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From the Ilawkinsville Dispatch.
Hold up Your Heads Brave
Men!
Addressed to the Soldiers of Lee's Army.
BY ROBERT FALLIGANT.
[The following lines were recited at
the late banquet to the Press, in Savan
nah, by their author, Captain Falligant,
who, at our request, kindly furnished us
with a copy for publication. They will
be appreciated by every true Confederate:
—Ed. Disp.]
Hold up your heads, brave men!
No stain is on your brow!
You have buried your brothers by rock
and glen—
Let your souls be true to them as when
They died in the battle's glow!
’Twas Freedom's trumpet call,
When the lied Cross was unfurled !
And they fell as heroes ever fall!
And that flag became their funeral pall !
Which was lifted against the world!
Let not the foeman think
That we crouch to a coward fate !
We have inspiration they dare not drink;
\al the memories of our Dead will link
With a never dying hate !
Can we forget the past —
All who have fought with Lee ?
What though our sky be overcast ?
The reigu of tyrants will end at last*—
We can ! we will be free !
Wait for the glorious hour,
With souls nerved for the fight;
And we’ll teach these haughty foes to
cower,
When our country stands in her match
less power,
To demand anew her right!
Hold up your heads, brave men !
No stain is on your brow !
You have buried your brothers by rock
and glen—
Let your souls be true to them as when
They died in the battle’s glow !
Louisville, Ky., May, 1865.
11% UEHORIAi?!.
DEAD OF THE CONFEDERATE ARMIES.
From the Baltimore Gazette.
With the dust of one of our burial places
are now mingled the ashes of many sol
diers who died for a cause which our peo
pie thought just, but which has been
beaten down and pronounced to be lost.
Whatever we may now think or feel, we
utter no unavailing regrets. But our
sorrow and reverence for the men who so
died are unabated, and on this day it is
proposed to oiler a slight testimonial of
the affectionate remembrance in which
we hold them by strewing their simple
graves with flowers. Iu Loudon Dark
Cemetery, at 4 o’clock this afternoon,
this ceremony will take place. The dead
whose memory we thus desire to com
memorate were not of our own people,
though they gave up their lives upon the
.'oil of Maryland, and for what they right
ly deemed to be her cause as well as
their’s. They were from far distant
States, and, thinking of their graves, their
kindred may possibly recall the lines of
the Irish poet who touchingly referred to
the fate of some of those who had once
fallen in an unsuccessful struggle for the
rights of Ireland :
‘‘Some on the shores of distant lands
Their weary hoarts have laid,
And by the stranger’s heedless hands
Their lonely graves were made.
But though their clay be far away
Beyond the Atlantic foam—
In true men, like you men,
Their spirit’s still at home.”
As the kind hands of their loved and
loving ones can throw no leaf of laurel
or of cypress upon the clay which covers
the remains of those whom they deplore
and honor, let our people show to-day
that we are neither ashamed nor unmind
ful ot the Confederate dead.
MEMORIAL OFFERING AT LOUDON FAR.K
THE ANNUAL FLORAL TRIBUTE.
The annual memorial offering of tho
ladies of Baltimore to the graves of the
Confederate heroes who repose quietly
beneath the green sward of Loudon Park
Cemetery could not but awaken an in
terest throughout the entire community,
and it may be said the deep solemnity
and interest attending the ceremonies at
Loudon Park Cemetery yesterday were
beyond precedent, and without parallel
in the history of Baltimore.
The entire scene was one of the most
impressive nature, and the occasion thus
beautifully celebrated cannot fail to as
sist in strengthening the tie of sympathy
and affection which already unites the
people of Maryland with those of the late
Confederate States.
THE PREPARATIONS
By the Loudon Park Memorial Associa
tion, of which F. B. Loney, Esq., is
President, and Mr. J. Wesley Smith
Secretary, have been quietly progressing,
and through their exertions the arrange
meats were all completed in a satisfactory
manner.
THE WEATHER.
