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The private soldiers.

Bishop Elliott, in his late eloquent tribute to the private soldiers of the Confederacy, expresses the hope that the first monument feared by our country after the war will be one bearing the inscription, ‘"To the Unknown and Unrecorded Dead."’--A suggestion which will find a gushing response in every heart within our borders. Words are feeble to express the merits of these men, or the gratitude of their country. Future ages will be lost in wonder at such disinterested and sublime devotion, such courage, beyond ‘"all Greek, all Roman fame."’

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