Posted on 08/07/2005 9:55:41 PM PDT by SAMWolf
A GRAVE IN HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY, RICHMOND
(J.R.T.)
By Margaret Junkin Preston
(1820-1897)
I read the marble-lettered name,
And half in bitterness I said,
"As Dante from Ravenna came,
Our poet came from exile-dead."
And yet, had it been asked of him
Where he would rather lay his head,
This spot he would have chosen. Dim
The city's hum drifts o'er his grave,
And green above the hollies wave
Their jagged leaves, as when a boy,
On blissful summer afternoons,
He came to sing the birds his runes,
And tell the river of his joy.
Who dreams that in his wanderings wide
By stern misfortunes tossed and driven,
His soul's electric strands were riven
From home and country? Let betide
What might, what would, his boast, his pride,
Was in his stricken mother-land,
That could but bless and bid him go,
Because no crust was in her hand
To stay her children's need. We know
The mystic cable sank too deep
For surface storm or stress to strain,
Or from his answering heart to keep
The spark from flashing back again.
Think of the thousand mellow rhymes,
The pure idyllic passion-flowers,
Wherewith, in far-gone, happier times,
He garlanded this South of ours.
Provencal-like, he wandered long,
And sang at many a stranger's board,
The tenderest pathos through his song.
We owe the poet praise and tears,
Whose ringing ballad sends the brave,
Bold Stuart riding down the years.
What have we given him? Just a grave!
Oh my! . . . a tug at the heart strings. Thank you . . . again.
I'm so glad you found them. I should have posted to your post but I was in a hurry and hoped you'd know. :-)
Good afternoon everyone! Due to server problems this morning, I wasnt able to access the internet until now.
Thanks for this great thread on Jeb Stuart. I recall reading about him from a book I checked out in elementary school. It was a fascinating read & I think of him as a heroic figure comparable to Gen. R.E. Lee.
Sheridan breaks away from the Marx Brothers farce with Meade to enact a bold plan of his own.
Custer succeeds in a daring attack overshadowed by his final defeat.
Private John A. Huff causes history to ricochet with the chance of war putting a trained marksman within range of a crucial leader, but Shelby Foote writes the distance was 25-30 feet, not 400 yards.
Wounded at the battle of Haw's Shop, Virginia on May 28, 1864, Huff died of those wounds sometime later.
About 25 feet is the story I heard also. Plus it was a chance shot.
We, however, recognize the 400-yard figure as a "clerical error", the term used by J. Edgar Hoover to explain Life magazine and the Warren Commission printing Zapruder frames 312 and 313 in reverse order in order to maintain the plausible denial.
No doubt the scene of the Huff shot was chaotic, and the odds against the man trained as a sharpshooter redeployed with a revolver making that shot were great.
But not great enough to prevent it.
Good evening tex, glad your server problem was fixed.
Thanks Phil.
Maybe the witness was drunk.
I'm just now seeing this, perfect picture for today.
Huth was present and Custer was convinced he was the shooter and said as much in his report.
How good was Custer at counting Indians?
Ah. Yes, indeed. "Give me Liberty, or give me death."
Now THERE was a Southern man.
BTTT!!!!!!
We consider ourselves privileged to have you here.
Thank you for this post carton. I can see Stuart singing as he rides off. ;-)
Just wanted to say a big thank you for your work in presenting thread on JEBS!
It was great!
Taking your remark seriously, I have read that "intelligence" reported the braves would be largely absent and those present would not stand when attacked.
The CIA assured us rogue states were fifteen years from ballistic missile threat when Kim Jong Il threw a Taepodong over Japan.
Custer was given orders and was executing them, and in turn gave orders to his subordinates including one Benteen whom Custer had denied leave for a sick child hence adding to the personal animosity which contributed to Benteen being slow to follow the order given.
Another interesting question was how Bill Clinton travelled back in time to sell the indians better firepower than that issued to the U.S. cavalry.
The error in range has been attributed to a misreporting of a newspaper article published the week after Yellow Tavern.
If Foote agrees with Custer on identifying the shooter we may be assured of it as fact.
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