The echo has died of the scandalous boast,
"Hurra for the banner that Liberty waves,
"With stars for the Masters and stripes for the Slaves!"
A history of this Liberty War would be very incomplete without sample-sketches of the patient, shrewd efforts of individuals and families of Slaves in getting away from the house of bondage into the lines of the Union Army. Almost starved, hunted by dogs and men, shot at, some of the party killed,—none but the good Lord knoweth the miseries endured by thousands in escaping from the comfortable, patriarchal, Gospel institution of the South!
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G Stands for Gospel. How beautiful are
The feet of the bearer of news from afar,