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PGCJ.778.003
31 Jan 1778:21 (735)
York-town, Dec 10. The following elegiac lines were
occasioned by the death of the honorable Brigadier-General
Francis Nash, of North-Carolina, who died of his wounds, the
7th of October last, which he received on the morning of the
4th, as he was gallantly leading on his brigade to charge
the enemy near Germantown. . .
Genius of freedom! whither art thou fled?
While field of death thy sons undaunted tread:
Lo! where for thee thy brightest heroes fall,
And not thy shield to ward the winged ball.
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