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494 NortH Caro.tina Troops, 1861-’65.

as we did last summer, in happy reunion. Many, according
to the comon lot, sleep the sleep that knows no waking. “No
sound can awake them to glory again.” Annually we gather
around their last resting places, when they are in reasonable
reach, and drop a flower and a tear; and when we turn from
these, to us, hallowed mounds, we muse and feel there is
“port after stormy seas, and after toil is sleep—after war is
ease—after life is death. These are the things that please.”
Rosert B. Vance.

ese Sasa i Sela TE el lr nc i a EL cc

ALEXaANpDeER, N. C.,
26 April, 1897.

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