'Niggers won't fight' ah ha! <br />'Niggers won't fight' ah ha! <br />'They are no good for war, <br />One in a hundred.' <br />Let Mississippi's shore, <br />Flooded with negro gore, <br />Echo back evermore: <br />See our six hundred. <br /> <br />Firm as the granite rock, <br />Full to the cannon's shock, <br />With a faith none dare mock, <br />Earth's ties all sundered; <br />Every man firm in his place <br />Staring death in the face, <br />Battling for home and race <br />Marched our six hundred. <br /> <br />Crash falls the iron hail, <br />Making the stoutest pale, <br />All but the bravest fail, <br />Old veterans wondred. <br />Fighting with purpose high, <br />Fighting until they die, <br />Bravely for liberty, <br />Fell that six hundred. <br /> <br />Villians that shun the light, <br />Traitors who hate the right, <br />Cowards who dare not fight, <br />Own that ye blundered. <br />Spurning the name of slave, <br />Bravest amid the brave, <br />Each fills a soldier's grave, <br />Noble six hundred.<br /><br />Anonymous Americas<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-charge-at-port-hudson/
