{"1": {"fulltext": "E\\nI\\n.J75 4-", "height": "3793", "width": "2402", "jp2-path": "shilohequestrian00gibs_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3825", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "shilohequestrian00gibs_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "SHILOH.\\nT\\\\\\nJl\\ninai iiii\\nERECTED by the VETERANS OF THE\\nMil Of fllllSSli.\\nUJ\\\\rrEILED APRIL 6lh, 1887.\\nMetairie Cemetery,\\nNe-w Orleans, L,a.\\nOEATION BY EANDALL LEE filBSOE\\nPicayune Job Print, QQ Camp Street,\\nIJew Orleans, La.", "height": "3529", "width": "2032", "jp2-path": "shilohequestrian00gibs_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "O.T(\\\\.\\ni\\nn", "height": "3508", "width": "2032", "jp2-path": "shilohequestrian00gibs_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "ORATION BY RANDALL LEE GIBSON.\\nLadies aivd Gentlemen The iiucounted multitude before\\nme and arouud me, aud that fills the wide spaces and broad\\navenues between yonder busy city of the living and this beau-\\ntiful city of the dead, attests the feeling which the occasion ex-\\ncites. The universal and pervading interest proclaims the pro-\\nfound impression that the day and the purpose of our assem-\\nbling have made upon the hearts of our countrymen.\\nOn behalf of the Veterans of the Army of Tennessee I ex-\\ntend cordial greetings and welcome to all to the chief magis-\\ntrates aud high officials of our own commonwealth and city\\nto the distinguished citizens from other States, among whom\\nare many of their comrades, renowned soldiers; to the Vet-\\nerans of the Grand Army of the Republic bringing flowers and\\nofferings of peace and good- will, once standing in opposing\\nranks, but now our neighbors, friends and fellow-citizens to\\nthe officers of our army, who represent the military honor and\\npower aud magnanimity of our united country and to Jeffer-\\nerson Davis, who, though beyond three-score years and ten^\\nremembering the friend of his youth, aud their associations in\\nmore arduous times, has come to mingle with the sons and\\ndaughters of Louisiana. Welcome, thrice welcome, venerable\\nsoldier, statesman, and patriot\\nThere was inscribed upon the first monument ever erected\\non this continent to commemorate jjatriotic services the follow-\\ning sentiment, by order of the Commons of South Carolina, in\\n1765 Time shall sooner destroy this mark of their esteem\\nthan erase from their minds the just sense of his patriotic vir-\\ntue. In spite of revolutions and dismemberments, civil strife\\nand wars, mutations of governments and opinions, the flight of\\none hundred aud twenty-two years, the colossal statue of the\\nEarl of Chatham, the great English Commoner, still stands in\\nthe city by the sea, and esteem for his patriotic virtue, extend-\\ning beyond the limits of the country whose liberties he cham-\\npioned, survives as widespread as the language his eloquence", "height": "3529", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "shilohequestrian00gibs_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "O.TfV.\\nenriched. E(iually enduring throughout all the vicissitudes of\\nhuman affairs shall be the esteem and the memorials of his\\nfellow-countrymen for the patriotic virtue and stainless charac-\\nter of Jefferson Davis.\\nAlthough a quarter of the century, twenty-five long years,\\ncrowded with extraordinary and absorbing events, the most\\nmomentous revolution of modern times, changing the relations\\nand face of all things, have passed over us, yet the battle of\\nShiloh has never ceased to engage the attention of the histori-\\nan and military critic, and remains fresh and vivid in the\\nrecollections of the survivors. And as ofteu as its anniversary\\nshall recur, there will arise before our miuds, out of the smoke\\nand din of the past, the figure of the matchless hero who fell at\\nthe head of the army on that bloody field\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the beloved leader\\nof our comrades, kindred and countrymen\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and our hearts will\\noverflow with love and grief, gratitude and admiration.\\nIt was not the purpose of the veterans who erected this\\nequestrian statue, upon which with a stroke of genius the art-\\nist has impressed the likeness and bearing of our hero, to strive\\nto perpetuate his fame, for they knew that on the brightest\\npages of our country s history, on the glowing canvas and the\\nbreathing marble his services and military exploits would be\\nhanded down to coming times. But they desire to embody in\\nenduring bronze\u00e2\u0080\u0094 to express in a form and figure that should\\ndefy decay\u00e2\u0080\u0094 their own loving remembrance and appreciation\\nof the virtues and merits of Albert Sidney Johnston.