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CONTENTS. 
 
 :o; 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Dedication 3 
 
 Portrait of General Palmer, Coiiiinander- 
 
 in-Cliief 6 
 
 Officers of the O. A. R 7 
 
 Depai-tiiifiit (ifficfi-s 7 
 
 National Eiicaiiiiiiiit'iits 7 
 
 Coiiiiiianiiers-iii-Cliier 7 
 
 The Civil War of 1861-65 8 
 
 Number of Men in the Union Army fur- 
 nished by each State and Territory 8 
 
 The Great Battles of tlic War 8 
 
 Losses in Killed and Wounded 8 
 
 LiviiiiT Union (ieiierids 9 
 
 ],i8t of i.iviiiic Major-Generals who saw 
 
 active service 9 
 
 Li vinf; Confederate Generals 10 
 
 Wars of the Uuited States 11 
 
 Number of Troops Eiii^a.sied il 
 
 The Army 12 
 
 Generals 12 
 
 Retired List 12 
 
 Oriranizalion of the Army 12 
 
 l^epartmeuts 12 
 
 Distriluition of the Army 13 
 
 A rmy Pay Tables 13 
 
 The Navy 14 
 
 Admirals 14 
 
 Retired List 14 
 
 Marine Corps 14 
 
 Navy Yards 14 
 
 Tlie New Navv 15 
 
 I'.iiiMiim statistics 15 
 
 List of New Hoats 15 
 
 Uuited States Military Academy at West 
 
 P(uiit 16 
 
 Appointments and Instruction 16 
 
 United States Naval Academy at Annap- 
 olis 16 
 
 Generals Cominandius the United States 
 
 Army 16 
 
 Soldiers' Homes 17 
 
 Location of Homes. 17 
 
 Rctrnlations of Admission 17 
 
 National Home for DisalWed Volniiteers. . . 17 
 Regulations Governing Payment of Pen- 
 sions 17 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 State Homes for Disabled Volunteers 17 
 
 U. 8. Home for Regular Army Soldiers 18 
 
 The State Militia of the States of the 
 Union 18 
 
 Strength of the Natiomil (inaid 18 
 
 Uuited States Pension St;itisties 19 
 
 Number of Pensioners on Uu- Rolls 19 
 
 Claims. Pensions, anil iJisbiirsements 19 
 
 Pension A ueiieies and Agents 20 
 
 Peiisioiieis in each State and Territory 20 
 
 Widows of luvidiilionary Soldiers on Pen- 
 sion Kolls 20 
 
 Pensions to \\ idows of Presidents and 
 
 Feiieial <_»tiicers 20 
 
 Meinoriain 21 
 
 I)ejia]tiuc of Troops in 1861 22 
 
 l!ecolleiti(iiis of a Veteran 22 
 
 Records of the Union Army and the Crack 
 
 Regiments 22 
 
 A Recent Look over the Great Battle- 
 fields 22 
 
 The Battletiebls in the Kast 23 
 
 TheBattlefieMs in the West 25 
 
 TheBhioilv tJattles of tlie War 26 
 
 The Men Who l)e:ilt the Blows 26 
 
 The Grand Review 28 
 
 The Tomb of General Grant 31 
 
 When tlie Last Man Dies» 33 
 
 Estimates of Survivors 35 
 
 Stren-tli of the Rebel Army 36 
 
 Hi-tori, al Cveiits 37 
 
 General <:raiifs Report of the Battle of 
 
 Sliiloh 38 
 
 25th National Encaminiient at Detroit, 
 
 1891 39 
 
 Tnteiestiusr Statistics 39 
 
 G. A. R. State Reirislatiou 40 
 
 Burial of Veterans 40 
 
 Veterans Not to be Removed 40 
 
 Grand Arn^y Badire 40 
 
 rreference in lOmplovment 40 
 
 Use of .Meetiiii;- Roonis 41 
 
 Issue of Arms to Posts 41 
 
 ?iIonumeuts 41 
 
PART TWO. 
 
 Gr. J^. Pt. PtecitSLtions, 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 AVlieii We Were Boys iu Blue 42 
 
 Our Heioes Shall Live 43 
 
 Kt^iic of the Will- 44 
 
 A Meinoiial Day Alphabst 45 
 
 Tlie Oia Canteen 45 
 
 The Sanif Ciiuieen 47 
 
 An nid Fa vorite 47 
 
 Corporal Jim 48 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 JloCartr's pension Claim 49 
 
 The Diiniiv Filth 50 
 
 An Old Soldier's Story 52 
 
 Tlie Conntersi-u 53 
 
 When Jolinny Comes Marchinjr Home 55 
 
 Bivouac of the Dead 56 
 
 President Liucolu's Gettysburg Address... 57 
 
 PART THREE. 
 
 <3r. J^. T^. Songs. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 The power of Patriotic Sonsr 58 
 
 The Little Bronze Button 58 
 
 Comrades 59 
 
 Thirty Years Airo 60 
 
 The Reltel I'ieket 61 
 
 After the 15attle 62 
 
 The G. A. R 63 
 
 Tbinkiiii; To-ni-lit 64 
 
 Star Spaiiuled Banner 65 
 
 FhiK of Fort Sniiipter 6t> 
 
 Slierman's March to the Sea 67 
 
 Grand Boys in Blue, Tlie 68 
 
 Grant's Marseillaise 69 
 
 I Dreamed Mv Bov Was Home Again 70 
 
 Tlie Soulier's Funcial 71 
 
 Brinir .Mv Brother Back to Me 72 
 
 TheCharirc at Koaiiokc 73 
 
 Mv Couiitrv's Flair (d Stars 74 
 
 Beiinv Havens, Oh; 76 
 
 General Pat 78 
 
 HailCoiiiiiii.ia 30 
 
 The Drummer Bov of Shiloli 81 
 
 I Know My Mother's Hand 82 
 
 When .Tohnny Comes Marcliiiiir Home 83 
 
 TentiiiL'on tiie Old Camp (iround 84 
 
 Kiii-.lom Coiuinsr 85 
 
 Who Will Care for Micky Now 86 
 
 The Returned Soldier 87 
 
 Write a Letter to My Mother 88 
 
 Mother Kissed Me in My Dream 89 
 
 .Tust Bcroic the Battle, Mother 90 
 
 Just Aficr the Hattle 91 
 
 Stand Bv the Flau; 92 
 
 And So Will the Hovs in Blue 93 
 
 Kiss Me as of Old. M(dher 9i 
 
 I'm Comin-Home toDie i'4 
 
 Tell Mv Mother I J:)ie Happy 95 
 
 The Vacant Chair 96 
 
 Dear M(dher, I've Come Home to Die 97 
 
 The Bold Zouaves 9S 
 
 Brave Hovs Are Thev loO 
 
 Brother's Faintinu' at tlie Door 101 
 
 We Are Comiufr, Father Ahraham 102 
 
 Rataplan 101 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Kiss Me. Mother; Kiss Yonr Darling 105 
 
 Ids worth's Re veiijxe 106 
 
 Grafted into the Ariiiv 107 
 
 Who Will Care lor .'Mother Now » 108 
 
 God Will Care for Mother Now 109 
 
 Commeiuoration 110 
 
 Willie Has Gone to the War 112 
 
 M archill;.' Tlirou;:li Georgia 113 
 
 It's All Up in Dixie 114 
 
 The Kisinir of Peiinsvlvania 116 
 
 Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! 118 
 
 On! On! On! 119 
 
 Parodvon Lord Lovell IJO 
 
 Battle Hymn of the Kcpuhlic 121 
 
 Mareliiiii: Along •. .122 
 
 Marchimr Alom;. No. 2 123 
 
 Our M arv la nd i24 
 
 The Bold Vuluiitcer 12.^ 
 
 Columbia Rules thi- Sea lifi 
 
 Glorv.Halhdu.jah. No. 1 127 
 
 Glory. Hallelii)ali, No. 2 128 
 
 <-;iorV, Halleliijali, No. 3 129 
 
 Gh.ry. llallelnjah. No. 4 l;i() 
 
 Glorv. Halhdii.iah, No. 5 i^i 
 
 Bummers, Come and Meet Us iy> 
 
 Union Ship and Union Crew ia4 
 
 Battle Cry ot Freedom 1.5 
 
 Jett' Davis 136 
 
 Red. White, and Blue 138 
 
 Standard Bearer 139 
 
 Vive I'America 139 
 
 The Union Oath liO 
 
 Our Color Guard 142 
 
 Cumberland's Crew H3 
 
 Battle Cry (d Fieeilom 144 
 
 The Old Union Wa.i:on us 
 
 The Flair of the Free i46 
 
 The Flair of Our Union 146 
 
 Unfurl the Gloii(uis Banner U7 
 
 Hiurali for the Red, W hite. and Blue 148 
 
 When This Cruel War is Over 149 
 
 Mother. Is the Battle Over? 150 
 
 America 151 
 
 Advertisements 152 to 160 
 
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 DEDICATED TO THE 
 
 T W E N T Y - S I X T H 
 
 NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT 
 
 GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC, 
 
 Washington, D. C, September 2oth, 1892. 
 
 Compiled in a Spirit of enthusiasm ;incl affection for my Comrades of the 
 G. A. R. 
 
 Yours in F. C. & L. 
 ISAAC C TYSON, 
 
 Late Co. K. 14th Iowa Vols., 
 
 2d Brigade, 3d Division, 
 
 i6th Army Corps, U. S. A. 
 
 Thanks are due to the publishers of the New York World 
 
 and the Mail and Express for assi'^tance in compiling the 
 
 valuable statistics embodied in this book. 
 
GENERAL PALMER, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. 
 
<Srrantr ^vms ot tl}t Bcputilic. 
 
 Commander-in-Chief John Palmer^ Albany, N. Y. 
 
 S. Vice- Com... B.euTy M. Duffield, Detroit. Mich. I Surgeon- Oenerai.^eiii. F. Stevenson, Viealia, Ky- 
 J.Yice-Com T. S. Clarkson, Omaha, Neb. | Chaplain-in- Chief. S. B. Paine, St.Augustine, Fla. 
 
 OFFICIAL STAFF. 
 
 Adjutant-Oen .. Fred. Phisterer, Albany, N. Y. I Inspector- Gen J. F. Pratt, East Orange, N. J. 
 
 Quartermaster- Ge7i John Taylor, Phila.,Pa. | Judge Adv.-Gen J. W. O'Neall, Lebanon, O. 
 
 The National Council of Adiiiinistratiou has 44 members, each dep.irtmeut being represented by one member. 
 DEPARTMENT OFFICERS AND MEMBERSHIP. 
 
 Departments. 
 (44-) 
 
 Depaktment Commandees.* 
 
 Depabtment Asst. Adjt. Generals.* 
 
 Mem- 
 bers. 
 
 
 Seymour Bullock 
 
 Ed. Schwartz 
 
 Wm. H. H. Clayton.. 
 
 W. H. L. Barnes 
 
 George W.Cook 
 
 H.N. Fanton 
 
 Daniel Greene 
 
 John H. Welsh 
 
 A. E. Sholes 
 
 Judson Spofford 
 
 Mobile. 
 
