Ef any o' them Spanish ships shall strike her, East or West, Jest let the ban' play "Dixie," an' the boys'll do the rest! I want to see that Dixie,-I want ter take my stan' On the deck of her and holler: "Three cheers fer Dixie lan'!" She means we're all united,-the war hurts healed away, An' "'Way Down South in Dixie " is national to-day! I bet you she's a good 'un! I'll stake my last red cent Thar ain't no better timber in the whole blame settle ment! An' all their shiny battleships beside that ship air tame, Fer, when it comes to "Dixie," thar's somethin' in a name! Here's three cheers an' a tiger,-as hearty as kin be; An' let the ban' play "Dixie" when the Dixie puts ter sea! She'll make her way an' win the day from shinin' East to West Jest let the ban' play "Dixie," an' the boys'll do the rest. CHICKAMAUGA BY G. T. FERRIS 1863 From shuddering trees and painted leaves Whose roll-call speeds its fierce alarms; 1898 From laughing leas the bugles sing, More shrill than bird to nesting mate; O'er tented slopes the war notes ring, Our bannered blazon flaunts the sky, CHICKAMAUGA-1898 From Baltimore News They are camped on Chickamauga ! Of the ghostly troops to-day, Where the pines of Georgia tower, Sentries, pause, yon shadow challenge! Yonder pass the shades of heroes, Field of fame, a patriot army They are camped off Chickamauga, Where a Nation's heart once bled; ALL UNDER THE SAME BANNER NOW BY LAWRENCE SULLIVAN ROSS From Address Delivered July 4, 1887, at Austin, Tex., Before the Surviving Veterans of Hood's Texas Brigade But few of you are here to-day. The great majority of your old comrades fill unknown graves, with naught to mark their silent resting-places; but their names are embalmed in as many loving hearts as ever entwined around living, or lingered around the graves of deceased, patriots. And to-day, as our memory recalls face after face of this vast spectral army, of those who have preceded us in the line of march to the silent shores, we shed the tear of affectionate remembrance, as echo gives praises to their memory and honor to their dust. Throughout the broad area of the world there never was a field more rich in facts which constitute the fiber of an earnest, active patriotism, than that found in the Southern struggle. And the lofty admiration in which your manhood, valor, and endurance, as well as the sublime resignation with which you accepted disappointment after great hopes and greater efforts, are held all over the world, shows how much the world yet values true and brave men, who could shake off troubles as great as these were, and by heroic efforts, in a time of peace, make them, to an impoverished country, but as flaxen withes bound around a slumbering giant. What wonder the world has stood amazed at the persistent vitality of our people? for, under your admirable conduct, every barrier to the flow of capital, or check to the development of our unbounded resources, was removed. We see here to-day a free and independent mingling of men from every section of our broad domain, all prejudices of the past forgotten; and while our State has been fortunate in acquiring thousands of those who fought against us, and who are an honor both to the States which gave them birth, and ours which they have made their home, it matters not whence they come; they can exult in the reflection that our Country is the same, and they find floating here the same ban |