The burial of Latané

Printed on blue paper; text within border of type ornaments. At head of text: By Jno. R. Thompson. At end of text: Note- The beautiful image in the concluding stanza is borrowed .. Poem appeared in "Southern Literary Messenger," July and August 1862; also cf. version printed in His: Poems (New York, 1920) First line of poem: The combat raged not long, but ours the day.