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Robert C. McClain

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Robert C. McClain

Birth
Death
29 May 1861 (aged 19)
Burial
Hohenwald, Lewis County, Tennessee, USA Add to Map
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Robert C. McClain

C.S.A. Co. C. Third Tennessee (Bigby Grays) The first Confederate Co. from Mt. Pleasant and Vicinity.

Soldiers Grave
Pearl Rivers


Tread lightly, 'tis a soldiers grave,
A lonely, mossy mound;
And yet to hearts like mine and thine
It should be holy ground.

Speak softly, let no careless laugh,
No idle, thoughtless jest,
Escape your lips where sweetly sleeps
The hero in his rest.

For him no reveille will beat
When morning beams shall come;
For him, at night, no tattoo rolls
Its thunders from the drum.

Tread lightly! for a man bequeathed,
Ere laid beneath this sod,
His ashes to his native land,
His gallant soul to God.
Robert C. McClain

C.S.A. Co. C. Third Tennessee (Bigby Grays) The first Confederate Co. from Mt. Pleasant and Vicinity.

Soldiers Grave
Pearl Rivers


Tread lightly, 'tis a soldiers grave,
A lonely, mossy mound;
And yet to hearts like mine and thine
It should be holy ground.

Speak softly, let no careless laugh,
No idle, thoughtless jest,
Escape your lips where sweetly sleeps
The hero in his rest.

For him no reveille will beat
When morning beams shall come;
For him, at night, no tattoo rolls
Its thunders from the drum.

Tread lightly! for a man bequeathed,
Ere laid beneath this sod,
His ashes to his native land,
His gallant soul to God.

Gravesite Details

Son of W.T. and Mary McClain



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