The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-06-09


| OF his fallen comrade,, but he also served with
distinction in the Confederate army, being at
one time on the staff Of General Albert Sidney
Johnston, and holding the great captain in
| his arrrs when death came to him 90 suddenly
In the midst Of charge upon the retreating &
enemy.
| resided in Columbus. Georgia. where he wac
! associated with q relative, Capt }. J. Grant,
In conducting the Planters' Warehouse. Whom
this was destroyed by fre. he one day remark.
ed to the editor of the Daily Eaquiyer that there
were two things he didn't want to be mixed
up with sgain-gunpowder and cotton. For .
time Col Oh ara was connected With the Mo-
bile, Alabama. Daily Register. bat returned to
Columbus and died on the plantation of Capt.
Grant, 10 Bullock County, Alabama, in 1867.
He was, however, buried in the cemetery at
on the 3rd Of July, 1874. Gan. Thomss H.
Taylor, acting for the State Of Kentucky, re-
moved the remsins from the cemetery in Co
iumSus. and transferred them to the cemetery
bue paid marked respect to the remains, which
were escorted from the cemetery to the depot
by the Columbus Guards and the City Light
G1ards she column being commanded by Col.
w. 3. Shepherd, and the band playing the
Dead march in e&ul." Confederate and Mexi.
can war veterans and ladies in carriages fol.
lowed the military.
at Frankfort, on July Is. in the presence Of
an immense concourse Of spectators, and with
imposing ceremonies, the remains Of Colonel
Gard we'll, were rsln'srrsd @ beside ssoir oiS oom @
Eades OF the Mexican war. The reading Of his
beautifnl poem, 'The Bivouao Of the Dead, !"
formed part Of the programme Of that solemn
G9eHslens oapt.L. B, Van do Ggaaf inthe New
Ofleans Sand6y Tmss had Anticipated shfs rel
lnoval and reinterment in the following stir. |
ring lines:
BRING BLACK THE HERos dust.
Son of the dark and bloody ground
Tho1 must NOT slumber there's
Tho Atater EtaieA thy praiseS Sound
KensaSiys SHs so sSp:sssn sSSunS r 5: thy grave.
rTh Thy nssive God thy tomb
With thee is wrapt in gloom.
Thy Celtic breast was fred to arms,
Regardless OF the cost
The % battle en- now 1"SaH J" iost st"'-I
True Instinct Of the brave
To guard their hero's grave.
The song you sang DER warriors dead
For freely. too, tIo1 !SaIdss have bled,
Thy ais;s Ssn1t lil. .IsdD be; e gone 1SI . God
Tho stiff tn, form, and cold the clo6,
Thy soul was eer divine.
Then let thy racred duet bs laid
In vaiorS pToudeet spot
BY friends be not forgot,
But timed by some great masterband
Aff %.ss an la.TE sSY :E d s T e. n aIsY :st
Thus briefly bave sketched the main points
n Col. o Hara's life. 30 far 90 they refer to his
oft q2oted poem. he WAS q BROTHER journalist,
gifted, brave and generous, living for others
and dying poor himself. a recent visitor to
he Frankfort cemetery, after referring to the
splendid monument to Col. Z R'cbard N. John.
son, says Near this monument stands the
grand military monument erected in honor OF
Ill the oficrrs aud soldiers who have given
heir lives to the service OF the State. Some
vi at apart from the rest 10 the grave of Col
Theodore O'Hara, born in 1920, poet, j1nrnal-
st and soldier, the history of whose eventfnl
career reads almost like romance"