Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-06-08

Black Snake" consisted of one hundred
verses, all alike and this was its burden:
"Tell Joh4 Andrew,
Tell John Andrew,
Tell John Andrew
John Browns dead
From this sprang the now famous song
which is perhaps the most popular of all
the army songs, and of the many YER
sions that have been made, the best is
from the pen of DR.. w. Wetmore:
''See they come, from the mountain and
the plain,
A noble band OF patriots the Union to
maintain,
And they never will return. till the coun-
try stands again
United firm and free.
Glory Hallelujah! etc.
Henry Clay Work, Western bard,
wrote and composed the music ofseveral
of the best songs, among which may be
named Marching Through Georgia" :"
and that very capital and favorite song
which has au additional charm from
being in the negro dialect.
"say darkles, hab you seen de massa
Wild de muffstash on his face,
Go long de road some time dis mornin
Like his goin' to leave de place?
He seen de smoke way up de ribber
Where de Lincum gunboats Icy;
he took his hat and left berry sudden,
And spose he's runned away!
De massa run. ha, ha!
De darkey stay, ho, hol
1t must be now de Kingdom comm,
An de var OBJ jubilo."
The air which accompanies these
words is very inspiring one, and it
makes capital 4uickstep. We call to
mind an incident in connection with it.
The army of the Potomac was on its
march to intercept Lee, in his march
through Pennsylvania. The Fifth corps
then commanded by Meade, passed
pepper Court House, as it was then
called. We were riding with Strong
Vincent, afterwards killed at Gettys-
burg, who then commanded the Third
brigade of the First division. When we
came to the outskirts of the town-it
was place of some eight hundred in
abitants-Vincent ordered al! the flies
aud drums in the brigade to be massed,
and with those in the front and with col
ors fving, we went through, the drums
beating and the flies footing Kingdom
Coming" and "the boys" lending ready
chorus. We had got half way through
the principal street indeed, there was
but one street-when suddenly the door
of a dilapidated dwelling was thrown
open and there appeared asolitary fe-
male, with the most vinegariah visage
we ever beheld OH mortal. She looked
at the troops for moment, and then,
quivering with rage and shaking her
fingers, she screamed out at the top Of
her voice: 81 welcome you with hos
pitable hands to bloody graves" A
shout of derision was returned, and she
disappeared as suddenly as she had ap-
peared.
George F. Root, who was sometime
music teacher in this city is the author
and com poser of Tramp, tramp, tramp"
''In the prison cell sit,
Thinking, mother dear, of you,
And our bright and happy home so far
away,
And the tears they fill my eyes,
Spite of all that can do,
Though try to cheer my comrades and be
gay.
Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are march
ing, etc.
Root is also the author of the sBattle
Cry of Freedom"
''Yes, we'll rally round the flag, boys
Well rally once again,
Shouting the BATTLE cry Of freedom,
We will rally from the hillside,
Well gather from the plain,
Shouting the battle cry of freedom!"
There is an adaptabilty to the air of
this song which makes it available to
many words. The soldiers were fond of
setting the words of "Mary had little
a,s.5" to it, with ludicrous effect. AS for
instance:
MARY had little lamb,
It's fleece was white as snow.
Shouting the battle cry of freedom
And every place that Mary went,
The lamb was sure to go,
Shouting the battle cry of freedom"
and so on. During the terrible fighting
in the Wilderness on the 9th of Nav.
1864, a brigade of the Ninth Corps, hay
ing broken the enemy's line by an as
sarlt, became exposed to flank attack
and was driven back in disorder with
heavy loss. They retreated but a few
hundred yards, however, reformed, and
again confronted the enemy. inst then
some gallant fellows in the ranks of the
Fortystifth Pennsylvania began to sing;
Well rally round the flag, boys,
Rally once again,
Shouting the battle cry of freedom"
The refrain was caught up instantly by