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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1900
Page
8
A ceremonial poem interweaves red white and blue symbols with May day imagery. It honors veterans and graves with muffled drums and cypresses as it links national pride to memory and gratitude for freedom and sacrifice.
A Boston pawnbroker window sword links a Confederate captain to his daughter. The watcher learns the captain traded his sword to feed his family during hard times. The girl later repays the loan, and the pawnbroker and his associates help her find work, preserving a soldier’s memory.
The 1864 Union march under General Sherman leaves Atlanta before dawn on November 15 with 60 000 men, burning bridges and rails, destroying supplies, and living on scarce rations as they advance toward Savannah. The narrative notes milder weather, rivers to bathe, and occasional enemy resistance, with Milledgeville visiting and a Christmas gift of Savannah to Lincoln.
The article recalls Johnny Clem the drummer boy of Chickamauga later a sergeant and major and John Francisco and Gilbert Van Zandt known as Little Gib, all young Civil War soldiers. It notes Clem's early enlistment, bravely firing at a Confederate colonel, and later military career. Francisco’s multiple enlistment attempts and postwar ventures. and Van Zandt’s service with the Seventy-ninth Ohio, his pony gift, and the president permitting him to keep the pony.
The era of good feeling between Federal and Confederate has come. Memorial Day honors both northern and southern dead as united under one flag, with veterans aging while the nation remembers their sacrifice and the country’s liberty and union. Arlington reinterments echo national gratitude. Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Roll of Honor lists all army and navy burials in national cemeteries. By 1898 there were 337,296 corpses across 83 national cemeteries, with about 3,000 more interred since July 1 that year, though no final official record exists.
The first U S Spanish war memorial in the nation was unveiled in Fort Thomas Kentucky with ceremonies. A bronze tablet commemorates the Sixth United States Infantry officers and men who died in the war with Spain. Citizens from Cincinnati Covington Newport and nearby areas funded the gift.
A period poem from Home Magazine honors fallen heroes with reverent verses. It pledges loyalty to country and laws, mourning noble dead while celebrating their sacrifice and enduring memory through ivy wreaths and eternal devotion.
A 19th century verse praising reconciliation after Civil War era divides. It notes gray and blue soldiers joining in common cause against shared foes, honoring patriot graves, and calling for unity over sectional hate as God's battles ended. The poem frames national healing and brotherhood.
A German unit led by Schwartz is recalled in a humorous Civil War anecdote. At Shiloh an officer reports to General Grant that Schwartz's battery was taken and then retaken, with a witty exchange about spiking and reclaiming the guns.
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