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Dinsmore Ely
ONE WHO SERVED
Second Lieutenant Dinsmore Ely
1894-1918
PUBLISHER’S FOREWORD
In the battlefields of France there are thousandsof American graves; graves of our bestand bravest; sacred places to which we shallmake pilgrimage in the years to come and overwhich we shall stand with tears on our facesand with pride in our hearts. Our heads willbe bared because the ground is consecrated;the last resting place of heroes who gave theiryoung and beautiful lives for their country’scause.
Dinsmore Ely was one who gave. His wasthe Great, the Supreme Sacrifice. Never wasCrusader of old inspired by higher and holiermotives. In his letters home, which we havethe privilege of giving to the public, there isrevealed a knightly soul: the soul of a Bayard“without fear and without reproach.”
PRELUDE
By Dr. James O. Ely
My Son
Of old Scotch-Covenanter blood he came.
Into the Presbyterian Church he was born,and at her altar dedicated to the service of hisGod.
Taken back, when four years of age, to theold home in the Pennsylvania hills, he waspresent at the Centennial Celebration of the