 | Society of the Army of the Potomac - 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Oscar Henry Cooper, Harry Fishburne Estill (F.), William Leonard Lemmon - 1895 - 554 pages
...and bloodshed; we have seen the matchless courage and devotion to what they believed to be right of the men who wore the blue and the men who wore the gray ; we have seen how the " Stars and Stripes " prevailed over the " Stars and Bars." Our country has... | |
 | Ratcliffe Hicks - 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 - 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 - 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... | |
 | Alexander Kelly McClure, Charles Morris - 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... | |
 | Edward Leigh Pell, James William Buel, James Penny Boyd - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
