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| PUBLISHED WEEKLY. | NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1895. | FIVE CENTS A COPY. |
| VOL. XVI.—NO. 812. | TWO DOLLARS A YEAR. |
HEROES OF AMERICA.
THE DEATH OF STONEWALL JACKSON.
BY THE HONORABLE THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
orrible though the civil war was, heartrending though it was thatbrother should fight against brother, there remains as an offset theglory that has accrued to the nation by the countless deeds of heroismperformed by both sides in the struggle. The captains and the armies whoafter long years of dreary campaigning and bloody, stubborn lightingbrought the war to a close have left us more than a reunited realm.
North and South, all Americans now have a common fund of gloriousmemories. We are the richer for each grim campaign, for each hard-foughtbattle. We are the richer for valor displayed alike by those who foughtso valiantly for the right, and by those who no less valiantly foughtfor what they deemed the right. We have in us nobler capacities for whatis