First Line: BEAUTY AND YOUTH, WITH MANNERS SWEET, AND FRIENDS Last Line: HIS HAPPIER FORTUNE IN THIS MOUND YOU SEE. Subject(s): AMERICAN CIVIL WAR; GRAVES; U.S. - HISTORY; TOMBS; TOMBSTONES;
Beauty and youth, with manners sweet, and friends -- Gold, yet a mind not unenriched had he Whom here low violets veil from eyes. But all these gifts transcended be: His happier fortune in this mound you see.