\\nThis noble monument interprets and expresses the senti-\\nments uppermost in the hearts of the thousands who now gaze\\nnpon it in rapt attention. Our silent emotions, when the un-\\nseen and mysterious chords in the human bosom are touched\\nby the wand of memory or by the presence ot a symbol recall-\\ning some inspiring thought, some heroic act, some generous\\ndeed of self-sacrifice, some philanthropist like Tulaue, some\\nbenefactor like Eads, some patriot s death for land and liberty,\\nare deeper than when excited by any words from human lips.\\nWhose patriotism would not be quickened by looking on the\\nl)lains ot Marathon? Whose appreciation of constitutional\\nfreedom would not be more exalted by the associations that fill\\nthe precincts of Westminster Abbey than by all the eloquence\\nof the British Senate The shield of Achilles suggests spring\\nand harvest time and vintage, courts of justice and marriage", "height": "3423", "width": "2053", "jp2-path": "shilohequestrian00gibs_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "feasts, cities in peace, cities ia war a history of civilization.\\nHere is a poem, au oration in this magnificent work of art,\\nthat tells the story of an eventful and heroic life, and appeals\\nto every passer-by to honor truth, virtue and duty. Whose\\nheart does not beat in responsive sympathy with the example\\nand lessons here inculcated, and thrill with a glow of rapture\\nand inspiration at the magic of the hero s name Who can\\nlook upon this bronze image without recalling the early days\\nof the war, the stirring notes ot preparation, the last farewells\\nto the loved ones at home, the joys of new associations and\\ncomradeship in the busy camps, the weary marches over hill\\nand plain, in snow and ice and sleet, and through the sum-\\nmer s heats and rains, the ministering hospitals, the meagre ra-\\ntions, the lonely outpost, and the shock of mighty battles\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the\\ncourage, endurance and devotion of the private soldier, the\\npride and glory of the Confederate Army and the Southern\\npeople\\nForever embalmed in our hearts are the memories of the\\nbrave and good and true men who died for us, and in the long\\nyears to come the veneration and honor and reverence that we\\nshall manifest for the cause in which they perished, will con-\\nstitute the measure of our own claims to the respect and con-\\nsideration of mankind.\\nWhere could be found a spot or scene so lovely and so ap-\\npropriate for these ceremonies, and for the monument we this\\nday dedicate Eemoved far from the noisy mart, the gentle\\nslopes of the Metairie Cemetery, clothed in living green, stretch\\naway toward the horizon, diversified by beds of bright roses\\nand sweet violets and rare plants about the graceful memorials\\nwhich affection has consecrated to the departed while, keep-\\ning eternal vigils over all, great live oaks here and there lift\\ntheir protecting branches to the skies as if supplicating a per-\\npetual benediction. Within sight of where we stand we be-\\nhold the tombs of many gallant dead, surmounted by a monu-\\nment to their commander, whose eagle eye ever directed his\\ninvincible columns along the pathway of victory, around the\\nbeleaguered capital, and through the valleys of old Virginia,\\nwhose character and genius rendered classic in song and story\\nthe scenes of his achievements, and shed .imperishable glory\\nupon the people who call themselves the countrymen of Stone-\\nwall Jackson. Here, underneath this majestic mound, sleep", "height": "3529", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "shilohequestrian00gibs_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "many of the devoted band who, braving shot and shell, fell in\\nthe dense thickets at Shiloh, fit companions in death, as in life,\\nof their compatriots of the Army of Virginia. Over the way,\\nnear the approaches, is a superb cenotaph to the fallen heroes\\nof Louisiana\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a testimonial of the patriotic devotion, and love,\\nand sacrifice of the noble women of our State. And in what-\\never direction we may turn, our vision shall rest upon pillars\\nand shafts engraven in marble and bronze to the memory of\\nsome famous corps or familiar name illustrious under the ban-\\nners of the Confederacy.\\nNo less fitting and proper is it that these ceremonies should\\nbe celebrated by the veterans of Louisiana, for not only was\\nAlbert Sidney Johnston appointed to the Military Academy at\\nWest Point, from Louisiana, with whose people he was closely\\nconnected by ties of consanguinity and association in early life,\\nbut no State, in proportion to its population, furnished more\\ntroops or bore a more prominent part in the battle of Shiloh.