Show from the bitda W atchman an I 1 Rf reflector lector 1 THE BATTLE ABOVE THE CLOUDS the day b hid bia ia been one of dense mist an and d rains and much of gen Ho hookers olivrA battle was fought above the clouds which concealed him hoin our view but from which his mu musketry ketry was heard gen meigs to secretary St blazon onton bov duh by the banks of chattanooga watching with a soldiers heed beed in the chilly autumn coining mo ining gallant grant WAS on oil his steed for the foe had climbed above him with the banners of their band and ana the cannon swept the river aiom the hills bills of cumberland like a trumpet rang his orders howard thonia thoma to the bridge 11 one bri briage ade aboia d the Da tibar storm the heights beights of mission ridge on the left the ledges Sli shai ciman man charge and hurl burl the rebels down 1 hooker tala take the steeps of lookout and the slopes before the town I 1 fearless from the nort northeim nor thein bein summits looked the traitors wacie they lay on the gleaming union army as for muster day till the sudden shout of battle thundered led upward its alainie ind and they dropped their idle glasses in a hur lied ailed rush to arms arius then together up the highlands surely S swiftly swept the lines lilies and the dang clang of war above them swelled i with ith loud and louder signs till the loyal peaks of lookout in the tempest seems to abi ob and the stai flig of our country waved in smoke on orchard knob day and night and day returning ceaseless shock and ceaseless change r still the furious mountain co conflict inflict burst and bained binned alon along tile the range while with battles cloud of sulphur mingled densely mist and lain iain till the advancing squid idiens ions iani vanished lanish shed cd fi aiom oin the gareis on the plain fi aiom om the bo its upon the river from the tents upon the shore from the loots goofs of yonder city anxious eyes the clouds edloie but ro lift amid the darl darkness ness shows them father alother bi bl other sons while they the vi viewless enless still struggle agle by the echo of the guns upward I 1 chai chaigr ge for god and country up I 1 alia aha they i ash they i ike be till the faithful meet the faithless in the never clouded sues skies and the battlefield battle field is bloody whore where a dewdrop never falls for a voice of tearless fearless justice to a tearless fearless vengeance calls and the heaven is wild with shouting fiery shot hot and bayonet keen gle gleam am and glance freedoms angels battle in the blue chai chaice ge and volley olley fici fie fiercely cely icely follow and the tumult in the air tells of light in mortal grapple with rebellions strong despair they have conquered I 1 gods on own n legions I 1 well their foes might be diama dismayed cd Stan standing dim in his mountain temple the ter ten ois 01 s or of his aid and the clouds wight might fitly echo awan loud and patting gun when from U upper liblit and glory sank the traitor host bost undone they have conquered I 1 through the region where our bio theis 14 plucked the palm palin rings the noibe in ill which they won it ni with ith the sweetness or of a ps alln ilm and our wounded sick and dying hear it in their crowded wards till they know our cause is heavens and our battle is the lords and our fi famished captive heroes locked in richmonds prison hells list those guns ot of cloudland clo uland ulland booming glad as freedoms coining bolls bells lift their haggard aggard li eyes eyes and panting with their cheeks against tile the bais feel gode god breath of hope and seo see it playing with willi the stripes and stars Tor tones lessa safe in startle as those airy c cheers alvs and that mid 01 etherial war drum fall like doom ii upon p on their c us and that rush of cloud borne armies rolling back the nations shame fi flights them with ith its sound of judgment and its flash of angry flame widows weeping by their flie sides loyal henits despol despondent ident grown smile to hear their Count rys triumph from the gate of heaven blown and the patriot poor shall wonder in their simple hearts to know hilow in the land above tho the thunder their embattled champions go T B |