_And I thought too: this farm is dead to me! I’ll never cross my orchard lot again But I’ll remember how it looked to see My pasture spread, with fallen, silent men! But there is fruit again; the grass is high,— I guess by fall I’ll have my fences set! I’ve got some hay down, lying cut to dry,— And hard work helps a man who must forget!_ _And I keep thinking that it may not be The South has met her end! This may begin A time when men no longer feel so free To say to other men: you live in sin For which there’s need to cure you with a gun! It could be here was born a brotherhood,— That from this waste and ruin we have won A hope for us as yet not understood!_ _I wonder too about this Lincoln man! He must have feelings just as you and I! He must have thought when all this fight began: O God Almighty, now more men must die! He’s uglier than sin, but maybe he Will keep his will above the sound of guns And not turn arrogant in victory, Remembering how the South, too, lost her sons!_ _I wept and prayed while I threw in the dead Like lumps of soil: “O God of all Creation,— Let it not be in vain our sons have bled! In your Son’s name,_ MAKE US AGAIN A NATION!” [2]Copyright by author. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Historical Handbook Series No. 1 Custer Battlefield No. 2 Jamestown, Virginia No. 3 The Lincoln Museum and the House Where Lincoln Died No. 4 Saratoga No. 5 Fort McHenry No. 6 Lee Mansion No. 7 Morristown, a Military Capital of the Revolution No. 8 Hopewell Village No. 9 Gettysburg No. 10 Shiloh No. 11 Statue of Liberty No. 12 Fort Sumter No. 13 Petersburg Battlefields No. 14 Yorktown No. 15 Manassas (Bull Run) No. 16 Fort Raleigh No. 17 Independence No. 18 Fort Pulaski No. 19 Fort Necessity No. 20 Fort Laramie No. 21 Vicksburg No. 22 Kings Mountain [Illustration: _“Johnny Shiloh” or “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh.” John Clem {1851-1937}, 10 years old at Shiloh, later served at Chattanooga and is sometimes called “The Drummer Boy of Chickamauga.”_] Transcriber’s Notes —Silently corrected a few typos. —Retained publication information from the printed edition: this eBook is public-domain in the country of publication. —Included a musical transcription, playable MIDI, printable PDF, and a variant text of the Drummer Boy song. —In song texts, repeated phrases are delimited by |: and :|. —In the text versions only, text in italics is delimited by _underscores_. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Shiloh National Military Park, Tennessee, by Albert Dillahunty