Col. Charles Marshall
April Eighth
“GLORY STANDS BESIDE OUR GRIEF”
Because they fought in perfect faith, believing
The cause they fought for was the just, the true;
And had small hope of glittering gain receiving,
While following, with standard high in view,
Where led their single-hearted, dauntless chief:
Therefore doth Glory stand beside our grief!
Victoria Elizabeth Gittings
Louisiana admitted to the Union, 1812
Telegram from Secretary Seward confirming promise (March 15) as to Sumter, 1861
April Ninth
An angel’s heart, an angel’s mouth,
Not Homer’s, could alone for me
Hymn forth the great Confederate South,
Virginia first, then Lee.
Oh, realm of tears! But let her bear
This blazon to the end of time:
No nation rose so white and fair,
None fell so pure of crime.
P. S. Worsley
(England)
[From lines written on the fly-leaf of a translation of the Iliad, presented to General Lee by the Oxford scholar in 1866]