ELK HORN TAVERN
Come all You Brave Soldiers A Story I will tell, About the battle of Elk Horn, You All remember well.
It was an awful Conflict, It will. Cause your heart to Chill, it was the famous battle.
That Was fought on Elk Horn Hill.
It was the 7th of March, Just after the dawn of day, the drums and fifes were playing, for them to March away.
My feelings Oh my feelings I still remember well, When first the Guns were firing on the fields of Elk Horn Hill.
It was not long After Sunrise, the battle begun, and the fighting never Ended until the Setting of Sun.
The wounded on the fields did my heart with Sorrow till for the Mangled and dying That lay on Elk Horn Hill.
Dying men were calling to their Comrades everywhere, Mothers, brothers, fathers, sisters, I pray God Come near.
I was sitting in the cellar, and Oh my Heart did chill, for many A man was dying on the noted Elk Horn Hill
The wounded men were crying for help from everywhere while others who were dying were offering GOD their prayers
Protect my wife and children if it is thy holy will this was the prayer of dying men who lay on Elk Horn Hill.
It was early the next morning thy called to arms again un-mindful of the wounded un-mindful of the Slain...
The fight raged on and many a man was killed this was the second day, on the famous Elk Horn Hill.
The battle raged on, and the wounded they did cry. Oh take me from this battlefield Oh take me off to die.
And from their mortal wounds, the blood run like Arill, And all this famous battle was fought on Elk Horn Hill
There were men from every nation. lying on that bloody field, There were father son and brother lying mangled with the slain
Many a home made desolate, many a heart to chill, all in the noted battle that was fought on Elk Horn Hill.
Oh now my song is ended about those bloody days. I hope the like by mortal man will neer be seen again
And let us pray to god if it is his holy will to save the souls of those who fell
On the noted Elk Horn Hill.
This poem was composed during time of the famous battle of Elk Horn Hill March 6,7,8, 1862
By the owner and operator of the famous Elk Horn Tavern.
Mrs. Lucindia Cox.
Battler14 March
