—I might sketch for you many other soldiers, as brave, patriotic and self-sacrificing as those I have named. Every volunteer regiment had in its ranks scores of such men. Indeed, I should like to speak of Capt. John L. Graham, of Robert M. Hale, of William H. Horr, of Gil. M. Judah, of John W. McClellan, and many others among the martyred dead, and of dozens who passed unscathed through the fiery furnace of war and are still among the living. But my purpose is fulfilled. I simply desired to present an outline sketch of a few soldiers, differing widely in temperaments and personal characteristics, but all fair types of the men whose valor and patriotism crushed the greatest rebellion the world has ever witnessed. The pictures are incomplete, I know. I regret that a hand more skillful than mine has not drawn them; that a tongue more eloquent than mine could not have told the inspiring story of their dauntless courage and their sublime self-sacrifice. But as I knew them I have tried to present them to you, not as soldiers of rare or exceptional qualities and services, but as representatives and types of thousands of their comrades, living and dead. In every city, town and neighborhood of Kansas may be found soldiers of these types, for our wonderful population includes more than a hundred thousand men who have marched to the music of a drum: “Men who were brave to act, And rich enough their actions to forget, forget— Who, having filled their day with chivalry, Withdraw, and keep their simpleness intact, And, all unconscious, add more lustre yet Unto their victory. “Lo! a farmer ploughing busily, Who lifts a swart face, looks upon the plain. I see in his frank eyes The hero’s soul appear. Thus in the common fields and streets they stand; The light that on the past and distant gleams They cast upon the present and the near, With antique virtues from some mystic land Of knightly deeds and dreams.”