 Phoenix. 
 
 Fort Smith. 
 
 San Francisco 
 
 Denver. 
 
 Danbury. 
 
 Newport. 
 
 Welshton. 
 
 Augusta. 
 
 Boise City. 
 
 W.J. Pender 
 
 C. D. Belden 
 
 S. K. Robinson 
 
 T. C. Masteller 
 
 Philip Trounstine... 
 John H. Thacher.... 
 JohnB. Stradley. .. 
 
 T. S. Wilmarth 
 
 A. Guiton 
 
 Norman H. Camp. . . 
 
 P. L. McKinnie 
 
 Irvin Robbing 
 
 Charles L. Longley. . 
 
 A. B. Campbell 
 
 A S Cole .. 
 
 Birmingham. 
 
 Phcenix. 
 
 Fort Smith. 
 
 San Francisco 
 
 Denver. 
 
 Hartford. 
 
 Wilmington. 
 
 Jacksonville. 
 
 Augusta. 
 
 Boise City. 
 
 Chicago. 
 
 Indianapolis. 
 
 Cedar Rapids. 
 
 Larned. 
 
 Fearis. 
 
 New-Orleans. 
 
 Portland. 
 
 Baltimore. 
 
 Boston. 
 
 Paw Paw. 
 
 St. Paul. 
 
 St. Louis. 
 
 Butte. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 Concord. 
 
 Newark. 
 
 Las Cruces. 
 
 Albany. 
 
 Bismarck. 
 
 Cincinnati. 
 
 Kingfisher. 
 
 Portland. 
 
 Philadelphia. 
 
 Washington. 
 
 Providence. 
 
 Sioux Falls. 
 
 Chattanooga. 
 
 Dallas. 
 
 SaltLakeCity 
 
 Rutland. 
 
 Portsmouth. 
 
 Tacoma. 
 
 Wellsburg. 
 
 Marshfield 
 
 
 
 
 Arkansas. 
 
 2,200 
 
 California 
 
 Col. and Wyoming. 
 Connecticut 
 
 5,8i« 
 
 Mo, 
 1,280 
 
 Florida 
 
 Georgia 
 
 Idaho 
 
 471 
 
 455 
 
 
 
 
 I. N. Walker 
 
 Indianapolis. 
 
 Hull. 
 
 Larned. 
 
 Fearis. 
 
 New-Orleans. 
 
 Waldoboro. 
 
 Baltimore. 
 
 Griswoldville. 
 
 Paw Paw. 
 
 St. Paul. 
 
 Brookfield. 
 
 Butte. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 Enfield. 
 
 Newark. 
 
 Las Cruces. 
 
 Corning. 
 
 Bismarck. 
 
 Cincinnati. 
 
 Kingfisher. 
 
 Portland. 
 
 Harrisburg. 
 
 Washington. 
 
 Providence. 
 
 Sioux Falls. 
 
 Chattanooga. 
 
 Dallas. 
 
 SaltLakeCity. 
 
 Rutland. 
 
 Norfolk. 
 
 Tacoma. 
 
 Wellsburg. 
 
 Marshfield. 
 
 
 Iowa 
 
 Kansas 
 
 Kentucky 
 
 La. and Mississippi. 
 Maine ... 
 
 Charles L. Davidson.. 
 
 T. McCarthy 
 
 S G Hillis 
 
 20,174 
 17,716 
 
 3.97? 
 
 1,093 
 
 George T. Hodges 
 
 Samuel L. Miller 
 
 J.C. Hill 
 
 C. W. Keeting 
 
 E. C. Milliken 
 
 Hugh A. Maughlin.. 
 
 A. C. Munroe 
 
 K. W. Noyes 
 
 Joseph L. Brigham.. 
 Thomas B. Rodgers. 
 
 L. F. Wyman 
 
 J. W. Bowen 
 
 J. Minot 
 
 Maryland 
 
 Massachusetts 
 
 
 A.A.Smith 
 
 Charles L. Eaton 
 
 .,,Ul 
 
 
 
 Missouri 
 
 George W. Martin.... 
 
 H.C. Kessler 
 
 Joseph Teeter 
 
 E. B. Huse 
 
 30,823 
 
 
 628 
 
 Nebraska 
 
 New-Hampshire 
 
 New-Jersey 
 
 New-Mexico 
 
 New- York 
 
 North-Dakota 
 
 Ohio 
 
 Oklahoma and I T 
 
 4,144 
 
 J. R. Mullikin 
 
 Albert P. Fountain... 
 
 C. H. Freeman 
 
 William A. Bentley . . 
 
 A.M.Warner 
 
 G A Colton 
 
 F.W.Sullivan 
 
 J. F. Bennett 
 
 W. W. Bennett 
 
 John Bowen 
 
 W. B. Folger 
 
 E B. Burns 
 
 7,793 
 40,444 
 
 535 
 
 45,522 
 
 552 
 
 2,ot:2 
 
 Oregon. .... 
 
 Owen Summers 
 
 George G. Boyer 
 
 J. M. Pipes 
 
 Benjamin H. Child... 
 C. S. Palmer 
 
 R. S. Greenleaf 
 
 Pennsylvania 
 
 Potomac 
 
 Rhode-Island 
 
 South-Dakota 
 
 
 John P. Church 
 
 Edmund F. Prentiss. 
 
 W. D. Stiles 
 
 H. B. Case 
 
 J. C. Bieger 
 
 2,769 
 
 Tennessee 
 
 A. J. Gahagan 
 
 M.W.Mann 
 
 Frank Hoffman 
 
 D. L. Morgan 
 
 H.B. Nichols 
 
 D. G. Lovell 
 
 3,7^9 
 
 Utah 
 
 F. P. Addlemau 
 
 C. C. Kinsman 
 
 W.N. Eaton 
 
 Frank Clendennen . . 
 George B. Crawford. 
 E. B.Gray 
 
 ,8^ 
 
 "Vermont 
 
 Virginia 
 
 Wash, and Alaska 
 
 5,487 
 1,42a 
 2.783 
 
 West- Virginia 
 
 Wisconsin 
 
 I.H.Duval 
 
 W. H. Upham 
 
 2,63 3 
 13,710, 
 
 Total June 30, 1891 3g8,2j<* 
 
 New department officers are elected from January to April, 1892. 
 The first post of the Grand Army was organized at Decatur, 111., April 6, 1866. The first (Je» 
 partment encampment was held at Springfield, 111., July 12, 1866. The first national encampment 
 was held at Indianapolis, November 20, 1866. 
 
 NATIONAL ENCAMPMENTS AND COMMANDERS-IN-CHIEF. 
 1866— Indianapolis . 
 1868— Philadel phia . 
 i86q — Cincinnati . . . 
 
 .Stephen A. Hurlbnt, 111. 
 
 .John A. Logan, Illinois. 
 
 .John A. Logan, Illinois. 
 
 1870— Washington John A. Logan, Illinois. 
 
 1871— Boston A. E. Burnside, Rhode-Is\. 
 
 1872— Cleveland A. E. Burnside, Rhode-Isl. 
 
 1873— New-Haven Charles Devens, Jr., Mass. 
 
 1874 — Harrisburg Charles Devens, Jr., Mass. 
 
 187s— Chicago John F. Hartranf t. Pa. 
 
 1876— Philadelphia.... John F. Hartranft, Pa 
 1877— Providence . . .J. C. Robinson, New-York. 
 1878— Spri'gfleld,MaB8.J. C. Robinson, New-York. 
 1879— Albany William Earnshaw, Ohio. 
 
 1880— Dayton, O Louis Wagner, Pa. 
 
 1881— Indianapolis George S. Merrill, Mass. 
 
 1882— Baltimore Paul Van Der Voort, Neb. 
 
 1S83— Denver Robert B. Beath, Pa. 
 
 1884— Minneapolis John S. Kuntz, Ohio. . 
 
 1885— Portland, Me... S. S. Burdette, Wash. 
 1886— Sun Francisco .Lucius Fairchild, Wis. 
 
 1887— St. Louis ..John P. Rae, Minnesota. 
 
 888— Columbus, O.. . William Warner, Mo. 
 1889— Milwaukee, Wis.Russell A. Alger, Mich. 
 1890— Boston, Mass. ..Wheelock G. Veazey, Vt. 
 1891— Detroit, Mich, . .John Palmer, New York. 
 
3ri)e miiii mi^V at 1861-65. 
 
 SliTES iND TkbRIIORIKS. 
 
 Number 
 of Men 
 
 Famished. 
 
 Reduced to a 
 
 Three Years' 
 
 Stsodiog. 
 
 States and TEBErroRiKS. 
 
 Number 
 
 of .Mrn 
 
 Furuished. 
 
 Aggrepate 
 Reduced to a 
 Thre. Years' 
 
 Standing. 
 
 
 8.2S9 
 15.725 
 
 5tr^ 
 12,284 
 1,290 
 
 259.092 
 
 761242 
 
 5.224 
 
 4^:63! 
 146,730 
 87,364 
 
 24,020 
 545 
 
 loq III 
 
 1,611 
 
 7,836 
 15.725 
 
 3.697 
 50.623 
 10,322 
 
 1.290 
 
 2iV,i33 
 
 Wo 
 18.706 
 
 41.275 
 124.104 
 80,111 
 19.693 
 
 86,^^^ 
 
 30,849 
 57.908 
 
 New-Ynrk 
 
 44S.S50 
 3. 1 '^6 
 
 ''ft 
 
 Si 
 ■32,068 
 
 16534 
 3.530 
 
 '6.56i 
 '■"96^ 
 
 93.441 
 
 392,270 
 
 Arkansas 
 
 Ncrth-CaroUua 
 
 3 156 
 
 
 Ohio .... 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 '^M 
 
 
 
 Florida 
 
 South-Carolina 
 
 Georgia 
 
 
 29,c68 
 
 Illinois 
 
 Tpiias ^ '^^ 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 West-Virginia 
 
 27.714 
 
 Kentucky 
 
 
 79,260 
 
 206 
 
 
 Dakiita 
 
 
 
 1,506 
 
 
 
 3.530 
 
 
 Montana 
 
 Michigan 
 
 New-Mexico 
 
 4.432 
 
 
 Utah 
 
 
 
 
 964 
 
 Missouri ::;■■;.■■'■:;■::■■■■ 
 
 
 
 Nebraska 
 
 Nevada 
 
 U. S. Volunteers 
 
 U S. Colored Troops 
 
 91,789 
 
 
 Total 
 
 
 New-jers.y ■:::::.:::.. 
 
