New Orleans daily crescent., 1861-08-03

GERS was killed or injured, except two or three
who received slight flesh wounds.
From .he Richmond Whigl |
0Y TO RICHMOND.
AFTER soUTEEY's MARCH TO Moscown
Major General Scott --
An order had got
To push on the column to Richmond
For loudly went forth,
From all parts of the North, d.
The cry that an end Of the war must be made
Ia time for the regular yearly fall trade;
Mr. Greeley spoke freely about the delay,
The Yankees to hmm y were all hot for the fray
The chivalrous Grow
Declared they were slow,
And therefore the order
-,I To march from the border
And make an excursion to Richmond.
Najor-Goneral Scott
Most likely was not
Very 10th to obey this instruction, l wot; f."
In his private opinion, '-
Tne Ancient Dominion ..
Deserved to be piagcd, her sons to be shot,
And the reason is easily noted;
Though this part OF the earth
Had given him birth,
And medals and swords,
Inscribed with fine words,
It never for Winfield had voted.
Besides you must know that our First of Com
mGuders m O,.
Had sworn, quite as hard as the army in Flanders,
With his finest of armies and prondest OF navies,
To wreak his old grudge against Jefferson Davis
Then forward the column he said to Mcdowell,
And the Zouaves, with shout,
Most ferccly cried out,
ct To Richmond or h--ll,'' Il omit here the vowei)
And Winfield, he ordered his carriage and four,
a dashing turnout, to be brought to the. door
For pleasant excursion to Richmond.
Major-General Scott .-,
Had there on the spot
a splendid array .n.
70 pluuder aud slay
In the camp he might boast
Such numerous host,
AS he never had yet
In the battlefield set;
Every class and condition Of Northern society
Were in for the trip, most varied variety;
In the camp he might hear every lingo in vogue, =,
"The sweet German accent, the rich Irish brogue.I
The buthiiul boy
From The banks of the Shannon
Was there to employ
His excellent cannon,
And beside the long flies Of dragons and artillery,
The ZUuaVes and HuSsars,
All the children of Mars,
There were BARRIERS and cooks
And writer's of books
The chef de cMiSiae with bis French bills of fare,
And the artist to dress the young officers hair,
And the scribblers all ready at once to prepare
An eloquent story
OF conquest and glory;
Though Wilson, the Senator, followed the train,
At a distance quite safe, to "condnct the cham
payne ;"
While he fields were so green and the sky was so
blue,
Tnere was certainly nothing more pleasant to do
On this pleasant excursion to Richmond.
In Congress the talk, as sad was of action,
10 crush ont aStapter the traitorous faction.
In the press, aud the mess,
They would hear nothing less
Than to make the advance, spite of ryme Or of
reason,
And at once put an end to the insolent treason.
There was Greeley,
| And Ely,
| The blood thirsty Grow,
And Hickman, (the rowdy, not Hickman the beau),
| And that terrible Baker
| Who would seize on the South, every acre,
Ind Webb who would drive US all into the Gulf, or
| Some nameless locality smelling oI sulphur;
| And with all this bold crew
| Nothing would do,
While the fti ids so green and the sky was so
| blue,
But to march on directly to Richmond.
Then gallant Mcdowell
| Drove madly the rowel
| OF spur that had never been g won y by him
In the flank of his steed,
To accomplish deed
Such as never before had been done by him
And the battery called Shermans
Was wheeled into line,
While the heer-driuking Germans,
From NcGker and Rhlue,
With Mimic and Wager,
Came with sWagger,
Full of fury and lager.
| (The day aud pageant we're equally hne)
Oh! the fields were SO green and the sky was so
| blue,
| Indeed twas spectacle pleasant to view,
| As the column pushed onward to Richmond.
| Ere the march was begun,
In spirit OF fun,
| General Scott, in speech,
Said this army should teach
| The Southrons the lesson the laws to obey,
And just before dusll Of the third or fourth day,
| Should joyfully march into Richmond.
| He spoke of their drill
| And their courage and SKILL
And declared that the ladies of Richmond would
| rave
Der such matchless perfection, and gracefully
In rapture their delicate kerchiefs in air
| At their morning parades on the Capitol Square.
But alack! and alas
| Mark what soon came to pass
| When this army, in spite OF his HatterleS,
| Amid wars lOudest thunder,
| Must stupidity bluuder
| Upon those accursed - masked batteries.N
| Then Beauregard came,
| Like q tempest OF tame,
| To consume them in wrath
| On their perilOuS path;
| And Johnston bore down in whrlWnd to SWEEP
| Their ranks from The Held,
! Where their doom had been sealed,
| As the storm rushes over the face of the deep;
| While swift on the center our President prest,
And the foe might descry
In the glance Of his eye,
| The light that once bazed upon Dioned's crest.
| Mcdowell! Mcdowell! weep, weep for the day
! When the Snuhron9 Won met in their battle array
To your confident nosts, WIN us pullets and steel
| Twas worse than Culloden to luckess Loehiel
| Oh, the Generals were green and old Scott is nov
blue,
And terrible business, Mcdowell, to you
Was that pleasant excursion to Richmond.
Always do the sun does-iook at the brigh
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