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words or thoughts of reproach or fault-finding, but
these grand old heroes, though they have lost the
military tread, and robust manhood, and are now
bowed in form and tottering in their walk, will con-
tinue uncomplainingly to make good citizens as they
pass along the road toward the dark winter of death,
and when the last one has answered the final roll-
call,
     "And on fame's eternal camping ground
     Their silent tents are spread,
     And glory guards with solemn round
     The bivouac of the dead."

they will have left the name of the Confederate sol-
dier written on the scroll of fame by their achieve-
ments as soldiers and citizens in letters of such an
effulgent brightness that all future generations of
Kentuckians will be proud to say: "These were our
ancestors."