Shortly after the death of Col. Wynkoop's son, Nicholas, who was killed while bravely fighting in defence of our imperilled liberties, the Colonel sojourned at the St. Cloud Hotel, Nashville. While there the following lines addressed to a lady from a female friend, (both strangers still to the Colonel) were sent to him. They allude to his bereavement in a touching manner, and indirectly pay a high tribute to the Colonel's proverbial kindness of heart, particularly where unprotected womanhood and childhood claim his generous ears:

At St. Cloud Hotel
    A man of sorrow is sojourning,
With sympathy each breast must swell
    That apprehends his cause of mourning--
That know as you have known--that son,
    Whose dignity--whose manly beauty--
Whose courteousness affection won
    E'en 'mid the claims of sterner duty.

You thought upon your boy, I trow
    When tidings came that he was taken,
And by a sympathy of woe
    Your generous woman's breast was shaken.
Then go to him--that mourning one--
    That father--deem him not a foeman--
Like April's shower--or April's sun
    The generous sympathies of woman.

And well he merits woman's prayers
    For he to her has e'er extended
Protection 'mid the ills of war,
    And in her hour of need befriended.
Then go on her behalf and bear
    Condolence in his and bereavement,
To soothe a pang or dry a tear
    Is tender woman's fit achievement.
                                                           ANNE

Source:

Unknown, "Shortly," The Miners' Journal and Pottsville General Advertiser, Pottsville, Pa., Saturday, 13 December 1862, page 2, col. 3.