All who possess the divine element of pity will unite in feeling that his sufferings were his expiation. LETITIA H. WRENSHALL October Ninth BATTLE OF KING'S MOUNTAIN: THE FIRST REBEL YELL And they came, these mountaineers of the South. Congress has not ordered them; it is a rally of volunteers.... They neither hesitate nor parley; they hitch their horses to the trees; like a girdle of steel they clasp the mountain; and up they go, at the enemy--rifles blazing as they advance, and the Southern yell ringing through the woods. THOMAS E. WATSON It was the joyful annunciation of that turn of the tide of success which terminated the Revolutionary War with the seal of our independence. THOMAS JEFFERSON October Tenth Soldiers! You are about to engage in an enterprise which, to insure success, imperatively demands at your hands coolness, decision, and bravery; implicit obedience to orders without a question or cavil; and the strictest order and sobriety on the march and in bivouac. The destination and extent of this expedition had better be kept to myself than known to you. Suffice it to say, that with the hearty cooperation of officers and men I have not a doubt of its success,--a success which will reflect credit in the highest degree upon your arms. MAJ.-GEN. J. E. B. STUART _J. E. B. Stuart, with 1,800 men, begins his second circle around the Union Army, riding through Pennsylvania and Maryland, 1862_ October Eleventh His firmness and perseverance yielded to nothing but impossibilities. A rigid disciplinarian, yet tender as a father to those committed to his charge; honest, disinterested, liberal, with a sound understanding and a scrupulous fidelity to truth. THOMAS JEFFERSON _Meriwether Lewis dies, 1809_ October Twelfth LEE He was a foe without hate, a friend without treachery, a soldier without cruelty, and a victim without murmuring. He was a public officer without vices, a private citizen without wrong, a neighbor without reproach, a Christian without hypocrisy, and a man without guile. He was Cæsar without his ambition, Frederick without his tyranny, Napoleon without his selfishness, and Washington without his reward. He was as obedient to authority as a true king. He was as gentle as a woman in life, pure and modest as a virgin in thought, watchful as a Roman vestal in duty, submissive to law as Socrates, and grand in battle as Achilles. BENJAMIN H. HILL _Robert E. Lee dies, 1870_ _Chief Justice Roger B. Taney dies, 1864_ October Thirteenth TANEY It was the conviction of his life that the Government under which we live was of limited powers, and that its constitution had been framed for war as well as peace. Though he died, therefore, he could not surrender that conviction at the call of the trumpet. He had plighted his troth to the liberty of the citizen and the supremacy of the laws, and no man could put them asunder. SEVERN TEACKLE WALLIS October Fourteenth LEE