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CHAPTER VII.
Reconstruction in the South —Third Regiment Mustered Out —The
Farewell Order — Sacrifices and Costs of the War.
A very important work still remained to be accomplished
by the union army, namely, the restoration of law and
order in the southern states. I had the honor to be entrusted
with a portion of that work, an account of which was given
in a paper prepared and read by me before the commanderv
of the military order Loyal Legion, at one of its meetings in
St. Paul, in March, 1889, from which I quote as follows:
"After listening to the many interesting addresses on
battles and campaigns that have been read before the
commanderv at our monthly meetings, I fear that you will be
disappointed, not only with the subject of this paper, but
also with the commonplace incidents which I have to relate,
and yet I think that the part taken by the Union army in
the so-called reconstruction of civil government in the
rebellious states immediately after the war deserves a place in the
history of that armv and of the war. All the world knows
how bravely our soldiers fought, how willingly they endured
hardships of the camp and of the wearisome march, how
patiently they bore sickness, wounds, and sufferings of every
kind, and how faithfully they obeyed the orders of advance
to danger and to death. But there is still another trait of
their character, perhaps the greatest of them all, that of the
good citizen, who was able, as soon as the last smoke of
battle had cleared awav, to restrain all feelings of enmitv
— RO —
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