cers, and especially to the enlisted men. "Thousands of the men in the ranks," said he, " deserve the credit that is given to the leaders. Many of them-foreigners - have no relatives on this side of the Atlantic who will ever hear of them again, yet they fight for the country they love, being actuated by genuine patriotism. I owe all my success to this patriotism, and I have never been more truly sensible of it than during my last campaign. For one, I shall never forget what is due to the men in the ranks."

Years afterward, when General Burnside had gone to join his fallen comrades in the cold bivouac of the dead, and the representatives of the people were paying their tributes of respect to his memory, Maj. Augustus H. Pettibone, the Representative from the First District of Tennessee, gracefully laid a sprig of mountain laurel on the grave of the deliverer of his section of the Country. Said he:

In the darkest hour of the Civil War it was his good fortune to lead the Union forces across the mountains and to bring back to our people the loved banner which their fathers had followed when Andrew Jackson led the Tennessee soldiers on the plains of Chalmette in the defense of New Orleans. And it is entirely safe to say that among the homes of the Union people of eastern Tennessee, no name is to-day held in dearer remembrance than his. His sojourn among them was marked by a flowing courtesy toward all men which softened the asperities of war, and made all to speak his praise. His urbanity, his leonine courage, his transparent honesty, his unquestioned integrity, his patriotism, which was as broad as the limits of the Union, stamped him a born leader of men. In my last interview with him he sent his good wishes to his old comrades, and expressed his warm regard for those whom he had succored in the dark days of war. While stoutly maintaining the Union cause, he so bore himself that those who had thrown their fortunes into the scale of the Confederacy were compelled to honor the Union general who was tender toward the women and children, the weak and the suffering of every age, class, and condition. Among our mountains hundreds of children have been named for him, for he won the heart-love of our people. But, sir, I speak no more of his renown:

Whatever record leaps to light,

He never shall be shamed.

THE SITUATION

SPEECH AT CHICAGO ON REORGANIZATION OF THE NINTH CORPS ITS REVIEW BY THE PRESIDENT- BATTLES OF THE WILDERNESS AND COLD HARBOR CHANGE OF BASE.

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RDERED to recruit and fill up the Ninth Army

Corps, and seeking rest, General Burnside returned to his home at Providence, accompanied from Cleveland by Mrs. Burnside. They were cordially received at Albany and at New York on their way, and at a dinner given to the general at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, the following characteristic story of Mr. Lincoln was told : A few weeks previous, when Mr. Lincoln had received telegraphic information that firing was heard in the direction of Knoxville, he simply remarked that he was "glad of it." One of his Cabinet, who knew the perils of Burnside's position, could not see why the President should be "glad of it," and he so expressed himself. "Why, you see," responded Mr. Lincoln, it reminds me of Mrs.

Sallie Ward, a neighbor of mine in Illinois, who had a very large family. Occasionally one of her numerous progeny would be heard crying in some out of the way place, upon which Mrs.

Sallie would exclaim,

There's one of my children that isn't dead yet."

Visiting in turn the capitals of New England, to encourage the recruiting of the Ninth Corps, General Burnside was made the recipient of many flattering testimonials of the public regard. At a

public dinner given to him in Boston, the following original song was sung by Samuel B. Noyes, Esq.:

"Here's a health to the heart that has weathered the storm!
To the hero who leaped at the bugle's first blowing,
And rushed where the war gathered black round his form,
Full-armed for God's vengeance and Treason's undoing!
Hail, hail to the chief, from the battle's red gloom,
With the smell of the strife on his cossack and plume!
For the welcomes of freemen to valor belong,

And the deeds of the brave are the glory of song.

"From thy far, well-fought fields, hail, O soldier! Well done!
Where thy squadrons still march and thy rifles are pealing,
Thy foes and the foes of thy country were one;

Thy friends are its friends one in faith as in feeling.
Three cheers for thy laurels, O guest of the Free!
From the border, the sea-board, the blue Tennessee;
For the welcomes of freemen to valor belong,
And the deeds of the brave are the glory of song."

Meanwhile stirring appeals were made to Union men to enlist in the Old Ninth Corps, which was to be recruited to fifty thousand men "for special service." It was understood that this "special service" was an expedition to South Carolina, and as the veteran regiments were recruited, they rendezvoused at Annapolis.

Among other Northern cities visited by General Burnside while he was recruiting the Ninth Corps, was Chicago, where an attempt had been made to denounce him. as an attempted assassin of liberty," because he had suppressed a newspaper published there when he was commander of the Department of the Ohio. A public reception was given him by the Board of Trade, and the hall was literally packed. He was eloquently welcomed by Doctor Daniel Brainard, and then spoke at greater length than he ever had before on the situation.

"In North Carolina and in East Tennessee," said he, "I had the gallant coöperation of officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates, to whom a glory is due. I disclaim for myself anything more than what belongs simply to the honest discharge of my duty to my country and my God. I have felt cheerful and sanguine from the beginning, for the simple reason that I have felt that every man should feel sanguine and cheerful when he has done. what he conceives to be his duty, regardless of the consequences. I have never felt that there was anything wrong done by me unless I felt that I had neglected to do something I ought to have done, and I never afterwards felt that I had done wrong when I felt satisfied at the time that I had done what was right.

"The presiding officer has referred," said General Burnside, to an act of mine which affected this community to a considerable extent, and had the appearance at the time

of an attempt to stifle the liberty of speech, and the liberty of the press. I am as much of an advocate for the liber.y of speech and of the press as any man on the face of the

MAP OF THE BATTLE FIELD OF SPO¶TSYLVANIA,

globe can be, but when I am sent into a department to command soldiers who are to fight the enemies of my country, and who should be strengthened in all possible ways by giving them encouragement, and by giving them clothes to wear, and food to eat and recruits to fill up their ranks; when I find men in that department opposing all these means of strengthening the soldiers in the army, I will strike these men in precisely the same way that I would strike an enemy in arms against them.