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Photographer: Photograph by J.J. Prats
Taken: September 14, 2019
Caption: Lewisburg WV Confederate Burial Ground – A Poem
Additional Description: This small tablet is affixed to a boulder placed in the median of the cemetery’s parking lot. It it inscribed with a poem attributed to Confederate Chaplain the Reverend Randolph Harrison McKim, which reads

Not for fame or reward,
Not for place or for rank—
Not lured by ambition
Or goaded by necessity—
But in simple
Obedience to duty—
As they understood it.
These men suffered all—
Sacrificed all—
Dared all — and died.

It is signed, “This poem placed in loving remembrance of patriots who died far from home. Rest in Peace.”
Submitted: October 10, 2019, by J. J. Prats of Powell, Ohio.
Database Locator Identification Number: p497293
File Size: 7.808 Megabytes

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