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Title: Cedar creek: a poem
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Polhamus, William Henry Harrison
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Publisher: Cleveland, O., The Imperial press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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The ground was all furrowed with shotAnd garnished with wounded and dead. md with shel But they might as well think of forcing their wayUp Gibraltars rock front, with her guns at full play,As hope to break through the old sixth corps that day.Our left being broken, this corps had to form With one wing swung back like a gateFrom where it was located, early that morn.To a low wooded ridge near a large field of corn.Where grimly it waited the on-coming storm. And met it as stubborn as fate. The smoke becomes stifling, the battle more loud.Like the roar of Niagara, stately and proud,Or the foot-fall of God on the ledge of a cloud.Our left fight like demons, but somehow they learnThat Sheridan is not on the field.Their ranks are all broken, their lines have been turned,Their bravest resistance the proud foemen spurned ;And on through their scattered bands fiercely it burned,Compelling great numbers to yield. 22
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But way down the pike, leading off to our rear,A swift riding horseman is seen to appear.While waves of commotion are filling the air.His steed seemed to know what the union troops lacked.And what he was commissioned to do.For with nostrils distended and ears lying back,His neck well stretched out and his rein hanging slack.With rider poised low on that sinewy back,Like a strong well shot arrow he flew. He charged to the front, then his rider drew rein,Midst storms of applause, which again and againRent the air, as they shouted Sheridans name.He paused just a bit, ere he dashed down theline.To tighten his hot chargers girth ;And with an assurance thats simply sublime.He turned to those standing near by on the line.And swore that hed show them in four hourstimeThe worst beaten army on earth.24

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