennobling sentiment.
Yet thirty-four states will by fiat of
their respective legislatures observes
Memorial day as a day consecrated to
memorial services for those who
Berved in the wars of this country.
And to most of us this means the sol
diers of the Civil war, though in truth
a recent visit to Arlington cemetery
brought home the truth that the war
with Spain demanded its toll of the
nation's manhood.
But the custom of placing flowers
on the graves of soldiers on a certain
fixed day devoted to services com
memorative of their patriotism came
into practice at the close of the Civil
war, and Memorial day is still most
intimately associated with the men or
ffeat war, most of whom have passed
Chicago had the first celebration of
a Decoration day under the auspices
of the Grand Army organization in
1868. Two years before this, in a let
ter which was printed March 12, 1866,
in the columns of the Columbus
Times, a southern woman, Mrs. Mary
Ann Williams Howard, widow of a
confederate officer, Maj. John H. How
ard of Milledgeville, Ga., had suggest
mart
yred dead with flowers." The
ucou
bright deeds to the ages un- suggestion W&S followed and that
born! date, April 26, is now observed as
date, April 26, is now observed as
Confederate Memorial day, and set
aside as a legal holiday, as is May 30
in other states, in four southern
states, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia
and Florida. Mrs. Williams was great
ly beloved in the south. During the
war she was as active in doing all she
could to serve the southern side as
her husband and was the moving spir
it in putting into operation what were
known as "wayside houses," in which
care was given soldiers en route to
battlefields. When she died at Co
lumbus, Ga., in 1874, she was buried
with military honors
Two southern states, North Carolina
and South Carolina, observe May 10
as their riemorial day. In New Mex
ico it is left to the governor to ap
point the day. As every state is in
dependent in its legislation, traditions
and customs, every state has power to
appoint its own holidays, but, despite
these variations, a spirit of centraliza
tion or the growth of a national spirit,
If'you wish to call it that, has aided
In bringing about an approximate uni
formity of date for Memorial day in
most of the states. Thirty-four states
and Alaska, Porto Rico and the Dis
trict of Columbia observe the 30th of
May as a legal holiday dedicated to
the memory of soldiers. Four south
ern states, as has been said, observe
the day on April 26, two on May 10.
It is a good custom this, which
teaches each succeeding generation to
honor the coufege, patriotism and loy
al sacrifice of those who have pre
ceded it A nation which does this in
spirit every, day as it doea in special
Oerembnies one day edch year may
fearlessly face the future, confident
that tt will t» worthy of the past
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HO MORE shall the war cry sever,
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12 Or winding rivers be red 1\
They banish our anger forever
When they laurel the graves of
ji our dead! *,\
Jr Under the sod and the dew,
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Waiting the judgment day
Love and tears for the Blue,
Tears and love for the Gray.
—Francis Miles Finch.
^|^y Captain does not answer,
his lips are pale and still
My father does not feel my arm, he
has no pulse nor will
The ship is anchored safe and sound,
its voyage closed and done
From fearful trip the victor ship
comes in with object won I
Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!
8
But I, with mournful tread,
Walk the deck, my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
—Walt Whitman.
i!
it
il
it
i!
Strike
hot one jewel from the crest
The loving mother wore
Reset the gems upon her breast,
it
it
i!
I
Each where it stood before.
Clasp in the glorious cynosure
The whole dear Thirty-Four.
—Samuel Francis Smith, i'
fter all
Hark I from the heights
the clear, strong clarion call
And the command imperious:
"Stand forth,
Sons of the South and brothers of
the North I
Stand forth and be
As one on soil and sea—
Your country's honor more
Than empire's worth 1"
—Frank Lebby Stanton.
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vl VZonor to them I Far graves today
•ft are flinging
Up through the soil peace-blooms
to meet the sun,
And daisied heads through summer
winds are singing
Their long "well done.'
—Irene Fowler Brown.
MINGLING OF BLUE AND GRAY
Suggestion for One Common Memorial
Day While Yet the Veterans
Are With Us.
Early in 1866, just after the close of
the Civil war, Mrs. Mary A. W. How
ard, widow of a confederate officer,
suggested the setting apart of a day
for placing flowers on graves of con
federate soldiers and for appropriate
memorial exercises. The idea was re
ceived with general approval, and
April 26, that year, was made the oc
casfon for the first confederate me
morial observances.
This southern idea appealed to the
sentiments of men and women of the
north as worthy of imitation. In 1868,
Gen. John A. Logan, then national
commander of the Grand Army, issued
an order calling for Memorial day ex
ercises May 30.
The latter date has been retained
as the time for the annual decoration
of union soldiers' graves and public
exercises commemorative of the lives
and deeds of the men in blue. The
ex-confederates in most of the states
have continued to observe April 26,
though the custom is not uniform.
