Georgia:  Coweta County:  Eulogy to Company A, 7th Regiment

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This file was contributed by:
William J. Brannon
Salut91331@aol.com
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" Now sleep the brave who sink to rest With all their country`s honors 
blessed." 

"In the bright galaxy which fame reserves for her tried and trusted sons, 
glory unsheaths with unfolding garlands the names of those who have 
illustrated Southern Honor and Southern Chivalry on the field of battle. 
The splendid cenotaph, the lofty and imposing monumental shaft, 
exaggerated eulogy, and the pomp and circumstance of memorial display, 
may indeed arrest the gaze of the thoughtless multitude and redeem from 
speedy oblivion the proud devotees of Mammon! The man is forgotten and 
the monument only is remembered. Times effacing finger blots out forever 
their names. The year, the date, the solid granite itself crumbles from 
the attrition of centuries, and the plowshare runs unheeding over the 
spot where its foundation rested, now fleeting and unsubstantial,the 
proudest memorials reared by affection or consecrated to ambition." 

"Can storied urn or animated bust *******Back to its mansion call the 
fleeting breath *******Can honor`s voice provoke the silent dust 
*******Or sooth the dull cold ear of death "

"Fame, that proud and commanding preimininence which rests on noble 
deeds, nobly performed, needs no blazonry of arms, no gorgeous panorama 
to perpetuate the glory of it`s heroes. It stands on the everlasting and 
never wasting granite of human affection and devotion; The memory of men 
"who know their rights and knowing dare maintain them. " will live 
forever in song and story and in the hearts of all the good of earth. 
History keeps a bright page on which the loving hand of posterity will 
inscribe every name, and shed its sweetest and holiest benedictions. The 
goddess of history will break the cerements of the tomb and proclaim the 
glorious resurrection of the dead soldiers` deeds. No pen of malice, no 
base and ignoble slander, no vindictive epithet of hate, no power nor 
vengence of conquering arms, no irony of history can stifle the voice of 
truth or hush the applause of coming generations. In the distannce we 
even now catch the jubilant shout of the oncoming multitudes who shall 
crowd this sunny land, and high above the curses and groans of the enemy, 
that host lifts nigh it`s decision-"Well done good and faithful servant." 
The battle indeed was won against us. Physical force triumphed by an 
unchangeable law of nature,and amid the smoke and dust of strife the 
Southern Cross sunk slowly and gradually to the horizon, but it left a 
stream of glory in its track which caught the eyes and fixed the gaze of 
freeborn millions throughout the earth. Southern blood, the purest and 
the best of Norman and of Saxon has given a new growth to the tree of 
liberty in America! "

"Southern arms have snatched constitutional liberty from the dagger of 
the assassin and have furnished an example of patriotic devotion to 
principle, unparalleled in the history of the world. Such will be the 
declaration of posterity. In that list of heroes which fate keeps for 
immortal names, Coweta looks to the catalogue of her dead with more than 
a mother`s holy pride. To the cause of the country she gave her spotless 
victims, her brightest and her best, in the baptism of blood. 

Their graves are scattered far and wide, by mount and stream, and sea."

"All honor now and forever more to Coweta`s dead. Every drop of their 
blood will crystalize into a gem for the crown of the goddess of liberty. 
"Furl that flag" but keep it holy, keep it grandly, keep it fondly, but 
keep it forever. Let the eyes of the children look up to it and bless God 
for such an ancestry. Prouder than hereditary title, proud as any name on 
the scroll of immortality is the name of a Coweta Cofederate Soldier. 
What shall I say of the dead heroes of Company "A", 7th Georgia Regiment? 
This I will say: They sleep the sleep of the brave. We know their names 
by heart, and while the bright star shines, while the flowers of the 
tropics pay their tribute to the spring, the names missing from the 
muster roll of COMPANY "A" SHALL LIVE FOREVER!*

This Eulogy was found among the personal papers of my Paternal 
Grandmother, Lou Glanton Camp Brannon in Moreland, Georgia in 1952. It is 
unsigned and consists of four handwritten pages which were held together 
with a straight pin. I believe this touching Eulogy to have been penned 
by her father; my Greatgrandfather, Hiram Warner Camp in loving memory of 
his brothers, Abner Norman Camp (killed in battle at Griswaldville, 
Georgia November 22, 1864) and Russel Sanford Camp (killed in battle July 
31, 1864 at Hillsboro, Georgia, as well as soldiers in Hiram`s Unit. 
HIRAM WARNER CAMP and another of his brothers, WALKER GLEN CAMP were both 
soldiers in CO. "A", 7TH GA. Infantry REGIMENT (COWETA GUARDS). 

William J. Brannon
Salut91331@aol.com
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