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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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