The recent necessary postponement
occasioned by the unfavorable weather,
it was feared, would prevent a large at
tendance yesterday, as the Cemetery had
been visited on Saturday last by several
hundred persons, and the graves covered
with flowers; but in this respect all were
agreeably surprised, and as the morning
dawned propitiously for the ceremony an
unusual interest in the celebration was
soon made apparent among those desirous
of participating, and thousands were soon
engaged in preparing their floral tributes
of affection.
THE FLORAL OFFERINGS
Consisted in part of the most elaborate
and exquisite wrdaths, crosses, garlands,
crowns, bouquets, and other devices of
the rarest and costliest exotics that could
be procured, and were the almost exclu
sive offerings of Baltimore’s fairest daugh
ters, to whom the pleasing task of provi
ding the annual floral tribute had been as
signed, and who, it is unnecessary to say,
responded promptly and in a manner not
soon to be forgotten by those who wit
nessed with feelings of the deepest emo
tion their action at the graves yesterday,
where with gentle hands they arranged
the flowers on the green mounds that
mark the resting places of nearly three
hundred of the soldiers of the armies of
the Confederate States.
THE ROUTE TO THE CEMETERY.
The hour of four o’clock having been
determined upon for the assembling ot
the visitors, and notices to that effect
having been promulgated, the visitors
began their preparations soon after the
hour of noon, and for several hours there
after the cars of the City Passenger Bail
way transported hundreds of persons to
the Catonsvilie Depot, where they took
passage in extra cars provided for their
accommodation by the Catonsvilie Bail
way Company.
Other conveyances were also brought
into requisition, and probably three
fourths of those present proceeded to the
Cemetery in their elegant private con
veyances, forming an animated and at
tractive scene on the Frederick avenue,
from the city limits to the Park, une
qualled since the decoration of the Con
federate graves on the last occasion. A
drive of thirty minutes brought the visit
ors to the Cemetery, and alter an unim
portant delay they passed through the arch
way at the gtand entrance, and stood
AUGUSTA, GUA_.,
WITHIN THE CEMETERY GROUNDS.
The several avenues leading from the
entrance to that portion of the enclosure
occupied by the Confederate graves, was
soon lined with elegant equipages and
pedestrians, all laden with flowers arrang
ed in every conceivable device, and in
sufficient quantities to have covered the
graves of three times the number for
which they were designed. The interior
of the Cemetery presented an attractive
and beautiful appearance, the recent rains
having had the effect of refreshing the
foliage, and the rose bushes and the
creeping vines emitted a delightful per
fume, at once gratifying and pleasing to
the senses. In a' few moments every
avenue approaching the scene of the
ceremonies was filled, and persons arriv
ing in carriages were necessarily com
polled to descend from their vehicles and
wend their way on foot to
THE CONFEDERATE GRAVES,
Situated in a northeasterly direction, and
in one of the most picturesque portions
of this beautiful Cemetery. Surrounded,
as is this spot, by tall forest trees, the
graves are sheltered from both sunshine
and storm, and near many of the green
mounds there had been placed choice
shrubbery by' the hand of affection and
sympathy. *
ASSEMBLING OF THE VISITORS.
On reaching the graves, the visitors
arranged themselves near a temporarily
constructed stand on the north border of
the site, and patiently awaited the com
mencement of the exercises. The num
ber of visitors almost momentarily’ in
creased, and before the hour appointed
for the opening exercises, it may be safe
to say that nearly three thousand persons
were present, of whom probably two
thirds were ladies. While awaiting the
arrival of some speaker, the work of
ADORNING THE GRAVES
With the floral offerings was proceeded
with, and in a few moments each mound
(numbering in all nearly three hundred),
was made to “blossom as the rose.’’ it
may be remarked that on reaching the
graves the labor of love performed by
the visitors on Saturday last was noticea
ble, and each grave contained several
bouquets arranged by those who visited
the Cemetery on the day appointed for
the ceremony to take place.
PROCESSION OF ORPHANS AND OTHERS.
