Bradley Central High School - Ocoeean Yearbook (Cleveland, TN)

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Lincoln paid tribute to the Northern dead at Gettysburg. Here is the best of the tributes to the Southern dead, first pronounced, like the Gettysburg Address, above the graves of those it honored. The author, a gifted poet, was himself a casualty of the war. Though he survived the struggle, he died soon afterward of tuberculosis as a result of exposure and undernourishment during the war. ODE by Henry Timrod Sleep sweetly in your humble graves, Sleep martyrs of a fallen cause; Though yet no marble column craves The pilgrim here to pause. In seeds of laurel in the earth The blossom of your fame is blown, And somewhere, waiting for its birth, The shaft is in the stone! Meanwhile, behalf the tardy years Which keep in trust your storied tombs, Behold, your sisters bring their tears, And these memorial Blooms. Small tributes! but your shades will smile More proudly on these wreaths today. Than when some cannon-molded pile Shall overlook this bay Stoop, angels, hither from the skies! There is no holier spot of ground Than where defeated valor lies, By mourning beauty crowned!

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Wars come and go; one generation of great men prove their worth and are replaced by another generation. Orders give way to other orders, but the permanent and everlasting abstraction is man’s faith in his God. Through cataclysms of water, fire, and man-made destruction the church symbolizes this great faith. That nation which practices this faith is the nation which survives. 23

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f) 1 RANK AND FILE LIEUTENANTS SERGEANTS CORPORALS PRIVATES SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS President............David Tyrell Vice-President.....Virginia Glisson Secretary............Harold Davis Treasurer............Steve Renner