command of the fallen city, and Logan was made its Military Governor.

His valor was fitly recognized in the presentation, made to him by the Board of Honor of the Seventeenth Army Corps, of a gold medal inscribed with the names of the nine battles in which up to this time he had been most distinguished for heroism and generalship.

A MILITARY INTERLUDE-LOGAN TAKES THE STUMP IN SUPPORT OF THE LINCOLN ADMINISTRATION—HE ATTACKS “THE ENEMY IN THE REAR"-HIS ELOQUENT APPEALS TO THE PATRIOTISM

OF THE NORTH TO STAND BY THE GOVERNMENT AND ITS

ARMIES-THE GOOD THEY DID TO THE CAUSE."

Having inaugurated and perfected the administration of affairs at Vicksburg, General Logan, at the suggestion of his superiors,* took a short leave of absence for a visit to the North, where he frequently addressed large assemblies of his fellow-citizens in speeches of fiery eloquence and burning zeal and devotion to the cause of the Union. That year (1863) was one of great importance to the future of the Government in a civil as well as a military point of view. Mr. Lincoln. had issued his Proclamation of Emancipation, a measure which the Northern sympathizers with the South were slow to indorse. Hence it was that it was thought desirable to have Logan spend a short time in the canvass prior to the elections of that year. He accordingly took the stump in Illinois and advocated the election of the Republican ticket and the carrying out of the emancipation of every slave in the Union. While thus engaged in fighting Copperheads in the rear, it was, that in his Carbondale speech of July 31, 1863, when accused by a set of men, who once claimed to be his friends, with having forgotten his party, he turned upon them in all the fierceness of patriotic anger, exclaiming, "I am not a politician to-day, and I thank God for it! I am not like

*President Lincoln himself requested it.

those who cling to party as their only hope." In his Chicago speech of August 10, 1863, alluding to the taunt that he was an Abolitionist," he said:

If every man in this country is called an Abolitionist that is willing to fight for and sustain his government, let him be called so. If, belonging to the United States and being true and valiant soldiers, meeting the steel of Southern revolutionists, marching to the music of this Union, loving the flag of our country and standing by it in its severest struggles-if that makes us Abolitionists, let all of us be Abolitionists. If it makes a man an Abolitionist to love his country, then I love my country, am willing to live for it and willing to die for it. If it makes a man an Abolitionist to love and revere that flag, then, I say, be it so. If it makes a man an Abolitionist to love to hear the "Star-Spangled Banner" sung, and be proud to hear that such words were ever penned, or could ever be sung upon the battle-field by our soldiers, then I am proud to be an Abolitionist, and I wish to high Heaven that we had a million more then our rebellion would be at an end, and peace would again fold her gentle wings over a united people, and the old Union, the old friendship, again make happy the land where now the rebel flag flaunts dismally in the sultry Southern air.

Alluding, in the same great speech, to Northern Copperheads, he said:

Now I want to ask you, how is it possible for any man in a country like this to be disloyal to his Government? How is it possible that any man in this country can conceive the thought or idea of sympathizing with rebellion against such a government as this? Where

is the cause for it? Where is the reason of it; where the justification ? There is none to be found-not one; and if any man becomes disloyal, it is because there are devilish designs and corruptions at his heart.

My countrymen, let us look back for a few years and view the prosperity and happiness that blessed all our land; and then cast your eyes around and see the condition of our country now. Do not ask yourselves who is President, or what may be his politics; but ask, Have we not hitherto had a good and beneficent government? And if so, have we not the same government yet? Your answer must be in the affirmative; and, my friends, if we are but true to ourselves, true to our cause, true to the principles we have been educated in from our earliest infancy, we shall have that government still.

Turn, if you please, your thoughts to the many sanguinary battles

of the Revolution. See what it cost our sires to establish this government! Did they not pour out their blood freely as water to accomplish this, to give us this priceless heritage of national liberty and independence, under a form of government that should exist forever? Consider these sacred remembrances of those illustrious men, and then tell me whether it is worth preserving-tell me whether this rebellion, begun in infamy, perjury, and crime, carried on by blood, pillage, and treason, and to end, if successful, in destroying forever the last hope of mankind—tell me if this shall succeed? [Cries of "No, never!"]

