Butler and His Cavalry

IN THE

War of Secession

1861-1865

BY

U. R. BROOKS

COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME

1909

THE STATE COMPANY

Columbia, S. C.

THE JACKET OF GRAY

BY ELLIE BROOKS JONES

Gently and tenderly fold it away,
The tattered and faded jacket of gray;
Bloodstained are the buttons of "C. S. A."

We loved it so! when our hopes were brightest, And their valor made our hearts the lightest, And our Cause the purest and the whitest.

When we count the rosary of our years
For the Heroes who died-ah! saddest tears!
For the Knights in gray-oh! glorious cheers.

Of our dead, we'll sing in a minor song
And the sobbing low notes of woe prolong,
And we'll lay in a grave all thought of wrong.

Their honor untarnished-bright as the day,
Patriots so grand! we'll love them alway,
Oh! gallant Heroes of the C. S. A.

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