The Ranks Must be Filled:
"Old Thomas Carlton, of Burke county, was a good sample of the grand but unglorified class of men among us
who preserve the savor of good citizenship and ennoble humanity. He gave not only his goods to sustain
women and children, but gave all his sons, five in number, to the cause. One by one they fell, until at length a letter
arrived, telling that the youngest and last, the blue-eyed, fair-haired Benjamin of the hearth, had fallen also. When
made aware of his desolation, he made no complaint, uttered no exclamation of heart-broken despair, but called
his son-in-law, a delicate, feeble man, who had been discharged by the surgeons, and said, whilst his frail body
trembled with emotion and tears ran down his cheeks,
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