Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-06-24

Each day brought some ,hins now
For waen you were not chasing them,
Why, they were chasing you!
Ard thus with turn and turn about
quite busy did they keep YOU.
A new contingent TO the front
We boys went down to hep you.
You well remember well | know
How next the fun began.
When at Gernania Ford we crossed
The river Rap.dan
With General Grant to show the way
The still persistent Yank'
Sought out the rebel front on day;
The next We tried their flank.
But let us flank them rs We would.
BY right CT left the same.
Their gallant leader always stood
Between us and our game.
And let us stop n minute here.
A tribute just 10 give.
For Drawer men have never ditd.
And Drawer do rot live,
Than those who fought against us there
Out-nambercd as they were,
Those men who marched and fought on
foot.
And those who wore the spur.
But to the story to return:f
Through all that long campaign.
Among the sturdy boys in blue.
Marched on the Old Fourth Maine.
Down through the bloody Wllderness
And Spottsyivania passed.
Cold Harbor tried them once again.
There too they held US fast.
Yet there, once more. their flank we
sought,
Ard moving past their right,
We started OF for Petersburg,
And beat them out Of sight.
There. TOO. again. by slight delay.
Unlocked for. Unforeseen.
Ilc ''ehaTkte of war has had its way,
And net what might have been.
Could those men in advance have known,
How near they were TO winning.
They might have made that one las.
charge.
And sent the Johnnies spinning.
When tired out ard beaten back,
For morning light they waited,
And then made ready to attack
With courage unabated,
They found, although the end seemed
near,
They found awaiting them once more
The Valsant hosts OF Lee.
oh. hut we may not tell it ALL
Indeed 'twcre vain TO Try.
Enough; that men by thousands fall,
And men by thousands die.
Ills pant of history To-Day
And those who care TO read
May find tho Southron's valor matched
By ill us brave j decd
And through the long ard deadly siege.
with carnage all Astounding.
All those who cared To listen heard
The Fourta Maine guns still pounding.
Aud now dear comrades, Is our. guns
Have long since ceased their clanor,
And as the tired canigoneer
Has laid aside the hammer,
We all admit the time is past
For buster and for Boosting.
To tell the simple truth at last
Twas give and get a roasting.
Lee; others boast whate're they may,
When ordered to unlmber.
We tried the order TO obey,
And seldom 'tcok to timber.
Ills true we never lost a gun.
Nor had Il prisoner takcn.*
For though we never saved the day.
We always saved our bacon.
Again It's true. and we admit.
With reference to the latter,
There were times when we thought it
best
TO timber up and scatter.
And as from year to year we stand
Around the baked bean platter,
To take each comrade by the hand,
Then timber up and scatter.
May each year closer. closer. bind.
Until the last hand shaking done,
We meet on earth no longer,
And out into the great unknown.
NV comrade, friend. and brother
Poor human hearts have warmer grown
In beating for each other
And. too, whatever be beyond
The casket and the PAIL
The great warm, loving heart OF GGd
Is beating for US all.
u. A. Jones and Sergt. Cleveland were
taken prisoners at Frederick CITY. Md,
and Chas. Frost and John Sylvester were
prisoners for few months near Little
WASHINGTON, but were let go very quick
~ when the Johnnies found that Frost
had the small poX. j. A
The other numbers of the programme
were as follows:
Recitation. a Dutch dialect parody on
Barbara Freitchie,
Song by Il little girls.
Remarks, Maj. q. T. Stevens
Remarks.
Hon. Edward Wiggin. Pressure Isle
Duet. Lullaby, by two little girls,
Remarks, Abel Davis, Plttshelo
Remarks, Howard owen
Recitation, a Dutch sketch, Miss Holmes
STORY Of Harper's Ferry
Col. a. S. Bangs
Recitation, Mrs. ~. L. Browi
Tho entire programme was thoroughly
enjoyed and encores were numerous. Mr.
owen was al his best. and by his charac-
teristic witty words kept the audience
convulsed.
Nh Wiggin was reminiscent, and his
remarks about the 18th Maine gave his
hearers the idea that the boys would, in
war time, steal anything they could lay
their hands on, not even excepting tbs
contents of Manchester clothes lines OF
a mans hope of Heaven. But he pals
compliments enough to Offset the allega-
tons referred to.
Mss Holmes recita tons were excel
lent. ard her song, "Why Don't Yo;
Speak for Yourself. john" was cspec.
ally fine
Mrs Browns recitation was also a gen
of the programme. and the generous en-
core she received was well merited. w
would like TO publish the entire pro
gramme verbatim. but lack of space for