]> <emph>The Confederate Soldier's Wife Parting From Her Husband:</emph> 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.

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 Call number 3165 Conf. (Rare Book Collection, UNC-CH) The Confederate Soldier's Wife Parting From Her Husband S. l. s. n. 1861

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 Library of Congress Subject Headings, 21st edition, 1998 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. 1999-06-15, Natalia Smith, project manager, finished TEI-conformant encoding and final proofing. 1999-06-03, Patricia L. Walker finished TEI/SGML encoding 1999-05-26, Laura Button finished scanning (OCR) and proofing.

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 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!

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