. Kentucky politicians. Sketches of representative Corncrackers and other miscellany. 14. GENERAL JOHN H. MORGAN. How the Great Confederate Cavalryman Met His Fate. After long years, to recall memories of incidents involved in thesubject defined by the above caption affords the writer a melancholysatisfaction, since it may revive in faithful and chivalric hearts aninterest in that hero who, living, stood among his compatriots without apeer as the model cavalier, the ideal soldier; and who now, being dead,a mere handful of dry, white dust, heaped over with a mound ofgrass, may, perchance, be lo
. Kentucky politicians. Sketches of representative Corncrackers and other miscellany. 14. GENERAL JOHN H. MORGAN. How the Great Confederate Cavalryman Met His Fate. After long years, to recall memories of incidents involved in thesubject defined by the above caption affords the writer a melancholysatisfaction, since it may revive in faithful and chivalric hearts aninterest in that hero who, living, stood among his compatriots without apeer as the model cavalier, the ideal soldier; and who now, being dead,a mere handful of dry, white dust, heaped over with a mound ofgrass, may, perchance, be lost sight of in the riotous rush of a noisyworld. If the reminiscence accomj)lishes this much the writer willfeel amply repaid for his wanderings among the graves and tombstonesof the past, where the sunshine of a busy and prosperous present hasstolen in and woven a golden fret-work over the cold and silent i)laceswhere sleep the heroes of the Lost Cause. No lovelier breadth of country on the globe can be found thanthai which lies along the route from Abingdon, Va., via Bristol andJone
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