"the Die No Mores."

A.1 Mie National Day at Bay View. J'.ev. A. .1. Patmer, ol New Vork, gaye the toUowing excellent account ol & body oí Union soldiers. It is weU wortfh preserving: "The garrullty oí oíd BOldlers la proverbial. The men wlio have taken ,-ui active part in stirrlng acenea and hero lc deede ave ever dellgbted to teil of it. Sometimos thoy talk oí it too mnch. A brig-ht boy once said, "Fathor wliy dldn't you gel soinebody ti) help you Hek the rebels?" That was a smart boy, bnt lic was aleo a. mean hoy. tor he lacked the element of generosity. "The private soldier was backbone oí ilic war. When I was a boy I (lid not think The private soldier went in t.he front ol the Kin;,', but (rom Hbs pictures f generáis rlding far in front, mul private soldiers trylng hard to keep in slght of their leaders, I got the idea that the officera were t!e ones who did the Hghting in front. But about thirty years ago I dteoovered bhal thia plan of battie was exactly rev rsi'd. 1 oliserv'il tiiai th.' private soldiers occupled tfae front ranks and tliat the ofticers were arranucd back of tiiem in the order of their rank. Before a ballet OOUld kil! corporal it must pass throu.n'h two private soldiers in front of him. In order to hnrm a sergeant the bullet had to pass througta two privates and a corporal. To kill a captain, tlie ball must pass throush two soldiers, a corporal and a sergeant. The lmllet -vvliicli hit a major had to jro through two soldiers, onc corporal, and a sergeant. 'Po kill e ookmel tbe ball must Hrsl pass tlirouüh two soldiere, a corporal, a sergeant, a captain and a major. To Int a major-general the enemy had to slioot Ëhrough two prlvates, a. corporal, sergeant, captain, major and colonel. And the major-general who was directlng tac battle was vi-win,; the aetion. glass In hand, from some hill-top two or three miles to the rear. 'So 'I tearned that the private soldler has a part to perlorm in the tragedy of battle, as well as tlie greal generáis whose manes are emblazoned on pages oí history and "vvlio are usually s lokrn of as though tlioy dld it all. ■('liinpnn.Y D' was a oompany o! private soldiere recruited trom the studente of au pastera school. They ■n-ere the sous of merchante, mechanics and farmers, preparing ia that school for the duties of life. But when the war-sounds of '(il echoed through the college halls they lald thelr hooks liever to take tliem up agaln. Their Latín teacher became their eaptain, and they went to the distaut BOnth. How dld they net their Boubriquet, the Die-no-Mores? 'i'iuy (ame by it in this marnier: As they were the Bons of Ohristian people tfcey loved the sacred songs they had learned in their homes and used to 6ing tliom around the camp-fires. Amonjr these songa was the one with the vefrain: We're g-oing home to die no moro.' In jest the boys of the other companles began to civil thein tho members of Co. D after the title of this hyinn, and tiiey were kiiown thraceforrh aa the 'Dte-no-Mores.' -I cannot iollow them throngh the ehanging (brtunea ol tbeir army Ufe, hut wlll select for brief descrlption the foMowing scènes: (1) TIn' assault on Fort Vfagner, where the majority of the members of tho company laid down thelr Uves. (2) A glance at the prison Ufe whlch the surviTOrs were docnued to Buffer at Bellt' Islc. (3) And in conclusión it m;iy be proper to aak bhe question, why diil tlK'y die? ■'Kuit Wagner Btood on Morris [sland, a barren stretob of samd washed by i Wc waters of Charleston Harbor. And khere in the Bumraer i ";:: the Dle-no-Mores periahed and were lald beneath the ensanguined sands, In Buch munters that the wavps oí every storm nnearth tbeir whitened bañes, and childrcn cannoi play apon The ghore without discovering these ghastly relies. The fort was ciniKtructeil of s:nd and the moni waa a verltable death trap for the man who ventured to cross it. The fort was so strong thnt General Beauregard boasted that it withstood for eight daya the heaviest assault known in military liistory. It was garrisoncd by 1,700 men. In front of tilla fort the Mores found theinsclves in July, 1863. The bombardment began o:n the lOth and continued until the 18th. All day loog trom ship and Khorc the fierce cannociadc playcd upon the fort; and on the final, fatal day, just as the sim went down, Strong's brigade, to which the Die-no-Mores belonged, was order- ed to fall In and make tle aesault. There weiv six regiments- three thonsand men iin all- of tlie clioicest youth of the Republic. As the sun weni down, a, storm was gatherlng in the southern sky. Ah. mothers! As yon knelt to pray on that suinmer evcning, llttle yon knew of the awful danfeer which threatened your boys on the saiuly ghore of Morris IsUmd. The lxmibardment had ceased, save the discharge of an oceasional gun trom Fort Sumpter, and in ome of the Intervals of awful silence the command Tfl make the aasanlt was given, and the members of the 'fighting brignde' resolved to do their duty. Forward tlioy marched and waen the column had almoet reached the mouths of the cannon, the great guns of tlie fort ere fired and mowed the .iss.uiltinff