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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 120 (search)
time is it, Doctor Austin!” --“Nearly twelve:” --“Then don't you go! Can it be that all this happened — all this — not an hour ago! “There was where the gunboats opened on the dark, rebellious host, And where Webster semicircled his last guns upon the coast-- There were still the two log-houses, just the same, or else their ghost-- And the same old transport came and took me over — or its ghost! “And the whole field lay before me, all deserted far and wide-- There was where they fell on Prentiss — there McClernand met the tide , There was where stern Sherman rallied, and where Hurlbut's heroes died-- Lower down, where Wallace charged them, and kept charging till he died! “There was where Lew Wallace showed them he was of the cannie kin-- There was where old Nelson thundered and where Rousseau waded in-- There McCook sent them to breakfast, and we all began to win-- There was where the grape-shot took me just as we began to win. “Now a shroud of snow and silence