The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1892-08-18
THE JACKET OF GRAY.


Through glorious, victorious day
1t covered the heart-ever generous to foe,
Ever loyal to friend.
Ever hoping, bravely battling for right,
! Bravely battled on to the end.
No Flemish, no STAIN save the dust on the
Sleeve mingling with the brave soldiers
tear,
AS he wept DER home and his babes, his
Loved wife, for him kneelng in prayer.
Touch tenderly the Jacket of Gray
Aye, touch it with gentle, loving hand
Its war worn wearer now rests,
Soldier Of Peace in the Better Land.
Sacred is every wrinkle and seam;
I They speak to the present, they tell of the
past
How, UNDER the Jacket of Gray, fierce
heart
Battles were fought, hope struggling on to
the last.
Through darkness and gloom, hope illum-
ined
The way; her voice ever led
Death whispered, Hope, in the ear of the
dying, leaving its smile on the face of theaa
dead.
Ask not if private or officer if the wearer
Be known to honor and fame.
1t matters not, he wore the Gray Jacket
Honor enough, though unknown his name
Ask not if worn by brave soldier boy, or
| Graced it the form of officer gay
| II pnt founhf
bed,
Each died in coat or Jacket of Gray:
Though time>worn, soiled, tattered and
| torn
This Jacket en- fallen to decay,
Let US treasure its fragments as gold,
For they once formed the Jacket of Gray.
With moistened eye, with tremulous voice,
ever
In Loves gentle whisper we'll say;
Well treasure it, ever tenderly, lovingly,
Well foldit away.
7 Honored Garbls Worn in saGdest
: Hour of defeat, through glorious victorious
day,
Well ever hold you in reverence,
Oacreu HcHeHto Loved jacket OF Gray.
E. C. DUNwoDY,
; Roswell July 2S, '92, To Farmer Beach.
e REPLY OF THE JACKET OF BLUE TO THE
: JACKET OF GRAY.
/ Dear old Jacket of Gray, not fibre Or
thread
Once worn by the hero whose spirit has
Which covered his heart--always faithful
ana true,
But is loved and revered BY the Jacket of
Blue
Though tattered and torn by the shot and
the shell,
Immortality crowns its wearer who fell
In the cause which was lost-to which he
proved true
When the Jacket Of Gray met the Jacket
OF Blue.
Then lovingly look on your Jacket with
pride
Let me hang this jacket of Blue by its
side:
That bayonet thrust, piercing it through
and through,
The Jacket of Gray gave the Jacket of
Blue.
There were loved ones who waited and
watched ix vain,
For the Jacket of Blue to return again.
A fond mother knelt for her boy to pray,
! AS the wife prayed for him meath the
Jacket of Gray.
1t was Faith that uplifted each tear dimmed
eye,
While Hope sang sweetly of peace by
and by"
, But when the smoke lifted and war rolled
away,
Side by side lay the Jackets OF Blue and of
Gray.
The hearts which had clung to their ideal
Right,
And had beaten so bfavely through all the
fierce fight,
We're stilled, but the spirits-both loving
aud true
Marched on, now together, the Gray with
the Blue.
No more in fierce conflict, with uplifted
hand
J Brother warning gainst brother through all
our fairland,
But meath Loves white banner, where
Peace leads the way,
Side by side, hand in hand, march the Blue
and the Gray.
Then lovingly, tenderly cherish each
sacred thread
: OF Gray jacket and Blue,-Life's blood
stained them red.
: Blu: may Christ's blood wash white, and
Z Christs love make true
5 The hearts Of the wearers-Gray Jackets
and Blue.
In that Kingdom above, where are no fall
: ing tears
Where time is unmeasurej by days, moths