Our roster thins; as years pass on we drop off one by one; Ere long, too soon, to yearly call, there will be answer--none; Then as along the record page these mourning columns creep, The whisper comes to closer still our living friendships keep.
Dodge poignantly acknowledges the passing of time and the dwindling number of veterans.
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It is upheld and maintained today, as it always has been, by the patriotism of our people as represented by our Army in the Civil War, in Cuba, the Philippines, and China.
The right side is beginning to get a hearing, and when the facts and causes for the action of the Army are generally known, it will be found that our Army is as humane and well-behaved a body of troops as ever went into a foreign country…
The national honor never has, never can, and never will be protected by such methods.
There is no officer listening to me who did not see cruelties in the Civil War.
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