Day Seventh

The slaves who ran away from their masters were set to work at once by General Butler and made to keep at it, much to their annoyance. One of these, having been put to it rather strong, said: "Golly, Massa Butler, dis nigger nebber had to work so hard befo'; dis chile gwine secede once moah."

Ohio Statesman, 1861

Day Eightb

Having completed our repairs on May 8th, and while returning to our old anchorage, we heard heavy firing, and, going down the harbor, found the Monitor, with the iron-clads Galena, Naugatuck, and a number of heavy ships, shelling our batteries at Sewell's Point. We stood directly for the Monitor, but as we approached they all ceased firing and retreated below the forts.

COL. JOHN TAYLOR WOOD

The "Virginia" again challenges the "Monitor" to battle,

1862

Battle of Palo Alto, 1846

May Ninth

MOTHERS' DAY

Because I feel that, in the Heavens above
The angels, whispering to one another,
Can find, among their burning terms of love,
None so devotional as that of "Mother."
EDGAR ALLAN POE

Day Tentb

Fearless and strong, self-dependent and ambitious, he had within him the making of a Napoleon, and yet his name is without spot or blemish.

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

Ask the world

The world has heard his story

If all its annals can unfold

A prouder tale of glory?
If ever merely human life

Hath taught diviner moral-
If ever round a worthier brow
Was twined a purer laurel?

MARGARET J. PRESTON

Stonewall Jackson dies, 1863

Day Eleventb

The Spanish legend tells us of the Cid,
That after death he rode erect, sedately
Along his lines, even as in life he did,
In presence yet more stately.

And thus our Stuart at this moment seems
To ride out of our dark and troubled story
Into the region of romance and dreams,

A realm of light and glory.

JOHN R. THOMPSON

J. E. B. Stuart mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern, 1864

Day Twelfth

General Lee, you shall not lead my men in a charge! GORDON

General Lee to the rear!-His Soldiers.

I do wish somebody would tell me where my place is on the field of battle! Wherever I go to look after the fight, I am told, "This is no place for you; you must go away.'

ROBERT E. LEE

Lee, with 50,000 men, repulses Grant with 100,000, at Spottsylvania Court House; Lee "ordered" to the rear, 1864

May Thirteenth

Good is the Saxon speech! clear, short, and strong,

Its clean-cut words, fit both for prayer and

song;

Good is this tongue for all the needs of life; Good for sweet words with friend, or child, or wife.

'Tis good for laws; for vows of youth and maid; Good for the preacher; or shrewd folk in trade; Good for sea-calls when loud the rush of spray; Good for war-cries where men meet hilt to hilt, And man's best blood like new-trod wine is spilt,

Good for all times, and good for what thou JAMES BARRON HOPE

wilt!

Landing at Jamestown, 1607

Texas troops, C. S. A., defeat Federals in last battle of the War, at Palmito Ranch, 1865, the victors learning from their prisoners that the Confederacy had fallen (Chas. Wm. Ramsdell)

May Fourteenth

[This exploration] was undertaken at the instance of President Jefferson, and together with the voyage which Captain Gray of Boston had made to the Columbia, in 1792, gave the United States a claim to all the territory covered by the States of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.

PHILIP ALEXANDER BRUCE

Lewis and Clark start from St. Louis on northwestern expedition, 1804