244 MAJOR JOHN F. LACEY 



name of the force or movement under his command; 

 when we speak of the march to the sea, we give it the 

 name of Sherman. When we describe the battle in the 

 clouds at Lookout, we call it Hooker; when we speak of 

 the great Confederate charge at Gettysburg, we call it 

 Pickett; the track of flame down the valley of Virginia, 

 we speak of as Sheridan. The deadly contest in the 

 wilderness we call Grant. But in all these cases, on 

 which ever side the victory came, it was due, after all, to 

 the heroism, the patience, the obedience, and the self-for- 

 getfulness of the young soldier. 



After Napoleon's army died in the snows of Russia, 

 there was no longer a Napoleon. The finest generalship, 

 the most untiring efforts were made by Napoleon after 

 that, but in vain. The Grand Army upon which his em- 

 pire had been built was dead. No leader can accomplish 

 anything without men. An army is the strongest of all 

 arguments. 



The great general who led a million men against Rus- 

 sia soon found himself at Elba followed by the most 

 pestiferous of all annoyances, his wife's millinery bills. 

 Without his army he was nothing. 



Whilst good has come out of the war, yet it was so full 

 of evils that every man who remembers that period hopes 

 never to see its like again. Foreign war has been re- 

 ferred to as the heat of exercise, whilst a civil war is the 

 heat of a fever. 



The citizen soldiers of the republic at every meeting 

 controlled by them, should seek to turn that meeting to 

 the advantage of their country. Amid the turbulence 

 and riots of 1893 it was a gratifying fact that but one of 

 those disturbances was led by an old soldier. 



How to take care of the future is a question for us all. 

 Education is the best safeguard for a nation's stability. 

 In looking back, however, we are reminded that it was 



