Raynors HCA 2014-11
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/6/2014
Civil War dated, Manuscript Poem is written in pencil and signed, "Col. T. Worthington - February, 1864" entitled, "Tis but one hundred thousand men", 2-1/2pp. quarto, and is headed at the upper right corner, "Inscribed to President Lincoln". This remarkable and historic original Poem reads, in part: "Inscribed to President Lincoln -- Tis but one hundred thousand men. 'If we can't kill you in battle ----- we can starve you Chivalric rebel to death.'/From Madawaska's icy shore - To Rio Bravo's burning sands, - From wild and wide Atlantic's roar - To mild Pacific's golden strand, - Up, up ye friends of freedom all, - To drive the vipers from the den - Where pine your friends in famined thrall ! - Tis but one hundred thousand men ! / From where the Everglades spread wide - To Minnesota's farthest wild, - From far Superior's icy tide - To Pensacola's zephyrs mild, - Grasp, freemen, grasp your brands of wrath - And march, march fiercely forward them - To snatch your braves from lingering death! - 'Tis but one hundred thousand men !...Unsatisfied where fields of blood - Their crimson harvests daily bear, - These traitor-friends of demon mood - Deem not of honorable war. - 'If ye are not in battle slain - With famine ye'll be murdered' - then - Forward ! they shall be free again, - Though t'were ten hundred thousand men ! /Call out the states of '87, - The first five free from slavery's stain - To these the glorious boon be give - To snatch our braves from treason's chain. - Ohio far Wisconsin greets; - Calls Illinois to Michigan - And Indiana bravely meets - The call ten myriads of men." Very good condition. Colonel Thomas Worthington of the 46th Ohio Infantry, was commissioned on October 1861 and was later Court-martialed and cashiered from the Union Army as the result of a bitter dispute with General Sherman over Sherman's alleged errors at the Battle of Shiloh. More than a poem, this is a significant, historical document. It expresses the personal feelings of the author, and links him directly to his well documented Civil War service. He has a book written about him entitled, "Tom Worthington's Civil War: Shiloh, Sherman, and the Search for Vindication" by James D. Brewer.
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