Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Words Spoken at the Obsequies of William Blackstone Williams: Late Captain in the Second Regiment of Massachusetts Infantry, Sunday, Aug; 17, 1862
And it is even so. We are stricken of God, and af?icted. For a man has fallen; gifted, gene rous, honorable, brave; a son of ours, a brother too, in whom all the elements of genuine manli ness were mixed in due proportion, and compacted into a stature - physical, intellectual, moral - of rare beauty and completeness; a soldier worthy of his name, and worthy to be associated with the accomplished and brilliant heroes alas too long a roll to be called in these fugitive moments whom the old Pilgrim State has freely offered to the hazards of the Great Struggle, and whose blood has been the price of her self-renouncing devo tion.
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