<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=427850" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Brave Volunteer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">At the time of the rebellion<br>Between the north and south,<br>Many a noble volunteer<br>Kent county did send out.<br>Among them was Chyler Davis,<br>He hailed from Oakfield town,<br>He enlisted in the service,<br>His native land to shield.<br>This brave and noble volunteer,<br>He left his home and friends,<br>For he dearly loved his country,<br>He went from Michigan.<br>Not thinking when he went down south,<br>The Federal ranks to fill,<br>That he would lay in prisons,<br>Belle Isle to Andersonville.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In prison cells lamenting,<br>For seventeen months he lay,<br>Thinking of the dear ones<br>At home so far away.<br>He lay in prison suffering,<br>No friend to hear him moan,<br>A living, walking skeleton,<br>He was when he came home.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He was discharged in Kansas,<br>The place called Fort Leavenworth,<br>And he did return to Oakfield,<br>The place he first went forth.<br>How joyful were his parents<br>When they saw their then lost one;<br>The God of heaven was merciful<br>To let return their son.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Julia+A+Moore">Julia A Moore</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=427850" data-title="The Brave Volunteer de Julia A Moore" data-description="At the time of the rebellion Between the north and south, Many a noble volunteer Kent county did send out. Among them was Chyler Davis, He hailed from Oakfield town, He enlisted in the service, His native land to shield. This brave and noble volun..."></div> </div> </div>

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