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Title: Sponsor souvenir album : history & reunion (1895)
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: United Confederate Veterans
Subjects: United Confederate Veterans -- Anniversaries, etc United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Anniversaries, etc.
Publisher: (Columbus, Ohio : Terry Engraving Co., 1895.)
Contributing Library: Houston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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ight in the jacket of gray. But her country had called, and she would not repine,Though costly the sacrifice placed on its shrine;Her hearts dearest hopes on its altar she lay,When she sent out her boy in the jacket of gray. Months passed and wars thunder rolled over the land.Unsheathed was the sword, and lighted the brand;We heard in the distance the sounds of the fray,And prayed for our boy in the jacket of gray. Ah! vain, all, all vain were our prayers and our tears,The glad shout of victory rang in our ears;But our treasured one on the red battlefield lay,While the life-blood oozed out on the jacket of gray. His young comrades found him, and tenderly bore,The cold, lifeless form to his home by the shore;Oh! dark were our hearts on that terrible day,When we saw our dead boy in the jacket of gray. Ah! spotted and tattered, and stained now with gore,Was the garment which once he so proudly wore;We bitterly wept as we took it awayAnd replaced with deaths white robe the jacket of gray.
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The Jacket of Gray 200 SPONSOR SOUVENIR ALBUM. We laid him to rest in his cold, narrow bed,And graved on the marble we placed oer his head,As the proudest tribute our sad hearts could pay,He never disgraced the jacket of gray. Then fold it up carefully, lay it aside,Tenderly touch it. look on it with pride;For dear must it be to our hearts evermore,The jacket of gray our loved soldier boy wore! THE VIRGINIANS OF THE VALLEY. By Frank O. Tichnor. The kindliest of the kindly band, Who, rarely hating ease,Yet rode with Spottswood round the land And Raleigh round the seas;Who climbed the blue Virginian hills Against embattled foes,And planted there, in valleys fair, The lily and the rose;Whose fragrance lives in many lands, Whose beauty stars the earth,And lights the hearths of happy homes With loveliness and worth. We thought they slept, the sons who kept The names of noble sires,And slumbered while the darkness crept Around their vigil-fires.But, aye, the Golden Horse-shoe,, knights Thei

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