Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-10-11

George ID. Prentiee Of the Louisville Journal
publ she's the following notice Of the death O.
his eldest son, a lieuteuant-colonel in the Con
fsdeTste service, who was killed in tue late sue
cessful attack upon Augusta, kentucky
OBrFUARY.-Wiilism Courtand Psenliee died
on Monday last, at Augusta Kentucky, oi
wounds received in the conflict at that ace on
the preceding Saturday. He perished in the
cause of the rebellion.
Ii is net in the columns of a neWspaper-it is
only in the family circle or in the hush Of soil
tude-thst the emstens of parent over saeh
an event should have utteTance. The tears Of
weeping eyes and the hst-trickliug drops
bleeding hearts are not for the public gaze. The
deepest agOnies sheuld be content 20 fold their
somber wings in the soul. Consolation could
not come from the worlds sympathy it can be
looked for only from God and bis angle time
Nay, there griels that time itself has power
70 sllsy or sootbe-grieis that, like running
streams, are deepening their channels forever.
VIM. Courtland Prentice was no common
young man. He was remarkable in his powers
aud in his temperament A model of manly
beauties, he had extraordinary intellectual energy,
strong thirst for strange aAd curious knowledge,
aud deep passion for all that Is sublime and
beautiful IN poetry and nature He was geneT-
ONn1 AiRu-AeA4 tcnS anu u q COuL6Ec LLat
no mortal peril, come in what form it might,
could daunt. He exulted IN looking destruction
face to face in all its ways He loved wild and
dangerous adventures for the very anger sake
His eagle spirit lived amOng the mountain crsgs
and shouted back to the shouts OF the storm
Although kind, uuselfsh and humane be was
impetuous, passionate and of uHconquersble
prejudices. He was not unfreguently unjust in
his judgments, and he permitted nothing to
stand between him and the execution Of his pur-
poses.
This young man, if he had always directed
his energies ju0ici0usly, could have made him
sell distinguished ornament in any profession
OF life. He might have been an able and hon
ored ststesmsn in the service of the republic
But an intense Southern sympathy, in spite of
thc Arguments, the remOustTances, and the Ell
treaties of those who dearly loved him, made
an active rebel against his country. Aud, after
a brief five weeks service in the rebel ranks he
fell, soon to breathe out his fsry life, receiving
far aWsy from his family, the kindly
ninistratious Of those against whose cause his
strong right arm had been rsised. Oh, if he had
fallen IN his cOuntry's service, fallen with his
burning eyes fixed in love and devotion upOa
the flag that for more than three-iour,hs Of
century has been star Of worship 10 bis an.
ces tors, his early DEATH though still terrible,
might have been borne by a fathers heart, but,
alas, the reflection that he fell in armed rebel
lion against thst glorious old banner now the
emblem Of the greaEest and holiest cause the
world ever knew, is full of desolatiOn and al-
most of despair.
And, yet, we shall love to think of Courtland
Prentice, that brave aud noble, thought misguid-
ID youth, during the little remnant of our lives
Oar love for him, undimmed by tears and grief,
$ and will remain an amaTanthine flower upon
he grave of our buried years.