THE STANDARD BEARER'S LETTER.
AN INCIDENT AT THE BATTLE OF SEDAN,
September 1st, 1870.
"While going over the Field," writes the Correspondent of an English paper, "I noticed the body of a French Officer lying a little apart from a heap of dead by the road-side. In one hand he tightly grasped the Standard of France, torn and stained, across which he had fallen; in the other he still held a letter, which on examination proved to be from his wife; and at the bottom was written in a child's hand, a message, promising obedience and kindness to her mother until her father returned home."
WHEN the Sun set on that fearful battle field,
In all his glorious bright array;
Brave men, that never to foe would yield,
Were cold and stark that day!
In all his glorious bright array;
Brave men, that never to foe would yield,
Were cold and stark that day!
