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hBy JAMES A. EDCERTON. [Copyright by American Frees Association, 1011. JSINCE its establish meat in 1863 f Memorial day has grown stead I iiy In popular regard as the must touching of our patriotic holidays. This year it has an added significance in that we are celebrating || the semicentennial of the beginning ofA*®-'*.the great war in commemoration of which the day was founded.The list of Union dead in 1863 was not a long one, few big battles having been fought. Bull Run, Balks Bluff, Big Bethel and Wilson Creek wereabout the only engagements worthy ofnote. During the first year both sides were feeling their way and preparingfor the campaigns of the future. Therewas only one Federal general lost, buthe was a man of great promise. General Nathaniel Lyon. There were six Union colonels and several minor otti-cers among the year's dead, the two most conspicuous being Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth and Colonel Edward D. Baker, Lincoln's friend.The first to fall in point of time was Colonel Ellsworth. The three events that aroused the north to fever pitchmilitary secretary to Gen oral Butler. When killed at Big Bethel while lead fng u charge of his troops he was thirty-throe years old. Among his effects were found two novels in manuscript, which were published after his death.Bull Run took the heaviest toll of officers lt;f any battle in 1801. On the Confederate side two brigadier generals and other officers were on thelist. The Union officers killed were Colonel James 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 theFirst Rhode Island and Captain Otis IT. TilUnghast, 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 representatives and judge advocate general of the state militia. Captain TlIHnghnst was a West Point man and had served in the Mexican war.General Nathaniel Lyon, who was killed a* Wilson Creek. \fo.. on
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McCook Tribune
Mccook, Nebraska, US
Tue, May 30, 1911
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