SOldlerg down by the hundreds. In an Instant not a living man stood Avithin ten fect of me. Then quiek darkness of a Southern night had fallen upom uk, tiie volee of tbe storm .nul the raoan of the sea were the fit accomipanimente of that awlul wein of death and terror. In the thick d:i:-k ness the eye of God alone eould see nrvivors, bul bhey did not despair, they rushed forward to the fort, they climbed the enibantment in the rear, they drove the rebels trom their guna and a few minutea later thla Uttle handfnll ol survivors- 1 lo in number, itli not an officer among thëni - stood on the bastions and resolved to hold the fort uittil morning il posslble. As the Confedérales were near, the little bend ic] the need uf speedy reinlorceincnls i: they were lo Jinld wliat they had ?alned, luit no aid was sent. They defended the positlon ns best they could during the first half of that awful night, whlle their dead comrades lay in ghastly heaps around -hem. but about tnidnitclit tlie rebels came apon thm trom all tiicies and in overwhelming numbers, sa that they had no aheniative but to surrender. Yon niay ransack the pages of hlstory Imt you will fiiul no record of a rfobler deed than that ol the m' hundred mul torty private soldiere who held ihat fort until mldnlght. "No monument lias been erected there, not eren a Blgn-board lo teil the passing sallor that anything unusual bappened on that sandy island. i'.ui teara were brought t.i my ■■yes when I reVlslted the spo1 eleven yeara afterwards, and saw a bed of flowera blooming apon t he sand whlch covers them. How they cama there no one knows, lm; what nobler monument eould tliry have tlian the beantiful flowera which mark last resti:iir place? "The nrxt morniiag after our capture we were taken through the Btreets of Charleston, and the moto crled out, 'Hang thom up!' We were put into Jall and tor three days had no food. On the third day they brought us a dinner, not siu-h a dinner a.s I hope yon have all had to-day, but- musli- carried to us in a tut. Bul 11 tasted so good tlvat I havo never allowed anybody, in my presence, to sp.ak disrespeetfully of mush since tha1 day. We were hustlèd on board a train and afaipped toward Biohmond. While stopping at a little station a negro ívciman carne around witta a chlcken luí' Sor sale. Slie asked tweníy dollars 6or tlie pie, and said sho didn't think that was much for sucli fine locking gentlemen as wc were. The Die-no-Mores dld a great many wlse tlungs in Uielr time, but I dom't kimw of a shrewder thing than their leader's proposition to the colored woman that we Bhould have the privilege of tasting the pie bofore buying it. She ü'il. We U.'U'an the process of fcasting it and had omly lalrly started lu'ii the train moved ff and left the darkey ple-baker witu a look of profound astoniatunent on her tace, r.ut as you are Ohautauquans I will endeavor to demonstrad - ns I lid to a southern gentleman at Chautauqua when I lectured títere - tliat we ciiil not wrong that pie-merchaot. (1) We were subject only to the laws of war which anthorlze confiscation. (2) ffc were starving in the cause which was to treedon to tlmt colorod ivoman and she could v■ll aflord to contribute a pie to support. (3) 9he had probably stolen the cliickens out of whlch the pie was made .■mil therefore had no ria-lit to sdl the meat. (4) Siic asked $20 in Confedérate money wihlcb was practieally worth nothing; we paid her nothing; now as tilinga which are equal to the same tning are equal to each other, tliereforo we paid as much as slic asked. "We were kept at Oolumbia a short time and I remember tlu water-melons of that place with much pleasure. I teel, as Hamlet toucüngly remarkeil in regard to hi.s fathrr, 1 Bhall not todk apon their llke agaln. Theai we were hurried on t; Eichmond, guarded on our journey by only a half a dozen soldiere. We could have escaped, but as we understood we were to be paroüed as soon as we reaciied Itichmoud wc rad net make any.effort to gpet tree - i fact whieh we regretted afterwards. We were taken to Libby I'iison and soon afterwards to Belle Isle, wlbich was a far worse place. I used to describe the sulferings and horror wltnessed in that prisaa-pen but I dtm't do o any more. For the sa.kc of patriotism. for iln' sake of the united Xorth and South, 1 do not c:ir' to go into the details of tha1 awlul tiiiK' and place, lt was there ih.it most of the 140 8urvivors ol ihai dcadly attacfe on Fort Wagner perished. They dicd in the delirium oï patyiotism, feellng that tbey were helpinir to save bhelr country. "Why (lid tlicy die there? Do yon know tliat one-seventh of all the men who died to save The Onlon, dted i:i Bouthern prlsons? And there never wu a day wtien every one of these men could nut have walked out of those prtsons by taking the oath of allegiance to the Oonfederate Government, liut out of 40,000 prisoners, only i'i'J liavc Uren heard of who took t li ík iiK'thod of escape. "Why did tbey die. these plain, privatc soldlers who had no dreama of ambition, no hopes of glory? They died to save tlie Keputrile - for lilcrty. lik'' salvation, requlred a navior."