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The Daily Dispatch: October 22, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the North. (search)
uary on his son. George D. Prentice, of the Louisville Journal, publishes in that paper the following obituary of his eldest son, a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Confederate service, who was killed in the late successful attack upon the town of Augusta, Ky.: Obituary.--William Courtland Prentice died on Monday last, at Augusta, Ky., of wounds received in the conflict at that place on the preceding Saturday. He perished in the cause of the rebellion. It is not in the columns of a newspAugusta, Ky., of wounds received in the conflict at that place on the preceding Saturday. He perished in the cause of the rebellion. It is not in the columns of a newspaper — it is only in the family circle or in the hush of solitude — that the emotions of a parent over such an event should have utterance. The tears of weeping eyes and the fast trickling drops of bleeding hearts are not for the public gaze. The deep agonies should be content to fold their sombre wings in the soul. Consolation could not come from the world's sympathy; it can be looked for only from God and his angel time. Nay, there are griefs that time itself has no power to allay or sooth