Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill LOVE OP COUNTRY A Royal Grace Of Character—An Over-sweeping Virtue There is one scene which, by reason of many suggestions connected with this sadly interesting and significant service, keeps rising upon my sight. It represents the first grenadier of France. Such was his nobility and such his humility that he, disdaining promotion, preferred fighting on in the ranks, continuing his faithful service until he fell, the foremost of the brave. Such was his spirit — and the inspiration of his death — that Napoleon ordered his name should be called as if he was still a part of the living and effective force of the army. Hence his name was kept upon the rolls, and as often as its syllables were pronounced, the sergeant of his company stepped two paces forward and saluted and gave this answer: "Dead upon the field of Honor." Such men cannot die. Life with them has a resurrection, a power which death only can heighten. I have thought much of these words as the graves of your comrades have been strewn with flowers. I look off to "God's Acre," where lies the turf in many a mouldering heap, and your roll, read here in our hearing, suggests many that are dead upon the field of honor. But they are notdead. By laying down their lives they came to earthly immortality. They live in our memories. Their example lives. They live in a redeemed and in a re-united nation, for the maintenance of whose institutions they stained the field with blood. So have I stood among the graves at Arlington Heights until more than fifteen thousand of our valiant men seemed to surround me. When I commune with them they say to my spirit, "All this sacrifice was for just one cause. There is no diversity of sentiment among us. We died for just one thing, and that one object is worth to you all that it is in o...