His resting place had been marked by nothing better than a rude board bearing his name and the date of his death . . . some companies of Irish-American soldiers happened to pass through the locality; and, resolving that the spot of a countryman so gifted and so faithful should be properly marked, raised by subscription a monument of Carrara marble, inscribed with a brief but eloquent epitaph."[Richard Dalton] Williams last poem is found in [Charles Anderson] Read's book:
"Song of the Irish-American Regiments"
from The Thibodaux Daily Comet: Union troops gave Irish poet a proper gravestone
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