...to his duty until the fatal bullet stilled the beatings of a noble heart which had so often throbbed responsive to the music of victory. No more splendid monument, no nobler epitaph, than of that Latour d'avergne, the first grenadier of France, to whose name every morning at roll-call in the French army, answer was made, as the front-rank man on right of his old company stepped forward and saluted:...