poem · by a contemporary

Idyls of battle and poems of the rebellion

Howard Glyndon (1840–1923), 1864

Named on the page for Battle of Gettysburg.

machine-read Machine-read (OCR) from a scanned book at the Internet Archive: expect misread words and names. The scan itself is at the library.

draft Matched to the battle automatically; not yet reviewed.

Passages that name the battle; the whole collection is at Internet Archive.

1–3 July 1863

Battle of Gettysburg

THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG.
And their mantles of righteousness.
THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG.
nnHE days of June were nearly done ;

THE GRAVES OF GETTYSBURG.
Back through the verdant valley lands,
Fast fled the foe, in frightened bands,
With broken swords and empty hands,
Out of Pennsylvania !
THE GRAVES OF GETTYSBURG.
[National Cemetery at Gettysburg.]

THE RANSOMED BANNER.
THE RANSOMED BANNER.
[Asa W. Blanchard, Sergeant-Major Nineteenth Regiment
Indiana Volunteers, was killed at Gettysburg, Wednesday,
July the 1st, while rescuing the colors of the company,
(which had been left behind when the regiment was ordered
to retreat, four color-bearers having been shot down,) and
which he succeeded in saving.]
times the banner of the free
Had lowered its front at Treason's will,
Four times, victorious, from the dust
It saw our arms triumphant still.

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