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40. Bragg's last order to Wheeler: after the Second Fort Donelson defeat.

Mitte Sectari, rosa quo locorum

Sera moretur.

. . . . . .

----Me sub areta vite bibentem.

Horace: Ode XXXVIII.

headquarters Tullahoma, February 14, 1863.
I hate, my boy Wheeler, old Abe's apparatus,

Of hemp garlands twisted to choke our afflatus.
Cease to rove where that Stanley the devil is playing,
Nor scout near the spot where “Old rosy” is staying.
Fort Donelson's sold to Uncle Sam,
For “bloodhounds” can't butt with a Federal ram.
My sedulous care is to make my escape
And drink myself tight with a “little more grape.”
You're rather Lowe-flung, and have shown the white rag,
And I'm nearly played out--
Your old friend,


Van Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.

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