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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 51 (search)
t glory in the deed To drive them to death's mart? Come, let us for our country fight Because her glorious, heavenly cause is right. Breathe on, ye souls of pride and strife, 'Tis death's immortal age! To die, is but a change of life, And heaven a starry stage. Then with a bright and future hope, The patriot shall in darkness never grope. The trumpet shall from Malvern Hill Proclaim in thunder tones! How God-like heroes fought and died, 'Mid human blood and bones. From Pittsburgh's bloody fields shall rise Clouds of incense, to the admiring skies. Bring forth the sweet Aeolian harp, From its Etrurian shades! That it may chant the patriot's song, In silver bowers and glades. Yes! patriots' names shall live entwined-- In God's baptismal font, they live enshrined. Yes! from Fair Oaks their names shall rise, From Seven Pines they fly! On many fields their corpses strewn, Blessed patriots who die. Let bards the dirge of patriots sing, Throughout the world, let fame their glory ring.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 60 (search)
in Cleveland, Ohio, but originally from Massachusetts, went South and obtained a situation in Fernandina, Florida, as clerk in a drug-store, where he was at the breaking out of the rebellion. When the conscription law of the confederate government was put in force, young Reed was taken as one of the conscripts, and was enrolled in the First Florida regiment. He accompanied the regiment to Savannah, Yorktown, and Richmond, and participated in the battles of Williamsburgh, Fair Oaks and Seven Pines, though, he says, he took good care that no Northern man was hurt by his bullets. After the series of battles, a portion of the regiment to which he belonged was sent to Staunton, Virginia, to recruit. Here he formed an idea of escaping, and managed to obtain the confidence of some Union citizens, who furnished him with the names of reliable Union men on the road between Staunton and Winchester. With the aid of his Union friends he succeeded in escaping, and in getting safely to Winc
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), Trophies of the field of Antietam. (search)
, Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding. 4. Another battle-flag, similar to the last. On the upper edge of this flag Williamsburgh is painted in large letters, and Seven Pines on the lower edge. It was captured at the battle of Antietam, September seventeenth, 1862, by the Seventh New-York volunteers, Caldwell's brigade, Richardson's division. 5. Another battle-flag captured at Antietam, similar to No. 4, with the words Seven Pines, in large letters on the lower edge. 6. A large and very splendid silk flag, with the staff shot in two in the middle. This flag is composed of silk of three colors, and when new must have been a very superb one. The field is of deep blue, with a single large straw colored star in the centre. The bars are of straw color and delicate purple. On the field at the top is inscribed Seven Pines, on the yellow bar, Gaines' farm and Eltham's Landing, and Malvern hills on the purple bar. It is much torn and stained, and is bordered with heavy but tarnished s