\\nThere was our greatest soldier, second in command, with the\\nlaurel leaf of Manassas fresh upon his brow, whose presence\\ngave inspiration and courage to every assault, and steadiness\\nand composure in repelling every onset, and whose name and\\nfame will be transmitted as the brightest gem in the coronet of\\nLouisiana to her children. There was the indefatigable Bragg,\\nwho had but recently quitted his plantation on Bayou La-\\nfourche, and was at the head of the splendid Pensacola Divis-\\nion. There was our bishop-soldier, the friend of Johnston from\\nearly boyhood, whose very name became the synonym of\\npluck, energy and skill throughout the army, and whose char-\\niieter realized all our conceptions of the beau ideal of a noble man-\\nhood. In subordinate positions many other contributed their\\nfull share to the glory that covered the Confederate arms upon\\nthat severely contested field, where the musketry fire and\\ndeath rate were not exceeded in any battle of the war. Who\\ncan ever forget, among those who are not with us to-day and\\ncan never be with us again. Gladden and Adams, Allen, Mou-\\nton and Austin Avegno, Slocomb and Fisk Pond, Armant\\nand Hunter; Tracy, Hodge andWinans; Yaught, Stuart and\\nWatson, and numberless more unnamed heroes, who live in\\nthe hearts of their comrades, their children, and their couutry-\\nmen\\nOn this spot, in this presence, and amid these surroundings", "height": "3423", "width": "2053", "jp2-path": "shilohequestrian00gibs_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "and associations, the veterans of the Army of Tennessee have\\nassembled, and invited their countrymen to assemble, at the\\nunveiling of this superb equestrian monument to the memory\\nof Albert Sidney Johnston. It is needless to recount the facts\\nand incidents of his life, for they are familiar to you all; and\\nhis devoted son. Col. Wm. Preston Johnston, President of the\\nTulane University, has related them in a biography that has\\ntaken a permanent and high rank in the literature of our\\ncouhtry. You will naturally recall his birth in Kentucky, his\\neducation at West Point, his assignment to the army in the\\nnorthwest his resigoation from the army his life as a planter\\nand citizen of Texas his career as the Commander-in-Chief of\\nthe Texan army, and Secretary of War of Texas while an inde-\\npendent republic, his services during the Mexican war, which\\nwere so brilliant as to justify Gen. Taylor in saying that he was\\nthe best soldier in his army his re-appointment to the army\\nof the United States as Colonel of the Second Cavalry, with\\nRobert E. Lee, Hardee, Thomas, Van Dorn, Hood and a score\\nof other distinguished officers, as subordinates. Nor will you\\nfail to remember with what consummate judgment, prudence,\\nand courage, he conducted the Utah expedition, and that he\\nwas in command of the military forces of the United States ou\\nthe Pacific coast at the outbreak of hostilities in the late war.\\nThese were but the successive steps to that theatre on\\nwhich he was to act the part of leader in a mighty drama the\\nlinks in the chain of events that were to discipline him for the\\nresponsibilities of a transaction which was to determine the\\ndestinies of millions of people.\\nPlutarch would have delighted to describe his personal\\nappearance, and the antique simplicity of his nature. You all\\nFemember him as he rode along the lines on his blood bay\\nhorse, accompanied by his staff and escort, before the battle\\nwhich was to terminate his life, returning the frequent saluta-\\ntions with earnest dignity and gentleness, stopping for a mo.\\nment here to greet some old comrade of other wars, or there to\\ntake the hand of some inexperienced young soldier in wlKpm\\nhe felt a personal interest, animating all by his words of good\\ncheer, and by a bearing free from excitement, yet inspiring\\nthe conviction everywhere of his purpose to conquer or to die.\\nWhen Priam repaired to the Scean Gate to gaze upon the\\nGreek warriors, he recognized their chief on the instant, before", "height": "3529", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "shilohequestrian00gibs_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "Helen could point bim out, saying:\\nSit and name\\nFor me this ruipjhty niiin, the Grecian chief,\\nGallant ami tall. True, there are taller men\\nBut of t nch uoble form and dignity\\nI never saw. in truth, a kingly man.\\nAnd so if any stranger could have looked upon the assem-\\nbled chiefs of the Coufederate host, Albert Sidney Johnston\\nwould have been recoguized as their Agamemnon. Tall, erect^\\nbroad-shouldered a massive head and projecting brows,\\nunder which were deep-set grayish blue eyes, melting in love\\nand kindling in war, his ruddy complexion somewhat bronzed\\nby loug service in the field an intense exiH ession of concen-\\ntrated thought upon his face as if bent upon enterprise of\\ngreat moment, he was the perfect type of manly grace and\\nl)ower.\\nA combination and a form indeed.\\nWhere every god did seem to set his seal,\\nTo give the world assurance of a man.