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The Daily Dispatch: May 31, 1862., [Electronic resource], A tribute to the gallant dead. (search)
A tribute to the gallant dead. To the Editors of the Dispatch: The following well-written account of the life and services of General Slack, of Missouri, is from the pen of Thomas B. Graham, Esq., who is now Judge Advocate of the Fourth Division, (late Slack's,) Missouri State Guard. Colonel Graham entered the Missouri State service, from Chillicothe, Missouri, in June last, and was elected a Lieutenant in Captain Dye's company, Colonel Hughes's regiment of Slack's Division, and was with his beloved commander (who had placed him on his staff) through the bloody battles of Carthage, Oak Hills, Lexington, and Elkhorn, besides many others of minor importance, and he pays a handsome and graceful tribute to the departed hero in the following brief account. I send it to you that you may publish it. The hardships and courage of the Missouri volunteers are briefly and graphically delineated in this sketch of one of the bravest of our soldiers: General Slack, of Missouri. Br