"Infantryman"

Sheppard, William Ludwell, 1833-1912 · [ca. 1960–1979]

"The Confederate dream of independence died - but not the story of the Confederacy. That story of a people who, overwhelmed, followed the last gleam of hope into the black and starless night, and fought on; of Jefferson Davis, who, captured and imprisoned, the scapegoat for his ruined people, was enfolded by a love and loyalty such as had never been his as President of their nation; of great Lee, who lived for duty, and of young Sam Davis, who was not afraid, on a scaffold alone among enemies to die for duty; of the men who fought, of the women who suffered; and of the youngster,... loving the past but looking to the future to the rebuilding of their shattered states within a new nation - that story is deathless." Robert S. Henry, "The Story of the Confederacy"