"Black rebel...how sad his name is unknown. Confederate Cemetery. Chattanooga, Tennessee."
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He will not be coming home
from war, like those soldier boys
who belonged to the higher class.
He will not be laid to rest in
a fenced and flowery place with
loved ones who shared his name,
-the one he signed with a
young and trembling hand, then
pinned upon his pounding chest.
He will not be coming home
from war, like those soldier boys
who lie in lost and lonely graves.
Page 41, The Thorny Truth and Their Civil War (The Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina)
--Karen Kay Knauss (A gift from Tom at the 9th NC PATCON )
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