Unknown How the Soldiers Talk
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03523.41.101 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: s.l. Type: Poem Date: n.d. Pagination: 1 p. : envelope ; Order a Copy
One undated poem entitled How the Soldiers Talk. The poem was clipped from a newspaper.
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HOW THE SOLDIERS TALK. '
WE have heard the rebel yell,
We have heard the Union shout,
We have weighed the matter very well
And mean to fight it out;
In victory's happy glow,
In the gloom of utter rout,
We have pledged ourselves-"Come weal or woe,
By Heaven! we fight it out."
'Tis now too late to question
What brought the war about;
'Tis a thing of pride and passion
And we mean to fight it out.
Let the "big wigs" use the pen,
Let them caucus, let them spout,
We are half a million weaponed men
And mean to fight it out.
Our dead, our loved, are crying
From many a stormed redoubt,
In the swamps and trenches lying-
"Oh, comrades, fight it out!
'Twas our comfort as we fell
To hear your gathering shout,
Rolling back the rebels' weaker yell-
God-speed you, fight it out!"
The negro-free or slave-
We care no pin about,
But for the flag our fathers gave
We mean to fight it out;
And while that banner brave
One rebel rag shall flout,
With volleying arm and flashing glaive
By Heaven! we fight it out!
Oh, we've heard the rebel yell,
We have heard the Union shout,
We have weighed the matter very well,
And mean to fight it out;
In the flush of perfect triumph,
And the gloom of utter rout,
We have sworn on many a bloody field
"We mean to fight it out!"
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