BROTHERHOOD AND THE HEROIC 

 VIRTUES 



ADDRESS AT VETERANS' REUNION, BURLINGTON, 

 VERMONT, SEPTEMBER 5, 1901 



1 SPEAK to you to-night less as men of Vermont 

 than as members of the Grand Army which saved 

 the Union. But at the outset I must pay a special 

 tribute to your State. Vermont was not a rich State, 

 compared with many States, and she had sent out 

 so many tens of thousands of her sons to the West 

 that it is not improbable that as many men of Ver 

 mont birth served in the regiments of other States 

 as in those of her own State. Yet, notwithstanding 

 this drain, your gallant State was surpassed by no 

 other State of the North, either in the number of 

 men according to her population which she sent into 

 the army, or in the relative extent of her financial 

 support of the war. Too much can not be said of the 

 high quality of the Vermont soldiers ; and one con 

 tributing factor in securing this high quality was the 

 good sense which continually sent recruits into the 

 already existing regiments instead of forming new 

 ones. 



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