12/02/1889
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"No presence was so welcome and inspiring at the camp fire or commandery as his."
"He served his country, not for fame, not out of a sense of professional duty, but for love of the flag and of the beneficent civil institutions of which it was the emblem."
"His career was complete; his honors were full."
"To look upon his face, to hear his name, was to have one's love of country intensified."