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For the Banner of the South.
The Silent Voyag-e.
By the shore of Time, now lying
On the gloomy flood beneath,
patiently, thou soul undying,
Waits for thee the Ship of Death.
From her mast no signal flying,
To denote from whence she came;
Ah ! she’s known unto the dying—
Azael, her commander's name !
Mot a word was ever spoken
On that dark, unfathomed sea;
Silence there is so unbroken,
She a phantom seems to be.
He who on that ship embarketh,
Sailing from the sons of men,
To the friends from whom he parteth,
Never more returns again.
Silently, in darkness, sadly,
Does the soul embark, alone,
But the wivgs of Angels gladly
Waft her to her ITedvnhj home ! 3. w. k.
See York, Sept. ISOS.
For the Banner of the South.
THE PRISONER’S GRAVE.
BY MISS MATTIE CHAPMAN.
It is a lonely grave; away off there,
over many broad rivers and high moun
tains. The snow rests upon it throughout
.he long winters; the grass grows over it
a Spring; the storm-winds howl round
jt often; and, sometimes, when the night
is calm and clear, a stray moonbeam
will, softly, sadly, smile upon the grave
of Edwin Grange ; but, that is all —no
friendly footstep has ever sought it, no
roses bloom there, and no kind hand
scatters over it the sweet Spring flowers;
no eye has wept above that gallant
sleepers lowly couch since his comrades
exchanged the Prison for their Southern
homes, and left him there, to sleep in a
strange and a hostile land.
When the late war first cast its dark
shadow over our country, Edwin Grange
was nineteen years of age. Possessed of
a free, *'pen, and generous disposition, a
warm, impulsive, and noble heart, he was
the light and the pride of the “ home
circle,” and the favorite of all his young
friends. Raised without brothers, and
under the constant influence of a loving
mother, and gentle sisters, he knew little
of the folly and cared little for the ex
citement of the outside vwrld. He had
seldom left his home for any length of
time till he bid his friends that last, sad,
farewell, and went off among the first
who left their homes for the far-off battle
fields of Virginia.
Though so young, and possessed of a
finely organized and delicate constitution,
he never shrank from the most severe
duties of a soldier; and, though longing
for the presence of the loved ones at
home, he was willing to remain in the
field, and strike for his country’s Banner,
till he should see it wave in triumph over
a free and happy people.
On the battle-field, he was ever brave,
< a]ra, and self-possessed, neither shunning
danger nor courting it, yet often found
pressing forward in the charge, or on the
pursuit of the retreating foe. He had
passed through many of the most severe
conflicts of the struggle, unharmed, when
he, with a small company of his com
rades, in advance of the rest, were press
ing a party of the retreating enemy,
were overpowered, and sent to one of the
most gloomy of Northern prisons. And,
even there, he did not fail to leave a
bright record of moral heroism. All the
hardships and privations of the prisoners
were borne with cheerfulness and resig
nation. All the persuasions, threats, and
punishments, of an insolent foe, could
never induce him to yield, in the smallest
degree, principles to might.
When disease laid its withering hand
upon him, and death, aggravated by hun
ger, was his inevitable portion, re
.ess relief should come, his high sense of
honor upheld him even then. He could
languish and die a slow and miserable
(ieath for the cause that was still dear to his
neart, rather than stain his honor, cast re
pjoach upon his distant and much loved
o.’jntry, and pollute his lips by taking
urn oath that would bind him to his coum
try’s oppressors.
it was a bleak December night; the
hour hand pointed to one, as the guard
ormv forth his watch, and paced to and
“° Wlth a rapid step to keep his life
ulo°d from being congealed by the bitter,
mttcr winds; but, as he impatiently
counted the minutes till he should be re
“eved. Did no emotion of pity flud its
into his iron-cased heart, as he
thought of the noble, suffering heroes
within those gloomy prison walls, to
no relief could come till the dreary
of winter would cease to blow, and
pU'h the furious waves as they so madly
m-at against the shores of Johnson’s iso
lated Island ? Nay, he was too selfish to
removed by another’s sufferings, and too
prayed to admire true heroism like
■ mirs. It was a noble form; and a bright
spirit Death was about to release from the
suffering clay. In sorrow and pity, His
comrades pressed closely around him,
for, while they still hoped to be restored
to friends and country, they knew that
he could never greet his friends this side
of the “eternal shore.”
“ Tell my loved ones at home,” said
the dying hero, “ that I did not forget
them, nor forsake my country; that my
last sigh was for them, and my last pray
ers for them and the land I love. Tell
them lam resigned to my fate. But, oh!
it 1 could but once more look into their
loving eyes, and feel their lips touch
mine with a parting caress, and have
the.r hands press mine but once again,
while 1 say the long, the last farewell !
