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thought it was too bad that boys who bad never been beyond the limit ofHllr /lmpWlun -- wnvi Vliu 1 I 11 ■ ■ Iour firesides should go out do such-------- £ V UUU UU 3UHI clhazardous mission. And I know that it was the feeling ou the part or many that these boys were uot aware of the greatness of their undertaking. But 1 think that if any uation on earth has learned to honor the youthful soidler, it Is the American nation, me average age of the soldier iu the army of the Potomac during our Civil war was twenty-two. General Gordon, of whom there is so much being said at the present time, who lost his litc a few years ago, who is respected and beloved by all the nations, put down tneTnS Ping rebellion in China when he was but thirty years of age: Reynold Mackenzie was prooonnced by Gen. Gruut to be the iinest division olliccr in the whole Union array when he was only twentv-one year's ot age. Skobeloir, the Russian lt;*en-eral,. was ordered to Turkestan, capture the Khan and aded Kliokand as a part of the Russian empire when lie was only twenty-one years of age: Napoleon forced the bridge at Lodi when lie was just twentv^scvon; bbcridan was just thirty when lie sent Early up the .Shenandoah valleylike a whirlwind. J“The question has been raised in my mind, how did Elbert Patterson ever become a soldier, and it is all perfectly clear to me tcdav. Before tie was nine years old be had read the story of Grant, Sheridan, of Sherman, cr Ifarragut, a book on the .Naval Heroes, the Boys of ’7(5 and the Boysoi 01, and the secret of his soldierJyambition and sacrifice can be traced back to those books which were placed in his hands at that early time in his life by his father. I t was perfectly natural tiicn that ho should enlist as one of the Ohio Guards years before he was called into any active sci vice, and we were not surprised that when the war broke out in reality that he plead with liis father not to take him out of service, though howas under ago. Blending with long-drawn-out sentences in bis letters that he loved the calling and that he leifc God had laid upon him, small and vnung though lie was, a great mission, to lend his feeble band toward Lhe emancipation of Llic downtrodden and oppressed. History is full ui mistakes, where men’s lives have been influenced by their rendirm Lpectctus, a poor slave orEpophm-cntim, who lived in the third storv of a Roman slum, with no property in the world but a straw pallet and an iron lamp, wrote the book which shaped the whole life of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, John Bunyan read around the iireside of his father’s home just two books—the Holy Bible and Box's Book of Martyrs, and, catching their spirit, he wrote a book of his own which has done more «ood in the world than any other book? excepting the word of God. Napoleon read the writings of Rcyuat and Ros-seau. and r.hnv filler! ■ • -•He)n.Albertje.Withe Sad. viceruing. bad Rico their iccas-aevcroutii. 3 and ys incctlyfs of they cun-rnredthatRichclowpres-Tliedeep oc-i inser-wasi iii-rls*L.whonedthetheUghjcrtthe:gmbutsnscivc!sitesofanstiercm-ols,nd,ICO,mdL.'Ifl**'f(f'fKm I ... 111.
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Portsmouth Daily Times
Portsmouth, Ohio, US
Mon, Oct 31, 1898
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