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Member of the Provisional Congress
of the Confederate States,
Senator of the Confederate States
from 1861 to 1865.

Member of the House of Representatives
of the United States, from 1875 to 1878.
Senator of the United States

from 1878 to the date of his death.

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"We are in the house of our fathers.
Our brothers are our companions,
And we are at home, thank God.”

Amnesty Speech, January 11th, 1876.

"Who saves his country saves himself,
Saves all things, and all things saved
Do bless him. Who lets his country die
Lets all things die, dies himself, ignobly,
And all things dying curse him."

Notes on The Situation.

"The Union under the Constitution knows
no section, but does know all the states."
Speech in the U. S. Senate, June 11th, 1879.

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Member of the House of Representatives.
of Georgia during 1851 and 1852.
Senator of Georgia during 1859 and 1860.
Member of the Convention of 1861.
Beloved in private life, distinguished

at the Bar and eminent in public relations, he was
at all times the champion of human liberty,

MRS. ANDREW JACKSON

[This inscription on Mrs. Jackson's tomb at the Hermitage, near Nashville, Tennessee, was composed by President Jackson himself.]

Here lie the remains of Mrs. Rachel Jackson, wife of President Jackson, who died on the 22d of December, 1828, aged 61. Her face was fair, her person pleasing, her temper amiable, her heart kind; she delighted in relieving the wants of

her fellow-creatures and cultivated that divine pleasure by the most liberal and unpretending methods; to the poor she was a benefactor, to the wretched a comforter, to the prosperous an ornament; her piety went hand in hand with her benevolence, and she thanked her Creator for being permitted to do good. A being so gentle and so virtuous, slander might wound but could not dishonor. Even death, when he tore her from the arms of her husband, could but transport her to the bosom of her God.

THOMAS J. JACKSON

[Foley's English statue of Stonewall Jackson was unveiled in Richmond, Virginia, October 26, 1876. The pedestal bears this inscription.]

Presented by English Gentlemen
As a tribute of admiration for
The Soldier and Patriot,
THOMAS J. JACKSON,

And gratefully accepted by Virginia
In the name of the Southern People.
Done A. D., 1875.

In the hundredth year of the Commonwealth.
"Look! there is Jackson standing like a stone wall."

THOMAS JEFFERSON

[The inscription on this monument was composed by Jefferson himself. The original shaft is on the campus of the University of Missouri. The monument now standing at Monticello was erected in 1882 by order of Congress.]

Here was buried

THOMAS JEFFERSON
Author of the
Declaration
of

American Independence

of the

Statute of Virginia
for

Religious Freedom

and Father of the

University of Virginia.
Born April 2, 1743. O. S.

Died July 4, 1826,

ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON

[Soon after the fall of General Albert Sidney Johnston at the battle of Shiloh and the transfer of his remains to New Orleans, a lady visiting the cemetery found pinned to a rough board that rested on the temporary tomb the following beautiful epitaph. It was written in a delicate hand with a pencil, and the rain had nearly obliterated the characters; but she made a verbatim copy of the manuscript, and sent it to one of the New Orleans papers with the request that if possible the name of the author should be published. The exquisite lines went the rounds of the press of this country and England as a model of English composition. Public curiosity being aroused, the authorship was traced to John Dimitry, a native of New Orleans, and a son of Alexander Dimitry. Young Dimitry, though only a boy, served in Johnston's army at Shiloh and on visiting New Orleans and the grave of his dead chieftain wrote the lines on the inspiration of the moment and modestly pinned them on the headboard as the only tribute he could offer. When the question arose concerning the form of epitaph to be placed on the monument erected to the memory of the dead Confederate General, the committee of citizens in charge with one voice decided upon this, and it is now inscribed upon the broad panel at the base of the statue, in Austin, Texas.]

IN MEMORY.

Beyond this stone is laid,
For a season,

ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON,
A general in the army of the Confederate
States,

Who fell at Shiloh, Tennessee,
On the sixth day of April, A. D.,
Eighteen hundred and sixty-two;
A man tried in many high offices
And critical enterprises,

And found faithful in all.

His life was one long sacrifice of interest to
conscience;

And even that life, on a woeful Sabbath,
Did he yield as a holocaust at his country's

need.

Not wholly understood was he while he lived;
But, in his death, his greatness stands con-
fessed in a people's tears.

Resolute, moderate, clear of envy, yet not

wanting

In that finer ambition which makes men
great and pure.

In his honor-impregnable;

In his simplicity—sublime.

No country e'er had a truer son--no cause a
nobler champion;

No people a bolder defender-no principle a

purer victim

Than the dead soldier

Who sleeps here;

The cause for which he perished is lost-
The people for whom he fought are crushed—
The hopes in which he trusted are shattered,
The flag he loved guides no more the charg-
ing lines,

But his fame, consigned to the keeping of
that time, which,

Happily, is not so much the tomb of virtue
as its shrine,

Shall, in the years to come, fire modest worth
to noble ends.

In honor, now, our great captain rests;
A bereaved people mourn him.
Three commonwealths proudly claim him;
And history shall cherish him

Among those choicer spirits, who, holding
their conscience unmix'd with blame,
Have been, in all conjunctures, true to them-
selves, their country, and their God.

SOLOMON JONES

[The headstone bearing the following inscription is on the side of the road be. tween Hendersonville, North Carolina, and Mount Hebron nearby.]

Here lies SOLOMON JONES,

The Road-Maker,

A True Patriot.

He labored fifty years to leave the world better
than he had found it.

KENTUCKY MONUMENT

[In the Chickamauga National Park. Dedicated May 7, 1899. from a message of former Governor William O. Bradley.]

The words are

As we are united in life, and they united in death, let one monument perpetuate their deeds, and one people, forgetful of all asperities, forever hold in grateful remembrance all the glories of that terrible conflict which made all men free and retained every star on the nation's flag.

R. E. LEE

[Monument at Natchez, Mississippi.]

In Memoriam

R. E. LEE,

The Great, the Good, the Wise,

Called hence to his reward.

Of all the men that ever carved their names on Time, he stands alone.

Others have become famous for their triumphs:
he made failure glorious,
And won honors from defeat.
Vanquished!

he was yet a victor.

To honor virtue is to honor him;

To reverence wisdom is to do him reverence.
In life,

he was a model for all who live;
In death,

he left a heritage to all.

One such example is worth more to earth,
than the stained triumphs of ten thousand Caesars!

MERIWETHER LEWIS

[Monument in Lewis County, Tennessee, sixty miles southwest of Nashville, The grave is in the exact center of the county. In 1848 the Legislature appropriated five hundred dollars for the monument.]

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MERIWETHER LEWIS

Born near Charlottesville, Va., Aug. 18,
1774, died Oct. 11, 1809, aged 35 years.

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An officer of the Regular Army. Commander of the
expedition to the Oregon in 1803-1806. Gov-

ernor of the Territory of Louisiana. His
melancholy death occurred where this

monument now stands, and under

which rest his mortal

remains.