The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-01-31

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Ills Irish Jaunting Car 8s
At the breaking out of the Civil War
Harry Mccarthy, stroling Irish Come
dian. sang this song In the Southern
StHtes. and ut the close Of a&convivtal
( concert was asked by Nsslssippinn to
nut war verses 10 the air. Mccarthy
was no poet, but lie set his own render
ing, beginning: 5E Il 8
1--WE arc a band OF brothers. t. III
Native to the soil, I5 $ /,
Fighting for the property n "A
we gained BY honest toll, III
H For when our rights were threatened
The cry rose. near and fnr. s S&5
'Wc'll fight for the Bonnie Blue Flag
That bears single star. ,1
The song was arranged by Wolf (still
living, ut last accounts, IN New Orleans),
5 tho band master OF the Washington Ar
tillcry. known as the Louisiana Tlgers.
1t was sung by Mr.. Mccarthy in 1861.
and at once captured the hearts OF the
Southern soldiers. s3
BONNIE BLUE FLAG.
Two years later, when Memphis had
fallen into the hands OF the enemy, Sir
Henry Percy Anderson. OF tho British
Legation, visited the city on official bust
& ness. There he made the acquaintance
OF Mrs Annie Chambers Ketchum. a gift
cd Southerner. whose writings were at
tracing attention. and whose .'Battle
CALI had been pronounced by English
critics tho modern Chevy Chase. In the
course OF conversation Sir Henry re:
ferred to Mccarthy's Bonnie Blue
Flag as doggerel. and asked that Mrs.
Ketchum would write other words to
the tune. This she did, and under the
title .The Gathering Song the follow
ing verses appeared
Como, brothers, rally for the right!
5 The brnvest OF the brave 1,
Sends forth his ringing battlc.cry 4, "A
Beside the Atlantic wave. 81
She leads the way In honor's path;
Come, brothers. near and FAR.
Conc, rally round the Bonnie Blue Flag
That bears n single star!
Z Hurrah! hurrah! for Southern M rights
+ Hurrah! =, s,
Hnrrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag
That bears single star!
We've borne the Yankee trickery.
The Yankee gibe and sheer,
Till Northern insolence and pride ~
Know neither shame nor fear;
But ready now with shot and steel
Their brazen front 10 mar.
We hoist aloft the Bonnie Blue Flag
That bears single star. =
III.
Now Georgia marches to tho front.
And close beside her come
Her sisters OF the A1exiqne sea,
With peal!ng trump and drum;
rrill answering back from hill and glen
The lrallying cry afar,
A nation holsts the Bonnie Blue Flag
That bears single star
w.
BY every stone in Charleston Bay,
BY each beleaguredi town,
we swear to rest not night nor day,
But hunt tho tyrants down: St9
Till bathed in5valor's holy blood
The gazing world afar IN ~
Shall greet with shouts the Bonnie Blue
Flag. t8s as ID
That bears a single star.
AUTHORIZES ARRESTED,
Tho song went the rounds. suppressed
Ing McCarthy's version, and the fame
\ of 1t reaching the Federal authorities.
the author was arrested and required to
take the iron-clad oath OF allegiance or
leave Memphis. She refused TO take the
oath and was banished from, her home.
But apart from this incident In it, the
life OF Mrs. Observation-Disclosures both
by heredity and personally---ls well worth
recording. 5s
Her maternal grandfather, Judge
Fielding Bradford (wlth his brother,
john. founded the Kentucky Gazette,
The nrst paper published west OF the AL
leghanies. Through her father, Major
Henjamin Stuart Chambers, she was
descended from Ephraim Chambers.
whose grave Gas the author OF the first
Encyclopedia ever published is pointed
i ont In Westminster Abbey Major
chambers was one OF twenty who made
the .l'forlorn hope at the battle OF the
Thames, and one Of six who came out
nlive from that bloody massacre lie az
forwards settled In Kentucky and was
appointed by President Jackson Receiver
q OF Public Moneys for tho Territory OF
Arkansas. .
After his death his talented young
daughter, when only eighteen, married
her cousin, Mr.. Bradford, ana rev years