“They have fallen, they have fallen,
In the fierceness of the strife,
Leaving us to bear the battle,
And the burden of this life;
While their disembodied spirits
Wing their way to realms above,
Where they sing their songs of triumph
Round the great white throne of love.”
The following is the amount of money collected while in Michigan, in the winter of 1865:
| Proceeds Children’s Fair, | Kalamazoo, | $10 35 |
| Soldier’s Aid Society, | South Jackson, | 4 00 |
| Proceeds Oyster Supper, | ” ” | 50 00 |
| ” ” ” | Muir, | 75 00 |
| ” ” ” | Salem, | 43 85 |
| Collection, Baptist Church, | ” | 26 15 |
| Cash, Pontiac. By request, name not given, | 10 00 | |
| Social, Ionia, including a few individual contributions, | 60 70 | |
| Proceeds Oyster Supper, | Northfield, | 25 35 |
| ” Tableaux, | Galesburg, | 25 00 |
| ” ” | Chelsea, | 37 00 |
| Collection, Episcopal Church, | Ann Arbor, | 23 35 |
| ” Dutch M. E. Church, | ” ” | 2 75 |
| From Brighton, | 5 00 | |
| Individual contributions, | 1 50 | |
| Total, | $400 00 | |