Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-07-21
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! | CHANGED TO he with Johnson when
Mcdowell made Il play
To rid the earth OF Bcauregard. and SO
we marched tina. way.
, Twas at Manassas Junction. which tn,
Fedcrals call Bull Run.
And in this stirring summertime OF
eighteen siXty-one.
The government officials and society
turned out
From Washington to see us run in
ignominous rout.
| They found us without searching, and
before the day, was done
That gay assemblagc burnt the wind
in flights to Washington.
-! there WAS wild confusion. and that
thoroughfare of old
Was strewn for miles with fans. silk
hats and eQauietS of gold.
Three thousand killed and wounded
were the only ones who stayed.
And so am embarrassed by the record
that we made.
And then was at Seven Pines and
a. Mechanicsville;
Al Gaines Mill and Fraziers Farm and
Bloody Malvern Hill.
For seven days the battle ragged. and
when its wrath was Ger
Abe Lincoln said he needed just three
hundred thousand moro.
But scarcely had we rested. when, again
at old Bull Run.
We hurled Pope's shattered columns
IN defeat to Washington.
He tried TO drive wedge OF steel
twiSt Lee and Jacksons corps.
Then Lincoln found he needed just six
hundred thousand more
To queii the rebel rising in the fierce
secession States
And then he had no surplus men. as
history relates.
And later OF at Fredericksburg, with
Burnside in command.
They rashly stormed the flaming
heights where we had made stand.
Twelve thousand dead and wounded
was The penalty they paid.
And I'm somewhat embarrassed by the
record that we mace.
And then. as luck would have it. 1
was with the daring throng
That bayed Joe Hooker's army.
trenched, one hundred thousand
strong.
We had third his number but
that mattered not, for we
Were led by grim Old Stonewail, and
the great commander. he
Who, in soft slouched hat of brown
and faded cape OF gray
Was worth full fifty thousand men on
any battle day.
When Jackson gave the orders. his
immortal veteran corps
shot by and nanked the. enemy by If
teen miles or more.
And burst upon his right and rear. in
their historic way,
While Lee with fourteen thousand kept
the battle from that day.
We scattered them like chaff. although
outnumbcrcd three 10 one;
They faded from our vision like the
mist before the sun;
We didn't leave enough to make Il de-
cent dress parade,
And, therefore. I'm embarrassed by the
record that we made.
And then had some trouble in the
spring of siXty-four.
! When Grant appeared upon the scene
/ and pushed his forces DER
+, The Rapidan toward Richmond, and
the journey, 1 would state.
Consumed eleven months, although the
distance is not great.
He might have made ii in a week. but
found along the way
Some serious impcdimcnts IN the
ragged coats OF gray.
We met him at Cold Harbor. in the
blithcsome month OF June.
our uniforms were faded, bat our
muSketS were in tune.
I The hand of the dread angel that
smotc Egypt in the night
Was not more deadly than the hands
we lifted in that fight.
/ He charged. recoilcd. then stormcd
again, and failed with all his
power.
/ And lost ten thousand on the field in
less than half an hour.
/ such deeds seem supcrhuman and
their memory will not fade,
And that's why l'm embarrassed by
the record that we made.