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Tribute to the late Senator Martin, of Virginia, in the following general order of A. P. Hill Camp, Confederate Veterans, of which Senator Martin was a member:
"Headquarters A. P. Hill Camp, C. V.,
"General Order No. 20. "It is with profound sorrow the the Commander officially announces to this Camp that one of its members, Comrade Thomas Staples Martin, died in Charlottesville yesterday. "As a mere boy of sixteen he served his State and the Confederacy on the firing line as a cadet of the Virginia Military Institute. "In more mature years he served the same State and the whole country in the higher branch of the national Legislative body with such eminent fitness that he easily became the recognized leader of the administration majority in the Senate chamber. "His distinguished ability is to-day known to the whole world. No word of ours can enhance his high renown, nor can we add one feather to the knightly plume that marks his exalted rank among his peers. We simply ask to be allowed to lay this sincere tribute at the foot of the towering monument to his merit and to mingle our tears with those of his loved ones beside his new-made grave. "We are the last of the rear guard of that army that risked all for the cause that was strong with the strength of truth and immortal with the immortality of right. "He has left these meager platoons to join our full battalions of Fame's eternal camping ground and to take the conspicuous place reserved for him in the front rank of the line of immortals. J. Walker Burnet, Commander."
SOURCE: Confederate Veteran Magazine, February, 1920.
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