All its honored companions are cut off and gone”—

Last Night at Fort Donelson: Inscribed to Colonel Charles Johnson, of General Buckner’s Staff: by Kentucky. March 8, 1862. (S. O. S.)

“Night falleth, grieve, on the exhausted men

Who’ve won three battles in four days:”—

The Last of Earth: A Prison Scene: by Colonel W. S. Hawkins. (S. S.)

“Last night a comrade sent in haste

For me to soothe his fearful pain,”—

Last Race of the Rail-Splitter: (R. B. B. 54.)

“When Xerxes and when Cyrus led,

When Bonaparte and Washington,”—