With never an arch save the vaulted sky, 

 With never a flower save those that lie 

 On the distant graves — for love could buy 

 No gift that was purer or truer. 



" The remnant just eleven ; 

 The bayonets one thousand were 

 And the swords were thirty-seven." 



All the names that history has saved from 

 the Civil War, as from any other war, are 

 in the list of the officers. But no less worthy 

 were the men in the ranks. It is the para- 

 dox of democracy that its greatness is less 

 in the ranks. "Are all the common ones 

 so grand, and all the titled ones so mean?" ^ 



North or South, it was the same. "Send 

 forth the best ye breed " was the call on 

 both sides alike, and to this call both sides 

 alike responded. As it will take "centuries 

 of peace and prosperity to make good the 

 tall statures mowed down in the Napoleonic 



I Is there never one in all the land. 

 One on whose might the cause may lean? 

 Are all the common ones so grand 

 And all the tided ones so mean ? ' ' 



— Edmund Clarence Stedman, 1862. 



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