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rodclark
12-28-2014, 10:13 PM
My family has passed down bits & pieces of a Civil War poem often recited by my great great grandfather but never written down. We would dearly love to find more information about it. Any help at all would be most appreciated. Here is what we remember:

A confederate poem about the Battle of First Manassas

Come men of freedom and of glory
Come listen to my battle story
While I narrate a victory true
Like Wellington’s at Waterloo

Come one and all, attention give
Who in this southern country live
While I describe a battle ground
And all the dead upon it found

The most endearing land on earth
She is the land that gave us birth
For which we’ll fight ‘til she is free
Sweet sunny land of liberty

---On Bull Run Creek near Stony Bridge
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And from the canon’s deadly mouth
To subjugate the Sunny South

---And then McDowell gave a shout
“Come on my boys and put to route
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---the rebel hosts you must not fear

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You Yankee hosts be on your guard
For Jackson, Bee and Beauregard

IAmYouth
03-11-2015, 06:02 PM
I think I've read bits and pieces of this is poem in old literature textbooks, but I cannot remember what is called or by whom it was written.

rodclark
03-14-2015, 07:43 PM
Thank you. If you should recall the source I would very much appreciate your reply with the information. I have searched far and wide for this and have so far been unable to find anything more than what I wrote above.

Elise W
03-18-2015, 09:41 AM
Very interesting to learn more about this poem...