Excerpt from The Reading Club: 50 Selections in Prose and Poetry

Baker's A. B. C. Leaflets.

The Advance.

By Frank H. Gassaway.

When war's wild clamor filled the land,
When Porter swept the sea,
When Grant held Vicksburg by the throat,
And Halleck strove with Lee,
It chanced that Custer's cavaliers,
The flower of all our horse,
Held Hood's brigade at Carroll's Ford,
Where still it strove to cross.

Four days the stubborn skirmish raged,
The lines still closer grew,
And now the rebels gained a point,
And now the boys in blue,
Until at last the Northern swords
Penned in the footmen gray,
And each side girded for the shock
That won or lost the day.

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