Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1889-10-25
BATTLE on MISSION eIpeE.

Tho nutumn's sun tho days hbrldgo,
And 81 adows lenethcn in tho wood,
Whore Lookout Mount and Mission Ridge
Like sontinels together stood,
Grand rising in the Southern air,
Protective in thoir very forms,
EncirclinR Chattanooga fair,
As n 10 shield her from all storms.
That autumn brings storm, nlasl
More fierce than any e'or she know,
For yondcr, through the mountain.pass,
There filcs an army clad In blue.
Her sons, with Bragg, nre on tho heights,
But loi this army intervcnes;
And many heart with terror bllghts
At thought OF the portending scenes.
Ali ominous those armies lay
Ono at the top one at tho feet,
Shall we anticipate the day
When those two waiting armies meof
Anticipatci Nay, all too soonl
Alas too soon for some twas found,
For hearts grew faint with slckning swoon
Where CHASTITY forms bestrowd the ground.
For Sherfuan's army came ono night
And crossed tho slvor stealthly-
There. stationed on the focman's right
He waits the morning quietly.
Next day the booming cannons roared,
All day was heard the battles tread,
And on tho hillside blood was poured,
Till night broods over wounded, dead.
Next morn begins an awful day:
And Shermau's men nrc fighting yet
E'cr noon Joo Hooker came that way
And Lookout Mountain ho besot;
Ho pushed along the northern pass;
He climbed tho tstern ledgcs steep;
Up up ard on until at last
The evening dews began TO weep.
Now twilight shades the earth onshrouds,
And night is creeping on amain-
And seei a storm is IN the clouds
Powders tho lightning, blood the rain.
o night OF carnage night OF blood,
And stalking death relentless swoopst
Fer break of dny Joo Hooker stood
Monarch OF Lookout's lofty peaks.
Morn's duslSy shades but half concealed
Grants men cnsconsed near fortress wood,
While brighter lights above revealed
Brngg's army still defiant stood.
But harki six booming shots resound;
An order comes In every roar;
''Chargc charge, and take tho foeman's
ground +"
And see they wait to hear ro more;
Along the ridge, from end to end,
Bursts ono continuous line OF smoke,
While muskotry and cannon blend
As II Thor's thunders had awolc.
They're climbing up the rocky spurs,
They spring like madmen TO the foe,
While through their midst lead mcteors whir,
And crush and tear them as they go.
How can they hope 10 rench tho top
In such o sweeping, deuth.fraught fret
They do not waver. do not stop;
They fight md climb on, higher, higher
Now nercer, darker, grows the fight;
Where, where, pray, arc those brave monl
The smoke has hidden them from sight
But seel they come In view again.
Far up the cliff two horsemen ride
And beckon on the men behind;
Harker and Sheridan, side by side,
Have thus far up the mountain climbed.
Now they dismount, they climb they creep,
They heed not danger, din or noise
And close behind them. up the steop,
Is Opdycke with his "riger boys
See, see, they climb the mountains brow.
They're shouting, hear them, cheer on cheer,
And Lookout Mountain takes 1t now
And sends the echo far and near.
All valiantly Bragg stood that day
With iallying shout on shout-and then,
Reluctantly he turns away
And follows his rotreating men.
o day of glorious victoryl
or ignominious defeat;
One army shouts triumphantly-
The other fees with hurryng feet.
Mourn mourn for those who fell that day;
Weep, country, weep for those who bled;
For boys in blue, for boys in gray
Lay on the hillside cold md dead.
Hide, hide, o earth those forms SO still;
Deck flowers, deck those mingled graves,
And praise the Lord, o men, that still
The Nations banner DER them waves.
Mrs. Sarah MathewA