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The Old First Massachusetts Coast Artillery in War and Peace

9781465558923
122 pages
Library of Alexandria
Overview
THE COAST ARTILLERY When Chaplain Minot J. Savage first listened to the “March of the First,” inspiration fired his soul; the music was repeating a message to him. Was there something in the brazen voice of the horns, a magical harmony of sound with sense; or was it merely the loyal Chaplain’s imagination? At any rate this is what he heard: “We’re brothers of all noble men, Who wear our country’s blue, We brothers find in any race