Following the American Civil War Sesquicentennial with day by day writings of the time, currently 1863.

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Robert M. Magill—Personal Reminiscences of a Confederate Soldier Boy.

December 28, 2014

Robert M. Magill—Personal Reminiscences of a Confederate Soldier Boy, 39th Georgia Regiment of Infantry

Wednesday, 28th.—Passed through Tuscumbia. The next few days we were marching on, passing through Cherokee station, Barton’s station, Price and Vandorn’s fortifications, Iuka battleground, and on to Burnsville, Miss. Very cold; and so ended 1864.

 

Alas, how many since thou begun,

Have finished all, their races run;

Their bodies lie beneath the sod,

Their spirits gone to meet their God;

Many doomed to eternal woe,

To mourn their loss in flames below;

 

 But many, Oh, how blest they.be,

 Will sing praise through eternity.

 O God of heaven, our truest Friend,

 Make us to Thee in suppliance bend,

 That we in heaven, in joyful lays,

 May sing our Great Redeemer’s praise.

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