 2,778.304 
 
 2,3-'6,i6d 
 
 The number of casualties i 
 
 of wound 
 
 inteer and regular armies of the United States, during I 
 e Adjutant-General's o 
 :, 199,720 : other cause^ such 
 
 according to a statement prepared by the Adjutant-General's office, was as follows: Killed in 
 ids, 43.012; died of clisease, 199,720: other caur"- -•"'• "° »""■<'>"•= t„....,i.>» n.-.,,,-. ; 
 40,154; total died. 349 944 ; tot.l deserted, 199,105. Ni 
 S21. Desert 
 
 war of 
 
 ^61-65. 
 
 tle,67,o- 
 
 8 ; liied 
 
 
 -. etc.. 
 
 
 uird of 
 
 1 1 .- ■ 
 
 States 
 
 aUc Iro 
 
 t roops 
 ps who 
 
 accidents, murder, C 
 
 ,-,.:„, ,„™. „w.^. j.,7 ,,„, .., .„,._„ iif SDldiers in the Confederatr 
 
 wounds or disease (partial statement), 133,821. Deserted {partial .natement), 104,428. Nm,/ 
 troops captured dunng the war, 2i2,6oi8 ; Confederate troops captured, 476.109. Number ot I 
 paroled on the field, 16 431 : Confederate troops paroled on the held, 248,599. Number of UuU 
 died while prisouers, 30,156; Confederate troops who died while prisouers, 30,152. 
 
 THE GEEAT BATTLES OF THE CIVIL 'WAE. 
 
 <From "Regimental Losses In the American Civil War," by William F. Pox, Lieutenant-Colonel U.S.V.) 
 As to the loss in the Union armies, the greatest battles in the war were : 
 
 Date. 
 
 July 1-3, 1863 
 
 May 8-18, 1864 
 
 Mav 5-7. 1864 
 
 September 17. 1862 
 
 May 1-3, 1863 
 
 SepteniDer 1Q-20, 1863. 
 
 June 1-4, 1864 
 
 December 11-14. 1862. 
 
 August 28-30, 1862 
 
 April 6-7, 1862 , 
 
 December 31, 1S62 
 
 June t^-i9. 1864 
 
 Battle. 
 
 Gettysburg 
 
 Spottsylvauia 
 
 Wilderness 
 
 Antiitanit 
 
 Chancelloi'sville 
 
 ("hickamauga 
 
 Cold Harbor 
 
 Fredericksburg 
 
 Manassast 
 
 Shiloh 
 
 Stone's River? 
 
 Petersburg (as.sault). 
 
 3.070 
 2,725 
 2.246 
 2.108 
 i,6c6 
 1,656 
 1.844 
 1.284 
 1.747 
 l.7';4 
 1.730 
 
 14.497 
 13.413 
 12.037 
 9.549 
 9.762 
 9 749 
 9.077 
 9.600 
 8.452 
 8.408 
 7.802 
 8, US 
 
 3.3i'3 
 
 7=3 
 
 5.99 
 
 1.769 
 4.263 
 
 12.410 
 17.287 
 16.179 
 12.737 
 12,6=3 
 14,462 
 13.047 
 
 • Wounded in these and the following returns includes mortally wounded. 
 
 t Not including South Mountain or Crampton's Gap. 
 
 i Including Chantilly, Rappahannock, Bristol Station and Bull Run Bridge. 
 
 5 Including Knob Gap and losses on January i and 2, 1863. 
 
 The Union losses at Bull Run (first Manassas), July 21, i86i, were : killed, 470 ; wounded, 1,071 ; captured 
 and missing, 1,793; aggregate, 3.334. 
 
 The Confederate fosses in particular engagements were as follows: Bull Run fflrst Manassas). July 21, 1861. 
 killed, 387 ; wounded, 1,582 ; captured and missing, 13 : aggregate, r.982. Fnrt Donelson, 'I'eim., Feb. 14-16, 1862, 
 killed, 460; wounded, i,<;34; captured and missing, 13,829; aggregate, 15,829. Shiloh. Tenn., April 6-7, 1862, 
 killed. 1,723: wounded, 8.012 ; captured and missing, 959 ; aggregate. 10.694. Seven Day.s' Battle. Virginia, June 
 25-July I, 1^2, killed, 3,478; wounded, 16,261 ; captured and missing, 675; aggregate, 20,614. Second Manassas. 
 Aug. 2i-Sept. 2, killed, 1 481 ; wounded and iiiis-ius, 7.627 ; captured and missing, 89; aggregate, 9,197- Antietam 
 campaign. Sept. 12-20. 1862, killed, 1.886 : wounded, 9.348 ; captured and miss ng, 1,367 ; aggregate, 12,601. Freder- 
 icksburg, Dec. 13. 1862. killed, 596; wounded, 4,068; captured and mis-siiig. 6 1 : aggregate, 5,31?. Stone's River, 
 Tenn.. Dec. 31, iS'62. killed. 1,294: wound'd, 7.945 ; captured an. I missing, 1,027; aggregate, 10266. Chance lors- 
 ville. May 1-4, 1863, killed, 1,605: wounded. 9,081 ; captured and missing, 2018: airgregate. 12,764. Gettysburg, 
 July 1-3, 1863, killed. 2.592; wounded, 12.706; captured and missing. 11,150; aggregate, 20.448. Chickamauga, 
 Sept. 19-20. 1863, killed, 2,268; wounded, 13.613: captured and nu.^sing, 1,090: aggregate, 16,971. 
 
 -Gettysburg was the greatest battle (if the war; Antiet an the bloodiest. The largest army was asBembled 
 by the Confederates at the seven days' flght ; by the Unionists at the Wilderness." 
 
aCtJitiQ Winion (25fnicrals; 
 
 LIST OF LIVIKG MAJOR-GENERALS OF THE UNITED STATES ARIMY WHO SAW 
 ACTIVE SERVICE IN THE FIELD DURING THE CIVIL WAR. 
 
 There were commigsioned hy the United States during llie civil war of 1861-65, including those 
 who held rauk at the time the war bej:an, over 2,500 geiien.l otlicers of various gmdes : general, 
 lieiitenaut-geuerale, major-generals, major-gei.erals by brevet, brigadier-generals ami briL'ndier-gen- 
 erals by brevet. It is believed that less than i,o«> of these are now living. The followiiii,' isa ijartial 
 list of those who held the rank of major-general in the regular and volunteer armies, either in full or 
 by brevet, and saw active service in the field, who are known or supposed to be living at the present 
 time.* 
 
 REGULAR ARMY. 
 
 William S. Rosecrans 
 
 Rufus Ingalls 
 
 David S. Stanley. 
 
 Orlando B. Willcox. 
 
 Philip St. George Cooke. 
 
 Stewart Van Vliet. 
 
 John B. Mcintosh. 
 
 Galusha Peunypackec 
 
 John pope. 
 
 John W. Davidson. 
 
 August V Kautz. 
 
 Nelson A. Miles. 
 
 John M. Sthofield. 
 
 Alfred Pleasauton. 
 
 Benjamni H.jGrierson. 
 
 Daniel E. Sickles. 
 
 Daniel Butiertield. 
 
 Frank Wheaton. 
 
 Samuel 8. CarrolL 
 
 Waeer Swayne. 
 
 Oliver 0. Howard. 
 
 Wesley Merritt. 
 
 Robert S. Granger. 
 
 William H.'French. 
 
 James B. Fry. 
 
 George IStoneman. 
 
 Ale.xander S. Webb. 
 
 Albion P. Howe. 
 
 Absalom Baird. 
 
 Oodiiey Weitzel. 
 
 William B. Franklin. 
 
 John Gibbon. 
 
 Alvan C. Gillem. 
 
 James H. Wilson. 
 
 Christopher C. Auger. 
 
 George W Getty. 
 
 John \\. Turner. 
 
 William M\ Averell. 
 
 William P CMrlin. 
 
 Adelbert Ames. 
 
 Daniel P. \\-oodbury. 
 
 Richard W. Johnson. 
 
 Abner Doubleday. 
 
 Samuel W. Crawford. 
 
 Zealous B. Tower. ^ 
 
 Eli Long. 
 
 Joseph J. Reynolds. 
 
 John C. Robinson. 
 
 John Newton. 
 
 Andrew J. Sn-ith. 
 
 John E. Smith. 
 
 Frederick Steele. 
 
 \Vm. F Smith. 
 
 Eugene A. Carr. 
 
 Charles H. Smith. 
 
 Alex. McD. McCook. 
 
 Thomas J. Wood. 
 
 
 
 
 VOLUNTEER ARMY. 
 
 Nathaniel P. Banks. 
 Beujauiiii F. Butler. 
 Doa Carlos Buell. 
 Samuel R Curtis. 
 Franz Sigel. 
 John A. McClernand. 
 Lewis Wallace. 
 Erasmus D Keyes. 
 Filz John Porter. 
 Darius N. Couch. 
 Henry W Slocum. 
 John J. Peck. 
 Thomas L. Crittenden, 
 Schuyler Ilauiillon. 
 Jacob D, Cox. 
 James S. Negley. 
 John M. Paluicr. 
 Richard J.Oglesby. 
 C. C. Washburn. 
 James G. Biuut. 
 Carl Schurz. 
 W. T. H. Brooks. 
 Granville M. Dodge. 
 Henry E Davies. 
 Francis C. Barlow. 
 Gersham Mott. 
 M. D. Legsett. 
 John M. Corse. 
 Lewis A. Grant. 
 Thomas H. Ruger. 
 Kufus Saxton." 
 Charles J. Paine. 
 James W. McMillan. 
 C. C. Andrews. 
 Joseph B. Carr. 
 N. Martin Curtis. 
 Nathan Kimball. 
 John B. Sanborn. 
 Benjamin F. Kelly. 
 
 John H. Ketchiiui. 
 Jacob G. Lanman. 
 John B. Mcintosh. 
 Thomas J. McKean. 
 Byron R. Pierce. 
 B. F. Potts. 
 William H. Powell. 
 Elliot W. Rice. 
 James R. Slack. 
 Green C lav Smith. 
 Thomas Kel by Smith. 
 J. W. Sprague. 
 John D. Stevenson. 
 John M. Thaver, 
 Davis Tillson. 
 Erastus B. Tyler. 
 Daniel Ullman. 
 William B Woods. 
 Joseph Bailey. 
 Thomas L. Kane. 
 John G. Mitchell. 
 William H. Morris. 
 Halbert E. Paine. 
 Henrv G . Thou-.as. 
 Hector Tyivl,-ile. 
 Horatio P. A'au Clave. 
 James A Williamson. 
 James D. Morgan. 
 James C. Veuch. 
 Willia n P. Benton. - 
 Thomas J. Lucas. 
 James J. Gilbert. 
 Joshua L. Chamberlain. 
 Robert S. Foster. 
 Henry Baxter. 
 Oliver Edwards. 
 P. R. De Trobriand. 
 William A. Pile. 
 John McNeil. 
 
 Elias S. Dennis. 
 Lewis B. Parsons. 
 Orris S. Perry. 
 William Vandever. 
 August L..Chetlain. 
 John P. Hawkins. 
 Alexander Shaler. 
 Adin B. Underwood. 
 Salomon Meredith. 
 John C. Caldwell. 
 Fitz Henry Warien. 
 Joseph R. Hawley. 
 August Willich. 
 William T. Clark. 
 R. K. Scott. 
 Joseph R. West. 
 Martin T. McMahon. 
 Charles G. Loring. 
 Robert Allen. 
 Waller C Whitacker. 
 Mannirg F. Force. 
 John W. Fuller. 
 John F. Miller. 
 Joseph Hayes. 
 Joseph A. Cooper. 
 Alexander Asboih. 
 ilsnry A.Barnum. 
 George L Beal. 
 William Birney. 
 James Bowen. 
 .Mason Bravman. 
 R P. Buckknd. 
 Robert A Cameron. 
 Selden £. Connor. 
 Thomas Ewing, Jr. 
 James D. Fessenden. 
 Walter Q. Gresham. 
 Cvrus Hamlin. 
 Rutherford B. Haves. 
 
