HOW THE PAY OF A REGIMENT WAS 

 CARRIED TO NEW ORLEANS 1 



You have done me the honor to ask me to address you 

 to-night on some personal incidents connected with the 

 late war, and I accept the more gladly because, when those 

 stirring scenes were being enacted, you who sit before me 

 to-night were only a possibility and had not then become 

 an actuality. It seems hard to believe that a generation 

 has passed away — a whole generation of breathing, speak- 

 ing men; and when another thirty years has gone, there will 

 remain few if any survivors to tell the story of those days. 

 It is fitting then, before the whole has faded into a dream 

 of the past, enveloped by that haze which time eventually 

 throws round everything of bygone times, to try and recall 

 some few of its features. What was worth fighting for dur- 

 ing four years is worth talking about now — not boastingly, 

 but reverently, forever and forever and forever. 



If law and order, honor, civil right — 



If they wan't worth it, what was worth a fight? 



Happily all strife is ended. The loyal common sense of 

 the nation demands and will have a real peace, that means 



1 This address was prepared for the Grand Army post in Amherst, and 

 was afterwards repeated, with some alterations, at the request of the 

 students of the Agricultural College. As here printed it was delivered to 

 the students. 



