The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-10-11
George d. Prentice on his Son.

The Editor Of the Louisville Journal, prints
the following notice of the death Of his con, AZ
Augusta, KY, while participating in the rebel
raid upon that place:
"OBi1uARY.-William Courtland Prentice died
on Monday last at Augusta, KY, of wounds re-
ceived in the conf1ic. at that plsce on the pre-
ceding Saturday. He persisted in the cause OF
the rebellion.
It is not in the columns of newspaper, 1t Is
only i'll the family circ.e or in the hush OF soil
tude, that the emotions of . parent over such an
event should have utterance. The tears OF
weeping eyes and the fast trick!ing drops OF
bleeding hearts are not for the public gaze me
deepest agonies should be content to 1919
their sombre wings in the soul Consolation
could not come from the worlds sympathy "
can be looked for only from God and his anger
Time. Nay, there are griefs that time itself has
NO power to alay or soothe, grjefs that like rom
ming streams are deepening their channels for.
ever.
"Wm. CORTLAND Prentice was no common
young man. He was remarkable in his powers
and in his temperament A model of manly
beauty, he had Extraordinary intellectual ener.
~, strong thirst for strange and curious knowl.
edge, and deep passion for oil that 10 sublime
and beautiful in poetry and nature. He was
generous, manly, high.heaIted, end Of courage
that no mortal peril, come in what form it might,
could dsunt. He exulted in looking destruction
face TO face in all its ways He loved wild aud
dangerous adventures for the very dangers sake.
His eagle spirit lived among the mountain crags
and shouted back to the shouts OF the STORM
Although kind, uneelfsh and humane, be was
impetuous, passionate and Of unconQuerable
prejudicee. He was not untrequently unjust 10
bis Judgments, and be permitted nothing to
stand between him and the execution OF bis
purposes
This young man, if he had always directed
his energies judciously could have made himself
life. He might have been an able and honored
statesman in the service of the Republic. But
an intense southern sympathy, in spite Of the
arguments, the remonstrapces, and the entrea-
ties OF those who dearly loved him, made him an
active rebel against his country. And, after q
brief five weeks service in the rebel ranks, he
fell soon to breathe out his fiery life, receiving,
meanwhile, far away from his family the kindly
ministrations of those against whose cause his
strong right arm had been raised. Oh, If he had
fallen in his country's service, fallen, with bis
burning eyes fixed in love and devotion upon
the flag that for more than three.fourths OF a
century has been star Of worship to his ances.
tors his early death, though still terrible, might
have been borne by fathers heart; but alas,
the reflection that he fell in armed rebellion
against that glorious old banner, now the EN-.
blem of the greatest and hottest cAuse the world
ever knew, is full Of desolation and almost OF
despair.
''And yet, we shall love to think Of Courtard
Prentice, that brave and noble, though misguid
ed, youth, during the little remnant of our lives
Our love for him, undimmed by tears and grief
is snd will psnsin an amaranthine flower upon
the grave Of our buried years"