An Epitaph A Day - November 12

Keeps Death's Spectre Away

All Epitaphs This Week Will Be Of Those
Who Served Their Country

In memory of Robt. W. Smith
of Co. B. 1st Md. V. I.
son of Henry and Teresa Smith,
who departed this Life 1st Feb. 1864,
Aged 22 years.

Rest Soldier, rest, thy warefare o'er,
The battle roll thou'llt hear no more.
The duty bravely, nobly done
The conflict past, the victory won.

Source:

Ridgely, Helen West. Historic Graves of Maryland and the District of Columbia: With the Inscriptions Appearing on the Tombstones in Most of the Counties of the State and in Washington and Georgetown. National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Maryland. New York: The Grafton press, 1908.