Excerpt from Sketches in Purple, Vol. 2: Consisting of Representative Rhetorical Exercises Written During the College Year 1900-1901, by Undergraduates in the College of Liberal Arts of Northwestern University The carriage slowly filed in through the vine-covered archway at Rosehill, the clatter of the horses' hoofs rudely waking the slumbering echoes of the vaulted passageway. Winding along the graveled road ways that led through that part of the cemetery dedicated to the Army and Navy, they drew up before the monument inscribed, To the Memory of The Brave Men who Fought, Side by Side, in the twenty-second Illinois Infantry, Company D. The warm spring afternoon was drawing to a close; the newly awakened grass was smiling a welcome to the bursting buds in the tree-tops, while here and there on the green mounds bright dandelions lay like golden medals. On the still air came the solemn words of the Service of Com mittal In the midst of life we are in death earth to earth dust to dust: looking for the general Resurrection. Through our Lord Jesus Christ. A squad of gray-haired veterans stepped silently into place, raised their rifles, and fired a solemn salute. The echoes of the volley died away in the distance as the Colonel's old bugl'er, putting his beloved instrument to his trembling lips, sounded the well remembered call, Lights Out. The last rays of the setting sun lingered for a moment, casting a silent benediction on the sorrowing group of comrades, then lightly kissing the folds of the tattered flag that lay across the grave, they disappeared in the twilight - Ruth A. Woodley. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.