596 NortH Carorina Troops, 1861-65.

I want no higher distinction than to be deemed worthy to
do honor to the memories of my dead comrades, when,

‘Without sword or flag, and with soundless tread,
We muster once more our deathless dead,
(ut of each lonely grave.”

“Heroes of unwritten story,” young soldiers of the Con-
federacy, worthy to take their place in history beside the
North Carolinians who bore the Southern Cross up the
deadly slopes of Malvern Hill, or those who fell fighting
within the Federal lines upon the fatal Cemetery Ridge, all
honor to the North Carolina Junior Reserves!

Fasius H. Busszz.

Ratzien, N. C.,
26 April, 1901.