Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-05-25
HOUSTON. TEX.. Nay a.

.tHA
ous Houston has enjoyed their
.ence and they seem to have en-
ptssS the inequalities Houston tried to
lyA II has been mighty gather
enna never to be forgotten by those
my we're here. 1t has been the last
VIZ. Oy will ever attend. But II this
.nharght came over the minds of the
VA soldiers 1t did not cause them 10
o ~ themselves less. 1t has been the
e enyOy assemblage Texas ever knew
pss on. the city OF Houston will al
,rays remember.
"Iihont the only business done today
the selection Of Richmond for the
We, meeting, after q spirited contest,
"a the election of General John B.
eoraon as commander-in-chief without
ornosition. A chorus of farewells and
ssndshakings then began.
The division Of Texas elected II. II.
r,ora of Nayasota comma lder-in-chlef,
c.naral Ross declining a reelection.
oo,r,nanders OF subdivisions of Texas
.-n aIented as follows Northwest
MES General N. w. Cobb; North
,s,srn Texas, General w. n. Bush;
sa,thwest Texas. General b. NJ. Poor;
southeastern Texas, General w. q.
Blain. .,.. ~.
r. Hamberln Of Austin, was read by
ana =
greeted with the applause 1t deserves
M frequent rebel yells:
THE FIFER ON THE Pc.
And Grant had said he would hammer
away
ril No wore out the men who wore the
gray.
And he massed his powers for the grue-
some task; =,
said he. MEN and time are all l ask.
and the springtime shuddered with
As Joye-lile. he hurled his bolts of
doom.
Ru, ah. the hungry men in gray,
me ragged men who blocked his way,
The men who feared no battle-blast
Hurled back his thunder fierce and fast,
And hungrily laughed as they shouted
rs hard to hammer out Robert Il.
Leew
The wilderness thickets were blasted
again;
The Po ran thick with the blood of
men;
And Jericho Ford on the River Ann
Was q mark for the bolt OF the blue
coated man;
Cold Harbor shivers with horror yet
At the slaughter OF armies there that
met.
But like the rebound of the wrecking
sea,
The shocks of Grant fell back from
Lee;
Fell back like a broken, beaten wave,
Back from the rock to its own bitter
grave;
And the bOlt-hurler found, to his great
dismay,
II was hard to hammer out men in
gray.
One morning, the twelfth of May, be-
fore
The dawn had peeped the hilltops Ger
AS the misting rain In the dark fell
down
And wet the unsheltered faces brown
OF Southern soldiers that YEARLY slept
In Johnsons trenches, the blue-coats
orept-
Like a beast of prey. afraid of the
And stealthny butchered the men in
Ran them through with the bayonet-
steel.
dubbed them, while sleeping, unarmed,
ere peal
From warming rifle could rouse the
foe,
Who, reused, had driven them back
DER the Po.
The salient stood In the enemy's power,
tre scarce a gun had alarmed the hour;
And thousands of men, in d,.mb sur
prise,
Stood prisoners there at the first dawn
rise;
And 1t seemed indeed, at last, at last,
That the shaft OF blue through our
mail had passed.
But 10. from the rear fash of,gray.
LAKE the leaping dawn, to the front
made way
Ay, swift as a comet of hopeful light,
Old Traveller bore his master right
Seiore the eyes of the venturesome foe
VINO stood victorious there by the Po!
And the rider in gray, three stars at
his throat,
Ilung back the mantle of his coat,
raced The hating men In gray,
tonted his hand the enemy's way,
ana thus, with his eyes and face
nhame.
beekoned his veterans on to fame.
Did they falter2-yesl Did they fail
VAN a shout that startled the slumber-
tHey erected their leader Robert e.
Lee;
Then said, GO back to the rearl and
now fast wen stand by the flag whose
A0ld thirteen dear old Southern starsl''
sos moment a moment, they silent
ana IN 1t; clear from the edge of the
wood
single tlfer's trill broke out
.--"DiNieN'-then the rout
20 ~ Gsnahged to charged and Lee, In
saw his, MS veterans forge to the front
u sha all day long the demon war
NJ over that field a hlood-red star,
m, phee on the field a flag Of white,
.he bearer was shot and on went
w quarter aS was given, no mercy was
IN mai hloodiest battle that ever was
In nasy say that tho fifer lived to blow
Nt,S strain Of Dixie there by the
rae Tlsn an epvious ball cut short the tril
s ff31qlnded Of home while all was
= T Iss would doubt that. as well al
A' thrilled those men to viotoryG
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