UNDER the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day; Love and tears for the blue, Tears and love for the gray. FRANCIS M. FINCH. THE BLUE AND THE GRAY THE stern arbitrament of war has fixed for all time the status of a perpetual Union: Let us hope that it will ever be composed of co-equal States in patriotic accord, with the memory of fratricidal strife obliterated, and only the glory of heroic deeds performed by THOSE WHO WORE THE BLUE THOSE WHO WORE THE GRAY treasured up in the sacred traditions of the whole American people. STITH BOLLING, Major General Commanding United Confederate Veterans. Petersburg. |