Grave Inscription

            A rebel soldier, after burying a Federal who had been killed during one of those sanguinary engagements which terminated in the retreat of the Union army from before Richmond, fixed a shingle over the grave, bearing this inscription:

“The Yankee hosts with blood-stained hands

Came southward to divide our lands

This narrow and contracted spot

Is all that this poor Yankee got!"

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