Joseph Foster
Published: 2017-12-21
Total Pages: 346
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Excerpt from The Soldiers' Memorial; Portsmouth, N. H., 1893-1921: Storer Post, No; 1, Department of New Hampshire, Grand Army of the Republic, Portsmouth, N. H.; With Record of Presentation of Flags and Portraits by the Post to the City; 1890 and 1891 To New Hampshire men the whole nation is a sepulchre for their blood has watered the soil of every state but their own, and their dust is rnouldering by every great river and in every mountain pass from Maine to Georgia-from the Charles to the Rio Grande and the Red River of the North. They died before Warren at Burr ker Hill, before Washington at Yorktown, under the eye of Jackson at New Orleans they were thrown in their hammock-shroud from the bloody deck of Paul Jones, and Lawrence, and Decatur, and Farragut; they marched with Sherman, they charged with Sheridan, they conquered with Thomas, thev fought it out on his own line with Grrant. But 110 soldier of mv native state ever fell on his own soil, or was buried in his dear native earth, unless the restless ocean cast his body on its narrow sea coast, or the love and care of parent, or brother, or child, restored to their sorrow and pride the corpse that had fallen a thousand miles from home. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.