But, tis God s will that it should be thus,
and why should I speak V”
J. beu, the bright eyes began to grow
(Tin, ami the bright hopes and aspirations
that filled that youthful heart, to recede
as the approaching shades of death drew
neai. Ihe faces of the far off loved ones
of Eaith weie fading as he stepped from
the shores of mortality and caught a view
of those on the other side. Thus, his
spirit passed from Earth to Heaven,
ihen, sadly 7 and silently, his friends pre
pared his body for the prisoner’s grave;
but, the prisoner was free, free from his
oppressors, andlrom the cold, dark, prison
Ivalls. Men may confine and afflict the
body, but they cannot reach the soul, or
bind the principles of true men like this
W bile the body suffers, the spirit rises
triumphant over its tormentors. Truly,
was tnat a noble death, and should have
a gloiious record. Y\ ell may our coun
ty be proud to relate the manner in
which her Bee, and her Ashby, her
Baiksdale, and her Johnson, have died
on the field of battle, amid the smoke and
fire, with the cannon thundering forth
death, and. the victorious army clieerin <r
as they moved on to victory. Then ft
was, when, taint and maimed, and in the
last death agony, that they have been
heaid to exclaim ; “They have killed me,
but I glory to die in such a cause. Press
onward, my comrades, and may God
send you the victory 7 !’ ;
Truly 7 was it glorious to die as did
those heroes; but, to die the prisoner’s
death, lequired a strong, unwavering for
titude, and a heroism truly and morally
sublime. Yet, how many have 4 died there
w horn T ame has failed to chronicle.
“ Alone in their glory,” they sleep in an
unknown, far off’ grave; but, for every 7
one thus, there is, somewhere in the land
of sunshine, a darkened home and weary,
desolate hearts within.
It was thus at the home of Edwin
Giange , the loving sister, the tender
mother, the grey haired lather, still weep
lor him, the only son and brother, who
now sleeps in the Prisoner’s Grave.
There is an abiding shadow upon the
family circle, and ceaseless sorrow in
every heart. Sometimes, the sunlight of
cheerfulness will break through the
gloom for a moment, while the° merry
laugh is heard, and the old light gleams
in the sparkling eyes, but they cannot
long forget, for the eye will rest upon
something which he has handled, some
book be loved to read, and they remember
those hands are now cold in death, and that
the eyes are dimned forever. Thus, the
shadow floats back and settles upon the
heart more heavily than before. Oh !
when shall all these stricken hearts be
cured—when shah all these wounded
spirits be healed? Never! till every
one has ceased to beat on earth forever.
For them, Time has no cure. The heart
clings to the lost love, and treasures up
the sad memory of it more carefully than
all the love that living friends can oiler.
Ah! how often does the heart turn, in
weariness and disgust, from the most al
luring pleasures and the brightest hopes
of life, to weep over the memory of the
loved and lost. Yet, no land ever wept
for truer hearts slain, or mourned for a
Cause, though lost, more grand ; no
country ever recorded devotion so great,
or deeds so noble, as the record our coun
try shall hand down to coming ages.
Might cannot suppress or conceal it;
true hands shall trace it, and true hearts
shall guard it, till falsehood and passion
will have been swept away ; theu, the
light ot truth will beam o’er the ashes of
error. Fame will yet be true to her
truest, and record each gallant deed of
her sleeping heroes. She will tell how
glory hovered round our Southern Ban
ner, and wafted on high the loud victo
rious battle-cry, as it arose from an hun
dred gory fields of carnage—where the
many tied before the few. But, many of
these men fell, and still sleep, covered
over by the blood-stained earth of the
battle-field. All over our land, from
shore to shore, are the graves of our sol-
in every city, town, aud village, on
the field, and around the “Wavside
Homes,” and, even in the enemy’s "terri
tory, some of them still rest iu their
Prison Graves. They meet the eye and
appeal to the heart wherever we go; and,
in their mute eloquence, seem to implore
us not to forget the Past, And, people
of the South, van you forget? No ! never !
These graves are filled with your fathers,
and sons, your husbands, and brothers,
and friends ; and, when Fame shall re
late their deeds and glorious death in
poetic fire, and tune the “harp of the
South,” to be swept by minstrel fingers,
its sweet notes shall stir every Southern
heart, and from them be echoed back till
the grand strain shall fill the land; then,
softly and sadly, shall its trembling notes
linger around each gallant sleeper’s
couch, from the Southern Battle-field to
the Northern Prison.
Jefferson, Ga., 1868.
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