Hamatpa, those who wore the blue and those who wore the gray You are doing, my friends, what your children could not do, for if you had gone to your grave cherishing the bitterness of conflict, their filial piety would have led them to cherish the same bitter and resentful feeling for generation after generation. You alone, you who fought, you who passed the weary days in the trenches, you who had the supreme exaltation of life at stake, you alone can render that supreme sacrifice to your country of a gentle and kindly spirit, receiving your former enemies to renewed friendship and binding together all parts of the country for which you both fought. F rom Speech of Senator Elihu Root, to Federal and Confederate Veterans at Utica, N. Y.
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Author in mg arley is A !iation. A between the nee brought i his State, as werealjl ;signed their i cadetship to cast mtheir M#ith their own State and against the Union. When, however, his class was prematurely gradi uated in the month of June, 1861, he enjoyed the privilege of following the fortunes of, his own State (M aryland) as well as the flag under which his fathdr and grandfather as officers of the United States Army had fotight. On being asked about his Mlitary record, for the purpose )of this announcement. General F arley wrote, with the modesty of a man of deeds rather thai of words, It is a matter of official record to be found in the publications of the War Dei ,.A i.
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