\\nA man who is a man, who has faith in his fellow-men, and\\nstands on the right-laid line of truth and duty and honor,\\nwhose conscience is his king, is the lordliest thing in the uni-\\nverse. No machine, however complex, no piece of mechanism^\\nhowever exquisitely wrought, no work of art, no phenomenon\\nof nature, is comparable to him. God-like in apprehension,\\ninfinite in faculty, such men constitute the living source of the\\nwonderful energy, wealth, power, greatness, glory of States,\\nand the consummate flower and fruit of civilization.\\nIf we seek to discover the characteristic qualities, the vir-\\ntues and faculties that sustained Johnston through every\\nphase of his career, and won for him the confidence of the\\nPresident of the Confederacy, and of his countrymen, we will\\nfind, I think, that they may be all summed up in the fact that\\nhe was one of those rare men, possessed of a sublime moral\\nsense, united to an intellectual energy and clearness that cons-\\ntituted his a superlative nature, greatest in the supreme mo-\\nments and crises of life. When he saw the right, he never\\nhesitated, never faltered\u00e2\u0080\u0094 his own interest, love of place,\\nwealth, comfort, power, personal cousequences, went for\\nnaught. How easy it would have been for him to have re-\\nmained in the regular army, and on the side of the government\\nhe had served the greater part of his life Distant from the\\nscenes of contention, holding himself always aloof from partj", "height": "3423", "width": "2053", "jp2-path": "shilohequestrian00gibs_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "politics, how natural it would have been for him at the age of\\nfifty-nine to have accepted the proffered command of the Union\\nArmies under a powerful government, ready to reward his\\nloyalty and services with all that men ordinarily covet and\\nvalue in this world But, turning his back upon these dazzling\\nprizes, he resigned his commission and began a journey of more\\nthan 2,000 miles on horseback, through a trackle.ss wilderness,\\nuninhabited deserts and suffocating heats, to offer his sword\\nto the Confederate Grovernment, as yet without a navy, with-\\nout an army, without an established exchequer.\\nProfoundly convinced that the cause of the South was just\\nand right, he embraced it as his own. It seemed to him clear\\nthat to resist the policy of coercion, and conquest and subjuga-\\ntion, was to resist naked usurpation and tyranny.\\nAt a juncture in fioman history somewhat similar, Cjelius\\nwrote to his friend Cicero the following letter, urging him\\nto join Caesar During internal strife and contention, so long\\nas the issues are to be determined under the constitution and\\nlaws, without recourse to arms, it is our duty, Cicero, to sup-\\nj)ort the cause of honesty and right but if war should inter-\\nvene, and an appeal be made to arms, then we should join the\\nstronger side, and regard the party it represents as the best.\\nI do not mean to impute uny improper motives to the gallant\\nsoldiers who joined the Union Army, but Johnston and Lee,\\nmore clearly than untrained and inexperienced minds, appre-\\nciated the vast odds against which the South had to contend.\\nNor do the annals of Roman history present brighter examples\\nof self-sacrifice, and of devotion to right and truth.\\nIt was the high moral element that gave composure and\\nconsistency to Johnston in all situations. He often exclaimed\\nwhen perplexed by doubts and difficulties: I trust in God,\\nNo wonder, then, that knowing him as he did, Jefferson Davis,\\nupon hearing his once familiar step upon the stairway leading\\ninto the executivajofflce at Richmond, should have exclaimed\\nThat is the step of Sidney Johnston his coming is worth\\nmore than 10,000 men. I shall hope to sleep quietly now.\\nJohnston s own sense of the importance of cultivating\\nmoral courage is disclosed in a letter addressed to his wife,\\nwith messages to his boys, dated June 30, 18G1 I have\\nnothing to say to my boys that has not already been said. I\\nhave perfect confidence that they will be all that ought to be", "height": "3529", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "shilohequestrian00gibs_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "desired or expected. Tbe;^mnst learn that one man, by aa\\nexliibition of i)hysical power, can control but few. It is by\\nmoral power alone that numbers of minds are controlled and\\ndirected by one mind.\\nThis quality was to be put to the test, and to stand him in\\nneed, shortly after he assumed command, on the order of\\nPresident Davis, of the armies of the West. If ever there was\\na country to which the remark of Yon Moltke applies, namely,\\nthat geography is three-fourths of war, it is the country he\\nwas called upon to defend. Penetrated by the Mississippi\\nriver, the flank of the main army turned by the Ohio, Cumber-\\nlaud and Tennessee rivers, there was scarcely a feature in it\\nthat did not present an advantage to the enemy, and render\\nany disaster almost necessarily fatal, of any advance perilous\\nexcept by marches of unexampled length and endurance.