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»f ouris isI. Ithere.con-Wegood show 5 we 3ves, fard-gut-ork.urn-St.dsofN,lattcrson to Bigelow church. A detail of soldiers, consisting or Capt. R. fa. Prichard, Lieut. Kinney Punk, 1 rivatcs John Youngman, Frank Switalski, Ed. li. Hicks, Clinton M. Searl, Chas. K. Hood* Duncan Dcmcr. lass and George Oldfield, acted as immediate escort to the body and as pall-bcarers. Arriving at the church it was found that ox-inernbers of Company H were unable to secure scats, the others filling all the reserved seats.Promptly at 2 o’clock the last sad services were begun by the Hilt;»li .School Glee club, singing that orand-cst of all hymns, “Rock of Awes.’1 Scripture lesson from II Timothy was rear] by Rev. Hargett, of the Bigelow church. The Glee club then sanoGod, the All Merciful,'’ which had been composed and dedicated to Com-P't°syJlhy r‘CV- ,T* !)‘ rectorof All Saints church. Rev. Hargettthen introduced Rev. .Dr. Alderson of the Second Presbyterian clinrcb’ who talked briefly, but beautifully on the lives that had been cut short in their young manhood. Dr. Alrlcr-soa said:‘On the morning when Co. H left lortsmouth I was in the arnrory With many others, to give Hie boys a sad farewell. I said to Elbert Patterson, locking so frail and slender, ‘Elbert, you haven’t much nbsyical strength or weight to lay upon the altar of your country.’ lie said, -No but 1 have a whole heart: it is as bi« as anybody's.’ He had read durinS the whole time that he was enlisted as one uf the members of the Ohio Guard something of the oppression which the subjects of Spain had passed through during the last few years. lie bad read the reports which appeared regularly in the newspapers of the hardships and trials and tyranny exercised over the Cubans, our next-door neighbors. Jfc had read those liory appeals made in congress by senators from Nebraska and Vermont, lie was well acouainted with the blowing up of our battleship Maine, and his heart was filled to fullness, as was the heart of every patriotic American citizen And thus when the call came from the President, asking for troops to go forth and .defend our country from the insult which had oecn heaped upon it, and to devote their lives in behalf of the liberties of an oppressed people, Elbert Patterson undcistcod the situation and had as full and complete understanding of the mission of his service as any member who went out in Co. H. While then a frail and fragile youth, his heart was overflowing in the cause for which lie had been enlisted.ertliblruthtl.tlithbeDihhhewltooffatheincweSGJpG(LinincnuylooCl)hitlfaOaiIIhicco’] u w;joauiuHirhitS,‘Were I so tall to reach the pole,Or grasp the ocean with my span—1 masc hj measured by ray soul.J ha mind 3 tne standard of the man.We must not despise our youn^ soldiers. When we saw the boys leave lortsmouth on that ever-to-be-j remembered morning, many of ush
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Portsmouth Daily Times
Portsmouth, Ohio, US
Mon, Oct 31, 1898
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