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Author: | Blake [ Tue Apr 09, 2013 9:56 pm ] |
Post subject: | Appomattox |
148 Years Ago Today.... You know of all the scenes of the war the armies that met that day must have been surreal to see. After years of bloody Civil War for everyone to just "make up" as gentlemanly as most did is really quite remarkable. You can say what you want about the way the war started or about how it was fought but Lee knew when it was over and then ended it the right way. |
Author: | S. Haas [ Wed Jun 05, 2013 2:28 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Appomattox |
This is rather late, but I am new here...thought you might enjoy the ONLY poem that I know, written about Appomattox by a soldier who was there to witness it...the immortal William Harrison Merrit, Co. B, 124th New York Volunteers, the Bard of Pony Hill It's beyond the power of tongue or pen To describe that scene with those brave men With flags and banners waving high Ten thousand caps flung in the sky With joyful shouts and bugle note As if to split each swelling throat And tears of joy filed many an eye While the welkin rang with the deafening cry No shout for victory in the fight But one wild yell of pure delight That host became without alloy One seething mass of human joy Joy for our Union strong and great; Joy we had saved our ship of state Joy for the bloody war was past Joy for our home and friends at last And say, our hearts were thankful too That we had lived to see it through Take history if you will and scan its pages since the birth of man It gives but just the slightest gleam Of only one such joyful scene. On the red sea's banks where Moses stood And stretched his rod out o'er the flood; Then through the path Jehovah gave to freedom led the Hebrew slave. They safely reached the other side While their foes were drowned in the returning tide; Three million captives here set free held joyful dance and jubilee Our victory too, like theirs, had gave Freedom to full four million slaves. Grant was our Moses, tried and true Who led the victorious armies through These scenes of blood and dire distress, Where thousands fell in the wilderness Those gory fields were our red sea, Appomattox proved our Galilee Our Union which at Sumter slain At Appomattox rose again. William H. (Billy) Merritt Co. B, 124th NYSV Veteran of Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Wilderness, Cold Harbor, Petersburg and Appomattox. |
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