\\nHe had hardly acquainted himself with the situation and\\nresources, and undertaken the work of organization and dispo-\\nsition of his forces on a definite plan of operations, before the\\ndisasters at Fishing Creek, at Fort Henry and at Fort Donel-\\nson, agitated and depressed the people like an earthquake.\\nAt once the public excitement, disappointment, and wrath,\\noverleaping all bounds, selected Johnston as the victim. He\\nremained calm, self-poised amidst all the unjust censure and\\nthoughtless obloquy. Sustained by a trust in God, and a\\nmoral courage that never for a moment deserted him, he went\\nforward to supply all deficiencies from his own tireless energy\\nand matchles resources. No censure of others, no word of\\ncomplaint, no reproaches, no resentments escaped his lips.\\nThe test of merit in my profession,- he wrote to his steadfast\\nfriend. President Davis, with the people is suciiess. It is a\\nhard rule, but I think it right. Nobler sentiments were never\\nuttered. His own imperial and august character towered\\nabove the tempest that beat against him, and the passions of\\nthe hour, t,,\\nAs some tall cliff that lifts its awfnl fibrin,\\nSwells from tlie vale, and midway leaves tbe storm,\\nThough rouufl its breast the rolling clouds are spread,\\nEternal suushiue settles on his head.\\nThe appalling situation was then, for the first time, dis-\\nclosed to the country. The vast ilisparity between the forces\\nof the contending armies became manifest. Where it was sup-\\nloosed there had been great corps (Parmee^ there were only thin", "height": "3423", "width": "2053", "jp2-path": "shilohequestrian00gibs_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "9\\nbrigades. The spirit of exaggeration had deluded the people.\\nSilent, undismayed, vigilant, devoted, Johnston determined at\\nonce to undertake to march away from the presence of Buell,\\nand to form a junction with Beauregard with a view of assum-\\ning the offensive. The concentration of the forces at Corinth\\nwas one of the master-strokes of the war. It was accomplished\\nunder difficulties that were discouraging, and apparently in-\\nsurmountable; but by the magic of genius, before Buell had\\njoined Grant, Johnston was marching forth from Corinth to\\nsuri^rise Grant, and overwhelm his army on the field of Shiloh.\\nDuring the battle he exhibited a genius for actual fighting\\nequal to the strategy which had brought him there. Shortly\\nafter it was discovered that the enemy had been surprised,\\nand was yielding except at certain well-selected defensive\\npositions where concentration had been effected, and where\\nthe resistance was stubborn, Johnston called for the reser\\\\ es\\nunder Breckenridge, and hurled them on the left flank of the\\nenemy. That movement determined the issue of the day. It\\nwas an inspiration of genius. Military writers advise such\\nmovements; military commanders commend them in theory\\nall applaud them when made, but you may count the names of\\nthe officers in any war on the fingers of your left hand who\\nwill strike the enemy on his flank, and persist in striking, not-\\nwithstanding opposing menaces and obstacles.\\nIt was while executing this design, in the full tide of\\nvictory, that Albert Sidney Johnston received his death- wound,\\nand fell like Wolfe on the heights of Abraham as a true sol-\\ndier would love to die on the edge of battle, in the moment\\nof triumph.\\nHe did not fall\\nLike drooping flowers that no man noticeth\\nBut like a great branch of some stately tree,\\nRent in a tempest and flung down to death,\\nThick with green leafage so that piteously\\nEach passer by that ruin, shuddereth\\nAnd saith The gap this branch has left is wide.\\nThe loss thereof can never be supplied.", "height": "3529", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "shilohequestrian00gibs_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3423", "width": "2053", "jp2-path": "shilohequestrian00gibs_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3529", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "shilohequestrian00gibs_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "nur y t9\\\\J\\\\J", "height": "3423", "width": "2053", "jp2-path": "shilohequestrian00gibs_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3529", "width": "2138", "jp2-path": "shilohequestrian00gibs_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3549", "width": "2169", "jp2-path": "shilohequestrian00gibs_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3803", "width": "2296", "jp2-path": "shilohequestrian00gibs_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "wWm\\nLIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\nlilnili;: IMi;il:li:!;.::l\\n013 700 381 8", "height": "3845", "width": "2307", "jp2-path": "shilohequestrian00gibs_0020.jp2"}}