In honor of the Fourth of July weekend, I thought that I'd post some on the Oaklands Cemetery in my hometown of West Chester, Pennsylvania. At right is a picture of Colonel George W. Roberts, who died at Stone River near Murfreesboro, Tennessee. I've got a close up of the inscription below the fold. It includes the following dedication, "He was a man of noble aims and generous heart. … Col. Roberts was a graduate of Yale College, by profession a lawyer, in peace an excellent citizen, in war a brave soldier. A skilful and energetic officer, his memory embalmed in the hearts of his friends who can never forget his kind disposition and genial spirit."
On the Fourth I hope to have something to say about constitutionalism in Fourth of July orations in the south before the Civil War.