 Edward W Hlnks 
 H. M. Plaisted. 
 George H Nye. 
 William Wells. 
 George A Macy, 
 Henry L. Abbott. 
 John C. Tidhall. 
 Frederick Winthrop. 
 Benjamin F. Baker. 
 Nelson Cross. 
 Adrian R. Root. 
 Lewis T. Barney. 
 Charles J. Powers. 
 Isaac S. Catlin. 
 George H. Sharpe. 
 James Wooa, Jr. 
 James Jourdan. 
 E. L. Moliueux. 
 James P. Mclvor. 
 John Ramsay. 
 Robert McAllister. 
 William J. Sewell. 
 John 1. Gregg. 
 Richard Coulter. 
 «t. Clair Mulholland. 
 James Gwyn. 
 Henry J. MadilL 
 A. L. Pearson. 
 Horatio G. SickeL 
 A. W. Denuison. 
 Alvin C. Voris. 
 Marshall F. Moore. 
 W. L. iMcMillan. 
 J. Warren Keifer. 
 Russell A.Alger. 
 William L. Sloughton. 
 Henry D. Washburn. 
 Willard Warner. 
 
 * The list has been restricted to major-generals who were actively engaged in the field during the 
 war. It is known to be imperfect, as the whereabouts of several persons ui the list are unknown, 
 and they have not been heard of for some time. A complete list is desirable, and the editor would 
 welcome corrections and additions during the year, 
 
January i, 1892. 
 
 During the Civil War tliere were 498 persons commissioned as generals of the several grades in 
 the Confederate Army. Of these, less than 174 arc now living— twenty-six years after the close of the 
 war. 
 
 General VV. L. Cabell, of Dallas, Tex., has prepared the following list of survivors, together with 
 their present places of residence, when known : 
 
 GENERAL. 
 
 Gustave P. T. Beauregard, New-Orleans, La. 
 
 GENERAL WITH TEMPORARY RANK. 
 
 Edmund Kirby Smith, Sewanee, Tenu. 
 
 LIEUTENANT-GENERALS. 
 
 Stephen D. Lee, Starkville, Miss. ' 
 James Longstreet, Gainesville, Ga. 
 Jubal A. Early, Lynchburg, Va. 
 Simon B. Buckner, Frankfort, Ky. 
 Joseph Wheeler, Wheeler, Ala. 
 Ambrose P. Stewart, Oxford, Miss. 
 Wade Hampton, Columbia, S. C. 
 John B. Gordon, Atlanta, Ga. 
 
 MAJOR-GENERALS. 
 
 Qustavus W. Smith, New- York. 
 
 LaFayette McLaws, Savannah, Ga. 
 
 C. W. Field, Washington, D. C. 
 
 S. G. French, Holly Springs, Miss, 
 
 John H. Forney, Alabama. 
 
 Dabney H. Maury, Richmond, Va. 
 
 Henry Heth, United States Coast Survey. 
 
 Robert Ransom, Jr., Weldon, N. C. 
 
 J. L. Kemper, Orange Court House, Va. 
 
 Fitzhugh Lee, Glasgow, Va. 
 
 W. B. Bate, U. S. Senate. 
 
 Robert F. Hoke, Raleigh, N. C. 
 
 J. B. Kershaw, Camden, S. C. 
 
 M. C. Butler, U. S. Senate. 
 
 E. C. Walthall, U. S. Senate. 
 
 L. L. Lor ,ax, Blacksburg. 
 
 P. M. B. foung, Atlanta, Ga, 
 
 T. L. Ro iser, Charlottesville, Va. 
 
 W. W. Allen, Montgomery, Ala. 
 
 8. B. Maxey, Paris, Tex. 
 
 William Mahone, ^'"^'"^bu^g, Va. 
 
 G. W. Custis Lee, L.exington, Va. 
 
 William B. Taliaferro, Gloucester, Va. 
 
 John G. Walker, Missouri. 
 
 William T. Martin, Natchez, Miss. 
 
 Bushrod R. Johnson, Nashville, Tenn. 
 
 C. J. Polignac, Paris, France. 
 
 E. M. Law, Yorkville, S. C. 
 
 James H. Fagan, Little Rock, Ark. 
 
 Thomas Churchill, Little Rock Ark. 
 
 Richard Gatlin, Fort Smith, Ark. 
 
 Matt Ransom, U. S. Senate. 
 
 T. A. Smith, Jackson, Miss. 
 
 BRIGADIER-GENERALS. 
 
 George T. Anderson, Anniston, Ala. 
 Joseph R. Anderson, Richmond, Va. 
 Frank C. Armstrong, Texas. 
 E. S. Alexander, Savannah, Ga. 
 Arthurs. Ba^by, Texas. 
 Alpheus Baker, Louisville, Ky. 
 Laurence S. Baker, address not known. 
 Pinckney D. Bowles, Alabama. 
 William L. Brandon, Mississippi. 
 John Bratton. South-Carolina. 
 J. L. Brent, Baltimore, Md. 
 C. A. Battle, Eufaula, Ala. 
 
 BRIGADIER-GENERALS— CO«fi;i«e«i. 
 
 R. L. T. Beale, Hague, Va. 
 
 Hamilton P. Bee, Sau Antonio, Tex. 
 
 W. R. Boggs, Winston, N. C. 
 
 Tyree H. Bell, Tennessee. 
 
 William L. Cabell, Dallas, Tex. 
 
 E. Capars, Columbia, S. 0. 
 
 James R. Chalmers, Vicksburg, Miss. 
 
 Thomas L. Clingman, Charlotte, N. C. 
 
 George B. Cosby, Kentucky. 
 
 Francis M. Cockrell, U. S. Senate. 
 
 A. H. Colquitt, U. S. Senate. 
 
 R. E. Colston, Washington, D. C. 
 
 Phil Cook, Atlanta, Ga. 
 
 M. D. Corse, Alexandria, Va. 
 
 Alexander W. Campbell, Tennessee. 
 
 John B. Clark, Jr., Brunswick, Mo. 
 
 Alfred Gumming, Augusta, Ga. 
 
 X. B. DeBray, Austin, Tex. 
 
 MHlliam R. Cox, North-Carolina. 
 
 Joseph Drvis, Mississippi City, Miss. 
 
 H. T. Davidson, Tennessee. 
 
 T. P. Dockary, Arkansas. 
 
 Basil W. Duke, Louisville. Ky. 
 
 John Echols, Louisville, Ky. 
 
 C. A. Evans, Atlanta, Ga. 
 
 Samuel W. Ferguson, Pass Christian, Miss. 
 J. J. Finley, Florida. 
 
 D. M. Frost, Missouri. 
 Richard M. Gano, Dallas. Tex. 
 I. Q. George, Jackson, Miss. 
 R. L. Gibson, U. S. Senate. 
 William L. Gardner, Memphis. Tenn. 
 G. W. Gordon, Nashville, Tenn. 
 
 E. C. Govan, Arkansas. 
 Johnson Haygood, Barnswell, S. C. 
 George P. Harrison, Jr., Auburn, Ala. 
 Robert J. Henderson. Atlanta, Ga. 
 A. T. Hawthorne, Atlanta, Ga. 
 
 J. F. Holtzclaw, Montgomery, Ala. 
 Ep)m Hunton, Warrenton, V^a. 
 William P. Hardeman, Austin, Tex. 
 N. H. Harris, Mississippi. 
 R. H. Harriss, Vicksburg, Miss. 
 Richard Harrison, Waco, Tex. 
 George B. Hodge, Kentucky. 
 William J. Hoke, North-Carolina. 
 Alfred Iverson, Florida. 
 J. D. Imboden, Southwest Virginia. 
 Henry R. Jackson, Savannah, Ga. 
 William H. Jackson, Nashville, Tenn. 
 Bradley T. Johnson, Baltimore, Md. 
 George D. Johnston, Charleston, S. C. 
 Robert D. Johnston, Birmingham, Ala. 
 A. R. Johnson, Texas. 
 J. D. Kennedy, Camden, S. C. 
 William H. King, Austin, Tex. 
 William W. Kirkland, New- York. 
 James H. Lane, Auburn, Ala. 
 A. R. Lawton, Savannah, Ga. 
 T. M. Logan, Richmond, Va. 
 Robert Lowry, Jackson, Miss. 
 Walter P. Lane, Marshall, Tex. 
 Joseph H. Lewis, Kentucky. 
 
LIVING CONFEDERATE GENERALS— Coni!i«Me<f. 
 
 BRIGADIER-GENERALS— C'oniin?^«(/. 
 
 W. G. Lewis, North-Carolina. 
 
 William McComb, GordoDBville, Va. 
 
 Samuel McGowen, Abbeville, 8. C. 
 
 R. McNair, Hallsville, Miss. 
 
 John T. Morgan, U. S. Senate. 
 
 T. T. .Miinford, Lynchburg, Va. 
 
 Gfort^e Manney, Nashville, Tenn. 
 
 James G. Martin, North-Carolina. 
 
 John McCausland, West-Virginia. 
 
 Henry E. McCuUoch, Texas. 
 
 W. R. Miles, Mississippi. 
 
 William Miller, Florida. 
 
 John C. Moore, Texas. 
 
 Francis T. Nichols, New-Orleans, La. 
 
 R. L. Page, Norfolk, Va. 
 
 W. H. Payne, Warrenton, Va. 
 
 W. F. Perry, Glendale, Ky. 
 
 Roger A. Pryor, New- York. 
 
 Lucius E. Polk, Tennessee. 
 
 W. H. Parsons, Texas. 
 
 N. B. Pearce, Arkansas. 
 
 E. W. Pettus, Selma, Ala. 
 
 W. A. Quarles, Clarkesville, Tenn. 
 B. H. Robertson, Washington, D. C. 
 
 F. H. Robertson, Waco, Tex. 
 Daniel Russell, Fredericksburg, Va. 
 George W. Rains, Augusta, Ga. 
 
 A. E. Reynolds, Mississippi. 
 D. H. Reynolds, Arkansas. 
 
 BRiGADiER-sEXERALS- Cmitinued. 
 
 E. V. Richardson, Tennessee. 
 William P. Roberts, Raleigh, N. C. 
 Charles A. Ronda, Blacksburg, Va. 
 L. S. Ross, College Station, Tex. 
 Joe Shelby, Carthage, Mo. 
 Charles M. Shelly, Alabama. 
 
 F. A. Shoup, Sewanee, Tenn. 
 A. M. Scales, Greensboro, N. C. 
 Thomas B. Smith, Nashville, Tenn. " 
 
 G. M. Sorrell, Savannah, Ga. 
 George H. Stewart, Baltimore, Md. 
 Marcellus A. Stovall, Augusta, Ga. 
 Edward L. Thomas, Washington, D. C. 
 W. R. Terry, Richmond, Va. 
 
