“A nation tolls his requiem;
Bring forth the victor’s diadem,”—
Death of Albert Sidney Johnston: By George B. Milnor, Harrisburg, Tex. (Alsb.)
“The sun was sinking o’er the battle plain,
Where the night winds were already sighing,”—
Death of Jackson: By Cornelia M. Jordan. (Corinth.)
“Brightly the moon o’er pallid corpses streaming,
Mingled her soft rays with the cannon’s breath,”—
Death of William H. Mitchell: Killed at Gettysburg: by Lieutenant J. E. Dooley. (Sunny.)
“So bright in his genius—so bright in his youth