The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-10-24
Listen, young heroes, your country is
calling;
Time strikes the hour for the brave and
the true

Listen, young heroes, your country is
calling;
Time strikes the hour for the brave and
the true
The Fate of the Cumberland" by
Henry w. Longfellow, brings TO mind the
sanguinary conflict between the Merrimac
and the Monitor; but with this bit of his
tory You are all familiar.
Forsythe Wilson details the death of
the old Sergeant.
An excellent description of hospital
scene.
Any quotation would not do this JUS
tice. Read again.
Howard Brownell's description of The
Capture of New Orleans was rather
lengthy, somewhat irregular, but, after
all, quite good; but | must pass it without
quotation.
"Sheridan's Ride" and the poem de-
scribing it, are familiar to all. 1t is, per
hapS, as fine a descriptive poem as was
produced by the war
"Kearny at Seven Pines" by Edmund
Clarence Stcadman, is a fine description
of heroic action:
Up came the Reserve, to the melee in
fernal,'
Asking where to 90 in-through the
clearing or pines;
o, anywhere, forward, IT'S all the
same, Colonel,
You'll find lovely fighting along the
whole line"
"Marching Along" by Bradbury, was
Il song the boys so often sang that repeti-
ton would be useless.
''Tardy George" was written to goad
Mcclellan into action. 1t never circulated
much in the West.
And of the same tenor is Edmund Clar-
ence Steadman's-
Give us a man!
Give US a rallying cry
And then-Abraham Lincoln gave us
man."
The man was found, and | need not
tell sou his name was-U. ). Grant.
barbara Frcitchie,' by John q. Whit
tier, is familiar TO all.
The Running of the Batteries at
Vicksburg," by Herman Melville, is a
good poetical description of something you
are all familiar with, and l cannot repeat.
The Description of the Gettysburg
Fight Is very fne, and was by Stead
man.
Also, Bret Harte's "Old John Burns
But they are on every tongue.
The call
Three hundred thousand more,
We are coming, three hundred thousand
more
We have heard and helped sing.
The Kearsarge and the Alabama is
familiar to all; and many of the ''Old
vets have visited the reproduction of the
cid ship Kearsarge.
THE Fight in the Mobile Bay" by
Henry Howard Brownell, is rather rugged
poetry, but is a good description of noble
deeds.
Samuel II. Byress poem, "Sherman's
March to the Sea-" is fine poetry:
Our campfres shone bright DER the
mountain,
That frowned on the river below,
As we stood by our guns in the morning |
and eagerly watched for the foe;
When rider came out of the darkness
That hung over mountain and tree,
And Stockholders, up and be ready;
For Sherman will march to the sea-"
Early in the war came the song, 1.-THE
Year of Jubilo."
The incident on which this was found |
ed was the general exodus of the rebels |
in the vicinity after the capture of Mem
phls, Tenn. 1t was largely sung by the |
boys in the Western army.
The Battle Cry of Freedom is one of |
the songs of war that l think will last |
for a long time.
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys Are |
Marching" l have often heard sung in |
the army.
But Marching Through Georgia." |
suspect, was written since the close of |
the war.
John Browns Body l heard sung in |
the Western army in 1862. The words |
were the merest doggerel, but the tune |
made it live. 1t is now known under |
the name THE Battle Cry of Freedom" |
There are other songs and poetry that
We're quite common that had their origin
before the war, such as 1.-THE Old Folks |
at Home" by Stephen c. Foster. This |
was sung great deal, as well as the old |
song by Dan Emmett
I'm Dixie's Land I'll take my stand
To live and die in Dixie"