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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1912
Page
7
The excerpt recalls march memories from fifty years ago with tunes like John Brown’s Body and Battle Cry of Freedom. Veterans reminisce as the band, drums, and songs evoke comrades and past campaigns, ending with hopes of reunion beyond the final shore.
A Civil War veteran recalls Perryville and a heartbreaking scene after the battle. He met the Shanks family in Alabama, shared salt pork and corn pone, and later found the two boys among the fallen, their father and elder brother killed fighting for Confederates, while the younger son kept watch over the dead.
New Jersey private James Garrabrant retrieved a fallen Confederate soldier's photograph during a clash on the Rappahannock in Virginia. He tucked the image into his blouse and moments later was hit by a bullet that lodged in the metal plate, miraculously sparing him from injury. His brother carried him away.
At a Confederate generals council early in the Civil War a member noted Major Blank was wounded and could not take on a proposed duty. Stonewall Jackson replied that if so it was likely caused by an accidental discharge of his duty.
A Mississippi episode in 1807 where women laid flowers on Confederate and Federal graves inspired Francis Miles Finch to write The Blue and the Gray. Published in Atlantic Monthly in 1867, the poem faced initial indifference, rising editorials and northern criticism before becoming widely discussed. The piece notes Finch’s attempt to merge a Tribune dispatch into the poem, which was rejected, and includes the poem’s opening stanza.
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