Before the services were begun there
arrived at the Cemetery about one hun
dred of the boy’s of St. Mary’s Industrial
School, and an equal number of the in
mates of the House of Refuge, who pass
ed around the graves, and arranged
themselves on the east side. Each of
the boys carried a bouquet, which lie <
quietly laid on the graves.
THE OPENING EXERCISES.
The House of Refuge Band arrived on
the scene a few minutes later, and, under
the leadership of Mr. Edward Grady,
performing a solemn dirge and several
other musical selections. The stand was
then taken possession of by F. B. Loney,
Esq., President of the Association; Mr.
J. Wesley Smith, Secretary ; Rev. Dr.
Huston, of St. Paul’s M. E. Church South;
Rev. George G. Brooks, Messrs. John
W. Davis, 11. Clay Dallam, Professor
Frederick Volck and several other gen
tlemen.
Rev. Mr. Brooks invoked the blessing
of the Almighty on those assembled, and
after repeating the Lord's Prayer, fer
vently prayed that all might be profited
by the sad and impressive solemnities of
the occasion.
On concluding the prayer, Mr. Brooks
introduced Mr. 11. Clay Dallam.
REMARKS OF MR. DALLAM.
Mr. Dallam said he had been, within
the last few minutes, invited to supply
the place of Rev. Drs. Dudley and Linn,
both of whom were unavoidably absent,
and who were to have made addresses.
Upon an occasion so solemn, sad and
touching as these memorial services arc,
and with these impressive surroundings,
and having sympathized most thoroughly
and fully with the cause for which these
bravo men yielded up their spirit, the
speaker remarked that it would require
no preparation, as the inspiration of the
moment was sufficient eloquence for the
purpose. The speaker esteemed it one
of the greatest privileges that the old
State of Maryland enjoys that these per
sons are buried on her soil, and cared for
by Maryland women. This is no time
to speak of the issues that brought forth
that which convulsed the Nation, and it
is sufficient to know that the remains of
the brave sons of the of Geor
gia, of Virginia, and other Southern
States, are here, and kindly tended by
Maryland’s love and Maryland’s sympa
thies. We can only siug the song of the
“Conquered Banner,” and feel a plcasuia
ble emotion in knowing that these re
mains are not in a strange land, but lie
peacefully in this beautiful place, soon
to be made more beautiful by the erec
tion of a remarkable shaft to commemo
rate still more effectually their many
virtues.
REMARKS OF REV. DR.. HUSTON.
Rev. Dr. Huston, of the St. Paul’s M.
E. Church South, was the next speaker.
He introduced his address by felicitating
himself that there were to be no prear
ranged speeches, I feel, said he, that this
is no place nor time for elaborate addres
ses. Nothing could be more inopportune
nor inappropriate than an oration. He
h >ped that the time would never come
when other attractions than those three
hundred graves will be required to re
mind the people of Baltimore of their
duty to the dead. Those green hillocks
are, and ever should be, the magnet that
will serve to attract us to this sacred
•pot.
It affected the speaker deeply to see
scores of familiar faces that he had not
seen since the last decoration day, all
attracted here to-day by a common sym
pathy; rejoiced to see the women of
Baltimore participants in this ceremony
and thus espousing the cause-' they be
lieved to be right. As I before said,
this is no time for a speech; such a time
has not, and I trust never will come.
How glad I am to see this great con
course of people, all engaged in their work
of love.
The speaker here referred to the fact
that the graves were uumarked by any
head-s tones, and said lie doubted not that
many felt the silent rebuke. He (the
speaker,) felt almost ashamed to wear so
fine a coat while nothing exists to mark
the burial place of the dead and enable
the sorrowing mother to arrange one
little flower over her offspring. Never
theless, the graves of all are adorned
alike. We now propose to erect a memo
rial that will defy the frosts of winter and
stand as a fitting offering to the Confede
rate heroes.
The speaker then referred to the monu
ment being executed by Prof. Frederick
Volck, a sculptor artist, and resident of
Baltimore, a portion of the work of which,
as already noticed, has arrived in this
City, and the work on the other portions
is being pushed to completion at Munich.
