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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 11 (search)
ing timbers of the Congress and Cumberland, and startled nations. Time, the balm of wounded hearts, has softened the agony of the last months of the appalling struggles between the States, and converted the ravishing anguish of defeat, of deaths, of losses infinite, into submission to the inevitable. We would not make those hearts bleed afresh by recounting the incidents which clothed our people with the weeds of mourning. In Caesar's account of the battle of Pharsalia, he says that Crastinus, a centurion of the Tenth legion, already distinguished for his gallantry, called out: Follow me, my comrades, and strike home for your general. This one battle remains to be fought and he will have his rights and we our liberty. General, he said, looking to Caesar, I shall earn your thanks to-day, dead or alive. We have seen a ragged Southern soldier, all unknown to fame, amid the angry shouting of hosts, touch the poverty of his uniform, and with a gentle farewell, uttered as