Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-03-27

rung with sentiment and song. The lady
of each knightly heart was pledged ny
name. and many a syllable significant OK
loneliness had been uttered until IL came
to st. Icons time. Lifting up his voice
Oh high:
'I drink TO one" he said,
"Whose image never may depart.
Deep craven on a grateful heart
Till memory Is dead.
ITO one whose love for me shall last
When lighter passions long have passed
So holy It's and true.
To one whose love has longer dwelt
More deeply fixed. more keenly felt
That any pledged to you"
Each guest upstarted on the word
And laid hand upon his sword
With fiery, flashing eye
And Stanley said: I'VE crave the name'
Proud knight, Of this most peerless dams
whose love you count so high
81. Leon paused as II he would
Not breathe her name in careless woras
Thus lightly to another.
Then bent his noble head as though
To give that word tile reverence aus
And gently said, My mother!
In the poetical column are the follow
ing verses by 1T. q. b." entitled Mio-
night Musings;
The fire burned brlskly in the crate.
The morn was dark and dreary;
A captive in his cell sat lone'
Thoughtful, watchful, weary.
ue thought of home and kindred ties.
Long broke. but not yet severed;
tIa Thought of dear ones In the SKIES
That had left this earth forever
Without the walls Of his prison cell
Discordant music met his ears;
what was IL I'm the morns DUH cioakf
He'd nothing but his God 20 FEAR.
As the morning light began to dawn'
The sleepers awoks one another
| They knew not the thought Oh 'he ohe ~
the fire -
He'd been thinking all night OF MS
mother.
| Some Of the biggest advertisers IN inc
| Prison Times were Lieutenant w. ..
White Thirtycthird North Carolina
| Volunteers. who was prepared to exc
cuta all kinds OF engraving on metals
with neatness and dispatch" b. +. curt
right & Co.. manufacturers OF plain ana
gutta-percha rings, chains, and prsss'-
nins. Griggs az Church, SUCCESSORS 10
| Rird Bowman a Church, were prepared
| IN execute all kinds of fashionable TAI
| lorina at reasonable rates at thelr slloP
| near the southeast corner OF the uPPe'
| bunks": S. c. Davenport, captain ieh'n
| Georgia battalion, and Lieutenant j. -
| Boswell Twenty-third Georgia Battalion
| yaehers and irouers; Brighton u walker,
| shaving. shampooing, and haircattihs
| lieutenant r. #. Taylor, dentist; 4. %.
| Riand. music teacher; Atkins q baii'
shoemakers. ,,,.,,o,v
Fort Delaware was used exclusively
for officers, all the privdtes having peen
sent over TO Elmira by themselves saio
an old ex-Confederate soldier In speakins
of the prison life. Heard ana reau q
| oIod deal about the Petersburg crater, l
sooI,on9 well IL was on the 30th day OK
| Inv. 1854. while LES and Grants armies
! Taced each other behind their respective
! fortidcations. that there occurred inc
| most memorable event in the entire war
| This was the blowing up Of General Lee
! lines nv an underground passage cut from
| tho Federal side 10 q point just under inc
| nosition occupied by the Commentaries
| NV regiment was supporting the battery
blown I'D. What part OF our Regiment
| ,bat was not buried alive was either
killed or captured in the terrible Dattis
that followed close upon the heels OF tne
| deafening detonation. l, together Win
the other officers captured, was marchea
70 CITY Point, where we were put apoaru
a boat and carried to the ola CapitaI
nrison at Washington. l a short whiie
we were transferred TO Fort Delaware.
| We disembarked one afternoon ABOUT .
| o'clock. and were marched In single mo
through an office, where we were searcn-
| cd Each man was required TO give mo
| age his State and county, number OK MS
| regiment letter of his company, whether
married or single, and how long ne hau
| been a soldier. After this we were Turn
al into an Enclosure containing about nVe
acres OF ground. This Enclosure was
mighty small for 1900 men 10 move
ohout in 10 any great extent, but we soon
bscane accustomed to our SURROUNDINGS.
,,bich made II much easier for US IMAM
~ erst More than once during the
o,o,,en months Of my captive lie ! gave
',r all homes Of ever seeing friends ana
Iaved ones again. Like hundreds OF NY
sor ,otv.nrisoners. / was attacked oy INC
amaoG disease that prevailed during elo
49, In the prisons Of both the Nor,nein
va Southern armies But by a klno iu-
. s'.u OF Providence pulled throusA
| alive.