Wearing the blue in the Twenty-fifth Mass volunteer infantry with Burnside's coast division, 18th army corps, and Army of the James . to become veterans, that we might lookdeath in the face and say with one of old — Though He slay me,yet will I trust Him. With the usual parting salute of three volleys, we turned fromthe spot, and over his grave was inscribed : George Emerson Kent,a private of Company H, Twenty-fifth Massachusetts Volunteers,died October 10th, 1862, at New Berne, N. C It was a simplerecord — the death record of one brave soldier boy — but how thatsimple record, the record of on
Wearing the blue in the Twenty-fifth Mass volunteer infantry with Burnside's coast division, 18th army corps, and Army of the James . to become veterans, that we might lookdeath in the face and say with one of old — Though He slay me,yet will I trust Him. With the usual parting salute of three volleys, we turned fromthe spot, and over his grave was inscribed : George Emerson Kent,a private of Company H, Twenty-fifth Massachusetts Volunteers,died October 10th, 1862, at New Berne, N. C It was a simplerecord — the death record of one brave soldier boy — but how thatsimple record, the record of one death, caused sorrow to many 18 138 TWENTY-FIFTH MASSACHUSETTS. thousands in our dear native land. As I write these lines, thememory of many dear forms, of the faces of comrades who weredear to us, who sleep in known or unknown graves, crowd uponme: — So whereer I turn my eye,Back upon the days gone by,Saddening thoughts of friends come oer me —Friends that closed their course before me. Some on earth in silence wrought,And their graves in silence sought;But the younger, brighter forms,Passed in battle and in Sn-t II. Arthur White.
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