 J. C. Tappan, Helena, Ark. 
 
 Robert B. Vance, Asheville, N. C. 
 
 A. J. Vaughan, Memphis, Tenn. 
 
 James A Walker, Wytheville, Va. 
 
 D. A. Weisger, Petersburg, Va. 
 
 G. C. Wharton, New River, Va. 
 
 Marcus J. Wright, Washington, D. C. 
 
 G. J. Wright, GrifBn, Ga. 
 
 H. H. Walker, New-York. 
 
 W. S. Walker, Florida. 
 
 W. H. Wallace, Columbia, S. C. 
 
 T. N. Waul, Galveston, Tex. 
 
 John S. Williams, Mount Sterling, Ky. 
 
 Zebulon York, Baton Rouge, La. 
 
 2imarfl of ti)e Sluitctr States, 
 
 STATEMENT OF THE NUMBER OF UNITED STATES TROOPS ENGAGED. 
 
 War of the Revolution . 
 Northwestern Indian \V: 
 War with France , 
 
 Creek Indian War 
 
 War of 1812 with Great Britain.. 
 
 Seminole Indian War 
 
 Black Hawk Indian War 
 
 Cherokee disturbance or removal 
 Creek Indian War or disturbance 
 
 Florida Indian War 
 
 Aroostook distnrliance 
 
 War with Mexico 
 
 Apache, Navajo, and Utah AVar. 
 
 Seminole Indian War 
 
 Civil Wart 
 
 April ig, 1775 April 11, 
 Sept. 19, l79oAug. 3, 
 •July 9, 1798 Sept. 30, 
 •Tune 10, 1801'June 4. 
 •July 27, iSisAug. 9, 
 •June 18, 1812 Feb. 17, 
 Xov. 20, 1817 Oct. 21, 
 April 21 1S31 Sept. 31, 
 
 1836 I 1837 
 
 May 5, i836iSept. 30, 
 Dec. 23, 1835 1 Aug. 14, 
 
 1838 1839 
 
 April 24, 1846 July 4, 
 
 i34Q 1855 
 
 Regulars. 
 
 Militia 
 
 and 
 
 Volunteers. 
 
 130,711 
 
 164,080 
 
 "■'to 
 85,000 
 
 ■i3,i8i 
 471,622 
 
 1,000 
 
 6,911 
 
 1.339 
 
 5,126 
 9.49-4 
 12,483 
 29,9^3 
 
 30,954 
 1,500 
 
 73, 776 
 1,061 
 3,687 
 
 '3,330 
 13.781 
 
 576,622 
 6,465 
 
 9,494 
 13,418 
 41,122 
 1,500 
 112,230 
 
 2,s6l 
 
 2,687 
 ^ 772,408 
 
 ' Naval forces engaged. 
 
 t The number of troops on the Confederate side vras about ( 
 
 In the War of 1812-15 there were 10 battle.?, 8 combats and assaults, 52 actions and bombardments. In the 
 Mexican War there were 11 pitched battles and 35 actions, combats, sieges and skirmishes. In the Civil War 
 of 1861-65 there were 107 pitched battles, 102 combats and 362 actions, sieges and lesser aifairs. Since 1812 the 
 United Slates Army has had over 640 battles, fights and actions against Indians. Since 1789 there have been 
 912 garrisoned forts, arsenals and military posts in the United States. At the present time (1891) there are 144 
 garrisoned forts, arsenals and military posts. 
 
 Up to and including June, 1861, there were 1.966 graduates of the Military Academv, and of these there were 
 living at the outbreak of the Civil War of 1861-65, 1,249. Of the 1,249, 428 were in civil life and 821 were in the 
 military service of the United States. Of those in civil life, 292 took sides with the Union and 99 joined the 
 Confederacy, while 37 are unknown. Of the 821 in the army, 627 sided with the Union, 184 .ioined the Con- 
 federacy, and 10 took neither side. Of the 99 who .joined the Confederacy from civil life, all, except one, were 
 either born and brought up or were residents of Soiithern territorv. On the other hand, of the 3^0 graduates 
 born or appointed from Southern States, 162 remained loyal to the United States. Of the graduates who served 
 In the Civil War, one fifth were killed in battle, while one half were wounded.— ii<;«<««an« TF. R. Hamilton, 
 U. 8, A. 
 
Sank. 
 Major-Greueral, 
 
 Brigadiur-General, 
 
 Name, 
 John M. Schofield, 
 Oliver O. Howard, 
 Nelsoa A. Miles, 
 Ttiomas H. Ruger, 
 Wesley Merritt, 
 David 8 Stanley, 
 John R Brooke, 
 A. McD. McCook, 
 A. V. Kaatz, 
 
 THE ARMY. 
 
 Generals. 
 Commands. 
 United States Array, 
 Department of the East, 
 Departmeat of the Missouri, 
 Department of California. 
 Department of Dakota, 
 Department of Texas, 
 Department of the Platte, 
 Department of Arizona, 
 Department of the Columbia, 
 
 Brisadier-General, John C. Kelton, Adjutaut-General, 
 
 Richard N. Bachelder, Qaartermaster-General, 
 
 William S.nitn, 
 Beekman Du Barry, 
 C. Sutherland, 
 
 Paymaster-General, 
 
 Commissary-General, 
 
 Surgeon-General, 
 
 Adolphus W. Greely, Chief Signal Otticer, 
 Thomas L. Casey, Chief of Eiigineers, 
 
 Colonel, 
 
 Name. 
 Augur, C. C. 
 
 Jos C Breckinridge, 
 Guido N. Lieber, 
 
 ffeadquarters. 
 Washington, D. C. 
 Governor's Island, N. Y. 
 Chicago, 111. 
 Saa Francisco, Cal. 
 St. Paul, Minn. 
 San Antonio, Tex. 
 Omahi' Neb. 
 Los Angeles, Cal. 
 Vancouver Bar'ks,WasU 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 Washington, D C. 
 Washington, D. C. 
 Washington, D. C. 
 AVashingtou, D. C. 
 Washington, D. C. 
 Washington, D. C. 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 Baird, Absalom 
 
 Betet, S. V 
 
 Brice, B. W 
 
 Brown, N. W.... 
 
 Carroll, S. S Maj. 
 
 Cooke, P. St. G. Brig 
 Crawford, S. W.. 
 
 Drum, R. C 
 
 Duane, James C. 
 Fessenden, F ... 
 Gibbon, Jnhn... 
 
 Grierson, B H 
 
 Hammond, W. A. 
 Hardin, M. D.... 
 Holabird, S. B.... 
 Holt, Joseph .... 
 Ingalls, Rufus... 
 
 Inspector-General 
 
 Acting Judge Advocate-Gen., Washington, D. C. 
 Generals ok the Retired List 
 Rank. Resideu 
 
 .Brig. -Gen.. Washington D. C, 
 
 ..Washington, D. C. 
 
 ..Washington, D. C. 
 
 ..Washington, D.C. 
 ' ..Washington, D C. 
 • Gen. . Washington, D. C. 
 Gen.. Detroit, Mich. 
 ' ..rJew York City. 
 ' ..Bethesda, Md. 
 ' ..New- York City. 
 ' ..Portland, Me. 
 ' ..Washington. D. C. 
 ' ..Jacksonville, 111. 
 ' ..Washington, D. C. 
 ' ..Chicago, 111. 
 ' ..Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 ..Washington, D". C. 
 
 . Portland, Ore. 
 
 Nainc. Rank. Residence. 
 
 Johnson, R. W...Brig.-Gen..St. Paul, Minn. 
 
 Lon^, Eli 
 
 Macteely, R 
 
 Moore, John 
 
 Murray, Robert. 
 Newton, John. 
 Pope, John 
 Potter, J. H 
 
 KeuKa Co 1., N. Y. 
 .Washington, 1). C. 
 .Washington, D. C. 
 .New- York City. 
 .New- York City. 
 ...Maj. -Gen... St. Louis, Mo. 
 .Brig.-Gen. ..Columbus, O. 
 
 Robinson, J. CMaj.-Gen. ..Binghamton, N. Y. 
 Roche.-^ter, W. B.Brig -Gen.. Washington, D. C. 
 Rosecrans, W. S.. " . Washington, D. C. 
 Ruc:er, D H.... " ..Wa-hington, D. C. 
 Sickles, Daniel E.Maj.-Gen.. New- York City. 
 Sweeny, T. W....Brig. Gen.. Astoria, N. Y. 
 Townsend, E. D.. " ..Washington, D. C. 
 Willcox, O. B. ... " ..Washington, D. C. 
 
 Wood, T J " ..Dayton, O. - 
 
 Wright, H. G .. " ..Washington, D. C. 
 
 The following are the dates of future retirements of generals now on the active list, to the close 
 of 1895 : Brigadier-General Kautz, January 5, 189 1 : Brigadier-General Stinley, June 1, iSgj ; Adju- 
 tant-Gineral Kelton, June 24, 1892 ; Commissary Uu Barry, December 4, 1892 ; Major-Geueral Crook, 
 September 8, 1893 ; Ma.jor-Cieneial Howard, November 8, 1S94 ; Chief of Engineers Casey, May 10, 
 189s ; Major-Geueral Schofield, September 29, 1 895. 
 
 OROANIZATIO.V OP THE ARMY. 
 
 The army of the United States, in 1890, consisted of the following forces, in officers and men : 
 
 Officers. EnUited Men. Aggregate. 
 
 Ten cavalry regiments 
 
 Five artillery regnnents 
 
 Twenty five infantry regiments 
 
 Engineer Battalion, rccruitin<j parties, ordnance 
 
 department, hospital service Indian scouts. 
 
 West I'oiut, Signal detachment, and general 
 
 service 
 
 432 
 
 6,050 
 
 6,;82' 
 
 282 
 
 3.675 
 
 3.957 
 
 877 
 
 12,125 
 
 13,002 
 
 S79 
 
 3.370 
 
 3.949 
 
 Total....... 2,170 25,220 27.390 
 
 The United States are divided into eight military departments, as follows : 
 Department of the East.— New England States, New- York, New-Jersey, Pcmsylvania, Del- 
 aware, Maryla.id, Virginia, West- Virginia, North Carolina, South-Carolina, Georg'ia, Florida, 
 Louisiana, Mississippi, 'Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio and the District of Columbia. 
 
 Department op the Missouri. — Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, 
 Arkansas, Indian and Oklahoma Territories. 
 
 Department op California. — California (excepting that portion south of the 35th parallel) 
 and Nevada. 
 
 Department op Dakota.— Minnesota. Sonfh-Dakofa (excepting so mnch as lies south of the 
 44th parallel), North-Dakota, Montana and the post of Fort Yellowstone, Wyo. 
 Department op Texas. — State of I'exas. 
 
