Crisp-Dooly-Wilcox County GaArchives History .....THE BOYS IN GRAY 1865 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: WYLIE SHEPPARD JR http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00030.html#0007303 May 19, 2011, 6:01 pm WE'RE SOUTHERNERS UNITED IN OUR PLAN TO PROVE TO THE WORLD THAT NO BRAVER MAN E'ER TRUD THE EARTH THAN THE BOY IN GRAY WHO IN 1861 MARCHED AWAY TO DEFEND THE RIGHTS HIS STATE WON WHEN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION WAS DONE IN THE EARLY YEARS OF THE NATION'S BIRTH EACH STATE WAS A SOVEREIGN POWER ON EARTH AND WHEN THESE STATES FORMED A UNION STRONG THE RIGHT WAS RESERVED ,IF AUGHT WENT WRONG TO WITHDRAW FROM THE COMPACT AND GO ON ALONE IF ''EQUAL RIGHTS'' TO EACH STATE WASN'T SHOWN 'TWAS A RIGHT TO EACH STATE WASN'T SHOWN 'TWAS A RIGHT OF YOUR STATE THAT YOU MIGHT SECEDE THIS WASN'T REBELLION , MY FRIENDS TAKE HEED THO' MANY MAY SAY IT , THEY WEREN'T REBELS ,YOU KNOW AND NEVER PERMIT ANYONE TO CALL THEM SO THEY DIDN.T FIGHT FOR SLAVES, AS SOME HAVE TOLD FOR THEY HAD THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO HOLD BUT THE TIME HAS PASSED ,THE DEED IS DONE THE SOUTH O'VERWHELMED ,THE NORTH WON THE SWORD AT APPOMATTOX WAS SHEATHED AWAY NO MORE TO BE DRAWN BY THE BOYS IN GRAY AND THEIR SONS AND DAUGHTERS SIDE BY SIDE SALUTE ''SALUTE OLD GLORY''THE NATION'S PRIDE AND LIFT THEIR VOICES WITH ''LONG MAY IT WAVE O'ER THE LAND OF THE FREE AND HOME OF THE BRAVE'' AND THE DAUGHTERS AND SONS OF CONFEDERATES TRUE HONOR THE BOYS WHO WORE THE BLUE AND THE RIGHTS OF THE SOUTHERNERS-WHAT ARE THEY THE RIGHT TO HONOR THE BOYS IN GRAY, THE RIGHT TO COMFORT IN DISTRESS THE RIGHT THEIR VALOROUS DEEDS TO BLESS AND THE DAUGHTERS AND SONS OF CONFEDERATE TRUE HONOR THE BOYS WHO WORE THE BLUE AND KEEP ALIVE WITH WORKS OF LOVE THE SPLENDID DEEDS HIS VALOUR WROUGHT THE NOBLE RIGHTS FOR WHUICH THEY FOUGHT Additional Comments: A TRIBUTE 1861-1865 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/crisp/history/other/boysingr351ms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.2 Kb