They looked in his Bible, and there was a slip of paper at the place where he had marked the text:
“They desire a country, even a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for He hath prepared for them a city.”
On this slip of paper he had written:
“Bury me in the sea; it has been my home, and I love it. But will not some one set up a stone for my memory at Fort Adams or at Orleans, that my disgrace may not be more than I ought to bear? Say on it:
‘In Memory of
Philip Nolan
Lieutenant in the Army of the United States.
He loved his country as no other man has loved her;
but no man deserved less at her hands.’”
XXXIII
YOUR FLAG AND MY FLAG
