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BERT SIDNEY
GENERAL IN THE
ARMY OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES
WHO FELL AT SHILOH, TENNESSEE,
ON THE SIXTH DAY OF APRIL
EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY Two.
A MAN TRIED IN MANY HIGH OFFICES
AND CRITICAL ENTERPRISES,
AND FOUND FAITHFUL IN ALL;
JOHNSTON
HIS LIFE WAS ONE LONG SACRIFICE OF INTEREST TO CONSCIENCE.
AND EVEN THAT LIFE ON A WOFUL SABBATH.
DID HE YIELD AS A HOLOCAUST AT HIS COUNTRY'S NEED.
NOT WHOLLY UNDERSTCOD WAS HE WHILE HE LIVED;
BUT, IN HIS DEATH, HIS GREATNESS STANDS CONFESSED
IN A PEOPLE'S TEARS.
RESOLUTE, MODERATE, CLEAR OF ENVY, YET NOT WANTING
IN THAT FINER AMBITION WHICH MAKES MEN GREAT AND PURE:
IN HIS HONOR-IMPREGNABLE;
IN HIS SIMPLICITY-SUBLIME:
No COUNTRY E'ER HAD A TRUER SON NO CAUSE A NOBLER CHAMPION:
NO PEOPLE A BOLDER DEFENDER_NO PRINCIPLE A PURER VICTIM.
THAN THE DEAD SOLDIER!
HIS FAME. CONSIGNED TO THE KEEPING OF THAT TIME, WHICH,
HAPPILY, IS NOT SO MUCH THE TOMB OF VIRTUE AS ITS SHRINE,
SHALL IN THE YEARS TO COME, FIRE MODEST WORTH TO NOBLE ENDS.
IN HONOR, NOW, OUR GREAT CAPTAIN RESTS;
A BEREAVED PEOPLE MOURN HIM;
THREE COMMONWEALTHS PROUDLY CLAIM HIM;
AND HISTORY SHALL CHERISH HIM
AMONG THOSE CHOICER SPIRITS, WHO HOLDING THEIR CONSCIENCE UNMIXED WITH BLAME
HAVE BEEN IN ALL CONJUNCTURES, TRUE TO THEMSELVES, THEIR PEOPLE AND THEIR GOD.
JOHN DIMITRY,
HIS CO.C. CRESCENT REGT. LA. VOL'S.
STATUE SURMOUNTS THIS STRUCTURE
ERECTED
BY THE ASSTN ARMY OF TENN. LA. DIV. C.S.A.
TO HIS MEMORY AND IN HONOR
OF THEIR BRAVE COMRADES WHO FELL WITH HIM
AND IN THE CAUSE HE FOUGHT FOR.
BARRET BROS
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