 De.°artment op the PL\TTt,. — lowa, Nebraska, Colorado and Wyoming Cexcepting the post 
 of Fort Yellowstone, Wyo.). Utah, so much of Idaho as li ■•* east of a line formed by the extension 
 of the western boundary of Uta 1 to the northeastern boundary of Idaho, and so much of South- 
 Da.vota as lies south of the 44tU parallel. 
 
 Department OP Arizona —Arizona and New-Mexico, and California south of the 35th parallel 
 Department op the Coi umbia.— Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Alaska, excepting bo macu 
 of Idaho as is embraced in thv Department of the i'latte, 
 
THE KR'iS.'t— Continued. 
 
 First Cavalrv. Col. A. K. Arnold (Headquartera, 
 Fort Custer. Mont.), Moutaua. Kansas, North-Dakota, 
 
 ScvO'i'l Otvalry. Col 
 Fort Wiiinrite, N. M.), J 
 
 Third i',n\urv. (•,./. 
 Fort ^^!nt'.^l. IVx), 1 
 
 Fuurll, (■.,,. ,tr:,. C<>1 
 
 }. Runtt (Headquarters, 
 zona, Kansas, New-Mexico. 
 r. Morrow (Headquart>rs, 
 .as, South-Dakota. 
 , E. Compton (Headquarters, 
 
 Fort Walla Walia, Wash'.), Washington, Idado, Cali- 
 
 ^"Fifl'h Cavalry. C-l. J F. TTtrrfr (Headquarters. 
 Fort Reno, Oklahoma), Indian Territory. Oklahoma, 
 
 ''^^Mi Cavalry. Col. E. A. Carr (Headquarters, Fort 
 Niobrara, Neb.), Nebia>ka, Wyoiiiiug 
 
 Seventh Cavalry Ctd. ./. If. Forsyll, (Headquarters, 
 Fort Rilev, Kan.). Oklahoma Territory, Kansas. 
 
 E,gl,tl, Cavalry. Col. J. S. Bri.bin (Headquarters. 
 Fort Meade, S. Dak.), Montana, North and faoutn- 
 
 '^Niufi. T'!™"'v. Col. James Biddle (Headquarters. 
 Fort Robinson, Neb.), Nebraska, Utah, Kansas, Vir- 
 
 ^^ftnlh Cavalry. Col. J. K Mizner (Headquarters, 
 Fort Grant, Ariz.), Arizona. New-Mexico 
 
 First AriiUrrv'col. L. L. /,««ffdo»( Headquarters, 
 Fort Hamilton. N. Y.), Virginia. New .\ ork. Illinois. 
 
 Sccomi Artillery. Col. John JtfejjdenAuH (Head- 
 quarters, Fort Adams, R. I.), Kansas, Massachusetts, 
 Rhode-Island. Maine, Virginia, New-York, Connecti- 
 
 '^^^Third Artillery. Col. L. L. i!yin?»«on (Headquar- 
 ters, Wasliiutfton. D. C), District of Columbia, Mary- 
 
 ^''''Foi7rYtAriJl!ry!'Col. E. W Closson (Hcadquar- 
 ters. Foit McPherson, Ga.), Rhode-Island, Kansas. 
 Virginia, Georgia, Louisiana Florida 
 
 J^flh \rtilkrv Col.W IK. (?r(//,am (Headquarters, 
 Presidio of San Francisco, CaL), Virginia, California, 
 
 ''^Ftl'l^rnfantry. Col. W. R. Shafter (Headquarters, 
 
 Angel Island, Cal.). California 
 
 Second Infantry. Co' '^•- 
 ters*. Fort Omaha. Neb.' 
 
 Third Infantry. CI 
 Fort Snelling, .M:nn.), I- 
 
 Fourth Infantry. Ci 
 quarters. Fort Wherniaii 
 
 Fijth Injavtry. Col. 
 
 DISTRIBUTION OP THE AKMY. 
 
 St. Francis' Barracks, Fla.). Texas. Louisiana. Florida, 
 Alabama, Kansas. ,tt j 
 
 Sixth Infantry, Col. M. A. Cochran (Headquarters, 
 Fort Thomas, Ky.), Kentucky. New-York. 
 
 Seventh Infantry. Col. H. C. Merriom (Headquar- 
 ters, Fort Logan, Col.), Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas, 
 
 ^^EighThlnJantry, Col. J. J. Van Home (Headquar- 
 ters. Fort AfcKinney, Wyo) Nebraska Wyoming. 
 
 Ninth Infantry. Col. Charles O. Barllelt (Head- 
 quarters, Madison Barracks, N. Y.), Arizona, New- 
 
 %enth Infantry, Col. E. P. Pearson (Headquarters, 
 Fort Marcv, N. M.). New-Mexico, California, Arizona, 
 
 "^^Et^i^^lnfantry, Col. J. D. DeRu.^sey (Head- 
 quarters. Fort Huachuca, Ari7..), New-^i ork, Arizona* 
 
 Lw/t^ t^i::^6,^!-£'i ^Trrrafd^f o»^ 
 
 ^i^i^^^il^ry. Col. if. Bryant (Headquar. 
 ters. Fort Supply, Indian Terr.). Indian Terr., Okkuo- 
 
 Fluneenth Infantry. Col. T.Jir. Anderson (Head- 
 quarters, Vancouver Barracks. Wash.), Washington. 
 
 Fifteenth Infantry, Col. R. E. A. Crojton (Head- 
 quarters. Fort Sheridan, 111.), Illinois. ,„„„.„„,... 
 
 Sixteenth Infantry. Col. M. M. Blunt (Headquar- 
 ters, Fort Douglass, Utah), Utah. 
 
 Seventeenth iKfantry, Col. J. S Poland (Headquar- 
 ters. Fort D A. Hussefl. WyJ. Wyonuiig. 
 
 Eiahteenth Infantry, Col. H. M.Lazelle (Headquar- 
 tersj Fort Clarke. Tex.), Texas _ . . ,„ . 
 
 mnetetnth Infantry, Col. W. E. Jordan (Head- 
 quarters, Fort Wayne, Mich.), Michigan 
 ^Twentieth Infantry, Col. E. S. Otis (Headquarters, 
 Fort Assiiiihoiii'e. Mont.), Montana. 
 
 TwtuHrs Infantry, Col. H. Jewett (Headquar- 
 ters F Sidney, Neb.), iJtah, Nebraska, South-EKikota. 
 Twenty ■<eeond Infnitry, Col. P. T. i'M-au-e (Head- 
 quarters, Fort Keogh. Mont ). North-Dakota, Mo.|tai,a. 
 Twenty-third Infantry. Col. J. J.Coppinger (.Hsai- 
 nuarters Fort Sam Houston. Tex.), lexas 
 ^Twerfty fourth Infantry.Col. Z.iJ. £««^(Headquar- 
 ters Fort Bayard, N. M.). Arizona, New-Mexico. 
 
 Twentytifth Infantry, Col George L. Andrews 
 I Headquarters. Fort Missoula, Mont.), Montana.North- 
 bakota. 
 
 Frank Wkeaton (Headquar- 
 
 Nebraska 
 
 E. C. Mason (Headquarters, 
 )Utli-Dal;nta. Minnesota 
 :. Willi'im P. Carlin (Head- 
 
 Ula ). Washington. Idaho 
 W Osborne (Headquarters, 
 
 Battalim oj Engineers, Lieut.-Col. W R. King, Headquarters, WUlet'a Point, N. Y. 
 
 ARMY PAY TABLE. 
 
 Major-Ocneral 
 
 Brigadier-General 
 
 Colbnel 
 
 Lieutenant-Colonel... 
 Major 
 
 Captain, moulted.... 
 Ca-^taiii, not mounted 
 Regimental Adiutaiit, 
 Regimental Quartermaster.. 
 
 ist Lieutenant, mounted 
 
 ist Lieutenant, not mounted 
 2d Lieutenant, mounted. . . . 
 2d Lieutenant, not mounted. 
 Chaplain 
 
 PiV o» Officebs ; 
 
 AciivB Service. 
 
 $7,500 
 5-Soo 
 3.S00 
 3.000 
 2.S00 
 2.000 
 1.800 
 
 After 6 After 10 Aft 
 
 $3,850 
 
 $4200 
 
 3.300 
 
 3,600 
 
 27^0 
 
 3,000 
 
 
 2400 
 
 lq«o 
 
 2.160 
 
 ig83 
 
 2,160 
 
 I q8o 
 
 2,163 
 
 I 760 
 
 1,923 
 
 1650 
 
 1,800 
 
 ..650 
 
 1.800 
 
 After 20 First 6 After 5 
 
 '$4,500 
 3900 
 3.250 
 
 2.603 
 
 2,34:> 
 2340 
 
 llfo 
 1,950 
 
 OF Retikkd Officers. 
 
 '*45«5 
 *4,ooo 
 3500 
 2.800 
 
 2,i^20 
 
 2 5?0 
 2 520 
 2 240 
 2,1-0 
 
 $5,625 
 4.125 . - 
 2.625 $2. 
 
 $3,375 
 2,925 
 2.437 
 
 i.g^o 
 1.755 
 
 $3 375 
 3.000 
 2,625 
 2,100 
 
 1,575 
 1.575 
 1.470 
 1,890 
 
 %he maximum pay of colonels is limited to $4.50^^, '■^^'^ "* lieuvenaut-colouels to $4,000. 
 
THE NAVY. 
 
 ADMIRALS. 
 ACTIVE LIST. 
 
 Rank. Name. Present Duty. Residence. 
 
 Rear-Admiral... Lewis A. Kimberly. .. President Board Inspection and Survey. West Newton, Mass. 
 
 •' Bancroft Gherardi Commanding North Atlantic Station . . . F. Ship Philadelphia. 
 
 " George E. Belknap. . . Commanding Asiatic Station Flag Ship Marion. 
 
 " David B. Harmony. .. Commanding Asiatic Station. Flag Ship Lancaster. 
 
 " A. E. B. Benham Waiting orders Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 " John Irwin Commandant Navy Yard Mare Island, Cal. 
 
 BETIBED 
 
 Rank. Name. Residence. 
 
 Rear- Ad. Thomas O. Self ridge.. Washington, D.C. 
 
 " Samuel Phillips Lee. . .Washington, D.C. 
 
 " Melaucthon Smith. ...S.Oy6terBay,N.Y. 
 
 " Joseph F. Green Brobkline, Mass. 
 
 " Henry Walke Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 " Thornton A. Jenkins.. Washington, D.C. 
 
 " Augugtus L. Case Washington, D.C. 
 
 " John L. Worden Washington, D.C. 
 
 " John J. Almy Washington, D.C. 
 
 " Roger N. Stemble Washington, D.C. 
 
 " JohnC. Howell Washington, D.C. 
 
 " Daniel Amman Amnaendale, Md. 
 
 " George B. Balch Baltimore, Md... 
 
 " Thomas H. Stevens. ..Washington, D.C. 
 
 " John M. B. Glitz.. . .Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 " Andrew Bryson Washington, D.C. 
 
 " Donald McN. Fairfas.Hagerstowu, Md. 
 
 LIST. 
 
 Rank. Name. Residence. 
 
 Rear- Ad. John C. Febiger Washington, D.C. 
 
