In due time…..when I shall have paid the debt of Nature, my remains will rest here in your midst with those of my kindred and neighbors. It is possible they may be unhonored, neglected, spurned! But, perhaps, years hence …..some wandering stranger, some lone exile may erect over them a humble stone, and thereon, this epitaph, “He was Faithful.”
War of the Rebellion: Official Records. Series I. Volumes I-LIII
c. 1880 - 1898
Prepared by the late Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott, Third U.S. Artillery
Published under the direction of the Hon. Redfield Proctor, Secretary of War, by Maj. George B. Davis, U.S.A., Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley, Board of Publication.
Washington: Government Printing Office. 1891.