Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1891 — The Battles Over. [ARTICLE]

The Battles Over.

From an address delivered by Captain J. Conant Long on the occasion of the twenty-seventh anniversary of the Cairo expedition from Chicago: “I miss many youthful faces which were familiar to me twenty-seven years ago. What has become of the dark locks, the elastic step, and the bright eyes? It must be that “Some old fellow’s got mixed up with the boys. “Of those who were with us all that time the majoriiy have heard the long roll, taps have been sounded and their lights are out; but on “Fame’s eternal camping-ground (heir silent tents are spread. And Glory guards with solemn round the bivouac of the dead.”