April 22, 1863, Dallas Herald
From the Telegraph.
By Captain W. T. G. Weaver.
Brave sons of that chivalrous land of the west,
The first and the boldest in war,
Since the hour you struck for a nation oppressed
By the light of her rising star–
Remember that field where our countrymen fought
The heroes of the Mexican foe;
And how dearly the freedom of Texas was bought
While the blood of her heroes did flow!
Let JACINTO–the ALAMO! be the war cry,
When the Northmen in battle we meet;
Let each Texan, like Travis, the hero, reply,
“We’ll never submit or retreat!”
We’ll swear by the sunniest land of the west–
By our star that is shining above;
By the rivers that flow by the prairies’ green breast,
By the homes and the women we love;
By the shades of our sires; by the blood of the Past,
Besprinkled on Liberty’s tree;
By the cross of the South, we will fight to the last,
And die in the ditch, or be free!
Ay, the blood of McCulloch, of Johnston, and all
The hero-crowned chiefs who have died,
Will teach us to conquer or gloriously fall
Like them in the battle’s red tide!
Camp Nelson, Ark., 1862.