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Letter From Confederate Women to the Soldiers 18?

saviours of your country, and the pride and glory of your coun-

trywomen. We beg to keep near your hearts our memorials of

affection 'and respect, and to remember them especially in bat-
tle, and we invoke for you always the protection of a kind and

merciful Providence."

ORIGINAL VERSION OF DIXIE.

Following are the original words of Dixie:
I wish I was in de land ob cotton,
Cinnamon seed and sandy bottom
Look away, look away, away.
Dixie land.
In Dixie land where I was born, in
Early on one frosty mornin,'
Look away, look away, away.

CHORUS.

Den I wish I was in Dixie,
Hooray ! Hooray

In Dixie land I'll take my stand,

To lib an' die in Dixie,
Away, away, away down south in Dixie.

Old Missus marry Will de Weaber,
William was a gay deceiber;-

When he put his arms around 'er,
He looked as fierce as a forty-pounder

Chorus : Hooray ! Hooray ! etc.

His face was sharp like a butcher's cleaber,

But dat did not seem to greab 'er

Will run away, Missus took a de cline, !
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Her face was de color ob bacon shine,

Chorus : Hooray ! Hooray ! etc.