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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 9: Poetry and Eloquence. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Appendix: songs of the war days (search)
o the trumpeters, They call for volunteers, On Zion's bright and flowery mount— Behold the officers! Chorus— They look like men, They look like men, They look like men of war. My father, how long? This primitive chant is thought by Mr. G. H. Allan, who wrote down the stanzas, to have originated from the Florida plantations. At the outbreak of the Civil war several negroes were thrown into jail at Georgetown, South Carolina, for singing the verses. Although the spiritual was an old one, the words were considered as being symbolical of new events. A little colored boy explained the matter tersely to Mr. Allan. Dey tink de Lord mean fo‘ to say de Yankees call us. We'll fight for liberty, We'll fight for liberty, We'll fight for liberty, When de Lord will call us home. And it won't be long, And it won't be long, And it won't be long, When de Lord will call us home. Many thousand go This spiritual, to which the Civil war actually gave rise, was composed by nobody know<