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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: War photography
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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e PortRoyal Islands to build fortifications at Hilton Head and BayPoint. No more peck o corn for me, No more, no more;No more peck o corn for me, Many tousand go. No more drivers lash for me, No more, no more;No more drivers lash for me, Many tousand go. PRAY ON This curious spiritual is one of those arising directly from theevents of the war. When the news of approaching freedomreached the sea island rice plantations of the Port Royal Islandsthis chant was sung with great fervor by the negroes. The verseswere annota ted by Charles Pickard Ware. Pray on—pray on; Pray on, den light us over; Pray on—pray on, De Union break of day. My sister, you come to see baptize In de LTnion break of day, In de Union break of day. MEET, O LORD Meet, O Lord, on de milk-white horseAn de nineteen vial in his han.Drop on—drop on de crown on my head,And roily in my Jesus arm; In dat mornin all day, In dat mornin all day, In dat mornin all day,When Jesus de Christ been born. 352 SONGS OF THE WAR DAYS
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COPYRIGHT, 1911, REVIEW OF HEVlEWb CO. MEET, O LORD HILTON HEAD IN 1801—THE TIME AND PLACE OF THIS NEGRO SONGS CREATION This photograph appears here by a curious coincidence. With the presentation of the spiritual thatcommemorates an event of the war connected with the Confederate General Drayton, there has come tolight a photograph of his home on Hilton Head in 1861. Through these gates, watched by loving eyes, herode on the milk-white horse, the morning of the engagement at Bay Point. Mr. W. F. Allen, whocollected many slave-songs, was told that, When de gun shoot at Bay Pint, General Drayton left aNegro boy holding his white war horse. He never returned to claim his steed and in some way the in-cident was commemorated in this spiritual, which is still sung on the plantations of Hilton Head Island.Observe the Negro mammies on the porch and at the gate, also the luxuriance of foliage framingthe Southern house in a bower of greenery. Members of the Third New Hampshire regiment face

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