The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1876-03-09

In beds By hundreds hung,
And the tune that lulled their last repOse,
Dy the min naie-ba1 wss sung.
widows homes bedeck our soil,
And orphans I'LL our land,
While maimed and crippled veterans
Are seen ON every hand.
Tns nrst great cause OF all these woes,
Was erael despotie slavery.
" hieh God had planned shOuId 6rlnly tes
Our nations strength and bravery
When traitors firsI on sumptsr frsd.E
On that dread Friday morn,
II sent thrill around the werlI,
And civil war was born.
South Carolina led the van,
And Mississippi followed,
And soon eleven glorious States
In vile seesssloa walloWsd. al
Bat sumpter's fall was no defeat,
1t made the North the stronger,
For party lines soon disappeared,
And troubled rs no longer.
When Honest ADe.r the Martyr CHIEF,
Called eighty thousand men.
Three hundred thousand volunteers
Their hOROFsd names did pen.
FnrollS.3 THAR n,,r,,.S "a fl0l,t. for l,op,es.
To igbt for Won and me
70 yield their lives In deadly STRIFE; "a
TO set our country free ~
They left their happv Northern homes.
With knapsaeks, for the South,
And carved their way to heaven aud fame,
A' INC = @iN' u u"0l '"oo'"
Yes there beneath the stars ana Stripes,
The emblem ofthe free.
our nation non iisloes Sll'1 'le'r oioo1'
Anu "O1 ''ie 7~
The first years battles, lost and won,
| We n'er could stand repeated,
Fol % Dul' ~ ali1 y ,., ..sOn u
OuI inSu "eie sure Ueie1'ou'
So that, withal, the Rebel cause
Seemed destined tosueceed. -st
But ere another Se4r Ii,res rssoiFso
A"S - 'l''~'S - ~ ~ ''0U
I In spite Of Jackson Lee aad Bragg,
The Union army gained
Fea s'ogs, fals vsA =, 80 4" i.i'' ~ 'oalE.
@A- A''1-'-S =
And God, who guides each najoa's course,
Deserted not the Union.
~ v1,t,, - 80 - " ~ -, 80 -o-y s~-,
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But on the tile OF war still swept,
And blood and tears were vain, .8.
VI u. ie'''Nie 49, ~ = :, e1' 10
went Up ior iAei'eS siA'h'
/ But sixtv-tbree. the bloody wear.
Drew heayy-on our FOES,
For Meade and Grant, with Hoosler pluck
struck iaSt and tellns olows- Flli=
rrVas In thts-year t4r.nt,s noblest dseI b..
And ares,test act was done. ~
As up above the clouds he charged,
And made the Rebels run t
To MISsionarv Riaze we mint
vvh,Is n-,,e or,r 6,sor,s S,vsiI
70, ',, ,ns,a = ,rs ne, grari,ss, eons1cs -aat
And Chattanooga fell.
Az morn c,on sa,,aratas bslJ the beiybts 30
with Fe5ersIs 'tsr b.lov. r d
His campnres round him glow.
Gran. now ve1rxa prou lar crown "a
Than ua,uarc,1 ere cIa claim.
Bat vet. the giddy heights tll At night
was the acme OF MS iane. 80.
Hat sim wars sarsin4 bI,Iowsroars a.;
Our blesding coantry grolnei:
JefTD4yfs lau xhei Ia he;ilsh gles,
And LIBBY Pfison m Jlnsi. 81
Tn, f,urtb wears e,ur,s was slowly suant.
Mid dark and cruel fray, a
Ana nations gazsd on Richmond.
Where Grant was held at bsy. Srr
But Lee, within old RIchm Dnd's walls.
Was anything bot quiet - snic111
For well he knew he could not live,
And eat Starvation diet.
And so one nisht4n- early Spring,
| When April leaves were growing
From Richmond, Lee, with hast-slarved
troops,
= = =
Grant saw the move and well was pleased,
For now his time had come,
And when 1hsy reached that fined Cour
O1'e'
-,--@ y -
Grant shoak the Rsbel lea lsrs' hands
Dipped in Union gore-
Ana sent snsn hDns' Ni.a'u- ieDuAs'l
ESE 'nsu Tue sstii0 NSs
The war was long and shook our land,
/ Near like an hauske's spasm,
And tHeea the Nortn aal sousn II ieh
oArk sno Dioody enasn'
But there's another ghl5tiy e,ns
We fam would have forgotten,
n1s 10 we can nos V pc = "u
- = - D',' = An1 iO''eN.
Twas when oar Fathers plnsd an 4 dieI
Oar brotaers starved to death
"nsfs our p-4se e'a 1liy iliSH M. "S'' '-'''
VINO oAred % ask ior OfeA'n'
'rwas In that modern Nero's den,
with forest true around,
Bot not twls within the pen
To snAis tae p1reaei sroand
| ,rvraS u,,ere IN ha mini OF Davis loved
Togaf IN slant thou xtat.
As daily he his feast PArlooz'
Ana leit our men % roS-
Twas waere the Nero Of to-day
eaDayIs Is bis name
Committed crimes tnat iar ont-do
fne aneieot Nero lA'us.
Twas where the God or hosts Ioc koI down,
And shook in wrathfui Ire,
WINE anseis sn 30 iiAi n 'se-i 's~'S'
Oer DEEDS 30 fool anu olle'
Twas where our soldiers spirits fed,
Ana souobt their Heayenlg homes,
And let 70 zen Iner he''f'ls's me-
Nanght Dut Lheir hauo"eo Donss-
Twas in that sousbern forest glen.
Wbsre ripnlino stream ala fiow.
And now they ask to pardon JeG.