And menaces every one:
So Porter proves himself a brave man’s son.[[7]]
[7]) Admiral Porter is son of the late Commodore Porter, commander of the Frigate Essex on that Pacific cruise which ended in the desparate fight off Valparaiso with the English frigates Cherub and Phœbe, in the year 1814.
Stonewall Jackson.
Mortally wounded at Chancellorsville.
(May, 1863.)
The Man who fiercest charged in fight,
Whose sword and prayer were long—
Stonewall!
Even him who stoutly stood for Wrong,