one of my favourite graves in christ church cemetery..it reads..
"Literary by taste and culture, he became a soldier from sense of duty, and at his decease was captain of the Oglethorpe Light Infantry Co. 8th Ga Reg't. having proved a worthy leader of the band that went to illustrate the state of Georgia"
i wish i had gotten more of the words on the shot. at the time i thought i had enough but now i see differently.
david, there is another grave next to this, from the same family, with a similar eulogy..."an artist by profession and a poet in nature, bright and gentle..."
i would love to have known these to men!
~~marianne