In all these facts we may realize a lesson clearly pointing out our duty. It is to lay fast hold of that old flag, keep st to the music of the Union, unfurl its ample folds, and with a heart of courage, a will that knows no faltering or dismay, let it flutter over every burg, and wave over every town and hamlet, until all traitors, like the wicked prince of Babylon, shall smite their knees in terror and dismay, as if the handwriting were upon the wall. Let them know that they must bow before it or kiss its untarnished folds, and swear, by all that is great and good, never to violate its sanctity or infringe a right it represents, let this be done and all will be well. And I appeal to and entreat you all, my countrymen, by all that you hold sacred; by the glorious memories of the past; by the once bright hopes of the future; by the memory of the gallant ones who have fallen on the gory fields of the South; by the wounded and suffering who still languish in our midst; by the sorrow and mourning that this wicked rebellion has brought upon our once happy and favored land, to be faithful, vigilant, untiring, unswerving; determined, come what may, to dare to be men and do what is right. Stand by your country in all her trials, at every hazard, or at any cost.

Let it not be said that those glorious boys who now sleep beneath the red clay of the South or the green sod of our own loved State have died in vain. Let those who are traducing the soldiers of the Government know the enormity of their crime and their error-try to reclaim them and bring them back to duty and to honor. If they heed not your appeals, if they still persist in their error and heresies, if they will not aid in maintaining the Government and laws that protect them, and continue in their wicked aid and encouragement to this rebellion-send them to the other side where they belong; for the man who can live in this peaceful, happy, and prosperous land and not be loyal and true to it, ought, like Cain, to be branded by an indelible mark, and banished forever from his native paradise. No traitor, no sympathizer, no man who can lisp a word in favor of this rebellion, or impair the chances of the Union cause, is fit for any other ruler than Jeff Davis. He should

be put in front of the Union army, where he will get justice. [Applause.]

The man that can to-day raise his voice against the Constitution, the laws of the Government, with the design of injuring or in any way obstructing their operation, should, if I could pass sentence upon him, be hung fifty cubits higher than Haman, until his body blackened in the sun and his bones rattled in the wind.

In bidding you good-night-I trust I do so to loyal, good, truehearted citizens and patriots, who love their country-it is in the hope that you all may reflect upon the duties of all men to their country in the hour of peril, and determine with renewed zeal and fervor to give such aid and assistance to the Government and army of the United States, in the prosecution of this war, as will cause that banner again to float in triumph upon every hill and mountain top, and in every vale, from the North to the South, from the East to the West.

The cogent effect of his many eloquent and telling speeches-some of which were reported in full, and largely quoted from, by papers all over the country—was to cause many deserters, who had abandoned the army on account of the Proclamation of Emancipation, to return to their regiments; despondent people took fresh courage; faith in the final triumph of our arms seemed to take possession of every one; copperheads were dismayed and abashed; and the returns of the November elections removed all fears of want of support by the people for President Lincoln's policy.

LOGAN IN COMMAND OF THE FIFTEENTH ARMY CORPS - HE ORDERS AS ITS CORPS-BADGE A CARTRIDGE-BOX AND FORTY ROUNDS "THE ADVANCE ON ATLANTA-THE STUBBORN BATTLE OF RESACA-LOGAN'S VICTORIOUS ATTACK ON THE ENEMY'S FLANK.

*

In November, 1863, General Logan succeeded General McPherson in the command of the Fifteenth Army Corps -the corps which Grant himself, and Sherman, as well as

"I determined, therefore, before I started back, to have Sherman advanced to my late position, McPherson to Sherman's in command of the department, and Logan to the command of McPherson's corps. These changes were all made on my recommendation and without hesitation."-GRANT'S MEMOIRS.

McPherson, had successively commanded-the corps which subsequently, by Logan's order, adopted as its corps-badge a cartridge-box, with the significant legend, "Forty Rounds" -and spent the ensuing winter at Huntsville, Ala., preparing for the campaign before Atlanta.

Who can picture in their true colors the scenes, marches, trials, battles, and sufferings endured in the march to and during the siege of and movements around that rock-rooted stronghold? Every approach to it had been defended, and on its rugged mountain-walls-to scale which were like climbing a precipice under a torrent of leaden hail-frowned numberless guns.

Early in May, 1864, General Logan, with his army corps, joined the advancing columns of the Grand Military Division of the Mississippi, which, under General Sherman, was commencing the campaign. It must be understood at the outset that the Army of the Tennessee under McPherson-comprising the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Corps, respectively commanded by Generals Logan, Dodge, and Blair-was during this entire campaign employed, in the language of General Sherman, as "the snapper of the whip with which he proposed to punish the enemy;" and its movements to the right and left of the other armies, constantly reaching and occupying the most difficult and perilous positions, entailed upon its several commanding officers the most exhaustive, delicate, and arduous duties.

While the main army, under the immediate supervision of General Sherman, was confronting the enemy at Dalton and Buzzard's Roost, the first flank movement of the series made by the Army of the Tennessee was to the right, through Snake Creek Gap. This attempt to break the railroad to Resaca, and thus cut off the retreat of the enemy failed, because the place was found so completely fortified that it required finally the best efforts of Sherman's whole army to dislodge him from that position.