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time came. A heavy line of Union soldiers stood opposite us in absolute silence. As my decimated and ragged band with their bullet-tom banner marched to its place, someone in the blue line broke the silence and called for three cheers...it was taken up all about him by those who knew what it meant. But for us this soldierly generosity was more than we could bear. Many of the grizzled veterans wept like women and my own eyes were as blind as my voice was dumb. Years have passed and time mellows memories, and now / almost forget the keen agony of that bitter day when I recall how that line of blue broke its respectful silence to pay such tribute at Appomattox to the little line of grey that had fought them to the finish and only surrendered because it was destroyed. ”
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