On both sides, the rosters of the sur
vivors who will participate in the me
morial exercises are decreasing sadly,
fearfully. In a comparatively short
time all will have joined their com
rades "on fame's eternal camping
grounds."
There still is left time for both sides
to unite in observing a general Me
morial day. Nothing in all the world's
history was ever so impressive as
would be the mingling of the blue and
gray in paying mutual tribute to the
dead of the two armies who fought
each other in the awful days of '61 to
65v "V^hy not signalize praseht condk,
'.iohs and gforify future prospect^ b/
rach
an
observance?—Col.
J&emorial
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©litter TOtetHtell ftoltrces, gr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., jurist, was
born In Boston, Mass., March 8, 1841. He
received his education at Harvard univer
sity, where he received the degree of A. B.
In 1861 and LL. B. in 186C. In 1886 he re
ceived the degree of LL D. from Yale,
and in 1909 the degree of D. C. L. from Ox
ford. He served three years in the 20th
Mass. volunteers as lieutenant and lieu
tenant colonel was wounded In the neck
at Antietam, Sept. 17, 1864, and In the
foot at Marye's Hill, Fredericksburg, May
3, 1863. He was admitted to the Massa
chusetts bar In 1867, became professor
ot
law at Harvard law school in 1882, was
associate justice from 1882 to 1899 chief
justice from 1899 to 1902 in the supreme
court of Massachusetts and associate jusr
tice of the supreme court of the United
States Dec. 4, 1902.
(From an address before John Sedgwick
Post No. 4, G. A. R., Keene, N. H.,
May 30, 1884.)
ST
OMRADES, some
of the associations
of this day are not
only triumphant,
but joyful. Not all
of those with
whom we once
stood shoulder to
shoulder not all
of those whom we once loved and
revered—are gone. On this day we
still meet our companions in the freez
ing winter bivouacs and in those
dreadful summer marches where ev
ery faculty of the soul seemed to de
part one after another, leaving only
a dumb animal power to set the teeth
and to persist—a blind belief that
somewhere and at last there was rest
and water. On this day, at least, we
still meet and rejoice in the closest
tie which is possible between men—
a tie which suffering has made indis
soluble for better, for worse.
When we meet thus, when we do
honor to the dead in terms that must
sometimes embrace the living, we do
not deceive ourselves. We attribute
no special merit to a man for having
served when all were serving. We
know that if the armies of our war
did anything worth remembering, the
credit belongs not mainly to the indi
viduals who did it, but to average hu
man nature. We also know very well
that we cannot live in associations
with the past alone, and we admit that
if we would -be worthy of the past, we
must find new fields for action or
thought, and make for ourselves new
careers. But, nevertheless, the gener
ation that carried on the war has been
set apart by its experience. Through
our great good fortune, in our youth
our hearts were touched with fire. It
was given to us to learn at the out
set that life is a profound and passion
ate thing. While we are permitted
to scorn nothing but indifference, and
do not pretend to undervalue the world
ly rewards of ambition, we have seen
with our own eyes, beyond and
above the gold fields, the snowy
heights of honor, and it is for us to
bear the report to those who come aft
er us. But, above all, we have learned
that whether a man accepts from for
tune her spade, and will look down
ward and dig, or from aspiration her
axe and cord, and will scale the ice,
the one and only success which it is
his to command is to bring to his
work a mighty heart.
Such hearts—ah me, how many!—•
were stilled 20 years ago and to us
who remain behind is left this day of
memories. Every year—in the full
tide of spring, at the height of the
symphony of flowers and love and life
—there comes a pause, and through
the silence we hear the lonely pipe of
death. Year after year lovers wan
dering under the apple boughs and
through the clover and deep grass are
surprised with sudden tears as they
see black veiled figures stealing
through the morning to a soldier's
grave. Tear after year the comrades
of the dead follow, with public honor,
procession and commemorative flags
and funeral march—honor and grief
from us who stand -almost alone, and
have seen the best and noblest of our
generation pass away.
But grief is not the end of all. 1
seem to hear the funeral march be
come a paean. I see beyond the forest
the moving banners of a hidden col
umn. Our dead brothers still live for
us, and bid us think of life, not death
—of life to which in their youth they
lent the passion and glory of the
spring. As I listen, the £reat chorus
of life and joy begins again, and amid
the awful orchestra of seen and un
seen powers and destinies of good and
evil our trumpets sound once more a
note of daring, hope, and will.
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Patriotism.
You cannot analyze it. It is subtly
but it is true. It often "sleeps like th«
lamb, but roused from its letharg]
breaks out with the strength of th«
jibn." Never was patriotism more aiib
Ume than in the soldier of '61.
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