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Captain Jaques announced as thefirst services vocal music conducted byProf. Rheem, and the glee club ofsome twenty young men sang “TreadLightly O’er their Graves.” RevPiilsbury then delivered an impressiveprayer, the glee club sang anothersong, and Capt. Jaques introducedMayor Waterman, who came forward,and delivered one of the most impressive speeches of hi3 life. The style.the thought and the mode of deliveryall indicated that the speaker was mentally traveling the scenes of formeryears, in camp, on the march and inthe battle front, when in imaginationhe could hear the roar of cannon, therattle of musketry, the wild rush ofcavalry and the measured tread ofrelentless batallions as they hurledthemselves upon the frowning ramparts of Atlanta, with its belchingcannon, or the awe-inspiring heightsof Lookout Mountain in the battleabove the clouds.
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Ottumwa Daily Democrat
Ottumwa, Iowa, US
Thu, May 31, 1883
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