ADDRESSES OF MAJOR LACEY 239 



"The Red, White, and Blue," and then followed with 

 some of the more recent songs of the war. 



The sharpshooters had ceased to ply their deadly arms ; 

 men on both sides climbed out on the top of the earth- 

 works, and for one foe to shoot another under these 

 circumstances would have been looked on as foul murder. 

 As the singers ended the national songs, a Confederate 

 soldier cried out, "Halloo, there; isn't that Jules and 

 Frank Lombard?" and the answer went back that it was. 

 Then, "Sing us Dixie," shouted the rebel; and the Lom- 

 bard boys sang "Dixie" and "The Bonnie Blue Flag,''' 

 and cheers went up from the beleaguered host. And then 

 the singers struck up "Home, Sweet Home," and every 

 heart on both sides beat in response. Memory turned 

 alike to the homes in Illinois and in Iowa, in Georgia and 

 in Tennessee ; and when the strains died away there were 

 a few minutes of absolute silence, and then one of the 

 Board of Trade regiment cried out, "Hallo, Johnny; 

 look out, the concert is over." All clambered back into 

 their trenches again and grim visaged war again took 

 possession of the scene. 



The example of charity was set by the hardest fighter 

 of the war — Grant — who slew more Confederates, cap- 

 tured more prisoners, and crushed more armies than any 

 of the other commanders on our side, but always spared 

 his enemies when it could be done without danger to his 

 cause. Yet he allowed no human life to stand in the way 

 of the success of the Union. 



Let us compare his course at Petersburg with that of 

 the greatest general of all time — Napoleon — at Auster- 

 litz. After the bloody contest, amid the snow and ice at 

 Austerlitz, two thousand Russians took shelter upon a 

 frozen lake ; upon the further shore there was still open 

 water, and they found themselves in the middle of the 

 lake with all the avenues of escape cut off. 



