Many times have I met, after his visit to this lonely mansion, with a tear in his eye and a heart overflowing with sorrow, which told us plainly the trouble that he just witnessed. The names of the dead are. These comprise the list of those who have died out of the Cortland companies, that I know of. One or two have died, and some few have been discharged from the Cherry Valley portion of the regiment. Little did they dream that Cortland skies would never welcome them back, to their home and friends alive.
Death invades every family altar, and severs the fondest ties - the brightest hopes fane.
While the present is death nay the future be bright with a Heavenly Father's blessing. The memory that lives around the death of our brothers in arms a sad and tearful. But in dying thus, they deserve no less the name of patriot, than they would, had the lives been sacrificed at the cannon's mouth. Their honor is just as great in that they came to die for their country, and their lives have been sacrificed, while in the conscientious prosecution of their duties as soldiers. Peace to their ashes.