Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1910 — Debt Owed to Boys In Blue. [ARTICLE]

Debt Owed to Boys In Blue.

It is, perhaps, difficult for many of the present generation to appreciate the nation’s obligations to the boys in blue. But for them we should have no union, and slavery would stain our civilisation. The nation can never repay ths debt it owes to these brave men. but it must never let the story of their heroic deeds perish from the annals of mankind or the memory of the genera tions yet to come.