e coal-shoveler
below had failed to do his duty. What could Gen. Lee have done had all
his horses balked in unison? Nothing. Then all honor to Lee's horses,
who pulled and hauled and fought and died that this might be a very
great nation.

No more appropriate lines could be had for the ending of this story than
the following touching little poem by Francis Alexander Durivage:

"There hangs a sabre, and there a rein,
With a rusty buckle and green curb chain;
A pair of spurs on the old gray wall,
And a moldy saddle--well, that is all.

"Come out to the stable--it is not far;
The moss-grown door is hanging ajar.
Look within! There's an empty stall,
Where once stood a charger, and that is all.

"The good black horse came riderless home,
Flecked with blood drops as well as foam;
See yonder hillock where dead leaves fall;
The good black horse dropped dead--that is all.

"All? O, God! it is all I can speak.
Question me not, I am old and weak;
His sabre and his saddle hang on the wall,
And his horse is dead--I have told you all."

NOTE.--I said in the beginning that I had not consulted any of the
Civil War histories for material for this book. After the manuscript
was in type, I read for the first time James Longstreet's book on the
Civil War; also Henderson's "Life of Jackson," and I am indebted to
these two authors for some facts in regard to the losses in battle
and the number engaged. To the latter I am indebted for the tragic
account of the wounding and death of Stonewall Jackson. These
additions are mostly to be found in foot notes throughout the book.

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