Existing comment:
The Polk marker:
South 1861 1865
In memory of
Lieut. Gen. Leonidas
Polk
Who fell on this spot
June 14, 1864
Folding his arms across his breast,
he stood gazing on the scene below,
turning himself around as if
to take a farewell view.
Thus standing a cannon shot
from the enemy's guns
crashed through his breast,
and opened a wide door
through which his spirit took
its flights to join his comrades
on the other shore.
Surely the earth never
opened her arms to allow
the head of a braver man
to rest upon her bosom.
Surely the light never pushed
back to make
brighter the road that leads
to the lamb.
And surely the gates of heaven
never opened wider to
allow a more manly spirit to
enter therein.
Erected by J. Gid and Mary J. Morris.
1902 |