30. KEENAN’S CHARGE. By George Parsons Lathrop. George Parsons Lathrop, perhaps best known as a novelist, was born in Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, August 25, 1851, and died in New York City, April 19, 1898. During the second day of the battle of Chancellorsville, May 2, 1863, General Pleasanton was endeavoring to get twenty-two guns into a vital position as “Stonewall” Jackson made a sudden advance. Every instant’s delay was precious, at whatever cost it was purchased, so Pleasanton ordered Major Keenan, commanding the Eighth Pennsylvania Cavalry (four hundred strong), to charge the advancing ten thousand of the enemy. General Alfred Pleasanton was born in Washington, D. C., June 7, 1824. He was a West Point graduate, and served in the Mexican War and in several Indian wars. He was the commander of the Union cavalry at the battle of Gettysburg. Major Peter Keenan was born in York, New York, November 9, 1834. He was a resident of Philadelphia when the Civil War broke out, and assisted in recruiting the Eighth Pennsylvania Cavalry, in which he was made a captain. Having attained the rank of major, he was in command of his regiment at the battle of Chancellorsville, as above stated. =Stanza 1.= “‘Stonewall’s’ Corps.” See “Barbara Frietchie.” 31. THE HERO OF THE GUN. By Margaret Junkin Preston. Margaret Junkin Preston, a poet and prose writer who, though a native of the North (born in Philadelphia, in 1825), has always been identified with the South. She wrote many fine ballads. She died in Baltimore, Maryland, March 28, 1897. An incident of the Civil War which, though probably true, the son of the author is not able to identify. 32. AN INCIDENT OF WAR. By Maurice Thompson. Maurice Thompson, poet, novelist, and journalist (brother of Will Henry Thompson,--see “High Tide at Gettysburg” and “The Bond of Blood”), was born in Fairfield, Indiana, September 9, 1844. His boyhood was passed in Kentucky and Georgia, and he served in the Confederate army throughout the Civil War, later engaging in the practice of law at Crawfordsville, Indiana, his present home. He was at one time the state geologist of Indiana. Mr. Thompson is a nature-intimate, and his lyrics of “wild life” have a rare freshness and charm. Of “An Incident of War” the author says: “The poem has no exact model of fact; I got it out of my composite impression of war as I experienced it.” 33. THE BLACK REGIMENT. By George Henry Boker. George Henry Boker, poet and diplomat, and perhaps best known as the author of the play, “Francesca da Rimini,” was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 6, 1823. He was successively United States Minister to Russia and Turkey. He died in Philadelphia, January 2, 1890.