The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1883-03-28


IBy james Todd, and recited by him before
the G. A. r. at Portsmouth and lronton.l
When Treason vile, aud traitors bold,
Were prancing high aud proud;
Aud the sound of rebel cannonados
Was heard to rend the cloud
When forts far famed and powerful
Moultrie and fort Sumpter
We're taken by foul traitors,
And the Union torn asunder,
CHORUS
Who rushed 10 the Nations rescue,
With hearts 80 brave and true
Our valiant, veteran soldiers,
The faithful boys in blue
When our grand and glorious emblems
BY a rebel mob we're cursed;
And the dear star spangled banner
Was tramped and trailed in dust;
When patriot true, and loyalist brave,
We're slain in sight of home;
And a horde Of rebel chieftains
Camped under the Capitol dome,
CHo.-Who rushed, &C., &c.
Who left the warmth and comfort
That happy home can yield2
Who left their peaceful families
For the fierce battle field?
Who left their coZy cOuches
For the hard and tiresome camp
Their dry and airy bedrooms
For the mirky, dismal swamp
Who went to fields unsheltered
To watch their treacherOus foes,
Expos'd to fatal lightning
The rush of rain and snOws2
Who pulled the frozen trigger
With fingers nearly frOze2
Who marChd the tiresOme marches
With frozen feet and toes2
CHoBus.
Our valiant veteran soldiers
With hearts so brave and true,
Deserve the Nations gratitude
The faithful boys in blue.
Who turned their eyes in tears
From home and kindred near?
Who left their little Armies
And little Willes dear,
Who left their little Susies
Their Sammy, James and John;
And with heavy hearts and knapsack
! Boldly marched alOng2
/ Who left their wives and sweetheRrts
And parents in suspense,
! Loved scenes and fond surroundings
| For q soldiers recOmpense?
| Who marched the raids latiguing
| Without a murmuring whino2
| Who stood on guard in rifle pits
And faced the skirmish liue?
| Who climbed the hills and mountains,
! Bearing burdensOme loads
| OF arms and ammunition
| Der muddy, slushy roads?
| Who stood before the cannon's mouth
| Without a shrink or finch
! Who climb'd the rebel earthwOrks,
And gained them inch by inch
| Who grasp'd the Union colOrs
| With cheers Of high renown.
| Nailed fast on rebel ramparts
And tore the rebels down?
CHo.-Our valiant &C., &c.
Il When friilnds and foos OF the Onion
Met on the briny deep,
To decide who in the future
The Nations fort should keep
When shot and shell were flying
And comrades falling fast
Who chung to the flag and Flagstaff,
And nailed them to the mast?
Who swOre by the God of Liberty
Under whom they fought,
| II sink they must they'd sink
With the Union flag aioat?
CHo.-Our marine, &c, &c.
Who left beloved comrades
| Upon the fields Of strife,
And closed their ranks and rallied
To the standard of their life
To save the Unions honor
And its colors uudefIed,
They sacrificed their comrades,
Themselves, and all and died,
CHo.-Our valiant, &c, &c.
Who laid in rebel prison pens
| Unsheltered and half fed
With naught but the skies for a canopy
Naught but the soil for a bed;
Exposed to the storms and priyatiOns
And the heat Of a Southern sun;
Mid such damnable rebel cruelties
Unhoard Of since Time begun?
Who sacrificed health and strength and life
Upon the altar of their prison 30 grand
Rather than desert the Union
Or disgrace the flag Of their land?
CHo.-Our loyal &C., &c.
Who lies in youder cemeteries?
Come hither, let us go.
What mean these crowds of people
That are marching to and fro
What mean these wreaths and flowers
That look so bright and gay.
All this is May the thirtieth
!. Our Decoration Day.
Make slow the approach, dear comrades,
And silent be the tread,
This soil is all made sacred
BY the tombs of noble dead
The tombs of valiant heroes
With hearts so true and brave,
Laid down their lives an offering
Inc Union flag TO save.
: Bring forth your choicest flowers
/ And while we linger near
To strew sweet-sCented offering,
( Let each one shed a tear;
p A tear of kind affection,
tear of true regard
! For merit and for bravery.
, Well worthy of reward,
; Sleep and rPss, brave comrades, sleep;
3 Wax IL DER, the Union won,
% And while our noble rivers
Their downward course shall run,
y A happy grateful Nation
r Your deeds of valor keep.
r To startle generations yet unborn,
3 Dear comrades "Testn and gleen
r To mar your rest no call to arms
BY the blast OF q bugle-hOrn, n
+ Or the fife and drum fOrevermOre
; To the battlefield forlorn;
i And while beneath the sod Sat rest
- The Nation watch shall keep
e Around your precious worthy tOmbs
- Dear comrades, rest and sleep.
Through all the wars destruction,
4 Who held the flag in trust2
Who carried back Our emblems
e With victory ON their crest2
When thousands of our comrades
OF limb and life were shorn,
Who carried back the banner
d Though tattered, ripped and torn
{, Our loyal, veteran soldiers
"a With hearts so brave apG tTSa
p Returned the sll4. old baBney
Z. With i,a red, its white and blue.
The dean old flag through trials untold
Is still waving untarnished,
One hundred years Old
Mid the tumult and turmoil of political foes
And the volcanic heayes Of civil rights Al
their thrOeB
% Mid the stratagems and schemes Of partis
p" strife
l. And threatenings Of traitors to destroy t
~ Unions life.