History of the Eighth Regiment Vermont Volunteers. 1861-1865

noTHE EIGHTH VERMONT.Yesterday, March 21, my friend Capt. J. S. Clark was buried in ourvault in Girod Cemetery, N. O. One of the bravest^ noblest, and best oimen. May our last end be like his.Refuge, opposite New Orleans, June 3d, 1866.Mrs. J. S. Clark :Madam : In overhauling and adjusting my library, which was restoredto me in a scattered and confused condition, I found the accompanyingBible, containing a record of the death and entombment of Capt. Clark,and a feeling tribute to his memory.It was presented to Mrs. Hatch some years since by a Mr. J. R.Jackson, a planter of this state, and a pious and worthy friend, and I sendit to you with the presentation memorandum inclosed, precisely as I foundit, thinking it would be a pleasing memento of the worth and excellence ofyour late husband, calculated to inspire in the minds of his children a reverencefor his character, and to stimulate an emulation ofhis virtues.It will perhaps be the more prized as emanating from one who stoodin a relatively antagonistic position to him, and who lost her own life by asincere devotion to a cause opposed to that in which Capt. Clark was ashonestly engaged ; and it is a sad commentary on the evils of civil strife toreflect that she, whose ear was never deaf to the calls of affection, andwhose hand was ever ready to do the biddings of her benevolent naturetoward friend or foe, in the hour of distress, should have been rudelythrust, in a state of extreme debility, from that home from which she hadso freely dispensed those ministrations of mercy. This act of cruelty, atthe very close of the war, cost her her reason and her life.We can therefore mutually deprecate those evils which have bereft usof half the joy and solace of our earthly life, and cast a lasting shadowover the remnant which remains to us.Now that Mrs. Hatch has deceased, in order that your mind may beat perfect ease in relation to the remains of Capt. Clark, I will add, that Ihadpurchased a tomb for her in another cemetery near to my present residence,and that that in which Capt. Clark was entombed, will remainundisturbed, without any inconvenience or embarrassment to myself.Hoping the memento will be acceptable, I am, madam.Very i^espectfully, your obedient servant,F. H. Hatch.In a few days it was reported that Gen. Taylor still had aconsiderable force with him beyond Alexandria, and Gen.Banks ordered Weitzel's division to move on his track Mayiith ;but, after marching about thirty-five miles into the pinewoods, it was found that the enemy was retreating so rapidly