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men under the stone wall than did any other brigade. 

 I had in my regiment men from the North and the 

 South ; men from the East and the West ; men whose 

 fathers had fought under Grant, and whose fathers 

 had fought under Lee ; college graduates, capitalists' 

 sons, wage-workers, the man of means and the man 

 who all his life had owed each day's bread to the 

 day's toil. I had Catholic, Protestant, Jew, and 

 Gentile under me. Among my captains were men 

 whose forefathers had been among the first white 

 men to settle on Massachusetts Bay and on the banks 

 of the James, and others whose parents had come 

 from Germany, from Ireland, from England, from 

 France. They were all Americans, and nothing else, 

 and each man stood on his worth as a man, to be 

 judged by it, and to succeed or fail accordingly as 

 he did well or ill. Compared to the giant death- 

 wrestles that reeled over the mountains round about 

 this city the fight at Santiago was the merest skir 

 mish; but the spirit in which we handled ourselves 

 there, I hope was the spirit in which we have to 

 face our duties as citizens if we are to make this 

 Republic what it must be made. 



Yesterday, in passing over the Chickamauga bat 

 tle-field, I was immensely struck by the monument 

 raised by Kentucky to the Union and Confederate 

 soldiers from Kentucky who fell on that battle-field. 

 The inscription reads as follows : "As we are united 

 in life, and they united in death, let one monument 

 perpetuate their deeds, and one people, forgetful of 

 all asperities, forever hold in grateful remembrance 



