Honoring the Confederate Dead (1866)
Sir
All over the South a laudable effort is being made to collect and inter the remains of Confederate dead, in every county societies are in existence for the purpose of erecting marble monuments in honor of our fallen brace, we have such a society in our midst, and every feeling I have is heartily in their favor, and I sincerely trust that their success may equal their most sanguine desire. But let me call the attention of the society and all the town, to the face (the shame of us all) that one mile west of the town lies buried, north and south, the body of a brave Confederate soldier, killed in the vain effort to drive STURGIS and his burning menials from our town. This brave soldier’s last resting place is marked by two stakes and just on enough land unmarked by the plow for his poor shot body to lie in. Comment is unnecessary, only raise no marble shaft whilst the body of the poor friendless boy moulders in Mr. Mont JONES‘s field, desecrated by every furrow of the plow.
CONFEDERATE SOLDIER
The Bolivar Bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 19 May 1866, Page 3. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.