ll receive. Don't
you remember this? One of the worst things we can do is to
doubt God's truth. He has promised, and he will fulfil. Don't
you feel so, Frankie?'

"He hesitated a moment, and then answered, slowly: 'Yes, I do
believe it. I am not afraid to die, but I want somebody to
love me.'

"The old cry for love, the strong yearning for the sympathy
of kindred hearts. It would not be put down.

"'Frankie, I love you. Poor boy! you shall not be left alone.
Is not this some comfort to you?'

"'Do you love me? Will you stay with me, and not leave me?'

"'I will not leave you. Be comforted, I will stay as long as
you wish.'

"I kissed the pale forehead as if it had been that of my own
child. A glad light flashed over his face.

"'O, kiss me again; that was given like my sister. Mrs.
S----, won't you kiss me, too? I don't think it will be so
hard to die, if you will both love me.'

"It did not last long. With his face nestled against mine,
and his large blue eyes fixed in perfect composure upon me to
the last moment, he breathed out his life."

So he died for his country. He sleeps on the banks of the beautiful
Ohio. Men labor hard for riches, honor, and fame, but few, when life is
over, will leave a nobler record than this young Christian patriot.

CHAPTER XII.

FROM FORT PILLOW TO MEMPHIS.

On the 6th of May, 1861, the Legislature of Tennessee, in secret
session, voted that the State should secede from the Union. The next
day, Governor Harris appointed three Commissioners to meet Mr. Hilliard,
of Alabama, who had been sent by Jefferson Davis to make a league with
the State. These Commissioners agreed that all the troops of the State
should be under the control of the President of the Confederacy. All of
the public property and naval stores and munitions of war were also
turned over to the Confederacy. The people had nothing to do about it.
The conspirators did not dare to trust the matter to them, for a great
many persons in East Tennessee were ardently attached to the Union. In
Western Tennessee, along the Mississippi, nearly all of the people, on
the other hand, were in favor of secession.

At Memphis they were very wild and fierce. Union men were mobbed, tarred
and feathered, ridden on rails, had their heads shaved, were robbed,
knocked down, and warned to leave the place or be hung. One man was
headed up in