Escape from the Confederacy by Benjamin F. Hasson

Author:Benjamin F. Hasson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2015-09-14T16:00:00+00:00

As I approached the block house between the picket post and the bridge I got a glimpse of the starry emblem. It was attached to a staff on the top of the fort, and it appeared to me to embody everything that was beautiful and good. It could have been no more welcome to a luckless mariner afloat on a boundless sea without a compass than it was to me. As the mists lifted it came into view amidst all the splendor of a southern sunrise, and as its spotless colors rolled in merry and playful billows across the sky my heart swelled with joy unspeakable.

Now peace hovers over the land.

"No more are hostile standards reared,

Nor bugle note nor trump is heard—

The war drums cease:

The blue-coats scatter through the land;

The erewhile soldiers, plough in hand,

Of their own hard won fields demand

The earth's increase;

Or ply their skill with sharper zest,

Where shafts nor wheels nor halt nor rest;

O'er North and South and East and West

Broods White-winged Peace."

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