The battle of Pickett's Mill By aldo kraas, www.PoetryPoem.com/poet11586 Unlock all Features - Upgrade to Poetry Prime
One day in Paulding County Georgia, on the twenty seventh of May eighteen sixty four,
a platoon sent from the Union, arrived at Pickett's Mill's front door.
Major General Sherman had orders, under the Georgian sun,
to take position on the right flank and kill General Johnston.
He crossed the Etowa river, and moved towards Atlanta from the banks,
he had to hurry up his troops, uncertainty grew in their ranks.
General Johnstons forces defending the railroad at Marietta,
they heard about this invasion and they all wrote home a letter.
With eighty five thousand men, and twenty days worth of supplies,
the Union getting closer but were in the Confederate eyes.
they split in two Sherman and Howard, they thought they knew so much,
one went to Pickett's Mill, the other to New Hope Church.
They marched across Chattahoochee, things were looking good,
and cannons blazed across the land, fired from rebel Lieutenant General Hood.
Across the field the smoke would rise, a battle in full fire,
and a blue Union soldier rode off on a white unseated sire.
At six o'clock there was a lull, in the sunny eve' so quiet,
the Union forces dusted down, and intermittently fired at this riot.
Sherman realised it's not good, as the rebel guns went crack,
and with the Confederate Rebel yell, the Union was under attack.
Late upon the evening a Union soldier with sword stood to his feet,
he pointed it at his men and the trumpeter blew retreat.
But at the same time, Granbury's Texans charged as the Union soldiers fled,
a sad state at Pickett's Mill left sixteen hundred dead.
The battle scene was over, as the Union crossed a ford,
and marched away all wounded echoeing ..."the coming of the Lord"
The Confederate army cheered an' yelled, they looked around in aura,
and when the Union disappeared they sang ..."marching through Georgia"
Dedicated to all the fallen at Pickett's Mill 27th May 1864
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