Philosophies design
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FIDDLERS GREEN.
When a Cavalryman dies, he begins a long march, to his ultimate destination. About halfway along the road, he enters a broad meadow dotted with trees and crossed by many streams, known as "FIDDLER'S GREEN". As he crosses the green he finds an old canteen, a single spur and a carbine sling. Traveling on he comes upon a field camp where he finds all the Troopers who have gone before him their campfires, tents, and picket lines neatly laid out. All other branches of service MUST continue the MARCH without pause. The Cavalryman, though, are authorized to dismount, unsaddle and stay in the Fiddler's Green, their canteens ever full, the grass always green, and enjoy the companionship and reminiscences of old friends. SOLDIER.........I was that which others did not want to be. I went where others feared to go, and did what others failed to do. I ask nothing from those who gave nothing, and reluctantly accepted the thought of eternal loneliness....should I fail. I have seen the face of terror, and enjoyed the sweet taste of a moment's love. I have cried, pained and hoped.... but most of all I have lived times others would say were best forgotten.
AT LEAST SOMEDAY, I WILL BE ABLE TO SAY THAT I WAS PROUD OF WHAT I WAS.....A SOLDIER. (AUTHOR UNKNOWN)
Augustus Walley
Augustus Walley, who is buried in the cemetery of St. Luke's United Methodist Church in Reisterstown, Maryland. He died in early 1900s in Baltimore City after serving more than thirty years in the military, beginning in the late 1800s.
While assigned to the 9th Cavalry Regiment on the Western Frontier, Augustus Walley was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for saving one of his fellow Buffalo Soldiers while the unit was under attack by the Native Indians. This recognition was not noted on his tombstone.
In the early 1990s, Houston D. Wedlock, through his research discovered the Congressional Medal of Honor was not display on Walley's Tombston. This serious ommision had to be addressed. In 1995, Houston Wedlock and John Craig made elaborate arrangements to have this fallen, neglected hero recognized. With all the glitter of the news media, Augustus Walley was formally recognized for his award of the Congressional Medal of Honor at a day of ceremonies in the Bond Avenue area of Reisterstown, Maryland were he is laid to rest.
