The Clopton Chronicles

A Project of the Clopton Family Genealogical Society

 

 

 

THE BATTLE OF RICHMOND

By George Herbert Sass, Charleston, South Carolina[1]

 

 

Now blessed be the Lord of Hosts

 through all our Southern Land,

And blessed be His holy name,

 in whose great might we stand;

For He who loves the voice of prayer

hath heard His people’s cry,

And with His own almighty arm

 hath won the victory;

Oh, tell it out through hearth and home,

from blue Potomac’s wave

To those far waters of the West

which hide De Soto’s grave.

Now let there be through all the land

one grand triumphant cry,

Wherever beats a Southern heart,

or glows a Southern sky;

For He who ruleth every fight

hath been with us today,

And the great God of battles

hath led the glorious fray;

Oh, then unto His holy name

ring out the joyful song,

The race hath not been to the swift,

the battle to the strong.

 

 

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