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The Confederate Soldier's Wife
Parting From Her Husband!:
Electronic Edition.
Funding from the Institute of
Museum and Library
Services
supported the electronic publication of this
title.
Text scanned (OCR) by
Laura Button
Image scanned by
Christie Mawhinney
Text encoded by
Patricia L. Walker and Natalia Smith
First edition, 1999
ca. 10K
Academic Affairs Library, UNC-CH
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
1999.
Call number 3165 Conf. (Rare Book Collection, UNC-CH)
The electronic edition is a part of the UNC-CH
digitization project, Documenting the American
South.
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Library of Congress Subject Headings, 21st edition, 1998
LC Subject Headings:
- American poetry -- Southern States.
- American poetry -- 19th century.
- Confederate States of America -- Poetry.
- Southern States -- Poetry.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Poetry.
- 1999-07-20,
Celine Noel and Wanda Gunther
revised TEIHeader and created catalog record for the electronic edition.
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1999-06-15,
Natalia Smith, project manager,
finished TEI-conformant encoding and final proofing.
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1999-06-03,
Patricia L. Walker
finished TEI/SGML encoding
- 1999-05-26,
Laura Button
finished scanning (OCR) and proofing.
THE
Confederate Soldier's Wife
PARTING FROM HER HUSBAND!
Here is thy trusty blade!
Take it, and wield it in a glorious cause;
Defend our firesides, battle for the laws
Which our forefathers made;
And stay, that on thy breast my hand
May place the blue cockade!
Go forth to conquer; where
The battle rages fiercest thou wilt be,
And I will glory that my Love is there
Struggling for Liberty.
Haste to the battle field!
Thy country calls thee to the deadly fight--
Go forth undaunted in thy manhood's might,
Thy noble cause thy shield;
And if thou fallest--hush, heart, thine agony--
God will defend the right!
Where the Palmetto waves
O'er manly hearts that struggle to be free,
That bid defiance bold to Tyranny;
Where hospitable graves
Are widely yawning for the reckless foe,
My lip can bid thee, best beloved, go!
What if thou fallest? my heart will throb to know
He died, O South, for thee!