Continuing, Dr. Huston said this monu
ment is to represent Peace, and will be
surmounted by a figure representing one
who will be remembered by many Vir
ginians I see present—“ Stonewall Jack
son/' j Loud applause.] It would have
been executed before, but for the fact
that the means have not been forthcom
ing. Professor Volck now informs me
that it can be ready to be placed iu posi
tion by September next if the requisite
| amount can be obtained to defray the ex
! pense. The speaker here related several
| anecdotes, iliustating affecting scenes m
j occasions of a similar nature to this,
! during the recital cf which many of the
t attentive listeners were moved to tears.
| The speaker concluded by inviting sub
'scriptions to the monument fund, and an-
nounced the following gentlemen as a
committee to receive the several amounts
contributed : Messrs. John A. Hamble
ton, John W. Davis, George W. Burns,
Henry Duvall, Charles Ilodgins and
Luther Wilson.
THE MONUMENT FUND.
The simple appeal met with a prompt
and generous response, and in less than
fifteen minutes upwards of seven hundred
dollars was subscribed. Among the con
tributors were the following : John W.
Davis, President Police Board, $100;
Augustus Albert, SherifT, SSO ; W. J.
Green, S2O; Mrs. Charles Marshall, $10;
Joseph Pierson, $10; George W. Burns,
$10; George W. Knauff, J. Berry Ely,
E. Mills & Sons, l Wm. Deck, G. Holliday,
D. C. Fulton, Ja mes Hyde and James
Webb, each $5.
Os the remainder many subscriptions
were banded in, varying in amount from
twenty-five cents to ten dollars, the former
sum being contributed by an aged and
infirm woman, whose attire betokened
her extreme poverty. After the subscrip
tions had been received, “Maryland My
Maryland,” was performed by the band
in attendance, and, at the request of the
Association, Rev. Geo. G. Brooks made a
brief address.
REMARKS OF REV. DR. BROOKS.
This, said the speaker, is no unmeaning
ceremony; grand manifestations do not
become mourners. We have not assem
bled here to indulge in metaphysical
disquisitions concerning human rights
and constitutional laws, which have per
plexed philosophers and sages for cen
turies, and deluged our land in blood,
and served to make it one vast mauso
leum. The spirits of these brave men,
whose remains now quietly repose be
neath our feet, have departed, and are
now resting beneath the shady trees in
Paradise. And methinks I see the faces
of these men who met face to face on the
bloody battle-field from the North, South,
East and West, those who fell and whose
bodies now mingle with the dust. I
think I see them all in love’s embrace,
standing in the blight sunlight on the
green fields of immortality. We are not
here to rekindle the strife that is past,
but to burn incense on the altar of those
we love, to offer our sympathies on the
altar of Peace, and may it be the prayer
of this weeping multitude, let peace re
turn to our country. God grant us uni
versal and perpetual peace. We have
received a lesson, and one by which we
shall all, I trust, profit in the future.—
The storm has swept over us and bereft
us of almost everything except our hope
of Heaven and our dying honor.
“0 long may my heart with such mem-
Ties be filled;
Like the vase in which roses have once
been distilled,
You may break, you may shatter the vase
if you will,
But the scent of the flowers will cling to
it still.”
CLOSING CERE Mi )NIES.
The services throughout were of the
most interesting and solemn character,
and nothing occurred to mar the impres
siveness of the scene. On the conclusion
of Dr. Brooks’ remarks, the visitors
quietly left the Cemetery and returned
to the City, all deeply impressed with the
exercises they had witnessed.
MEMORIAL DAY AT FREDERICK.
Frederick, Md., June 4, 1870. —Un-
der the supervision of the Confederate
Memorial Association of Frederick coun
ty, to-day the ladies of this City and
County performed the beautiful ceremony
of distributing flowers over the graves
of the Confederate dead now lying in
Mount Olivet Cemetery. Notwithstanu
ing the unfavorable weather, the bursts
of sunshine being interrupted by frequent
showers from flying, ragged clouds, the
exercises wore attended witu a success
that was more than gratifying to those
who took an active part in them, and to
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