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Excerpt from For the Love I Bear My Dead and as a Testimony to the Courage and Devotion of the Comrades Who, With Him, Gave Their Lives to Their Country: This Tribute Is Dedicated Tho the Memory of My Son Edward Avery Bumpus, First Lieutenant Company C, Ninth United States Infantry, and of His Companions in Arms
What praise could go beyond this splendid testimony? From China Captain Connell returned to the Philippines, and resumed active duty in the dangerous district where death came to him through the treachery of native officials, supposedly friends. His death matched his life; he died fighting. N o nobler epitaph could be written on the tomb of a soldier. In his youth, - for he was only twenty-nine, honored by the affection and esteem of friends and superiors, with a bright prospect before him, the young soldier gave his life up to duty.
What a bitter grief to the father and mother whose lives centred in him! It was one of his finest qualities, that no separation by time or distance ever took from the tenderness which he felt for the two who loved him most. He was especially his mother's boy, devoted to her, full of admiration for her, from first to last her thoughtful and loyal son. The anguish of his dying was less for himself than for the ever lasting grief which the tragedy would bring to the mother's heart. Poor and grief-stricken mother! But what an honor and a consolation to be mother to such a son!
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