The daily bulletin. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn) 1862-1863, 1862-10-27
Prentice's Tribute , his Rebel
Son

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George d. Prentice, othe louisville
Journal publishes the flowing notice
Of the death Of his cldtt son, a Lieu
tenant Colonel in the Qnfedcrate ser.
vice, who was killed in ii latesucccss-
full attack upon AugustaKy y:
OBlTUAEY.-William Coiland Prentice
died IN Monday last, at Austa, Kentucky
Of wounds received in the comet at that place
on the preceding Saturday .gIe persisted in
the cause Of the rebellion.
1t is not in the columns of newspaper-it
is only in the family circle I in the hush of
solitude-that the emotions . a parent over
such an event should h0veltterance. The
tears of weeping eyes and fa trickling drops
Of bleeding hearts are not lolhe public gaze.
The deepest agonies should l"contcnt to fold
their sonbre wings in the stl. Consolation
coald not come from the worls sympathy it
can be looked for only from Gil and his angel
time. Nay, there are griets tit time itself has
no power to allay or sooth-+riefs that, like
running streams, are deepcniI their channels
forever.
VIM. CORTLAND Prentice as no common
young man. lie was remarple in his pow
Crs ard his temperament. A odel of manly
beauties, he had extraordina Sntollectual en-
ergy, II strong thirst for strase and curious
knowledge, and q deep passioi for all that is
sublime and beautiful in poey and nature.
He was generous, manly, highearted, and of
q courage that no mortal perilcome in what
form it might, could daunt.sHe exulted in
looking destruction face to tactn all its ways.
He loved Wild and dangerousldyentures for
the very dangers sake. His ele spirit lived
among the mountain crags IN shouted back
to the shouts Of the storm. Although kind,
unselish and humane, he was npetuous, pas
%sionate and of unconquerable 'eiudices. He
was not unfreQuently unjust inis judgments,
and permitted nothing to and between
him and the execution of his p,poses.
This young man, if he hadtways directed
his energies judiciously, could I've made him.
self a distinguished ornament ihny profession
Of life. lie might have been al.ble and hon.
orea Statesman in the service 3 the republic
But an intense Southern sympay, in spite o.
the arguments, the remonstranc, and the en-
treaties Of those who dearly loNd him, made
him an active rebel against his elntry. After
a brief five weeks service in I'll rebel ranks
he fell, soon to breathe out his fly life, receiv
ing, meanwhile, far away fronts family, thu
kindly ministrations of those gainst whose
cause his strong right arm ha been raised
Oh, if he had fallen in his cmtry's service
fallen with his burning eyes ixl in love anC
devotion upon the flag that r. more thar
three-fourths of a century h%as@een u star O.
worship to his ancestors, his cay death, tho
still terrible, might have been bne by faith.
er's heart; but, alas, the ~reflectiA that he fel
in armed rebellion against thaglorious ole
banner, now the emblem of tltgreatest ant
hottest cause the world ever XIV, is full O
desolation and almost of despair.
And, yet, we shall love to thirbf Courtlant
Prentice, that brave and noble though mis-
guided youth, during the little tnnant of GU
lives. Our love for him, undinned by tear
and grief, is and will remain anamarahthin
flower upon the grave of our buEd years.