"Clear the way, boys, clear the way" said Meagher astride his steed.
The fighting sixty- ninth stepped forth, they were not afraid to bleed.
Upon St Marye's heights Cobb's Georgians waited, behind a low stone wall.
The lads attacked that stout defense - how senseless was it all.
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So sad. I love the poem. I was never a Civil War buff until my son and his family moved to a spot not very far from Harper's Ferry, West Virginia. Since then we have been to the Gettysburg and Antietam battlefields many times and I love anything to do with the Civil War. Please read my poem 'River Ran Red', which is about the battle of Antietam. Thank you.