Torch-lights and stepping-stones from slavery to self-government; waking up, and inspiring poetry, and orations to solve the race problem .. . the jaws of death did rideAnd rescue victorys precious meat,Out o the stomach of all ^heroes Grant was the best;Napol eon,Caesar,all the rest;Excelled the heroes of all ages,Whose names adorn historys was like the War-God bold:Death,he did defy,and scold:His courage,valor_,zeal,and skill,The chief part were destined to fillIn vanquishing the rebel nation;And achieving did our troops great courage lendAnd brought the

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Torch-lights and stepping-stones from slavery to self-government; waking up, and inspiring poetry, and orations to solve the race problem .. . the jaws of death did rideAnd rescue victorys precious meat,Out o the stomach of all ^heroes Grant was the best;Napol eon,Caesar,all the rest;Excelled the heroes of all ages,Whose names adorn historys was like the War-God bold:Death,he did defy,and scold:His courage,valor_,zeal,and skill,The chief part were destined to fillIn vanquishing the rebel nation;And achieving did our troops great courage lendAnd brought the war to speedy Mississippi to its mouth,Was lined with forts held by the southThe Tennessees banks the many forts the South did Tennesse Fort Henry stands,Donaldson on Cumberlands repulsed at Belmount,Grant took of it little take Henry,and Donaldson planedBy gun-boat fleet,and force on reluctantly consented,But never the result Foot with his gun-boats,To Henry,on the Tennessee Grant,with troops in his command,.To Fort Henry moved by Ulysses Hero, And Statesman^

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