The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, January 15, 1904, Page 3, Image 5
HIS FAREWELL AT APPOMATTOX.
General Gordon's Eloquent and RMnging
*ords On The Last Battlefield Of The
Great War.
Edwin D. Newton, M. D., Late
Surgeon A. N. V.. in Augusta
Chronicle.
After the death of General"Stone
wall" Jackson, Gen. John B. Gor
don may be said to have been the
"right hand" of General Lee, owing
to his thorough knowledge of strat
egy, his habits of watchfulness of
the mo,ements of the enemy, and
the irresistible dash with which he
led his daring veterans upon the
field.
General Gordon was a born sol
dier, a true son of Mars. He was
as modest as he was brave and of
course,: in his recent lectures did
not tell of his own many deeds of
valor, as they were witnessed or
known to the veterans of Lee's
army. I was at Appomattox and
beg leate to mention a few incidents
connected with the gallant Gordon:
By order of Sergeant Lafayette
Guild, medical director of the Army
of Northern Virginia, xho had im
provised a small field hospital for
the wounded, of our last "skirmish"
on the morning of the surrender.
On the day following, while taking
a little rest from our labors when
in conversation with my brother
medical officer, we were most agree
ably surprised by a salutation from
General Gordon, as he rode up to
our campfire. General Gordon and
I were college boys together at the
University of Georgia, he a senior
and I a Freshman. He addressed
me in his old, familar manner:
"N:d, get your horse and ride with
me, I am now on my way to
make a last address to my soldiers
of che Second corps and the right
wing of the army."
In a few moments we were facing
the soldiers who loved him so well
and were ever proud to follow him
in battle. Stil in his saddle and
surrounded by his staff, all of whom
were mounted, General Gordon ad
vanced a pace to the front, and with
all the winning grace of a soldier,
removed his hat and addressed his
veterans. I can only give the ideas
in the crude form, for the address,
with the lapse of years is now but
a memory of this sad and eventful
occasion:
"My Countrymen and Fellow
Soldiers: Already has cur great
commander, Gen. Robert E. Lee,
spoken an affectionate farewell to
the Army of Northern Virginia. No
pen or words can add to his touch
ing and patriotic address. I ~oeg,
however, as your late corps com
mander, the privilege of a few words
in this sad bour of parting. Let me
assure you that my heart goes out
to each and every one of this gallant
corps in this dark hour of disaster.
Do not doubt, my fellow soldiers,
that the future historian will give
to you a full measure of your marti
al glory. Yon battle flags, now
furled, tell of your heroic achieve
mentst Thousands of your corn
rades, in almost. every plain in his
toric old Virginia, sleep the sleep
of death, yet the death of glory.
But few survive -the fierce conflict
of civil war. And only a remnant
is before me today, to tell the story
of the battles :cd privations of the
Second Army cerps-:the old corps
of Stonewall Jackson. This dorps
and this army of Northern Virginia
*will be remembered as long as the
names of Stonewall Jackson and
Robert E. Lee will be treasured by
a grateful people. Overwhelmed
by superior numbers and almost in
exhaustible resources, together with
the untiring energy and dauntless
courage which has ever marked the
military movements of the great
leader of the Federxal army, General
Ulysses S. Grant, the army of North
ern Virginia, an army of heroes,
decmatedAby attle, disease and
privations, through four years of
almost continuous warfare, will now
disband, never perhaps, to meet
again.
iWith our last parting let me
impress upon you one or two thou
ghts, which I trust will go with you
to your homes and firesides. Re
member, that in God's providence
we have surrendered not to a for
eign foe, but to our own country
men. In the exhibition of your
fortitude in the face of di6aster, ever
be as great and as good as citizei:s
as you have been great and heroic
as soldiers. Ever be the model citi
zen, as you have been the model
soldier. Obey the civil law, no mat
ter how odious the same may be
temporarily. Discharge every (1.1ty
as a citizen to your respective states
and ,to the general government.
Sustain the poor, help the feeble,
and succor the unfortunate in your
midst, and by so doing you will
command not onlv the admiration
and respect of the world, but win
the friendshio and confidence of
those who are now your political
enenn: es.
"Fellow soldiers, with my love
and my benediction resting upon
each and every one within. the sou
nd of my voice, I now bid you fare
well. May Go$ in his infinite mercy
and kindness, protect and bless you
and yours, now and forever."
No words can truly express the
touching eloquence and tender pa
thos of the speaker or paint the
scenes of that sad parting. It was
like a last good bye from brother to
brother. With moistened eyes the
veterans grasped the hand of their
gallant leader. They retire, form
in groups, and speak in subdued
tones. Comrade and comrade shake
hands and paLt. Slowly they return
to their bivouacs in the open field,
where stand the stacked arms in
mute eloquence, the bayonets clasp
each other as if in the last embrace
of death. The battle flags, rent
with shot and shell, are now furled
forever. The Second Army corps
of the Army of Northern Virginia
is no more, except as it shall ever
live in history and in story, in
poesy and in song.
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