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can can come here and see evidences of the mighty 

 deeds done by the men who wore the blue and the 

 men who wore the gray, and not go away a better 

 American, prouder of the country, prouder because 

 of the valor displayed on both sides in the contest 

 the valor, the self-devotion, the loyalty to the 

 right as each side saw the right. Yesterday I was 

 presented with a cane cut from the Chickamauga 

 battle-field by some young men of Northern Georgia. 

 On the cane were engraved the names of three 

 Union generals and three Confederate generals. One 

 of those Union generals was at that time showing 

 me over the battle-field General Boynton. Under 

 one of the Confederate generals General Wheeler 

 I myself served. In my regiment there served 

 under me in the ranks a son of General Hood, who 

 commanded at one time the Confederate army 

 against General Sherman. The only captain whom 

 I had the opportunity of promoting to field rank, 

 and to whom the promotion was given for gallantry 

 on the field, was Micah Jenkins, of South Carolina, 

 the son of a Confederate general, whose name you 

 will find recorded among those who fought at Chick 

 amauga. 



Two of my best captains were killed at Santiago 

 one was Allyn Capron, the fifth in line who, from 

 father to son, had served in the regular army of the 

 United States, who had served in every war in which 

 our country had been engaged; the other, Bucky 

 O'Neill. His father had fought under Maher, when, 

 on the day at Fredericksburg, his brigade left more 



