Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-06-03
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over the graves of these unknown
dead. Their comrades who sleep
beside them, whose names are on the
roll of the honored,n have spirit friends
standing over their graves, while we are
here, but no such sacred vigils keep guard
over these unknown dead, whose lives
were given up in the thickest of the fray,
or among the captured when they were
left behind in the hastY retreat to take the
chances of wayside grave, at the hands
of the victorious, pursuing columns Their
last thought was the anguish, that far
away from home and kindred, in a strange
land and among strange people, their
graves would be unhonored and I'M
known
Mothers you who have drawn sweet
comfort from your silent communion with
the loved one 10y the side of your boys
| green grave can you measure the depth
of that sorrow that finds no Judgement In
its ceaseless wanderings for the missing
son, amid the graves of the half mill
lion dead who sleep in these beautiful
burial grounds throughout the land" Can
| you not drop a more sympa-
| thetic tear over these unlettered graves,
| for those absent hearts who todd are
yearning to know, if by chance some Wig
| liant seeker for the dead has not found
the scattered bones of their loved one and
| gathered them in some one of these cities
of the Nations deadY
| 10 mo theaa .. unlnou-,, y o,ra,,os hove q
peculiar interest. nv chance once stood
| by the sideofone whose ashes, If they have
been found at all, rest in the ranks of the
missing. He was a brave young mau who
had received his fatal shot leading n des-
perate attack. When saw him, he had
| lust been told by his surgeon that his life
was ebbing fast away. Like the soldier
hoy at Binpep. his last Thoughts We're of
his mother. Pulling from his breast a seal
| that contained his name and age and home.
| he begged that the Inscription upon IL be
plain " marked upon his head. board. "for -
| said he. - | promised mother that NV last
request would be that NV grave should be
marked so that she could find it,O The
| final dissolution had no terror for his bravs
yonnp soul save that his last resting nlace
might be =" unknown"
His troubled face shall never forget, and
the picture OF his widowed mother, wan
| derlng amlu the ranks OF tne unknown
dead for the grave Oh her sole onspring
whose gong OUT anu coming IN she nae
watched with maternal solcltude LOT TWEEN
W long years, comes TO me over anu over
again. Inc lullhess OF her loNe LOT ina
boy has been measured TO many mother
before me IN the GIT oil one a. hoole ahI
true, and leave the sad story WIN then
as new incentive II any snodlu ever p'
needed, 10 perseVere IN TINS laoor OF love-
EAST TENNESSEE PATRIOTISM.
Thrice blessed are these dead who's,
bones have been gathered To rest i'm tn
midst of this people whose annual gather
, inps here are the largest. the most sympa
thetic and TOUCHING of any i'm all the LAND
Here where these men living met will
: such fraternal welcome: here. where pa
triots thrilled nation with admiration 10
, their unyieIding devotion to the flag
here where thew divided their last morse
of food with those who came to their res
, cue here. where the soldiers sacrifice
, met with the warmest gratitude. an
where their graves will ever be honored
3 here, amid the mountains that East len
: nessee PATRIOTISM mas forever lhtnoru
| lied, let them sleep. Honored are tn
a dead, ana thrice honOreu are they who
q lovingly and touchingly guard them.
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. and I on, 5one How ehoIj Wa nneasur
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e com nnta the treasura axpendedp Or sbai
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a ont md tba DossibiIitias of tho Cntt,rc
3 C'ount If Won viii what has already Eee
E accon,nIisIeJ sinca Annomoto~i Tba hot
r that rncl,sd Tho Continent Il, tho draodfn
, | sbocl- of 80 and JasoIatad thesa yaIIev
/ with blood and fraternaI strife ia so r.
: huried thot on ,his dary tba ho,,s NJ IN
, | bIno -, nd tLoso tbat ,,,oro ;ha aravin MOI
r than one cemeferv are aide hy Side decoI
atino the Graves ~ their faIIen comrsde,
When TIE nestiIence etaIEad abroad an
e,,oota tho citias thot hoJ nrrsad Tho snir