Wednesday, 28th.—Passed through Tuscumbia. The next few days we were marching on, passing through Cherokee station, Barton’s station, Price and Vandorn’s fortifications, Iuka battleground, and on to Burnsville, Miss. Very cold; and so ended 1864.
Alas, how many since thou begun,
Have finished all, their races run;
Their bodies lie beneath the sod,
Their spirits gone to meet their God;
Many doomed to eternal woe,
To mourn their loss in flames below;
But many, Oh, how blest they.be,
Will sing praise through eternity.
O God of heaven, our truest Friend,
Make us to Thee in suppliance bend,
That we in heaven, in joyful lays,
May sing our Great Redeemer’s praise.
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(Note: picture is of an unidentified Confederate soldier.)