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VOLUME NUMBER SIXMARSHALL* MICHIGAN. SATURDAY, MAY S», 11)14TWO GENTSThey are marching with a halting step—A hatting step and slow—And many in those blue clad ranks Have hair as white as snow.Their youth lias on the battlefields of fifty years ago.These faded, tattered flags they bear.AH torn by shot and shell,Are sacred emblems of the dead Who loved their country well. How great their love and sacrifice No human tongue may tell.Their serried ranks are ihining.fasi That once with martial tread. The knapsack and the musket bore. Where Grant and Sherman led. Their sleep is sound and peaceful In the bivouac of the dead.No more the reveille at- dawnShall rbuse them from their sleep;No more shall wives and sisiei.„ mourn:Survivors o he MemoryHonorComradesBut forty-eight members of Cole-grove Post now answer the reveille —exactly one-fifth of the original membership of 240.Such has been the toll of death demanded of the regiments which returned. a half century ago from the ' Southland, after four years of the most feaful warfare since the contruest of Alexander, flushed with victory, though gained at the cost of the lives of more than half the armies of the North.One is brought to a shocking sense of- the ravages of Time, when it is considered' that four out
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Marshall News Statesman
Marshall, Michigan, US
Sat, May 30, 1914
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