Lane, Truman J.
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MILITARY SERVICE Age: 20, credited to Cornwall, VT Unit(s): 5th VT INF Service: enl 8/19/61, m/i 9/16/61, CPL, Co. F, 5th VT INF, pr SGT 1SGT, kia, Wilderness, 5/5/64 See Legend for expansion of abbreviations VITALSBirth: abt 1841, Cornwall, VT Death: 05/05/1864 Burial: Fredericksburg National Cemetery, Fredericksburg, VA Marker/Plot: 1878 Gravestone photographer: Tom Ledoux Findagrave Memorial #: 12938149 MORE INFORMATION Alias?: None noted Pension?: Not found Portrait?: Unknown College?: Not Found Veterans Home?: Not Found (If there are state digraphs above, this soldier spent some time in a state or national soldiers' home in that state after the war) Remarks: None DESCENDANTS 3rd Great Grandfather of Kenneth Berry, Baltimore, MD (Are you a descendant, but not listed? Register today) |
BURIAL: Copyright notice  Fredericksburg National Cemetery, VA Check the cemetery for location/directions and other veterans who may be buried there. |
Truman Lane
Epitaph
Come, let no darkness daunt us. Let us go
Where Cornwall Village dreams not far below
And on their obelisk read how Truman Lane Died in the Wilderness;
Stillman Smith was slain At Donelson;
and at Cold Harbor Captain Samson (sic).
Then, strangely, Alva Barlow
'Hung by Guerrillas!' -- the stone does not say where.
Perhaps it's not a monument's affair.
But I'll weep -- even for Alva -- if you can weep
For him, for all, for Southern boys asleep
Like these your fathers may somewhere have known.
Donald Davidson, "Poems, 1922-1961," University of Minnesota Press, 1966, p. 54.