The Maine bugle ... campaign; 1-5 Jan. 1894-Oct. 1898 - Maine.gov

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is to awake each and every comrade who hears its notes to
declare in enduring form what he remembers and knows con-
cerning " that great struggle which preserved constitutional
liberty on the face of the earth." Such narration must be
honest and not imaginative. It may vary from the actual facts
but such variation must be due to the smoke and confusion that
hangs over every participant in actual battle, and not to a desire
to vary or wrongfully color. Every excited and actual worker
in front of the enemy's fire sees a narrow field of view with no
perspective and with a universal misconception of time and
distance, but such detached pictures are the life of any regimental
or other organization seeking material for history. The
very design of the Bugle is to break up the soil that lies buried
under thirty years or more of subsequent struggle for livelihood
and material ends.
The First Maine Heavy Artillery is grandly noticed in this
issue ; next, sandwiched between a melody of poetry, appears
an appetizing sketch of the early services of the Eighth Maine.
Tn the April issue a bright and interesting narration of experi-
ence in southern prisons and escape of a member of the Eighth
Maine will appear. It is right to remark here that the Eighth
Maine are fully awake and will crowd every issue of this year's
Bugle with pictures of her comrades and articles of value to
her members and of exceeding interest to lovers of Maine.
Next in order comes the leading and most important article
in the issue, " A Man from Maine," a true history of the army
at Fort Fisher; a clear, honest narration of what was done,
bearing its own justification on its face and giving the right
proportions of the various actors by their own words and their
positions in the fight at the time. It is an article of great and
permanent historic value and should be carefully re-read to see
how clear and strong its deductions are established.
Attention is further called to the interesting and attractive
manner in which the Eleventh Maine with two leading articles,
wheels into line on the pages of the BUGLE and how grandly
that regiment, which on foundation unstable as water, builded
the resting place for the feet of the Angel, symbollically called