 | Society of the Army of the Potomac - United States - 1888 - 588 pages
...when that august tribunal declared : " That this was an indissoluble Union of indestructible States." The men who wore the blue and the men who wore the gray stand here to-day citizens of a common country, represented by a common flag. " Grim-visaged war hath... | |
 | Maine - 1892 - 466 pages
...old comrades and schoolmates, and have made new acquaintances ; we have exchanged war stories with the men who wore the blue and the men who wore the gray ; we have marched behind the banner, " Down with' tyrants and bosses" and cheered speeches of indignation, and... | |
 | Oscar Henry Cooper, Harry Fishburne Estill (F.), William Leonard Lemmon - United States - 1895 - 554 pages
...Ocean; — then we have shown how the differences in development and institutions between the North and South grew into hate and bloodshed; we have seen the...between the States stronger and more closely united. "The past, at least, is secure." New perils and problems will arise as conditions change ; but the... | |
 | Ratcliffe Hicks - Connecticut - 1896 - 378 pages
...previous condition of servitude. In most of the States, upon the reception committees, side by side, were the men who wore the blue and the men who wore the gray; and reception addresses were made in part by those who wore the blue and those who wore the gray. We... | |
 | Harry Cassell Davis - College readers - 1897 - 540 pages
...cross the dark river to the white tents of the silent, where are resting under the eternal truceflags the men who wore the blue and the men who wore the gray; all of whom did before God and man what they believed to bp the full measure of their duty. If by some... | |
 | William McKinley - United States - 1900 - 424 pages
...has crowded my mind — the difference between this scene and that of thirty-eight years ago. Then the men who wore the blue and the men who wore the gray greeted each other with shot and shell, and visited death upon their respective ranks. We meet, after... | |
 | 1901 - 104 pages
...the country, at that time disunited in sentiment, completely reunited in sentiment. He lived to see the men who wore the blue and the men who wore the gray stand shoulder to shoulder and side by side against the common enemy, fighting together in defending... | |
 | Edward Leigh Pell, James William Buel, James Penny Boyd - United States - 1901 - 544 pages
...has crowded my mind — the difference between this scene and that of thirty-eight years ago. Then the men who wore the blue and the men who wore the gray greeted each other with shot and shell, and visited death iipon their respective ranks. We meet, after... | |
 | 1901 - 104 pages
...the country, at that time disunited in sentiment, completely reunited in sentiment. He lived to see the men who wore the blue and the men who wore the gray stand shoulder to shoulder and side by side against the common enemy, fighting together in defending... | |
 | Alexander Kelly McClure, Charles Morris - Bookbinding - 1901 - 520 pages
...has crowded my mind — the difference between this scene and that of thirty-eight years ago. Then the men who wore the blue and the men who wore the gray greeted each other with shot and shell, and visited death upon their respective ranks. We meet, after... | |
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We can admire the heroic valor, the sincerity, the self-devotion shown alike by the men who wore the blue and the men who wore the gray; and... 
