The Maine bugle ... campaign; 1-5 Jan. 1894-Oct. 1898 - Maine.gov

A MAN FROM MAINE. 29
Let proud Virginia boast her knights
Obedient to her bugle blast;
An overmatch in raids and tights
She found the Yankee blades at last.
Confederates gained their dark renown
In planning their l)arbaric power;
They drew, from heaven, the lightning down
That left them neither wall nor tower
All southern soil is richer now
That slain is demon slavery,
And broad upon our Union's l)row
Sharp swords imprinted Liberty.
Thus we review our battle-day.
And once more rally round our P'lag
That holds triumphant, peaceful sway
P'rom ocean-wave to mountain-crag.
That August day! how well we know;
Deep in our thoughts, it cannot die;
On History's page it long shall glow
In proof of quenchless bravery.
No more we hear the bugles bray
Adown the vale to call the tight;
.\11 fields, for harvests, bloom to-day
And joyful drink the summer light.
A Man from Maine.
A TRUE HISTORY OF THE ARMY .VF FORT FISHER.
FY COLONEL HENRY C. LOCKWOOD.
With the ex'ception of the naval engagement between the
" Monitor" and the "Merrimac" and the sea-fight between the
" Kearsarge " and the " Alabama," there was no event of the
Civil VV^ar, in which the navy bore part, so brilliant in action
and so significant in result as the capture of Fort Fisher, for it
shut off the Confederacy from Europe, and in this way did
much in causing the surrender of the Southern armies.
This strangely isolated battle, in which a combined army and
navy force attacked an immense work defended by its garrison
alone, has many features that are scarcely known in the annals