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Into the midst of the music.
The joy, and the fullness of life
There swept a strange clangor; then silence, A stillness more startling than strife.
We heard not the sound of the trumpets;
The bugles died out on the blast.
Could we march in that desolate waiting For the thrill of a song that was past?
Could we work while our comrades no longer Breathed courage and hope in the ear?
Could we triumph when sorrow and sighing Had palsied our hearts, until fear
Swept over our souls .like the shadow Of some brooding evil to come?
Alas! we were stricken; the music That had given us courage was dumb.
Then down from the beautiful heaven A word came, the word of the Lord;
And it struck on our languor and trouble A dominant, silvery chord.
“Stay not for the music,” it bade us;
“The music has only gone on.
You will hear it again in the glory That waits when the day’s work is done.”
So now, though but faintly and seldom We hear the sweet bugle call blow,
We march in the path of our Leader,
Marked out in the conflict of woe.
Some day we will hear the grand choral, Some day we will stand on the shore , Where the comrades already are waiting— The music has gone on before.
WHY SO NAMEDT Col. John C. Stiles, of Brunswick, Ga., writes that the following Mississippi troops took part in the War between the States, and if any survivors are left of these organizations he asks that they give through the Veteran the reason for.' such designations:
Abe’s Rejectors, Blackland Giddeonites, Brown Rebels,
.	Buena Vista Hornets, Chunkey Heroes, Cold Water Rebels,
— /	De Soto Brothers, Dixie Heroes, Ellisville Invincibles, Fish-
ing Creek Avengers, Hancock Rebels, Impressibles, Jasper Avengers, Kemper Rebels, Lafayette Rebels, Marion Men, Mississippi Rip Raps, Mrs. Body Guard, Oktibbeha Plow Boys, Plentitude Invincibles, Rankin Rough and Readys, Red Invincibles, Rockport Steel Blades, Secessionists, Sons of the South, Southern Sentinels, Sunflower Dispensers, True Confederates, White Rebels, Yankee Hunters, Attali Yellow Jackets, Buckner Boys, Buckner Rebels, Center Marksmen, Coahoma Invincibles, Copiah Rfebels, Dixie Boys, Edwards Tigers, Enterprise Tigers, Gaines’s Warriors, Helen Johnston Guards, Johnston Avengers, Kossuth Hunters, Loula White Rebels, Meridian Invincibles, Mississippi Yankee Hunters, Newton Hornets, Panola Patriots, Prairie Guards, Raymond Invincibles, Red Rovers, Scotland Guards, Sons of Liberty, Southern Farmers, Spartan Band, Tippah Tigers, Tullahoma Hardshells, Union Stars, Yankee Terrors.
Make yourself a present of the savings habit. You can get the habit by buying Treasury Savings Stamps every pay day. Government savings securities will be on sale throughout 1921.
Surviving comrades of John Albert Parrish, who joined Britton's company of the 10th Tennessee, Starnes’s old regiment, in October, 1863, will please give their testimony as to his service so that he may get a pension, of which he is in great need. Write to Mrs. N. W. Jones, Box 647, Brady, Tex.
Mrs. D. P. Craddock, 408 Grf^id Avenue, Eldorado, 111., wishes to hear from some comrades of William C. Craddock, who served a year in Company F, 7th Regiment of Tennessee Volunteers. Their testimony is needed to establish his record, and she needs a pension.
J. N. Anthony writes from Kansas City, Mo., in beha'.f of the widow of Frar.klin M. Tulley, a Missourian, seeking to ascertain his record as a Confederate soldier. She is in great need and can get a pension by knowing his company and regiment. Any surviving comrades will please write to Mr. Anthony at 3243 Thompson Street.
The sketch of Dr. M. D. Stcrrett in the Veteran for November, referring to his membership in the Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity, brings inquiry from James A. Farrell, Field Secretary of that fraternity, as to other veterans of the Confederacy who may have been members of it in their college days. He will be pleased to hear from such veterans or members of the families of those not surviving. Address him at 350 Broadway, New York City.
Mrs. R. A. Williams, of Batesville, Ark., would appreciate hearing ■ from any comrades of her husband, Robert Andrew Williams, who served in Company B, of Wirt Adams’s Tennessee regiment. His right leg was amputated at Clinton, Miss. She needs a record of his service in order to get into the Confederate Home of Arkansas.
Mrs. Claudia F. Smith, 25 Rhode Island Avenue Northwest, Washington, D. C., wishes to establish the record of l’.cr husband, James Allen Smith, of Georgia, who was wounded in the fighting around Atlanta, and was in the hospital for awhile before being captured later and sent-to Fort Delaware. Any surviving comrades will kindly write her as to his company and regiment. He served under Johnston and Hood, and she thinks his enlistment was from Quitman County, Ga., formerly a part of Randolph County.
John Watson writes from Princeton, N. J.: "No magazine is more welcome in our house than the Veteran. Although I date much later than the war, I like to read it; and since my children are growing up remote from the South and its sentiment and traditions, I think it only fair to them to give them opportunity to read the Veteran regularly.”
J. B. Webster, Box 113, Marlin, Wash., would like to hear from any surviving comrades of his brother, J. M. Webster, who was a member of ^ Company H, Caldwell’s Regiment, Parson’s Brigade, Missouri Volunteers, and took part in the battles of Oak Hills, Elkhorn, Prairie Grove, and was then transferred across the Mississippi and participated in the battle of Corinth, siege of Vicksburg, etc.