Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1862-08-19
. Gone 70 the War

zone 70 the War
+ Looking over some old note, and aapers
! I've other day. TOOK W a sual. white folded
/ paper. aud opr4ing ~, cine upon a oeagt.
! tul golden cua OF sJte,t hair. Marked 90
the inside Of the paper was the pes name 0.
the .oeeiy child .om whose head | had clip
ped Mi. sunny ring.et year, az | noudoi-
ed whore ne might be nov. and What hc utilnt
be uug. \ few days after, as Il | had
sought tor the Information | was told he had
| goue 10 the war
tome to the war The word, gave mc
strange chill II seemed out lew weeks
ago since the summer afternoon when tired
with play be had fallen asleep his checks ro-
~ With heat, the very picture Of exquisite
childish beauty, aud had clipped this glossy
cur! from close 70 his White neck without
waking the little sleeper And now be toils
over dasky roads, through pat..ess swumps,
with gun, add blanket, and knapsack bis iair
youthful lace burned by the Southern SUI. and
his Young heart exposed To all the temptations
OF camp-poiAnIty, drliub enness aud crime
or wounded, be IL i.alu1led by friends and
Toes, perehauce mntlated and brutaIy aban-
doned 20 verse than soldiers tate
o. Mar, horrible. cruel var, that has been
forced With all It's horrors, on the peace.lovinr
and Ioyal sons OF the North, By the uugra q.
ul, rebelioas children Of this once prosperous
republic,
Gone to the wur another, our uuict.
dark.cycd. undemons;ratlye boy, whom be
known TO be loved, 70 unobs,rusiye was he.
and so retiring, bu, best loved by those who
knew HIM best, but the echo Of Sumters guns
tired his Northern blood, his dark eye flashed
he seized his rifle aud vas gone Aud so one
By ono, aud thousands by thousands, all over
the land they have departed many home
aud heart is lesolate From enc home. the
youngest, the pei, the darling OF the house,
reluctanIly given up from the next, the
eldest the proud, noble first born, on whom
his Old gray haired luther leaned and from
the next, the widows only sou and from
across the way, every sou Of the household.
., who but the recording angel shall estimate
the agony, the untold sacrifice called out by
tins cfueiest OF rebellions Yet shall not
their precious blood have been she'd in vain,
II by 1t is purchased liberty Tor all, now and
forever Anythi1g ess than this is hcartless
motkery. II from these bloody fields the
remnant shall return TO see the Union re.
stored as t was, and human slavery still pro.
tected by the blnner that We love, and would
give cur lives to defend, then valnly have
mothers wives and sisters sacrificed, and la
bored, and prayed aud wept, ard vainly nave
; their beloved ones bled and died But II from
these bsttlu.helds Liberty shall rise in shining
garments, with new glory on her shield, If,
one kindred and one people, we stand again
with cIasped hands Q. reconciliation, aud the
black STAN upon our national honor purged
GU, forever, then blessed shall they he who
can count their best beloved among the heroes
by whose struggles the glorious result shall
; have been consummatod. God speed the time,
! and shield our dear ones in the day Of baltic
-hdepend,W
9 GonSY's lApns Book is again on hand in
D time. The number tor September iils not tC
8 bring before the ladies' all that even the most
/ hstidlous could ask tor in the way ut fashion,
and fancy needle work The fine arts are vel
represenud bya beautiful steel plate, and a
woud cut Of" Bringing the Old Mare Home.
: The music IN this number i al patriotic char
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