 " Pierce Crosby Washington, D.C. 
 
 " Aaron K. Hughes Washington. D.C. 
 
 " Edmund R. Calhoun. Washington, D.C. 
 
 " Robert W. Shuf eldt. . Washi ngton, D.C. 
 
 " Alexander C. Rhiud.. New- York. 
 
 " William G. Temple... Washington, D.C. 
 
 " Thomas S Phelps. ...Washington, D.C. 
 
 " Earl English Culpeper, Va. 
 
 " John H. Upshur Washington, D.C. 
 
 " Francis A. Roe Washington, D.C. 
 
 " Samuel R. Franklin.. Washington, D.C. 
 
 " Edward Y. McCauley. Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 " John H. Russell Washington, D.C. 
 
 " Walter W. Queen... .Washington, D.C. 
 
 " Daniel L. Braine Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 COMMODORES. 
 
 Rank. 
 Commodore 
 
 Name. 
 
 AOirVE LIST. 
 
 Present Duty. Residence. 
 
 James A. Greer Chairman Light House Board Washington, D. C. 
 
 Aaron W. Weaver... Commandant Navy Yard Norfolk, Va. 
 
 Wm. P. McCann President Examining & Retiring Boards Washington, D.C. 
 
 James H. Gillis Waiting Orders Nutley, N. J. 
 
 *GPorge Brown Commanding Pacific Station F. S. San Francisco. 
 
 *JohnG. Walker. .. .Commanding South Atlantic Station ...Flag Ship Chicago. 
 
 Francis M. Ramsay.. Chief Bureau Navigation Washington, D. C. 
 
 Joseph S. Skerrett. . . Commandant Navy Yard Washington, D. C. 
 
 Joseph Fyffe Commandant Naval Station New London, Ct. 
 
 Oscar F. Stanton .... Governor Naval Home Philadelphia. 
 
 * Acting Rear Admiral. 
 
 BETIBED LIST. 
 
 Rank. Name. Residence. 
 
 Com Henry Bruce Boston, Mass. 
 
 " Samuel Lockwood. ..Roxbury, Mass. 
 
 '• Louis C. Sartori Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 " Albert G. Clary Leave of Absence. 
 
 " Wm. £. Hopkins,,.. Fresno City, Cal. 
 
 Rank. Name. Residence. 
 
 Com Somerville Nicholson. Washington, D.C. 
 
 Wm. D. Whiting. Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 " Oscar C. Badger. Washi igtou, D.C. 
 
 " Wm. K. Mayo. Washington, D.C. 
 
 MARINE CORPS. 
 
 The United States Marine Corps consists of a force of 2,000 men. Colonel Charles Haywardis 
 commandant. 
 
 NAVAL RETIRING BOARD. • 
 
 The Naval Retiring Board is composed of Commodore W. P. McCann, President ; Medical 
 Directors W. C. Dean and Michael Bradley, and Commanders S. W. Terry aud Henry Glass. 
 
 NAVY YARDS. 
 
 7. New-London Naval Station, New-London, 
 
 1. Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 2. Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston, Mass. 
 
 3. Gosport Navy Yard, near Norfolk, Va. 
 
 4. Kittery Navy Yard, opposite Portsmouth, N.H. 
 
 5. League Island Navy Yard, 7 miles below Philar 
 
 delphia, Pa. 
 
 6. Mare Island Navy Yard, near San Francisco, 
 
 Cal. 
 
 There are naval stations at New-London, Ct., Port Royal, S. C, and Key West, Fla., and a tor- 
 pedo station and naval war college at Newport, R. I. 
 
 Ct. 
 
 8. Peusacola Navy Yard, Pensacola, Fla. 
 
 9. Washington City Navy Yard, Washington, 
 
 D C. 
 10. Norfolk Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va. 
 
THE 'SiKSfY—Cmtinued. 
 
 THE NEW UNITED STATES NATT. 
 
 Condition. 
 
 Displa 
 Tons' 
 
 ARMORED VESSELS. 
 
 Miantonomah 
 
 New-York 
 
 Monterey 
 
 Massachusetts. 
 
 Oregon 
 
 Texas 
 
 Amphitrite.. 
 Monadnock. 
 Terror 
 
 Cruising Monitor 
 
 Pirate 
 
 Ajax 
 
 Comanche 
 
 Canonicus 
 
 CatskiH 
 
 Jason 
 
 Lehigh 
 
 Mahopac 
 
 Manhattun 
 
 M'mtauk 
 
 Nahant 
 
 Nantucket 
 
 Passaic 
 
 Wyandotte 
 
 Harbor Defence Ram 
 
 UNAKMORED VESSELS. 
 
 Chicago 
 
 Boston 
 
 Atlanta 
 
 Dolphin 
 
 Newark 
 
 Charleston 
 
 Baltimore 
 
 San Francisco 
 
 Philadelphia 
 
 Cruiser No. 6 
 
 Raleigh.... V".'.^^^^^^. 
 
 Mobile 
 
 Detroit 
 
 Cruiser No. ii 
 
 GtrH-BOATS. 
 
 Yorktown 
 
 Concord 
 
 Bennington 
 
 Petrel 
 
 No. ^ 
 
 " 6 
 
 SPECIAL CLAS 
 
 Practice rniiser 
 
 Vesuvius 
 
 Dynamite Cruisur... 
 
 No. 2 
 
 Torpedo Cruiser 
 
 Stiletto* 
 
 Gushing* 
 
 No.2».. 
 
 Built 
 
 Building. 
 
 Built 
 
 Building. 
 
 Iron.. 
 Steel. 
 
 Building. 
 Built....! 
 
 Building. 
 Built 
 
 ilding 
 ilt.... 
 ilding 
 
 lilt 
 
 lilding' 
 
 3.815 
 8,150 
 
 4,000 
 
 10,298 
 
 10,298 
 
 6,300 
 
 6,648 
 
 6,q6o 
 
 3.8-15 
 
 3.815 
 
 3.815 
 
 3.130 
 3,150 
 2,100 
 1.875 
 
 i.'P 
 1,875 
 1.875 
 2,100 
 2,100 
 1.875 
 1.875 
 1,875 
 1,875 
 2,100 
 2.050 
 
 4.324 
 
 5.500 
 3.185 
 
 16 
 
 16.2 
 16.2 
 17 
 
 15.6 
 
 18 
 IS 
 
 19-5 
 20.7 
 
 16 
 
 16 
 
 11.5 
 
 14 
 
 14 
 
 10,500 
 5,400 
 9,000 
 9,000 
 8,600 
 9,000 
 3-700 
 1,600 
 
 7,500 
 
 16,500 
 
 340 
 
 340 
 
 340 
 340 
 340 
 
 4,Soo 
 
 5,084 
 4,030 
 
 10,400 
 8,Si5 
 13.500 
 10,000 
 10,000 
 5,400 
 5.400 
 5.400 
 21,000 
 
 3.660 
 3.400 
 
 loin.. 2RF, 4Mr,. 
 
 56 8 in., 12 4 in . R F, 8 6 in. R F, 
 
 ( 4 I Pdr., 4 M G. 
 
 52 12 in., 2 lo in., 6 6pdrs., 4 
 
 \ 3 pdrs.. 2 R F, 2 M G. 
 
 (4 13 in., 8 8 in., 4 6 in., 28 R F 
 
 \ and M G. 
 
 U 13 in., 8 8 in., 4 6 in., 28 RF 
 
 \ and M G. 
 
 ^2 12 in., 46 tons B L R, 6 6 in., 
 
 \ 8 R F, 4 millimetres 
 
 Uo 10 ill . , 26 tons B L R, 6 6 in., 
 
 \ 8 R F, 17 millimetres. 
 
 (412 in., 25 tons B L R,4RF, 
 
 \ 4 millim.etres. 
 
 U 10 in., 25 tons B L R, 2 R F, 
 
 ( 4 millimetres. 
 
 )4 10 in., 25 tons B L R, 2 R F, 
 
 ( 4 millimetres. 
 
 U 10 in., 25 tons B L R, 2 R F, 
 
 X 4 millimetres. 
 
 52 10 in., I 6 in., 6 R F, i 15 in. 
 
 {Dynamite. 
 
 6 8 in., 12 4 in. BLR, 16RFQ. 
 2 i; in. S B. 
 None. 
 
 2 15 in. S B. 
 2 15 in. S B. 
 2 IS in. S B. 
 2 15 in. S B. 
 2 15 in. S B. 
 2 15 in. S B. 
 
 2 15 
 
 in! S 
 
 2 15 in. S B. 
 2 15 in. S B. 
 
 Not yet settled, 
 
 8 In.. 8 6 in., 2 5 in, B L R, 
 
 12 RF. 
 2 8 in., 6 6 in. B L R, 12 R F. 
 Same as Boston. 
 
 1 6in. B LR. 8RF. 
 
 12 6 in. B L R, lb R F. 
 
 2 8 in., 66 in. B L R, 4 R F, 4M: G. 
 4 8 in., 6 6 in. BLR, 14 R F. 
 
 12 6 in. BLR, 17 R F. 
 Same as San Francisco. 
 4 8in., 10 5in. BLR, 24 R F. 
 I 6 in., 10 4 in. B L R, 14 R F. 
 
 1 6 in., 10 4 in. BLR. I4_R F. 
 
 2 6 in.. 84 in. BLR, loR. F. 
 Same as Mobile. 
 
 Same as Mobile. 
 5 1 8 in., 2 6 in., 12 4 In. B L R. 
 I 28 RF. 
 
 6 6in. BLR. oRF. 
 
 6 6 in. B L R. 4 R F. 5 M Q. 
 
 6 6 in., 4 R F, 5 M G. 
 
 4 6 in. B L R. 7 R F. 
 
 84in.BLR.8RF. 
 
 Same as No. 5. 
 
 4 4 in. BLR.\RF. 
 
 3 15 in. Dynamite, 3 R F. 
 
 N"t settled. 
 
 Nut settled. 
 
 Not settled. 
 
 None. 
 
 3 I pdr. R F. 
 
 Not settled. 
 
 * Torpedo boats. R F. Rapid Fire Gun. BLR, Breach-loading Rifle. M G, Machine Gun. 
 
 In addition to the above, the Navy 
 abipB, etc. Of these, 30 are in commission 
 
 THE OLD NAVT. 
 
 59 iron and wooden sailing and steam vessels, tugs, school- 
 
Sanitetf States Jttilitars ^catrtmg at Witni ilotnt 
 
 Each Congressional District and Territory— also the District of Columbia— is entitled to have one cadet at 
 the Academy, the cadet to be named hy the Representative in Congress. There are also leu appointnieuts at 
 large, specially conferred by the President of the United States. The number of students is thus limited to 
 three hundred and forty-seven. At present there are two extra cadets at the Academy, 'ho were authorized 
 by Congress to enter it at their own expense. One is from Switzerland and the other from Central America. 
 
