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CHANCELLORSVILLE MAY	A
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The sun had set	B
The leaves with dew were wet	B
Down fell a bloody dusk	C
On the woods that second of May	A
Where Stonewall's corps like a beast of prey	A
Tore through with angry tusk	C
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They've trapped us boys	D
Rose from our flank a voice	E
With a rush of steel and smoke	F
On came the rebels straight	G
Eager as love and wild as hate	G
And our line reeled and broke	F
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Broke and fled	H
No one stayed but the dead	H
With curses shrieks and cries	I
Horses and wagons and men	J
Tumbled back through the shuddering glen	J
And above us the fading skies	I
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There's one hope still	K
Those batteries parked on the hill	K
Battery wheel 'mid the roar	L
Pass pieces fix prolonge to fire	M
Retiring Trot In the panic dire	N
A bugle rings Trot and no more	L
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The horses plunged	O
The cannon lurched and lunged	O
To join the hopeless rout	P
But suddenly rode a form	Q
Calmly in front of the human storm	Q
With a stern commanding shout	P
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Align those guns	R
We knew it was Pleasonton's	R
The cannoneers bent to obey	A
And worked with a will at his word	S
And the black guns moved as if they had heard	S
But ah the dread delay	A
	-
To wait is crime	T
O God for ten minutes' time	T
The General looked around	U
There Keenan sat like a stone	V
With his three hundred horse alone	V
Less shaken than the ground	U
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Major your men	J
Are soldiers General Then	J
Charge Major Do your best	W
Hold the enemy back at all cost	X
Till my guns are placed else the army is lost	Y
You die to save the rest	W
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II	-
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By the shrouded gleam of the western skies	R
Brave Keenan looked into Pleasonton's eyes	R
For an instant clear and cool and still	K
Then with a smile he said I will	K
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Cavalry charge Not a man of them shrank	Z
Their sharp full cheer from rank on rank	Z
Rose joyously with a willing breath	A2
Rose like a greeting hail to death	A2
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Then forward they sprang and spurred and clashed	B2
Shouted the officers crimson sash'd	B2
Rode well the men each brave as his fellow	C2
In their faded coats of the blue and yellow	C2
And above in the air with an instinct true	D2
Like a bird of war their pennon flew	D2
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With clank of scabbards and thunder of steeds	R
And blades that shine like sunlit reeds	R
And strong brown faces bravely pale	E2
For fear their proud attempt shall fail	E2
Three hundred Pennsylvanians close	R
On twice ten thousand gallant foes	R
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Line after line the troopers came	F2
To the edge of the wood that was ring'd with flame	F2
Rode in and sabred and shot and fell	G2
Nor came one back his wounds to tell	G2
And full in the midst rose Keenan tall	H2
In the gloom like a martyr awaiting his fall	H2
While the circle stroke of his sabre swung	I2
'Round his head like a halo there luminous hung	I2
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Line after line aye whole platoons	R
Struck dead in their saddles of brave dragoons	R
By the maddened horses were onward borne	J2
And into the vortex flung trampled and torn	J2
As Keenan fought with his men side by side	B2
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So they rode till there were no more to ride	B2
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But over them lying there shattered and mute	B2
What deep echo rolls 'T is a death salute	B2
From the cannon in place for heroes you braved	B2
Your fate not in vain the army was saved	B2
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Over them now year following year	K2
Over their graves the pine cones fall	H2
And the whip poor will chants his spectre call	H2
But they stir not again they raise no cheer	K2
They have ceased But their glory shall never cease	R
Nor their light be quenched in the light of peace	R
The rush of their charge is resounding still	K
That saved the army at Chancellorsville	K

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