“Hark! the tocsin is sounding, my comrades—

Bind your knapsacks, away let us go,”—

Soldier’s Farewell: By John H. Hewitt: (Lee.)

“The bugle sounds upon the plain,

Our men are gath-ring fast;”—

The Soldier’s Farewell to his Wife: By Wm. K. Campbell, Greenville, S. C. James Island, 1862. (E. V. M.)

“Side by side and hand in hand,

Silently we sit;”—

The Soldier’s Grave: (J. M. S.)

“Oh stranger, tread lightly, ’tis holy ground here,