THE LATE LIEUT. CHENEY.
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began as a volunteer private and who
knows a soldier, wrote of Ward. last
August: :
‘“ “Ffe was my adjutant (in the action
of June 19) and you know by reason of
that office an officer sometimes has some
disagreeable duties to perform, such as
carrying messages and orders. Two or
three times a day he had such duty.
There wasn’t any place where it was
healthy to be, but when one has to go
back and forth through the thickest of
it as he did it becomes still more
unhealthy. He performed his duties in
such an intelligent and fearless manner
as to be the subject of remark and notice
by others besides myself. I have recom-
mended him for a brevet.’
“Such deaths as Ward Cheney’s are
not a matter of pitiless, dreadful chance,
and our sorrow is for ourselves—not
for him. In his case past and future are
alike secure. He has died his country’s
soldier, in her battle, under the flag that
now drapes his coffin. His name will
now be forever enrolled with those
other sons of his university who pre-
ceded him in that path of duty and
honor. ‘Above all believe it,’ says
Lord Bacon, ‘the sweetest canticle is
‘Nunc dimittis’ when a man hath ob-
tained worthy ends and expectations.
I consent with Caesar that the suddenest
passage is easiest, and there is nothing
more awakens our resolve and readiness
to die than the quieted conscience,
strengthened with opinion that we shall
be well spoken of upon earth by those
that are just. and of the family of virtue;
the opposite whereof is a fury to man,
and makes even life unsweet.’ ”’
FROM A CLASSMATE.
[E. 8. Oviatt in New Haven Register ]
His whole life and all of his activities
were thrown in the balance for good, not
aggressively nor with any outward at-
tempt at publicity, but quietly, almost
unconsciously, with a fine, old-fashioned
sweetness that made him a force in the
world wherever he was placed. It was
among his fellows at Yale that his quali-
ties perhaps first showed themselves and
where he first took the position which
his character called for. He was a man
who never pushed himself, who never
intruded his personality on other men,
who never forced a recognition of his
claims. *. * * He never courted
favor and he never asked from his fel-
lows what his own character did not
claim for him. He carried this out into
life and his army record was a repetition
of his Yale career. Stich men give a
college class an impetus toward the good
that cannot be measured in terms of
earthly praise. The least that can be
said for Ward Cheney was that he left
his college and his contemporaries in
college better for his presence there and
among them. He led a humble and a
lofty life with a fineness and a sin-
gleness of purpose that is given to but
few. His influence went to sweeten
other lives wherever he was placed, and
he will not soon be forgotten.
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR A MEMORIAL.
At a meeting of the members of the
Class of Yale Ninety-Six residing in and
around Buffalo, N. Y., held January
Iith, 1900, the following resolutions
were unanimously adopted:
Whereas, we have heard with deep
grief of the death of First Lieutenant
Ward Cheney of the Fourth Infantry,
U.S. A., at-teams; Pod.ion January. 8;
1900, and feel that our Class should
erect some permanent memorial to his -
memory on the Yale Campus, now, be it
Resolved, That it is the sense of this
meeting that such a memorial should
take the form of a gateway to his indi-
vidual memory to be erected between
Osborn and Welch Halls. Be it further
Resolved, That these resolutions be
submitted to the Class of Ninety-Six at
their annual dinner in New York on
January 27, 1900.
RESOLUTIONS OF THE CLASS.
The following resolutions on the death
of Lieut. Cheney were drawn by the
standing committee appointed by the
Class of Ninety-Six at triennial:
Whereas it hath pleased the Infinite
Wisdom to recall to Himself our dearly
beloved classmate, Ward Cheney; and
Whereas, we held him in peculiar
honor and affection, one and all, so that
his loss is irreparable and a erievous
affliction to us; therefore be it |
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Resolved, that we express our endur-
ing esteem for his génerous and manly
character which won him reputation and
regard, whether in the associations of
college or in the duties and rigors of the
soldier’s life, throughout his brief but
honorable career; that we bear testi-
mony of our gratitude for his example,
of our love for him and of our bereave-
ment; that we extend our sympathy
to his afflicted family. And be it further
Resolved, that a copy of these resolu-
tions be sent to our classmate’s father
and mother, and that one be published
in the ALUMNI WEEKLY.
For the Class of Ninety-Six: Chaun-
cey W. Wells, Thomas F. Archbald,
William S. Woodhull.
New Haven, January 13, 1900.
RESOLUTIONS OF NEW HAVEN MEN.
At a meeting of those-members of ’96
present in New Haven, held in Dwight
Hall, Tuesday, at 2 p. m., the following
resolutions upon the death of Lieutenant
Ward Cheney were passed:
Whereas, it has pleased God to take
from us one of our best-beloved class-
mates, Ward Cheney, who had singularly
endeared himself to every one in the
Class by his sincere, modest, and manly
life.
Resolved, that we, his classmates now
present in New Haven, express our
sense of deep personal loss in his death,
our pride in his sterling character and
soldierly manhood, and our heartfelt
sympathy for his family in their bereave-
ment.
George H. Nettleton, Hollon A. Farr,
William W. Chandler, Committee.
RESOLUTIONS BY VETERANS.
At a meeting of the Hartford mem-
bers of the Sixteenth Regiment, Con-
necticut Volunteers, held at the Robert
O. Tyler Post parlor, the following reso-
lutions were offered and passed:
Whereas, In the mercy and fatherhood
of God, Lieutenant Ward Cheney of the
Regular Army, son of our honored com-
mander, Colonel Frank W. Cheney, has
been called to lay down his life in be-
half of our beloved country, dying at
the threshold of a manly and patriotic
service, and
Whereas, The bereavement caused by
the death of Lieutenant Cheney has been
augmented by the death of a cherished
daughter-in-law, Mrs. Mary Brainard
Cheney, wife of Mr. Charles Cheney, a
lady of great loveliness of character;
Resolved, That the heartfelt sympathy
of those who shared with him-the perils
of the field be extended to Colonel
Cheney, assuring him of the sincerest
affection and condolence from his old
friends in the Civil War in these days of
double bereavement.
Resolved, That the members of his old
command place on record the approba-
tion which is felt by them on account
of the patriotism of Colonel Cheney and
his family in surrendering a son to the
country’s cause.
Resolved, That these preamble and
resolutions be forwarded to Colonel
Cheney by the secretary of the meeting.
(Signed)
Witit1am H. LocKwoop,
; Chairman.
GrorGe I. WHITNEY,
: Secretary.
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