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The Daily Dispatch: July 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], Funeral oration (search)
Funeral oration delivered in New Orleans by Lieut. Colonel Adolphus Olivier, at the Obsequies of Lieut. Colonel Charles Didier Dreux. Soldiers and citizens: When the Lacedemonian mothers buckled the armor on the willing limbs of their sons and sent them forth to battle, it was their want in giving them their shields to use the words famous in history: "Come back with it, or upon it "--I believe the heart of this great city when it sent forth its sons to repel the invasion of fanaticism, must have been filled with the same proud confidence in the spirit of its youth.--They went forth to the onset with the heroic determination to be worthy their lineage and the cause which kindled before them like a beacon set on high. Like the body of a Lacedemonian hero carried through the mournful streets on a floor of shields, Charles Didfer Dreux comes to his last resting-place escorted by the brave hearts of his fellow-soldiers beating in unison with the heart of the State, whi