BIOGRAPHICAL 11 



to read a poem written by Mr. S. II. M. Byers, who was a 

 boyhood friend and schoolmate of Major Lacey in our 

 county, and who went into the army with him and who 

 knew him as intimately as it was possible to know anoth- 

 er. 2 



2 The poem referred to has been given in another connection. — Ed. 



