Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1911 — A Massachusetts Soldier. [ARTICLE]

A Massachusetts Soldier.

I trust I may refer with propriety to what a member of the Supremo ' court of the United States, a learned judge who carries some of the country’s best blood, and who spilled somn of it on several fields, told me onw evening, before a quietly burning wood fire, of 'an impression made on him at the Wilderness. In the midst of darlfcA: ness and widespread panic, veteran regiments and brigades of the Sixth corps breaking badly, an officer who had only casually gained his atten--tlon called out above the din, in a voice of perfect control: ‘‘Steady,’ steady—Massachusetts!” The gallant regiment steadied, and the incident left, as an enduring memory, the coot voice of an obscure officer still ringing across the vanished years, Morris Schaff in the Atlantic. g Nay, we think, in fact we know, that the final test of the soldier is lyhen the colors move forward or the enemy comes on at them —thank God, for an the tender and Iron-hearted young fellows who have stood It _./