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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Personal reminiscences of the last days of Lee and his Paladins. (search)
of the laments of the unhappy Aeneas and his song, O terque quaterque beati, Quis ante ora patrum Trojae sub moenibus altis, Contigit oppetere! Thrice happy those whose fate it was to fall, Exclaims the chief, before the Trojan wall, Oh! 'Twas a glorious fate to die in fight, To die so bravely in their parents' sight. Oh, had I there, beneath Tydides' hand, That bravest hero of the Grecian band, Poured out this Soul, with martial glory fired, And in the plain triumphantly expired, When Hector fell by great Achilles' spear. Verg. Aeneid, 1.91. But pushing on, we reached Appomattox Courthouse just before sunset, and hearing there was a train of Confederate sick and wounded at the depot on the railroad, some two miles further on, we rode at once to that point. There I succeeded in getting on a few more of our sick and broken down men. I remember Mr. J. J. Cocke amongst them, who was but a boy at the time, though an artillerist. The train got off for Lynchburg safely, not half