Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1848-08-16
The FIELD OF RAISIN.

The battle, ,So'er! the din is past,
Night MANTLE DER the field is cast,
The Indian yell is heard no more,
And silence .broods DER Fri es shore.
At this lone hourI go to tread
The field where valor vainly bled-
To raise the wounded warriors crest,
Or warm with tears his icy breast;
To treasure up his last command
And bear it to his native land.
1t may one pulse of joy impart
Toa fond mothers bleeding heart;
Or for moment it may dry
The tear-drop in the Widows eye.
Vain hope, awayl The widow neer
Her warriors dying wish shall hear.
The passing zephyr bears no sigh,
No wounded warrior meets the eye
Death is his sleep by Eries wave,
OfRaisin's snow we heap his grave!
How many hopes lie murdered here
The mothers joy, the fathers pride,
The country's boast, the foemans fear,
In wilderd havoc side by side.
Lend me, thou silent queen of night,
Lend me awhile thy waning light,
That may see each well loved form,
That sunk beneath the morning storm.
These lines are Introductory to what ma
be considered a succession of epitaphs on
the personal friends whose bodies he found
upon the field. Itwould extend the extrac
too far to insert them. We can only ado
the close of the poem, where he takes leave
OF agroup Of his young comrades in Harris
company, who had fallen together:
And here see that youthful band,
That Lowell to move at Harris command;
l saw them for the battle dressed,
And still where danger thickest pressed,
marked their crimsoned plum.ge wave. -
How many fill this bloody grave!
Ihlr pillow and their winding sheet
The virgin snow-a shroud must meet!
But wherefore do linger here2
Why drop the unayailing. tear?
Wher'er turn, some youthf ul form,
Like foweret broken by the storm,
Appeals to me in sad array,
And bids me yet moment stay,
Till could fondly lay me down
And sleep with him on the cold ground,
For thee, thou dread and solemn plain,
l neer shall look on thee again:
And spring. with her effacing showers,
Shall come, and summers mantling flowers
And each succeeding winter throw
Onthy red breast new robes of snow;
Yet will wear thee in my heart,
All dark and CORY as thou art.
Shortly after his return from Canada
Ensign Butler was promoted to captainc
in the regiment to which he belonged. b.
as his promotion was irregular, bein
made over the head of senior officers in tha
regiment, captaincy was given him i
44th, a newly raised regiment Whe
freed from parole, by exchange, in 1914,
instantly entered on active duty, with CON
pany which he had recruited at Nashville
Tennessee. His regiment was ordered t
join Gen. jackson in the south; but Captai
Butler, finding its movements too tard,
pushed on, and effected that junction Fwit
his company alone. Gen. Call, at tn;
time an officer in Captain Buffers comps
ny, (since governor ofFlorida,) } in a lettt
addressed to Mr.. Tanner, of Kentuck,
presents, as an eyewitness, SO graphical
the share which Captain Butler had in IL
campaign which followed, that it may we
supersede any narrative at second hand.
Tallehasse, April 3, 1914.
Sir:-I avail myself of the earliest leisul
have had since the receipt of your letter
the 18th of February, to give you. a .repl,
A difference of political sentiments wi
not induce me to withhold the narrative ya