The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-03-15
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the nation tremble with their resound
ing yell. Twice they marched onward
with their Lee and twice their ban.
ners, shot-torn and stained, fluttefed
on Maryland's hills, as victory for q
season drew near. and twice they re-
crossed TO Old virginia's shore when
she babe them adieu.
Now. the third time. the gray host
advances and none would stay their
advance. After fifty years and more
the soldiers Of the sixties are to cross
victorious Into the city Of which they
dreamed
Again the wild yell will go up and
the Battle Cross flutter; again will
they march shoulder to shoulder, as
they did those years agone; gray
| Jackets appear in haunts that have
only known the blue. The spirit OF
Lee will lead them and Jackson will
be nigh.
Aye, speed them on their way!
They will pass again near fields they
made famous and will see visions on
visions as their trains reel off the
| miles. Some will go the Valley Route
and some by the sea; some will cross
, at Harpers Ferry and some where
the Long Bridge stood--but they will
all see visions as they go.
To them the years will fade to
nothingness and they will be boys
| of twenty again. For them the Bat
tie Summer" will be one and they
will be standing ON some slippery
slope, lying by Bull Runs stream.
vending their weary way cross Thor
oughfare Gap. or resting in the shad'
| ows OF the beautiful valley where the
| Shenandoah brawls along.
How the memories will come flood
ing back to them! Here Is WinChes-
ter and Harrisburg. Kernstown with
It's blood despatched broom sedge
fields, and stone walls, or Mcdowell,
Sutllngton's Hin and the Bull Pasture
Mountains hard by. Again they will
be struggling in the lists while waits
| ing for Longstreet to come into posi-
ton, or with that grim old War Horse
as he forms on Jackson's right.
The months will slip by like the
shadow OF dream as they live over
again the days of long ago!
There will be thoughts OF the
march on Harper's Ferry or OF the
fight for time at Boonsboro, or
Champions Gap. That eager, strain
ing look that comes into their eyes
then Is because they see that famil-
lar figure In the old red shirt coming.
AT the head of the Light Division"
to their assistance at the bridge
where Burnside is bearing them down
by sheer weight of numbers. And
then they will talk of A. p. Hill; of
how he came and how he fought and
how he made Antietam run, a Grim
| son lido onward to the sea. Septem'
| her will pass to May. Comes May.
comes Charlottesville and see the
glad light OF victory in their eyes,
the proud smile of victors on their
faces, as their war-worn ears hear
Stuart, the plumed chevalier. singing
odd Joe Hooker. won't you come
ous of the wilderness!"
Aye, speed them on their way and
give to each knight jacket of gray.
II the years have brought him golden
coin as well as silver locks, we'll and
good. he can get one himself. If the
shadow OF 65 has fingered near him.
give him one, as did your mothers
when in reality it was following Lee!
Aye. speed them on their way
They will live over the days long
filed as they march thirty thousand
strong to cross the Potomac once
again. They will meet the comrades
whose hands they have not shaken
for nigh sixty years. They will form
on Pennsylvania avenue and march,
victorious. up the nations principal
way. There will be the mon who fol-
lowed Lee and jackson and Stuart,
| Gordon. Longstfeet and che Hills