The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1862-04-24
WAR WIT AND HUMoR.

! The following touching literary composition
| was discovered among the trophies captured by
our forces at Manassas 1t is said b he The
clevcrcst among the fugitive poems found ut that
point, and as a specimen Of Southern literature.
II is worthy Of preservation.
A soJERs REFRAIN
by Washington Jackson. jones first leavetenant
of the missiPpy ripstave Rangers and late Of
nathez under the hill,
General bcauregar1s Coon,
pillow hees Grampus.
foyds quarter boss to run.
and buckners Catawampus.
We ken chaw abe linkun Up,
likewise george Maclelcran,
were the sassy bull run Pups
a. sot mac lowell Bellerin.
every buchus nathez Gal
wants a mndsil Trofy.
must gouge a eye for Sal
and get an ear for SCfy
Sofy ses we'll htc, our Teams,
dog her cats to Thunder
if bring hum scalps Ennf
for a bed quilt to sleep Under.
soon weel finish up this War
if I'VE go ahead Quick.
and mebbe lie have scalrs and Har
enuf for dIuit and bed-tick,
fvrrard then, to arms, to Arms'
bark
The assignment If General Fremont TO a new
command reminds ne Of a story related to us by
an eyewitness, concerning the last meeting Of
Fremont and Zagonyi, in st. Louis. The General
was dining with some of his staff, when the gall
liant Major was announced. He was Immediately
invited to take a seat at tire table. Fremont
filed a glass for him. Zagcnyi was rhucl,
affected, especially when the General announeed
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other Springfield, but another field in the spring."
Meath a ragged Palmetto n Southerner sat.
twisting the band of his Panama hat, and trying
to tighten his mind Of load. by hummine the
words of the following ode Oh for q darkey.
oh !, for whip oh for a cocktail. and OH ! for
n nip; no! for q shot Mt OLD Greeley and Beeeher:
oh !. for a crack at a Yankee school teacher oh
for captain, and oh! for a ship; oh for
cargo of darkeys each trip. And so he kept on
ching for what he had got, not content with
owing for all that he'd rot.
The Richmond Wing says that such Generals
as Floyd and Pillow "arc sores upon the fair
body If the Southern Confederacy." Running
sores, no doubt.
The Richmond Wing wants a new set Of
hands to run the Southern Confederacy. The
old set If feet it cannot complain Of, az they
run well enough.
We should think the cliyalry would be asEIar.-
Ell to run from Yankees that sing Psalms, say
" keow, AMI talk through their noses.
Some animals won't fight till they are driven
to BAY. We guess the rebels won't fight much
till they are driven to the GULF.
\ Nor;hern paper says that Floyd is " the tail
Of the rebel Confedcraev'' We knew the rebel
Confederaey to be cur-tailed.
All what would not the Confederate authori-
ties give. in these days OF rebel fugacsy. for
standing annyr
lis currently reported that General Shields
should he conrt-martialed-f disturbing the
peace Of the Potomac.
The rebels are tearing up the railroad tracks
rapidly. and putting down their own tracks still
more rapidly.
The United States Army is large blue mass.
administered to correct the high hvers OF tho
South, aud make them WORK.
The rebels abandoned Manassas, but it Was
not near so abandoned ~ they were.
The Confederate coat tails ct fhis time belong
10 the order Of the Straight outs"