[00:09]Come all you loyal unionists, wherever you may be,
[00:15]I hope you'll pay attention and listen unto me;
[00:21]For well you know the blood and woe, the misery, the toil
[00:28]It took to down secession on Virginia's bloody soil.
[00:36]When our good old flag, the Stars and Stripes, from Sumter's walls was hurled,
[00:43]And high o'erhead on the forwardest walls the Rebels their flag unfurled,
[00:50]It aroused each loyal northern man and caused his blood to boil
[00:57]For to see that flag—Secession's rag—float o'er Virginia's soil.
[01:15]Then from the hills and mountain tops there came that wild alarm;
[01:25]Rise up! ye gallant sons of North, our country calls to arms.
[01:32]Come from the plains o'er hill and dale, ye hardy sons of toil,
[01:40]For our flag is trampled in the dust on Virginia's bloody soil.
[01:50]And thousands left their native homes, some never to return,
[02:00]And many's the wife and family dear were left behind to mourn.
[02:09]There was one who went among them who from danger would ne'er recoil;
[02:17]Now his bones lie bleaching on the fields of Virginia's bloody soil.
[02:37]In the great fight of the Wilderness, where many's the brave man fell,
[02:45]This captain led his comrades on through Rebel shot and shell,
[02:52]The wounded 'round they strewed the ground; the dead lay heaped in piled,
[03:00]The comrades weltered in their blood on Virginia's bloody soil.
[03:08]The Rebels fought like fury,just like tigers drove to bay.
[03:15]They knew full well, if the truth they'd tell, they could not win the day.
[03:20]It was hand to hand they fought 'em. The struggle was fierce and wild,
[03:28]Till a bullet pierced our captain's brain, on Virginia's bloody soil.
[03:43]And now our hero's sleeping with thousands of the brave.
[03:53]No marble slab does mark the place that shows where he was laid.
[04:01]He died to save our Union; he's free of care and toil.
[04:11]Thank God,The Stars and Stripes still wave above Virginia's soil.