Day

AT ARLINGTON

The dead had rest; the Dove of Peace

Brooded o'er both with equal wings;
To both had come that great surcease,
The last omnipotent release

From all the world's delirious stings.
To bugle deaf and signal-gun,

They slept, like heroes of old Greece,
Beneath the glebe at Arlington.

And in the Spring's benignant reign,
The sweet May woke her harp of pines;
Teaching her choir a thrilling strain
Of jubilee to land and main,

She danced in emerald down the lines;
Denying largesse bright to none,

She saw no difference in the signs
That told who slept at Arlington.

She gave her grasses and her showers
To all alike who dreamed in dust;
Her song-birds wove their dainty bowers
Amid the jasmine buds and flowers,

And piped with an impartial trust—-
Waifs of the air and liberal sun,

Their guileless glees were kind and just
To friend and foe at Arlington.

JAMES RYDER RANDALL

May First

The linnet, the lark, and oriel

Were chanting the loves they chant so well;
It was blue all above, below all green,
With the radiant glow of noon between.

JOSEPH SALYARDS

(Idothea; Idyl III)

May Second

A strange fatality attended us! Jackson killed in the zenith of his successful career; Longstreet wounded when in the act of striking a blow that would have rivalled Jackson's at Chancellorsville in its results; and in each case the fire was from our own men! A blunder! Call it so; the old deacon would say that God willed it thus.

COL. WALTER H. TAYLOR

Stonewall Jackson wounded at Chancellorsville, 1863 Emma Sanson directs Forrest in pursuit of Streight, 1863

May Third

Chancellorsville, where 130,000 men were defeated by 60,000, is up to a certain point as much the tactical masterpiece of the nineteenth century as was Leuthen of the eighteenth.

LIEUT.-COL. G. F. R. HENDERSON, C.B.

General Pender, you must hold your ground, you must hold your ground.

JACKSON'S Last Command

May Fourth

The productions of nature soon became my playmates. I felt that an intimacy with them not consisting of friendship merely, but bordering on frenzy, must accompany my steps through life.

JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

John James Audubon born, 1780

May Fifth

Lord of Hosts, that beholds us in battle, de

fending

The homes of our sires 'gainst the hosts of

the foe,

Send us help on the wings of thy angels descending,

And shield from his terrors and baffle his

blow.

Warm the faith of our sons, till they flame as the iron,

Red glowing from the fire-forge, kindled by

zeal;

Make them forward to grapple the hordes that

environ,

In the storm-rush of battle, through forests

of steel!

From the Charleston Mercury

Battle of the Wilderness; Lee, with 60,000 men, attacks Grant with 140,000, 1864

Day Sixth

It depends on the State itself, to retain or abolish the principle of representation, because it depends on itself whether it will continue a member of the Union. To deny this right would be inconsistent with the principle on which all our political systems are founded, which is, that the people have, in all cases, a right to determine how they will be governed. (Rawle's text-book on the Constitution, taught at West Point before the War between the States)

JUDAH P. BENJAMIN, AMERICAN DISRAELI Who is the man, save this one, of whom it can be said that he held conspicuous leadership at the bar of two countries?

SIR HENRY JAMES

(England)

Tennessee and Arkansas secede, 1861

Judah P. Benjamin, Confederate Secretary of State, dies, 1884