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The Daily Dispatch: March 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
The Captain of the Cumberland. The Captain of the Cumberland, who fought his vessel till her decks went under water, firing as she went down, deserved a better fate than to serve Abraham Lincoln. He deserved to be a Southerner, and to fight under the flag of freedom. If, as we are informed, he was commander Smith, he was a native of Kentucky, a State which has furnished both belligerents in this war with many of the best fighting men. We rejoice to render tribute to a gallant adversary, and the manner in which he met his fate, showed that in the Captain of the Cumberland our own fearless Buchanan had a foeman worthy of his steel. Death is inevitable, but to die gracefully and heroically is not in the power of many. The man who dies nobly for his country only masts the universal fate, which he could not, under any circumstances, avoid; but dying as the brave know how to die, he bequeaths to the traditions of his household and of his country a name which sheds bright renown on