Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-08-22

The other, Judge Caruthers, for th
faith that was in him, an exile from th
: quiet haunts Of his classic shades, Will
. yet the sentinel piled his lonely beat, ant
the crimson tide of battle eoursed the ar
ferries of the land, fell quietly 10 sleep il
, | his philosophers chamber, as weariel
, child at rest, and awoke in the "New Je
rusalem"% So Ia, ~. r
Sleep on. our dear old Fathers In Thu
Law rf--sleep in your innocence, as doti
the passions in infancy's breast. sgI [ 1l
II While the night-wind shall chant i'll
solemn dirges over your patriot graves
your names, enshrined in, the hearts o.
your pupils, will be held in grateful re-
membrance; and when those of Us, who
follow your footprints in the pathways Of
our noble science, shall pass through the
summer of life into the evening of age, and
the shadows of the past grow thicker and
darker upon us, may We look back, with
increasing delight, upon the felicities Of
other years. when yoa taught us tho way
If we have 80 lived that the rough places
have worn smooth, as the twilight APP
proaches, and the sunny spots we have left
behind grow brighter and brighter, while
the music-cords of the heart grow softer
and sweeter, then, and not till then, will
we rise TO a full reality of your gentle
power. .te. ar.g
And for you, our absent brothers, who
are gone on the wings of life eternal, we
drop a tear Some have gone, by slow
decay, into that "sleep that knows no wax
ing" and crossed that mystic river intothe
blissful gardens of the future, with the
shout of Christian triumph on their lips !!
4 Others have been snatched from the
"crested ridge of battle" midst the war
| cry of glory.
Little they'll reck. if we II let them sleep on
In the grave where their country has called
them.
Some fell-beneath that weird flag, the
| witchery of whose charmed life still glis.
/ tens in its starry folds, as it waves in
| triumph Ger "the home of the brave"
| Though you fought US, and conquered,
vet, with a soldiers admiration for the
| courage of his foe, we write upon your
tombs, with our hearts full of the Golden
time" regaiescot in pace! ,-..rr IA. I'D
By far the larger number known to
our catalogue, who have been summoned
hence, have given their lives "a a libation TO
liberty, on the yet smoking altsrs of their
UhllHc OQuli. hC hhob AASSN W
the children of our Alma Mdter, shed for
the "Lost Cause,D flowed from the patri-
clan veins of young Bale Peyton, amid
the disasters of Fishing creek. The dark
and bloody ground" at Perryville drank IN
the life-current Of Capt. Wm. Seay, The
historian will find upon the glory-scroll of
Shiloh, no brighter name than Col 'Kif'
WiIliams-scholar, lawyer, soldier! The
imprint of success was stamped upon him
in all the walks of life, and competition
fed from him" as he coursed his young
and brief career.
And Msior Robertson, too, full of hope
and promise, was cut down by the death
missiles that fatally flew over this field
and closed career as bright as it was brief.
"Dulce ct decorum est pro pdtrid nori p'
Col. Dick Keeble, modest, devoted, un~
Welding, watered the sacred soil of the
Mother of States with the best blood of
Tennessee, in the "deadly breach" at
Petersburg. en-
Columbus Sykes, of my class, after win
ming the rank Of Lieutenant Colonel amid
the paths of danger, fell, while in the line
Of his duty, into the cold embrace OF the
'dread destroyer" I'D =.
Doctor Blythe, with patriotic
devotion alike characteristic of his
family and his own ardent nature, gave
his service to our cause, and sealed 1t with
his life.
Msior Wilkinson, who donned his war
rior plume, and mustered in the ranks of
Tennessee's "Immortal Second" at the
fret blast of the bugle, gave
pThe last lbation that liberty draws
Az hngr - har
cause
And, amid The vanishing smoke OF the last
battle, waved q long adieu TO the thinned
ranks of his scar-covered comrades, as the
last gun died in echoes around the Held of
BentonviIle, in the Old North State.
General Carter, who fell at that bridge
of sighs," and mingled his blood In the
waters of Harpeth, as they flowed around
the melancholy but bravely-fought held
of franklin, had won with merit, and won
with honor, the "Star" (of the Brigadier)
BY the side Of his motto, "ViGm inUeniGm
aut tdciGm"
General Hatton, companion of my youth,
and rival of my better days, had won
honors at the Bar, before the hastings, and
in the cosncils of the nation-lke Harry
Percy on the field, led his immortal com
rades with John K. Howard by his sidel
over the line and into the "deadly branch"
at the Seven Pines.
Cannon to right of them,
| Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them.
VOlley'd and thunder'd:"
| When like Marmion,
with dying hand above his head.
He shook the fragment of his blade,
And shouted Victory ?
The "Seven Pines" is his monument,
and his requiem is sung in their mourniul
murmurs BY day and by night.
| Col. Wylie NJ. Read, whether at the
bosd of his church or at the head OF his
| Tec;ment. was ever true, eloquent and gal
ia1t In peace, a soldier of the "Cross oil
/ C1bris,.D in war, a soldier beneath the
| Gross of St. Andrew" While ne kneli
~ the one. with christian faith, he en-
1 hrsced the other with soldiers ldolatry
4 If in The one instance, be led his follower
Win the wand of peace, 10 the mount o.
Calvary, and bowed at the foot Of the Cross
| Ia The other, with no less conviction
If dntv. he led the soldiers of his com
mand 10 the red line of battle, and crowned
himself victim on the altar OF bis country
Ellis life was but summer rose
That opened to the morning SKY,
And ere the shades of evening close,
iris scattered on the ground to die"
There are Settle, Henry, Baptist, Whar
ton. Napier, McCauts, Lowery, james
Hn,chins. Lowe, Beard, Anderson, Topp
Pncbanan. FreedIaud, Finley, and otheI
slumni. who became victims upon IN
altar
To We spirits of the Lost Cause, Wh'
- Of o,lnru amid The wilt
glare of battle, we give you our prayer
and our tears. Though Southern nation
ality ia a dream of the past; though In
reyeille Of camp finds no echo now ami'
f our mountains, and the last tattoo has oie'
, in echoes away; though our bruised arm
, | are hung up as mountains OF glory an
{ become our dearest household godf; an
+. though our little bark, trelghted with IN
f.. hopes and fortunes of our beloved oontf
has gone down beneath the crimson tide
n battle; though wreaths Of fadeles5 honor
crowned many a gallant crest, and hal
y of glory encircles the CORY graves OF GU
= dear departed" in land where ever.
a turf beneath our feet is a soldiers eepn
+? chre;" though dead, Eye still live" an
q though our cause Is lost, you are al Las
| immortal
+ Nor wreck, nor change, nor winter blight
a Nor Times remorseless doom,
e Can dim one ray of holy light
u That gilds your glorious tomb.
s. Though poor and heart-broken, an
It strikeu down with humiliation, by th
is stroke of misfortune, yet we are rich In ii
e. pearl-drops of tears, and warm IN u
d pesrt.tbrobs of love-all garnered fer 20
10 "sIeep sweetly in your hOnored graves,
Sleep martyrs OF a fallen cause
20 Though vet no marble column Graves
The Dilgrim here TO pausel