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II By JAMES A. EDCERTON.[Copyright by American Frees Association, IUILJSINCE Its establisbmeet in 1868 Memorial day has grown steadily in {popular regard as the must i touching of our patriotic holidays. This year it has an added sig-nlficance iu that we are celebrating the semicentennial of the beginning of the great war in commemoration of which the day was founded.The list of Union dead in 180) was not a long one, few big battles having been fought. Bull Run, Ball’s Bluff, Big Bethel and Wilson Creek were about the only engagements worthy of note. During the first year both sides were feeling their way and preparing for the campaigns of the future. There was only one Federal general lost, buthe was a man of great promise. General Nathaniel Lyon. There were sis Union colonels and several minor officers among the year's dead, the twomost conspicuous being Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth and Colonel Edward D. Baker, Lincoln’s friend.military secretary to General Butler. When killed at Big Bethel while lead Ing a charge of his troops lie was thirty-three years old. Among his effects were found two novels in manuscript. which were published after hisdeath.Bull Run look the heaviest toll erf officers «'f any bar tie In tSGL On the Confederate side two brigadier generals and other officers were on the list. The Union officers killed were Colonel .lames Cameron of the Seventy-ninth New York. Colonel John S.Slocum of the Second Rhode Island. Major Sullivan Ballou of the same regiment. Captain Levi Tower of fho First Rhode Island and Captain Otis IT. TilUnghfist. chief quartermaster of General McDowell's army. Colonel Cameron had served in the Mexican war and had studied law in the office ! of President James Buchanan. Colonel Slocum had been a brevet captain in the Mexican war, promoted for gallant conduct at Contreras. Major Ballou had been clerk and speaker of the Rhode Island house of representativesand judge advocate general of the state militia. Captain TlIHnghnst wasn t I ‘“rti m t T \ it f i ■! riA frl if I fl CfU' ’ In
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McCook Tribune
Mccook, Nebraska, US
Tue, May 30, 1911
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