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Title: Essays and speeches
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Dawes, Rufus Fearing, 1890-1912 Dawes, Rufus R. (Rufus Robinson), 1838-1899
Subjects: Economics Banks and banking
Publisher: Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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soldiers of the West have your hard-earned vic-tories. On a hundred fields you scarcely knew defeat.Perhaps, more strictly speaking, on three hundred andsixty-five; for it has been said that you have a battle an-niversary for every day in the year. You have the for-ward sweep of your banners across the land, from theMississippi to the ocean. You have given from your ranksleaders whose immortal deeds will forever mark historicepochs of the war. These are your distinctive honors. Theywere fairly won, they are well deserved, and, as I see in thebadges all around me, they are, as they should be, proudlyworn. RUFUS R. DAWES (1838-1899) Brevet Brigadier General, U.S.V., Iron Brigade Member of Congress Battle Record — Rappahannock, Gainesville, Bull Run (2nd),South Mountain, Antietam,Fredericksburg, Fitz-Hugh Crossing,Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Mine Run, Wilderness, Spottsyl-vania Court House, Bloody Angle, North Anna, Totopotomoy,Bethesda Church, Cold Harbor, Petersburg Mine Explosion,
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^L< A^c /(/ZZ-z^<-^ THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC 11 In rising before you as a representative of that body ofsoldiers called in history the Grand Army of the Potomac(applause), to stretch my hand across the historic chasm tothe representatives of that grand army of the West, theArmy of the Tennessee (applause), I should do grave in-justice to the survivors of that army of the East, if I failedto express our profound admiration for the grand achieve-ments of the famous army of the West. (Applause.) But,fellow-soldiers, we representatives of the Army of thePotomac have a pardonable pride in the distinctive honorsof our army. (Applause.) Our honors do not trench uponyours. As far as the east is from the west, so far was ourhistory in its beginning, in its course and in its conditions,removed from yours. More men fell upon the field of battleaction of the Army of the Potomac than from the ranksof any other army of the nation. (Applause and voices,Thats so, thats so.) Nevertheless, bloody

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