Plentiful heroes from this War will spring, With praise of whom shall Fame’s proud arches ring, And unborn generations with pains be taught, At mother’s knee and school, what deeds they wrought. But thou, as Jupiter excels in light Planets and stars which deck the robe of night, Shalt for thy courage and milit’ry skill Above compeers, historic pages fill. They have won battles,--strong batteries storm’d, And such small deeds, common in War, perform’d: But thou, with soaring aim, hast hung three men, Sentenced by Martial Court and thy brave pen. These loved their country; one, in prime of life Bequeathed it all he had, children and wife; The second, gray with age, the third, his son, Whom thou didst order,--by no pity won, Should to life’s closing scene together go, And while one died, the other see his woe! Brave General! goodness ever is allied With greatness. Be thou, thy country’s pride! APPENDIX: NOTE K: Page 167. NARRATIVE BY EDWARD J. SANFORD OF KNOXVILLE, TENN. In February, 1862, the Rebel Conscript Law was enacted in Tennessee declaring every man between the ages of eighteen and forty-five a soldier of the Southern Confederacy, and the then Governor, I. G. Harris, made a call for the entire militia force of the State. Consequently the prospect of being speedily compelled to do battle against their sense of right and justice, added to the already precarious condition of those citizens who were known to entertain Union sentiments, and many companies of Union men were formed in East Tennessee for the purpose of running through the rebel lines and joining the Federal army in Kentucky. For several days previous to April 18, 1862, such a company was forming in Knox and Blount counties. Guides were procured who knew the mountain paths and who were constantly passing to and from the Federal camp in Kentucky. For the ostensible purpose of buying beef in the mountain region for the Confederate army, passes were procured by men who employed their time in preparing a boat on the Clinch river about twenty miles north of Knoxville and secreting it from the watchful eyes of rebel pickets, so that the company could be set over without delay.