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170 ...to the memory of a young man who had fallen in the late war. There was a small granite tomb over which rose a pillar of granite bearing the inscription. A little space all round was paved with the same material, & this was edged with a massive riser, also of granite about two feet high. Upon this were seated many of his sorrowing relatives, old & young. In the same cemetery I saw two other monuments to young men who had died soldiers deaths in the Confederate Service. On each of the unclear the inscription ran that the deceased had died in the discharge of his duty, or in defence of the rights of his country, or some expression was used to indicate the enthusiastic feeling of the South. One was stated to have been the last survivor of eight children, & the stone went on to say that his Parents felt that they had given their best child to their country & to God. These were all English inscriptions; but I saw some that were in two languages, English being mixed in some cases with French, in others with German. I saw no inscriptions that had any direct reference in any way to what Christians believe.