. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . &?R> ®br ijrritaijf * * * C^^qCm. What mother, with long watching eyes. And while lips cold and dumh,Wails with appalling patience for Her darling hoy to come?Her hoy! whose mountain grave swells up But one of many a scar,Cut on the face of our fair land. By gory-handed war. What tights he fought, what wounds he wore. Are all unknown to fame:Remember, on his lonely grave There is not een a name!That he fought well and bravely too, And held his country dear,We know,

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. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . &?R> ®br ijrritaijf * * * C^^qCm. What mother, with long watching eyes. And while lips cold and dumh,Wails with appalling patience for Her darling hoy to come?Her hoy! whose mountain grave swells up But one of many a scar,Cut on the face of our fair land. By gory-handed war. What tights he fought, what wounds he wore. Are all unknown to fame:Remember, on his lonely grave There is not een a name!That he fought well and bravely too, And held his country dear,We know, else he had never been A Georgia Volunteer. lie sleeps—what need to question now If he were wrong or right?He knows, ere this, whose cause was just In God the Fathers wields no warlike weapons now. Returns no foemans thrust—Who but a coward would revile An honest soldiers dust? Roll, Shenandoah, proudly roll, Adown thy rocky thee lies the grave of one Of Stonewall Jacksons the cedar and the pine. I n solitude , unnamed, forgotten, lies A Georgia Volunteer. Mary Ashley Townsend.

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