Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-05-21

knightly shield. Holy, because IT NOV
ed steady upon the created front OF the
of death ut the com-
mand Of this soldier at Richmond and
at Sharpsburg. Holy, because it beck
oned on columns Of fiery Confederates
at charlottesville, directed by the &c.
Mus Of this commander, so that his
great lieutenant might die and pass
through the wide-open portals of heav-
On by the light of bis victory.
Holy. because upheld by him who
could say to ~ messenger right there and
then, "1ell Gen, Jackson to make haste
aud get we'll He has lost his left arm,
but ! have lost my right ARM and 1T
ter when he heard Of the serious char
acter of Stonewall's wound, sent again
to say: Tell him / wrestled last night
for him in prayer, as never prayed, !
believe, for myself could have cho.
sen for the good of the country to have
been disabled III his stead" Holy, be-
cause it waved above the heads OF men
who made the courageous though nnsuc-
cessful assault upon the strongly en-
trenched position of the Federal troops
at Gettysburg, i'll July, 1863, and placed
itupon the semicircle of Round Top when
it nearly trembled with the fiery diadem
of our victory, and where, under the
sulphureus canopy formed by the dense
smoke of three hundred cannons it was
present when the general-ln-chief said:
"All this is my fault 1t is / who have
lost this fight" Holy, because at Spot
sylvania Courthouse, in May, 1864,
when the brave and courteous Hancock
had broken our lines and the fate of
the army was weighed in the balance,
it witnessed the chieftain, who recog-
nIzed the crisis, ride to the front of the
colors of the Forty-ninth Virginia Regi-
ment, one of the regiments formed to
retake our lost position, and removing
his hat, moved forward to lead them
into the very jaws of death AYE, thrice
sacred, because round its staff twas
dropping mute and motionless amid the
shouts of the soldiers of Lee to the
rear!' while grim-visaged troops in
sisted upon leading both horse and III
der to a safer position. Holy, because
it was wrapped in the heart of him who
after Appomattox had come, could say
in his last published orders to the rem
nants of the grand historic Army Of
Northern Virginia:
"You will take with yon the satisfac-
ton that proceeds from the conscious
ness of duty faithfully performed, and !
earnestly pray that merciful God will
extend to You his blessing and protec
ton
Once more holy, because whenever,
in my dreams, hear the measured tread
of phantom cavalry, so spectral, as in
column Of fonrs, boot to boot, with Geld
hands clasping rigid sabres, they noise
lessly ride by. At their head proudly
stepping with arched neck and royal
bearing ! always see the black horse
of their leader, and on his hack the
prince of cavaliers. As | recall the
heavy Mexican spurs that jingle upon
the riding boots; the French sabre
swinging so quietly by his side; the
Fighting jacket" buttoned back, the
dropping hat and black feather, the
strange figure and big, brown beard, the
piercing laughing blue eye, ] know be-
fore me rides the commander Of the cav
airy of the Army of Northern Virginia,
lasbing }. f. y. Stuart, and ] know
above him floats the flag Of the Conted-
eracy. Holy, because it accompanied
the march around Mcclellan on the Rich
mond lines, and Stuart blazed the way
for the splendid onset Of him in whose
honor we assemble here to-day. Bless
ed, because he ran it up on the right at
Fredericksburg over the guns brave Pei
ham commanded, and because he nnfurl-
ed it at Charlottesville, when he took
the place of the dying Jackson, and
when an eyewitness said that he could
not free himself from the idea that Har-
~ of Navarro was present, except that
Stuart's plume was black, FOR every
where, like Navarro, he was in front, and
| the men followed the feather, and when
riding at the head and in command of the
veterans of Stonewall his ringing voice
could tie heard high, high above the
thunder Of artillery and the ceaseless
roar Of musketry, singing "Old Joe
Hooker, Won't You Come ont Of the vii
derness," sacred because he stood by il
on the Rappahaunock, when they tele-
graphed him his darling little Flora, was
dying, and he replied, II shall have tc
leave my child in the hands of God; my
duty to my country requires me here y
Love it It was bathed in the life.
blood of this brave cavalryman at yellow
Tavern, six miles from Richmond, when
Sheridan's advance was then disputed
and when, with fast.failing power, its
Joined his minister, the Rev. DR.. Peter
kin, of Richmond, i'll his last note o
praise. Crock of Ages Cleft for me,
while the angel Of death was guiding t.
realms of everlasting light him who wa
more fiery than upon the battlefield
than "Rupert of the bloody sword.
The stars upon the cross of the Conted
crate battle-fag shown forever thereaf
ter with increased brilliancy, for they
recorded FROM luminous depths the re
cord of the hero Do Louisianians reve
; p On high it waved when the sho
was fired that passed from left to RICH
through the chest of Leonidas Polk
when the blood of the Christian soldie
redeemed the soil of Pine Mount, Ga, O.
f the thirteenth of June, 1868, and thu
, gifted poet sung:
ooh! Warrior Bishop, Church and State
Sustain in thee an equal loss,