Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-10-01
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SOLDIERS DEATH AND BURIAL.


The news had &lfived suddenly, and had fallen
like thunderstroke upon the hearts of those that
loved him. Only few days before letter from
Wilmington had assured them of his health and
welfare, came hurried rumor OF his illness
and then that he was dead-and had died in the
cars near Raleigh-struggling to get home to them,
In the course Of the night his body was brought up
from the Railroad Depot, in a hastily constructed
coffin and carried at once to the graveyard to await
burial Git being reported that he had died of yellow
fever) and there were assembled next morning his
old neighbors and friends to pay the last Offices of
respect to one who had given his life to the common
cause. A group stood round the open grave, into
which q light wind was whirlng few following
Ieaves,-some were gathered near the wagon con-
tanning the body,--and others lotered through inc
tall grass and weeds, among the graves recalling
the faces Of those that lay belOw,-but all were
thinking of the brokenhearted mother, ana WIG
a1d little one, whose arrival we were a"aitnS' :,
The only son of his mother, and she was WIDOW.
We recalled his many excellent traits OF cnaracei'
and his poorer neighbors spoke emphatcally OF ms
open handed kindness ut seemed pleasure 10
hun to give" they said. And when we saw his
childless mother and his widow bowed in wild and
bitter lamentaon together over the coffin that held
oil their hope and stay in this life while his blue
eyed fair-haired baby girl stood by unconscious,
looking down into her fathers grave, there was no
eve m the asSemblage that refused to weep with
them. The soft September sunlight shone on no
sa!der scene that morning. The kind hands OF
those who had known him from childhood gently
lowered the dead soldier into his last resting place
close by the graves of two of his children,-kind
hands adjusted the closely fitting planks above him,
and showered on them the heavy clods OF clay
ashes to ashes, and dust to dust.
And thus was buried in the saith year of his age,
Captain James Jennings, of Co. G, 1lth regiment
N Z. Vounteers-an honest oPen-hcarted and high
spirited man, an excellent son to his mother in her
declining years, kind husband and most tender
father He among the first to volunteer for the
defence of the country, and was 1st Lieutenant OF
the Chapel Hill Light Infantry" in the famous
1st regiment. In that eventful campaign he bore
himself so we'll and bravely made it an easy mat
ter for him. on his return home at its close to raise
a company of his own. He acquired the reputation
of being one of the best officers in his regiment:
an excellent disciplnarian, his company was well
drilled and well ordered and well taken care Of
that with all his strictness he much beloved by
his men. He had served also in the Mexican war,
though only Is years old-and then, as on all occa-
sIons as a soldier, had done his work manfuly.-
And now he has died in the service of his country,
and though that country has many another gallant
son to stand up for her in her hour of need, yet
who shall supply his place to his mother, his wife,
or his child. And this is the story of thousands.