Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1913 — A Rebel Verse. [ARTICLE]

A Rebel Verse.

A rebel soldier, after burying a federal who had been killed during one of those sanguinary engagements which terminated in the retreat of the Union army from before Richmond, fixed a shingle over the grave bearing this inscription: “The Yankee hosts, with blood-stained hands. Came southward to divide our lands; This narrow and contracted spot Is all that this poor Yankee got.”