New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-12-06
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November IS, 1858,

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come, I'll the beaker, while we chant pean Of old
BY MaTsI no men shall live again more worthy Of cur
praise,
Than hey who stormed at Louisburg and Frontepac
And shook Tie English standard ont the ruins Of
Daquesne,
For glorious we're The days they came, the soldiers
And glorious we're fhe days they came for Pennsyl
when marched tie troopers sternly on through for.
ests autumn brown,
famine went down.
virginia sent her chivairy, and Maryland her brave
aud Pennsylvania to the cause her noblest yeomen
gave:
b ana proud were they who wore the garb Of Indian
hunters then,
Fofevery sturdy youth was worth a score Of common
menl ID
They came from Garolina's pines, from fruitful Del
me staanchsst and the stontest Of the ohivairous
And cslnl aad tail above them all, the red Novem.
lks Saul abe above his brethren, rode Colonel wash.
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0er leagues d wild and waste they passed, they
foF7ed stream and fen,
Where danger lurked in every glade, and death in
every glen;
1hey heard TIC Indian rangers cry, the FFeuohman's
From purple distance echoed back through the hol-
lows of the vale.
Aud lever and anon they came, along their dangerous
where chastity mid the yellow leaves, their saught-
erred comrades Law
Ihe tartans Of Grants Hghlandegs were sodden yet
A roatad d The rash assault they persisted as they
fed. k31
All many lass ayont the Tweed shall rae the fatal
fray,
And nigh Yirginian danes shall mourn the ruin Of
that day,
When gallant lad and cavalier il the wilderness were
slain,
'Twixt lapreled Loyal Hannah and the outposts Of
Duquesne. "a
And there before them was the field of massacre and
0fpano, fout and shameful flight in that disastrous
where Halset fell, and Braddook died, With many
noble one
Whose white bones glisteued through the leaves i
the pale November sun, (5(
Then spoke the men Of BraddOekrs Field, and hung
their heads III shame
For Engand's furnished honor and for Englands sui
lied fame
And BY ST. GeorgelH the soldiers gwore, " ven
wipe away the stain
Before to-morrow's sunset at the trenches Of Du
quesne,
Twas nghtalong the autumn hills-the suns No
vemhsr CLEAN
Had left It's crimson On the leaves its tnge upon The
I'M
And hermit Silence kept his watch mid ancient
rocks and trees
And placed his finger on the lip Of babbling brook
and breeze.
The bivouac's set BY Turtle creek; (6) and while
the soldiers sleep,
The swarthy chiefs around their fires an anxious
council keep
Some spoke Of murmms iii the camp, scarce wbs
pered to the air,
But tokens d encouragement, the presage of de
SPAR,
Some retreat advised; twas late the winter draw
The forage aud provision, toO--so ormsby said-wer
Men could not feedon air, and fight whatever Pit
In praise or osasnre, st they thought, twere wise
to delay,
Then up spoke iron.headed Forbes, 81 and through
There ran the lightning Of will that put them all to
shame
Eli hear no more, z he ronndly swore, wen storm
the fort amainl
III sleep in hi tomorrow night, or sleep in Fort
Duquesne = (0
So said and each to sleep addressed his wearied
limbs and mind,
And an was hushed the forest, save the sobbng Of
the wind,
And the tramp tramp, tramp, Of the sentinel who
started oft in fright,
At the shadows wrought mid the giant trees by tht
ttfnl campfire light.
Good Lord what sudden glare is that that reddens
all The sky,
AS though hell legona rode the air and tossed theil
torches high
Up, men the alarm drum beats to armsl and The
solid ground seems TiVen
BY the shock of warning thunderbolts in the lurid
depth of heaven!
0 there was Gathering Of steel, and mastering in
And shouts, and wild huaaay of men, impatient oil
delay,
As carne tie scouts swtftfooted IN" They ay thu
They've fred lie spowdermagazine, and blown 1t tt
the Sky ~ (lO)
Now morning DER the frosty hills in autumn splendor
came,
And touched the rolling mists with gold, aud aeCked
the clouds with flame
And through the brown woods on the htlls--tho5e
affairs of the world
The blue smoke from the settlers hut and Indians
WigWam cuTed.
Yet never here, had morning dawned on such glo.
rious din
or twangng trump, and rattlng drum, and changing
enlVerin.
And glittering arms, and sabre gleams and SERTED
ranks Of men,
Who marched with banners high advanced along the
river glen,
Q and royalty they bore themselves who knew that
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