Thousands of Confederate and Union soldiers are buried in unmarked graves on this battlefield. At Pleasant Hill, on the night after the engagement, a nineteen-year-old boy and an old man were found dead lying side by side, each face wearing a smile. A poem originally published in Harper's Weekly on May 14, 1864, reflects on the two fallen soldiers, contrasting the youth of one with the age and weariness of the other, praising their bravery under battle's fire, and honoring the dead as noble souls whose deeds and worth would endure through the years.