'Tis midnight's holy hour--and silence now Is brooding, like a gentle spirit, o'er The still and pulseless world. Hark! on the winds, The bells' deep notes are swelling. 'Tis the knell Of the departed year. No funeral train Is sweeping past; yet on the stream and wood, With melancholy light, the moonbeams rest Like a pale, spotless shroud; the air is stirred, As by a mourner's sigh; and on yon cloud, That floats so still and placidly through heaven, The spirits of the seasons seem to stand-- Young Spring, bright Summer, Autumn's solemn form, And Winter, with his aged locks--and breathe In mournful cadences, that come abroad Like the far wind harp's wild and touching wail, A melancholy dirge o'er the dead Year, Gone from the earth forever. GEORGE DENISON PRENTICE _Battle of Murfreesboro, Tenn., 1862_ Index PAGE _Alabama_, the, fight with the _Kearsarge_. June 19 140 Alamance Creek, Battle of. May 16 118 Alamo, the. Mch. 6 65 Antietam, Battle of. Sept. 17 212 _Arkansas_, the, destroyed. Aug. 6 180 Ashby, Gen. Turner. June 6 131 Assembly, first legislative in America. July 30 172 Atlanta, evacuation of. Sept. 1, 2 200 Audubon, John James. May 4 109 Bacon, Nathaniel, epitaph. Jan. 2 15 Bagby, George W. Aug. 13 185 Baltimore, in first bloodshed of the War. April 19 97 Benjamin, Judah P. May 6 111 _Bonnie Blue Flag_, the. Jan. 10, 12 21, 23 Boston, A Southern view. Mch. 12 69 Breckinridge, John C. May 17; Aug. 10 118, 183 Brooke, John Mercer, constructor of the first ironclad. Mch. 9 67 Brown, John, execution. Dec. 2 268 Raid at Harper's Ferry. Oct. 16, 17 230, 231 Calhoun, John C. Mch. 18 74 Nationalism of. Mch. 31 81 Carroll, Charles of Carrollton. Nov. 14 255 Charleston "Courier" on Secession. Dec. 20 280 Chickamauga, Battle of. Sept. 20 215 Clark, George Rogers. Feb. 23, 24 53, 54 Clark and Lewis, Northwestern expedition. May 14 116