H. S. Huidekoper.

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“Soldiers who served on the firing line knew the leaders.”

My dear Mrs. Longstreet,​—​We soldiers who served four years on the firing line know who were the leaders; and Longstreet is held in high esteem as a broad-guage man in the North.

Yours truly,
J. L. Smith.

Philadelphia, January 5, 1904.


TRIBUTE FROM THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC

That splendid soldier and generous gentleman, Major-General Oliver Otis Howard, sent the following letter to the Grand Army Encampment, assembled in thirty-eighth annual session at Boston, Massachusetts, August 15 to 20, 1904: