Excerpt from Marathon and Chattanooga: Address on Memorial Day, May 30, 1890, in the First Parish Church, Dorchester, Before the Benj. Stone, Jr., Post 68, G. A. R<br><br>A modern writer, Mr. Creasy, who has described in a vol ume the Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World, beginning with Marathon, including Saratoga, and ending with Waterloo, says of the first: i It secured for mankind the intellectual treasures of Athens, the growth of free institutions, the liberal enlightenment of the Western world, and the gradual ascend ency for many ages of the great principles of European civiliza tion.<br><br>But we need not go to antiquity or to remote lands to find examples of heroism, or to stand on fields where the interests of mankind were at stake. We have had such examples among us, those we have known and loved, and whom we now honor and there are many fields in our country where fidelity and courage, no less than those of Marathon, were displayed ln our Civil War. Ours, too, was a cause wide reaching ln its relations to humanity.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.