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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Memoir of Jane Claudia Johnson . (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.22 (search)
General little's Burial.
[from the New Orleans, Picayune, August 11, 1901.]
One of the few midnight Funerals in War or peace.
Only one Confederate general was buried at night time, so far as the records tell, and that was General Henry Little, who was laid to rest in a garden at Iuka, Miss., at midnight, September 19, 1862. Captain Frank Von Phul, of this city, was present at the weird, pathetic ceremony, and a few nights ago he related the thrilling old war incident to a few friends who had gathered in his apartments on Rampart street.
To the best of my knowledge, no one has ever written just how General Henry Little was buried on that eventful night, began Captain Von Phul, turning the pages of a treasure book.
I shall never forget it, and although I was in several phases of the service with Price on his Missouri raid and down the Mississippi, yet the way we laid General Little in the cold ground that night, cautiously and hastily, will cling to me until the last