Secession Poetry
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Title
Secession Poetry
Description
A War correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette claims that the following effusions were found among the official papers of the Adjutant of one of the Virginia regiments:
Come all you brave Virginia boys
Old lincoln is there president.
A Malgamation is ther theme
Be brave and Bold your Valiant boys
God Made the people Black and white
if honor sease your Soards brave boys
Our wives and sweet hearts
if luckey is our doom Brave Boys
and whn we come safe home Again
August the 14 1861
Come all you brave Virginia boys
With hearts boath stout and true
Come lets go down to the mason lineAnd whip the Northern crue
Old lincoln is there president.
That everybody knows
And he Was elected by the VoteOf men as black as Crows.
A Malgamation is ther theme
And that will never do
Come lets down to the Battle groundAnd Whip the Northern Crue
Be brave and Bold your Valiant boys
and keep your Armors Bright
For sothern Boys Wonts nothing elseBut Just the thing thats Right
God Made the people Black and white
he made the red man to
And for to mix up is not Rightlets Whip the Negro crue
if honor sease your Soards brave boys
And Muskets not a few
Come lets go down to the Battle groundAnd Whip the Northern crue
Fight on Brave Boys without a doutOn til you gain the Field
The god of Battle he is stoutHe will caus our foas to yeald
Our wives and sweet hearts
tell us go and fight Just like A man
And keep the northern negro crueoff a Virginue land
if luckey is our doom Brave Boys
in old Abe lincon hall
On our Independent dayWe will Tak a Sothern Ball
and whn we come safe home Again
Our wives and sweet hearts to
We they will welcom us from Washingtonfor thy have nothing elce to do
August the 14 1861
Creator
Unattributed
Source
1:9, p. 3
Date
9.28.1861
Contributor
Cincinnati Gazette
Collection
Citation
Unattributed, “Secession Poetry,” Periodical Poets, accessed September 8, 2024, https://periodicalpoets.com/items/show/726.
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