Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-09-18


T am dreaming, I am dreaming,
And black plume wares on hgh,
So graceful, yet so terrible,
Above flashing eye.
The mountains Quake and tremble;
Sill that warrior takes no heed,
Ills Ashby rides the yale OF DEATH
Upon his milkwhite steed.
And, oh, a song of boyhood
Is floating up the glen,
And happy voice Of bygone years
Is cheering on his men.
With cleaning eye he charges,
And q soul for 4 soldier tate,
IT'S Ramseur. dashing KamseIr,
The pride Of the Old North State
Who comes with visage strong and stern
i Upon his foaming bay?
A stout and hardy tighter,
"Old Blucher'' clears the way,
With sturdy cane OF oak alott
He leads them up the glade
IT'S "Alleghany" Johnson,
With the old "Stonewalp' Brigade.
And wonder, cheering on his braves,
Is Hin, Virginia's pride
The handsome J ohm MagFudcr
Is fghtingat his side
Rold Pegran holds the bridge today
With Garnet at the ford
And I see The gray haired Arnsteao'
With his hat upon his sword
am dreaming. I am dreaming,
And my comrades of the past
Are waiting in the valley
.Fof the buyl's onward blast,
John Pelham Brown and Pegrsm,
VIII Randolph, true and strong,
And the smiling, boyish Latimcr,
A sunbeam in that throng.
7 am dreaming, l am dreaming,
And she stars ard bars on high
Wave o'ef the fiery Ewells front
His to do or die
And lhe sound of distant music
brings Back old home time joys,
,Tistbe son of old Zach" Taylor
With his Louisiana boys.
I an dreaming, am dreaming,
And the flaming dogs OF death
Ate bursting grape and bOmbsheH
Upon the battles crest,
And there beside the lannon's mouth,
All battle.scarred and grave,
Stands Hood, the lion-hearLed,
The bravest Of the brave,
Charge, bearing, charged
The Mortimer are pressing Pender sore
And Cobb, the gallant Georgian,
Can hold his own no mere.
Sec Pettigrcw amongst them,
No quarter does he beg
And yorder sleeps the sleep Of death
The gallant Marcy Gregg.
Awake, awake, thou dreamerl
The voices of the slain
Come Ger the still. deep water
In nipples bright with fame.
Awake. the spearis broken,
The blade hath turned to rust,
And the warriors red cross banner
2 DroODs DER the warriCr's dust,
The following lines were recite(
. by Mr.. Martin Y. Steuait;
THE IRIsH-YANKEE PRISONER.
by John n Clark, Of Augusta county.
came to Columbia, q stranger from Erin
The clothes on me back were all TAI
e. tered and torn;
Ranouncing the whiskey, pertaries ant
herrin',
Yhat grow in the land where St. Pal
rick was born;
But sadly regretting the whimsical nctio
That put rs to crossing the Atlanti
Ocean
I sigh t'geiurn fra this land o commotioi
70 Erin mayoureen, Erin go braugh.
To shovel and dig in the unbroken prairie,
Where toads and muskaties etarnally bit
And dance t their music when drowsy wear
Has bin me empl' yment by day s. by nlgh
Oh land of shilalahs! so bhthe and so FISK
And dear Irish ladies, me sowl, but miss y
Dear land of pertatics & swate Irish wbiske,
i sigh to revisit ye, Erin go braueh
R,t recent1v changing me humble vocation
To one rather dangerous bnt very gentai
! shOuidsred me gun--ior cotton pia tatlC
That Abraham gave me permission TO sli a
But cuss the plantation that / m lYcr getting
The Dixie boys caught me & here IN sittin
1 Locked upi in n PRISON long to be quitting
- oh! why did Have We, my Erin 60 oraugl
ig for plantation, and nagers and cotton
4 shtraw for ould Abe, ana the houl OF h
shall die in This prison. neglected, forgotto
Me bones, they must blache IN the fro
and the dew;
Perhaps l may lie by the side Of mayer,
Is AS black as bear and as cross as a .igcl
al
FareWe ell to pertatics and Erin go braugh
"5 plaribus unurD," significant motto!
A union.o oceans, union of lands.
A union OfIrish with blacks and mulattos
.Aunion of hearts, q union of hands !.
I know what it means but cant understand
doubt if the president can comprehend
If | were his majesty. thus Tide amend it
Erin so unum, e plutibus braugh
. The following resolutions we
r adopted by the Survivors of Co. /
Having been so repeatedly as
ed why the old soldiers, and Poop
generally Of this county, hold CAP
Lyman in such high esteem,
deem it pertinent at this time
give to the public few Of Il
many reasons. After the battle
> Port Republic, in which our mol
Captain r. II. Bradshaw fell. W
is typical of the man we now spec