Nations that build nothing but uninscribed burial-places foreshadow their own doom,to return to the soil and be forgotten.

The grave-mound lay within a rude stockade; and an uninscribed wooden cross, gray and weather-beaten, marked the last resting-place of the unknown and forgotten man beneath, the man who had paid with his humble life the cost of pushing the frontier of civilization into the wild savagery of the wilderness.

An uninscribed Monument on one of the Battle-fields of the Wilderness.