“Warm from my bosom I send you this,
Deep in my heart these thoughts were nursed,”—
To My Sons in Virginia: (Randolph.)
“My children, I have sent ye forth
To battle for the right”—
To Our Dead of New Hope: Corporal W. H. Brunet and Private R. A. Beidgens. By F. B. Kennesaw Ridge, June 16, 1864. (W. F.)
“They sleep the deep sleep ’neath the sanctified sod,
Made holy by patriot gore;”—
Too Young to Die: By John B. Smith, Nashville, Tennessee, December, ’64. (E. V. M., ’69.)
“On the hard fought field where the battle storm