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Title: Field, camp, hospital and prison in the civil war, 1863-1865; Charles A. Humphreys, chaplain, Second Massachusetts cavalry volunteers
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Humphreys, Charles Alfred, 1838-
Subjects: United States. Army Massachuesetts Cavalry Regiment, 2nd (1862-1865) United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Prisoners and prisons
Publisher: Boston, Press of Geo. H. Ellis Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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betterthan I did. Friends, am I not right in making humility the finest aroma ofthat most famous life.? We read in the Old Testament thatwhen Huldah, the prophetess, came to King Josiah, whosemerciful and popular reign had revived Jewish loyalty and re-established the ancient glory of the Hebrew state, she said,Thus saith Jehovah, Because thine heart was tender, and thouhast humbled thyself before the Lord, therefore thou shalt begathered to thy grave in peace. Again has that prophecy beenfulfilled, and the greatest soldier has become the truest messengerof peace. 340 NOTES Last evening, as the slant rays of the declining sun threwtheir sheen over the Hudson and up the bluff by the Riverside,a soldiers bugle sounded over the great Captains grave the callto sleep. To-day, in the proud hearts of a nation saved, he risesto live again and forever. His battles fought, his duties done,His countrys life by valor won.That call was but a reveilleTo wake to immortality. THE NEW YPUBl ^ • ASTC
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IN HONOR OF THE CITIZEN SOLDIERS OF DORCHESTERWHO FELL IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION, i86i-i86s TRIBUTES *IORATION At the Dedication of the Soldiers Monu-ment IN Dorchester, September 17,1867, BY Rev. Charles A. Humphreys. Friends and Fellow-citizens:— As we stand under the shadow of this monu-ment which we dedicate to-day, its silentpointing to the heavens, its voiceless record ofnoble names, remind us that our theme isbeyond the power of words to portray, and thatsilence is here the most fitting eloquence.All great things are silent,—the eternal hills,the ocean in its depths. They have no speechnor language; yet their peaceful stillness ismore eloquent than the roar of tempests at thesurface, or the blast of winds at their summit.So this silent orator tells more eloquently ofthe grand achievements and the glorious deeds 342 TRIBUTES of our heroes than any spoken eulogy thatmortal lips can frame. How impressive is itssimple silence! It bears no record of thevalor of our soldiers; i

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