Excerpt from An Address Spoken in the College Chapel William Lowell Putnam, who fell at Ball's Bluff, had his burial, just three years ago this day, from amid the endearments of his home, yet his name forces itself upon my lips in this connection, for he was verily one with this kinsman, in blood, in spirit, and fraternal love. And besides these near ones, may we not spare a moment's space in these solemnities to bring to mind with him, in a comprehensive kind of all-saints commemoration, the many who followed him, and fell with him on that field of glorious daring and achievement, un known to us, but valiant and faithful men, ourfriends and champions all, who gave up their lives with him, and for us and ours. I think I had better not cumber this burial service with dates or minute biographical details of Colonel Lowell's life, * of 'little less than thirty years. These will be recited in other more du rable records of him. The lesson of his life and of his death is what we have to contemplate here to-day. One of his most intimate associates, knit to him in a friendship true, tender, and lifelong, tells me that in his friend's childhood there was in him all the strength and beauty and manifold pre-eminence that marked his matured char acter. Of what he was to his very own, to the home of his birth, or that to which a year ago he bore his young bride in joy and hope, I dare not in this presence say a single word. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.