JOURNAL'S OBITUARY FOR COL. CURRAN POPE

Another silver cord has snapped, and we have now to mourn the death of Colonel Curran Pope, of the 15th Kentucky Infantry.  His loss will be severely felt by his family and friends; our city has lost one of its most cherished ornaments, and the country has been deprived of the services of a gallant and accomplished officer.  He did not die upon the battlefield as soldiers love to fall, but the wound which he received at Perryville compelled him to remain at Danville, where his noble spirit chafed and fretted itself into a fever because he could not be at the head of his regiment, until his disease assumed typhoid symptoms, and terminated fatally on the morning of the 5th inst.  Unostentatious in his manners and with an almost feminine docility of manners, still he was a trained solder, and few understood better the art of war.  Having been educated at West Point, he laid down his legal avocations when the rebellion broke out, and tendered his services to his country, as he had previously done in the Mexican war.  He won the love of his soldiers and commanded the admiration of his superiors.  The incidents of his life are familiar to all our readers; no man was better known, and no man ever had more sincere friends or was more worthy of friendly devotion.  He will be missed in the social circle, in the walks of philanthropy, and at the forum.

Louisville Journal, November 6, 1862