Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1864-05-03
INVALID CORPS.
TUM.-"sussnua Don't You Cry"


The following Song written by member of the in
i'd corps at Rock Island, exhipts some Of the treat
lat of those braves:
attention. siling cripples all,
A song Ill sing to You,
The wounded, sick, and lame call,
All dressed in Jackets blue,
Some have met the Rebs" in battle,
Have marched both night aud day,
Some lain sick in hospitals,
Nithouta cent of pay.
CHoKUs-Yon're a sorry set of cripples,
You hobble around aud round,
You poor decripid inValids,
One foot upon the ground.
You are to Camp Rock Island sent
Against your wish and VIII,
To line the purse of officers.
And help 10 "bll the bill"
Poor criples put on duty,
Who scarce can hobble round,
Like pigs we'er put in barracks,
Too thick to stir a. Ound.
You're formed in two battallions,
The Second and the First,
Both a sorry set of cripples,
The Second much the worst;
Yen're kept in close confinement,
guard placed all around,
With orders strict and rigorous,
And nary go to town.
If you're caught outside the lines,
Without proper pass,
You are tnken to the guard-house,
And must no questions ask.
charge against You IL preferred,
Before the Colonel laid,
Aud next your sentence will be red,
On ColOnel's dress parade.
For the most trivial often ce,
You must be punished ri ght,
Aud its no use to make exc use,
HyOu are lit right;
To sweeping you'll forthwith DO sent
guard around you stand,
Or have a chain put on your legs,
just a. the Colonel may command.
We have a dashing sutler,
l will not tell his name,
Who thinks TO gOuge us Invalids,
And is not atlall ashamed,
He sells his goods at highest price,
Aud makes poor criples pay
The officers are on his side,
So we must nothing say.
He'd like to drive the women eff,
Who sell us milk and pies,
For they will sell at a low price,
Which hurts his selfish eyes,
Sometimes they do not let them in,
To sell whaT they have brought,
SO you must buy at his chebang,
Or else you must do without.
II has two small apartments,
To his new suffers stand,
In one he keeps som e suffers goodB
With eatables on hand;
The other is for officers,
private's dark resort,
Where they can gOin quietly
And take their daily snort.
We have a sharp Quartermaster,
And Quartermaster's cub,
For dealing out our rsItiOns,
And weighing crippes grub;
Peas, beans, and a few potatoes,
Aud some tough old COW,
With little pork. just fO= a change,
And the belly Of the SOW.
We haVs some men and officers
As sound Hs men need be,
Who should be with their regiments
Way down in Tcunssee:
We have some Potomac shoulder straps,
Tho heroes of "BuII Rum
That made that grand and famous charge,
The charge on Washington.
Now Is not this cruel usage,
For crippled men to bear!
Having suffered much privatUns,
Did sorry dangers share;
But this cruel war will soon be over,
And you will then he free,
And when you quit the Invalid corps
1t IS then your tine Will be.
Then let keep our courage up
IN silence do our duty,
Untf the happy time will come
When We shall cIHim cur bounty.
No more to be used as brutal bensts,
And trea ted las the same;
But treated as above, honest men
With fair and honest name
Now ailing criples one and all,
My song I've sung to you,
And if you think I've told the truth
i have nothing more to do.
So let US keep cur courage up,
And thus be happy and gay,
For soon the glorious time will come
When we'll go home to stay.