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Newspaper
The Blackfoot Optimist
Location
Blackfoot, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1915
Page
3
Poem-like reminiscence of veterans longing for parade days as a graveyard of time looms. An aged speaker envisions marching with comrades Bob Lane Hen McClure and others, hearing drums and bugle calls while facing fading steps and gray skies, longing for one last roll call with his wife Kate.
Hilma, a young immigrant from Sweden, spends Memorial Day away from home to deliver lilacs to a grave she fears reveals her hidden life. She hopes for human sympathy but faces indifference at the Winthrops. Her longing for family, exile, and a lost past hangs over a day of ordinary routines.
Col David J Palmer, commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, will lead another review of veterans next September at the national encampment in Washington. His Twenty-fifth Iowa regiment first paraded before President Johnson in 1865 after Union victory on Pennsylvania Avenue. Palmer, left for dead at Shiloh, recovered to fight in key campaigns. This semicentennial event will be a major highlight in Washington.
The evacuation of Corinth on May 30, 1862, marked a pivotal Union victory that shifted power in the Mississippi Valley. Union forces under Halleck advanced via Old Farmington, cutting Beauregard’s rail links as Sherman probed the fortifications, while Confederate hopes dissolved with the enemy’s retreat toward Mobile.
A long held rule kept Federal monuments in federal cemeteries and Confederate memorials in Confederate grounds. Over time grudging feelings faded and soon Yankee and Confederate graves bore mutual flowers. In 1872 a Confederate widow gave her child a Confederate flag to place on a Yankee grave, sparking reflection on reconciliation.
Foreigner puzzled by how Civil War veterans became peaceful citizens as Memorial Day emerged from joint North South observances. The idea began with Confederate graveside tributes in Richmond and Mississippi women in 1867, inspiring Gen. Logan to formalize a combined ceremony in 1868, later popularized nationwide. The Fitzgerald, Georgia monument by Mine and Gray Memorial Association embodies this reconciled commemoration.
The piece laments aging veterans leaving public life, honoring their long service and blessing the nation. It reflects on the sacrifice and inspiration old soldiers provided to the public for generations, asking who would deny them praise and support in their final years.
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