The venerable mother – nearly if not quite four-score – of one who recently fell bravely leading on his troops in battle, gazed calmly upon the face of her son, after his body was brought home for burial. At last a movement was made by a friend to cover the face. The noble woman put him gently aside, and carefully performing the act herself, said: “My son, I have covered you many times before; now I do it for the last time, and with the flag of your country.” – Boston Transcript.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, April 8, 1862, p. 2
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