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" He lived long enough to have the whole tale told, and to come into the full light of national patriotism. The years that have ensued since he fought have given opportunity for him to reconsider and retrace his steps, and he ascends to Heaven a Union man. He saw again the glory in the banner of the free. What more can you ask than that he came clearly to see and to recognize the right ?"

Then the bugler sounded " Taps," the soloist veteran sang "Only Waiting." Colonel J. Payson Bradley, of the Governor's staff, ex- tended the sympathy of the Commonwealth to the State of Virginia, the birthplace of the dead soldier, and the casket was borne out be- tween the ranks of the white-haired veterans. With them, arm in arm, marched two Confederate soldiers John D. Hun, adjutant in General Forrest's division of the Seventh Tennessee Cavalry, and Carl G. Monroe, regimental orderly in the First Virginia Cavalry, under Colonel Ezra Warren, the famous "Black Horse Cavalry " at the battle of Bull Run. Members of twenty-one Massachusetts posts, one Connecticut and one Maine post marched as escort to the grave.

The pall-bearers were Captain E. C. McFarland, Arthur Hooper, G. W. Brooks, Ira B. Goodrich, John W. Small, and Paul H Ken- dricken, all of Post 113. Interment was at Mount Hope Cemetery.

The funeral and military arrangements were made possible through the generosity and personal efforts of Dr. John H. Dixwell, the Hon. Oliver W. Holmes, and Adjutant-General B. R. Houghton.

PENSIONING OF THE CONFEDERATE SOLDIER, BY THE UNITED STATES.

SOUND DOCTRINE.

[The following "protest" is simply the united sentiment of the Confederate soldier. He incited no populist partisan, and holds him- self not at all responsible for any utterance the aim of which is palpable. He would accept nothing to his stultification. He may abide his time in restful sustenance. He simply pleads to be let alone. His own will care for and provide for him. So, leave the ' ' dying lion ' ' in peace !]