Torch-lights and stepping-stones from slavery to self-government; waking up, and inspiring poetry, and orations to solve the race problem .. . ,as might have been expected;All eyes,at Thomas were ,Gn the left v/as standing:The left wing he wa-s he,and his troops had retreated;The army would have been him,the rebel troopsconverged:For hours,they,against him flowed round him like a fountain:But Thomas stood,firm as a his many admirers all,Him/rock of Chicamauga call. They asked general Thomas bold, How long he the pass c
Torch-lights and stepping-stones from slavery to self-government; waking up, and inspiring poetry, and orations to solve the race problem .. . ,as might have been expected;All eyes,at Thomas were ,Gn the left v/as standing:The left wing he wa-s he,and his troops had retreated;The army would have been him,the rebel troopsconverged:For hours,they,against him flowed round him like a fountain:But Thomas stood,firm as a his many admirers all,Him/rock of Chicamauga call. They asked general Thomas bold, How long he the pass could hold: He answered with a cheerful shout; ^Until the armys mustered out. Then along came kind old night, And put an end to that days fight. To Chattanooga,Rosecrans went; But this,he did quickly repent. Bragg severed his communication; With the resources of his nation. And then stood guard upon a hill, liaady all fugatives to kill. Cut off from all communication, The Uniyn army faced starvation. Brave Grant was given Rosecrans place; To Grants aid Union troops did race. They rout the rebels under Bragg: And take away his rebel titte ®f G®ilwsbin riiTith hopes of victory inflated,lAjGeneral Lee never a powerful brigade,He hastened the North to the rebels northward glided,They with our troops the public road leading west,From Gettysburg was this both 8ides,assistaDce came:To help their troops the victory short while after the attack,Meade,and his troops were driven back^Meade now to Gettysburg retreats:His troops get tangled in the platoons were rushed awayAs prisoners,before next Union troops came in all night;Joining Meades army by moon-light iEeady to shoot,at his commandInto the rebels,near at sides,a hundred thousand strong;Were on two lofty ridges, grand ridges eachother face:Making a most picturesque ,with the Union army grand!On Cemitery ridge did stan
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