H. L. Flash

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“Stonewall” Jackson

H. L. Flash
Not ‘midst the lightning of the stormy fight

Not in the rush upon the vandal foe,
Did kingly death, with his resistless might,

Jackson

H. L. Flash
Not midst the lightning of the stormy fight,

Nor in the rush upon the vandal foe,
Did kingly death, with his resistless might,

The Legion of Honor

H.L. Flash
Why are we forever speaking

Of the warriors of old?
Men are fighting all around us,

Zollicoffer

H. L. Flash
First in the fight, and first in the arms

Of the white-winged angels of glory,
With the heart of the South at the feet of God,

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