St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-02-06
IN MEMORIAM.
JnO. +. MunSch and
w. b. Cook.

headquarters OF zen. Geo. MOOrman
Camp No. go, U. c. ":
Coington, La, Jan. s., 1897.
This being the first meeting Of Camp
No. go since the appointment Of the
"Mortuary Committec'', the following
resolutions, prepared Is q loving
tribute to the memory of departed
Comrades were offered, and unanimous.
" adopted, and ordered to be spread
upon the minutes.
1t was also further ordered that .
copy OF these resolutions be sent to the
family Of each of our deceased Com
rades; and that the st. Tammanv
Farmer be requested to publish the
same.
Resolved, That it Is peculiarly ap-
prOpriate that the few survivors OF the
Civil War, fully conscious of the IN
certainty of life and Of the certainty Of
death, should always pause and turn
aside from the active pursuits of life,
to pay homage to the military record,
and tributes to the memory of those of
their Comrades who will never again
answer roll call, and who a. the sound
Of s.Taps'' have ''crossed over the
river, to rest under the shade OF the
,rees', with Lee, jackson and 8eanre-
gard, and that mighty host Of Con-
federates who followed the Southern
Cross in its brief, but respondent ca
reer Of glory. Therefore;
Be it resolved, that this Camp deeply
deplores the loss of Third Lieutenant
Commander, Jno. T Munsch, who was
Orderly Sergeant of Co. B., Miles Le-
giOn. and was with his command in all
its battles, hardships, defeats and
triumphs during the entire war, and
was conspicuous for splendid service
and courage at Port Hudson, Baton
Rouge, and other memorable battles.
Resolved also, that 1t is with pro
found sorrow that we record the death
of First Lieutenant Commander, W. B.
Cook, who was captain Of Co. b.,
Miles Legion, and whose courage and
ability 1t the seige If Port Hudson, and
conspicuous gallantry upon many other
battle fields; aud whose continuous
service to the end of the war, made his
record IS IN honorable, brave soldier
second to none.
Brave Confederate Soldiers! After
years of tempest and sunshine, joys
and SORROWS, and at last ''life's fitful
fever DER, may you sleep weli", until
that grand reveille, when the Great Com
mauder, "wh0 wheels His throne on
the rolling worlds, shall summons
His soldiers to Joys unspeakable.
Comrades! Thirty-one years have
passed since the last gun was firei In
the great war between the States, and
Deacc, contentmept aud the blessings
of a reunited country have followed
the hardships aud perils Of the mighty
conflict in which 600 900 soldiers of the
South, imprisoned BY blockade, relying
entirely upon themselves, and without
any outside aid. stood for four long
wears in the unequal combat against
1853, 1872 of the mighty legions of the
North, with the resources OF the world
at their command.
III the busy life Of . new generation
few stop to think. and fewer still re-
member the glory Of the old Veterans
who only thirty-five years ago, 50 noblv
and periodically left home, and family
and kindred, at the cali of Louisiana,
and went forth to battle for the honor
of their State, and for what they be-
lieved to be right. Some of them, at
the time beardless youths, some Just
entering upon the Threshold of man
hood, and Others with their locks al
ready silvered by the frosts Of time
all the pride aud glory Of their State,
many of whom are now reposing upon
her battle-felds, made memorable for
all time by their courage and conse-
Grated by their blood; some sleeping in
unknown, unmarked, and uncared for
graves; while yet few survive in the
land for which they battled 50 bravery
and so well.
It is the sacred duty of those Of us
who survive, to pay all the honor pos
sible to the memory Of the Members of
our Camp, and to see that their i'm
perishable deeds are recorded, and
handed down the ages.
Comrades! We may not rear Is splen-
did monuments to our st. Tam
many heroes as greet the morning
sun in other lands. nor their remains
be placed in as costly tombs as are
builded elsewhere; but their hOnored
resting places In st. Tammany shall be
upon the banks Of her sparkling
streams, in her vine.covered groves,
and in fragrant, 1owery hooks, and
every st. Tammany Veteran shall have
. tombstone and an epitaph, for:
ssThough no shaft of pallid marble rears
its white and CHASTITY head,
Telling wanderers In her lovely forests
of the virtues of the dead,
Yet q yellow jessamine Is their tomb
stone, and . dewdr0p pure and bright
Is the epitaph an Angel writes in the
stiffness of the night"
GEO. MOORMAN,
Il. o. PIZZETTA,
Committee.