 Appointments are usually made one year in advance of date of admission, and may be made either after 
 competitive examination or given direct, at the option of the Representative. The Representative may nomi- 
 nate a legally qualified secund candidate, to ba designated the alternate. The alternate will receive from the 
 "War Department a kiter of :i]:i) ointment, and will be examined with the regular appointee, and if duly qualified 
 will be admitted to the Acadt-mv in the event ofthe failure of the principal to pass the prescribed preliminary 
 examinations. Appuiiitets to liie Military Academy must be between seventeen and twenty-two years of age, 
 free from any infinnity which niay render them unfit for military service, and able to pass a careful examination 
 in reading, writing, orthography, arithmetic, grammar, geography, and history ofthe United Slates. 
 
 The course of instruction, which is quite thorough, requires four years, and is largely mathematical and pro- 
 fessional. The principal subjects taught are mathematics, French, drawing, tactics of all arms of the service, 
 natural and experimental philosophy, chemistry, mineralogy, geology, and electricity, history, international, 
 constitutional, and military lavr, Spanish, and civil and military engineering, and science of w-ar. About one 
 fourth of those appointed usually fail to pass the preliminary examination, and but little over one half the re- 
 mainder finally graduate. The discipline is very strict — even more so than in the army— and the enforcement 
 of penalties for offences is inflexible ratherthan severe. Academic duties begin September i and continue until 
 June I. Examinations are held in each January and June, and cadets found proficient in studies and correct 
 in conduct are given the particular standing in their class to which their merits entitle them, while those cadets 
 deficient in either conduct or studies are discharged. 
 
 From about the middle of June to the end of August cadets live In camp, engagedonly in military duties and 
 receiving practical military instruction. Cadets are allowed but one leave of absence during the four vears' 
 course, and this is granted at the expiration ofthe first two years. The pay of a cadet is five Imndred and' forty 
 dollars per year, !<nd, with proper economy, is sufficient for hissupport. The number of students at the Academy 
 is usually about three hundred. 
 
 Upon graduating cadets are commissioned as second lieutenants in the TJnlted States Army. The whole 
 number of graduates from i8o2 to i8gi has been three thousand four hundred and forty-nine (3449). It is virtually 
 absolutely necessary for a person seeking an appointment to apply to his Member of Congress. The appoint- 
 ments by the President are usually restricted to sons of officers ofthe i 
 
 The Academy was established by act of Congress in 1802. An annual Board of Visitors is appointed, seven 
 
 ' ' ' " " " ■■ d States, two by the President of the Senate, and three by the 
 
 ey visit the Academy in June, and are present at the concluding 
 exercises ofthe graduating class of that year. The Superintendentls Colonel John M. Wilson, of the Corps of 
 
 ^ ngre ^ 
 
 being appointed by the President of the United States, two by the President of the Senate, and three by the 
 
 Spefiker ofthe House of Representatives. They visit the Academy in June, and are present ; 
 
 exercises ofthe graduating class of that year. The Superintendentls Colonel John M. W'ilsor 
 
 Engineers, and the military and academic staff consists of sixty persons. Second Lieutenant John Jt. Carson, 
 
 Jr., Fifth Cavalry, is adjutant. 
 
 The two oldest living graduates ofthe Military Academy are 'Winiam C. Toung, of Xew-Tork, who gradu- 
 ated in 1822, and General George S. Greene, of Kew-Jersey, who graduated m 1823. 
 
 mnittti .States Nabal ^catrcmg at Annapolis. 
 
 TuBRE are allowed at the Academy one naval cadet for each member or delegate ofthe United States House 
 of Representatives, one for the District of Columbia, and ten at large. The appuintment of cadets at large and 
 for the District of Columbia is made by the President. The Secretary of the Navy, as soon after March 5 in each 
 year aspossib e, must notify in writing each member and delegate of the Housenf Representatives of any vacancy 
 that may exist in his district. The nomination of a candidate to fill the vacancy is made on the recomnit-ndation 
 ofthe member or delegate, by the Secretary. Candidates must be actual residents of the districts from which 
 they are nominated. 
 
 The course of naval cadets Is six years, the last two of which are spent at sea. Candidates at the time of 
 their exaniination for admission must be not under fifteen nor over twenty years of age and phvsically sound, 
 well formed, and of robust condition. They enter the Academy immedi itely after passing the prescribed exam- 
 inations, and are required to sign articles bindine themselves to serve in the United States Kavv eight years 
 (including the time of probation at the Naval Academy), unless sooner discharged. The pay of a naval cadet is 
 
 five hundred dollars a > ear, beginning at the date of admission 
 Appointments to fill all vacancies that occur during a y( 
 
 in the lower grades of the Line and Engineer 
 troni the naval cadets, graduates of tjie year, at the con- 
 
 Corps ofthe Navy and of the Marine Corps are made 
 
 elusion of their six years' course, in the order of merit as determined by the Academic Board of the Naval 
 Academy. At least ten appointments from such graduates are made > ach year. Surplus graduates who do not 
 receive such appointments are given a certificate of graduation, an honorable discharge, and one year's sea pay. 
 The Academy was founded in 1845 by the Hon. George Bancroft, Secretary of the Navy in the administration 
 of President Polk. It was formally opened October 10 of that year, with Commander Franklin Buchanan as 
 Superintendent. During the Civil War it was removed from Annapolis, Md., to Newport, R.I., but was returned 
 to the former place in 1865. It is imder the direct supervision of the Navy Department. Captain Robert L. 
 Phythian, U. S. N., is the present Superintendent. 
 
 <2Ktnrra(s (^Jommantrtn^ tJje WiniUti .States ^rmg. 
 
 ■ 
 
 From 
 
 To 
 
 
 From 
 
 To' 
 
 1 
 
 
 From To 
 
 George Washington* 
 
 Henry Knox* 
 
 ii 
 J798 
 
 1798 
 1799 
 
 James Wilkinsont.... 
 Henry Dearborn* 
 
 1800 1812' 
 1812 181S 
 
 Henry W. Halleck* 
 
 Ulysses S. Grantt 
 
 William T.Shermant.... 
 
 Philip H. Sheridant 
 
 John M. Schofield* 
 
 1862 1864 
 1864 i860 
 
 
 
 Arthur St. Clair* 
 
 James AVilkinson* 
 
 G.-orge Washingtont 
 
 Alexander Macomb*.. 
 
 Winfield Scott* 
 
 George B.McClelian*. 
 
 \lll 
 11: 
 
 1862 
 
 "83 isd 
 
 * Rank of Maior-General. t General, t Brigadier-General. Josiah Harmer was a Lieutenant-Colonel and 
 General-in-Chief by brevet. 
 
Soltficrs' fi^omtu. 
 
 Location's op Homes tor Disabled United States Soldiers and Sailors, axt» Eegijlatigns 
 FOR Adjiissioj; to them. 
 
 NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS. 
 
 PreHclent of the Board of Managers General TTilHam B. PrankMo, Hartford, Conn. 
 
 Secretary General M. T. McMahon, 93 Nassau Street, New York City. 
 
 Br.AN'cnrs of the National Home. 
 
 Branches. | Location. | Members! 
 
 Euanches. 
 
 L°-«-- /reL. 
 
 
 4,683 
 1,955 
 I,6c7 
 2,604 
 2,004 
 
 Pacific 
 
 Santa Monica, Cal.. 557 
 Marion, Ind 518 
 
 Northwestern 1 Milwaukee, Wis. . . . 
 
 
 Total 
 
 Southern Hampton, Va 
 
 Western Leavenworth, Kan.. 
 
 I-, Q28 
 
 
 " 
 
 Above is average number present in National Home for year ending Juue 30, 1891. Total num 
 ber cared for in National Home during same period, 21,157. 
 
 NOTIFTCATION. 
 
 All disabled soldiers and sailors of the United States— whether of the late war or the Mexican "War— are 
 notified that homes have been established at the places above-named, for all such as are unable to earn a living 
 by labor. All the ordinary comforts of a home are provided— chapels for religious service, halls for concerts, 
 lectures, etc., ho^uitals with experienced surgeons and nurses, library and reading-rooms, amusement halls, post 
 and telegraph offices, stores, etc. Good behavior ensures the kindest treatment. 
 
 Soldiers and sailors are ••specially informed that the Hume is neither an hospital nor almshouse, but a home 
 where subsistence, quarters clothing, religious instruct Km and amusements are provided by the Government 
 of the United .-states. The provision is not a charity, but is a reward to the brave and deserving, and is their 
 right to be forfeited only by bad conduct at the Home, or conviction of heinous crimes. 
 
 A soldier or sailor 'desiring admission in.ty apply by letter to either of the managers, whereupon a blank 
 application will be sent to him. and if he be found duly qualified, transportation willbe fiurnished ; or he can 
 apply personally, or by letter, at the branch nearest to his place of residence. 
 
 EEQUIREMENT3 FOB ADMISSION. 
 
 1. An honorable discharge from the Uniied States for service during Rebellion or Mexican War. 
 
 2. Disability which prevents the applicant from earning hisliving by labor. 
 
 . 3. Applicants for admission will be required to stipulate and agree to abide by all the rules and regulations 
 made by the Board of Managers, or by their order ; to perform all duties required of them, and to obey all the 
 lawful orders of the officers of the Home. Attention is called to the fact that by the law establishing the Home 
 the members are made subject to the Kules and Articles of War, ami will be governed thereby in the same 
 manner as if they were in the Army of the United States. Applicants must state whether or not they have 
 been in a home before. 
 
 4. A soldier or sailor must forward with his application for admission his Di-scharge Paper, and when he is a 
 pensioner his Pension Certificate, before his application will be considered, which papers will be retained at the 
 branch to which the applicant is admitted, to be kept there for him. and returned to liim when he is discharged. 
 This rule is adopted to prevent the loss of such papers and certificates, and to hinder franduleul practices ; and 
 no application will be considered unless these papers be sent with it. If the original discharge does not exist, 
 a copy (if discharge, certified by the War or Navy Department, or by the Adjutant-G' neral of the State, must 
 accompany the applic.ition. On admissio'i he must also transfer his Pension Certificate to the Home, and the 
 moneys secured thereby, and empower th? treasurer of the Home to draw the said moneys, and to hold and dis- 
 pose bf them, subject to the laws of Congress, and the rules, regulations ami orders which have been or may 
 hereafter be made' by the Board of Managers of said National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. Pen- 
 sioners receiving over $16 a month will not be admitted. 
 
 BEOtTLATlONS GOYERNINft PATMENT OF PENSIONS. 
 
 Thepensionstobepaidto the beneficiaries of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, under 
 the act approved February 26, 1881, making appropriationsfor the payment of invalid and other pensions of the 
 United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1882, etc., shall be held bv the treasurers of the branches, and 
 be paid over to the pensioners at such times and in such amounts as the Governors may direct, with the follow- 
 ing reservations : 
 
 A pensioner having a wife, child or parent dependent upon him may send, or may direct that all of his 
 pension money shall be sent to such dependent relative. 
 
 The Governors may prevent a hurtful or wasteful or extravagant use of the pension monev in any case by 
 retaining a sufficient amount until in their opinion the danger 01 harm or waste or extravagance has passed; 
 anv balance due the pensioner at the date of his death shall be paid to his lawful heirs. 
 
 STATE HOMES FOR 
 
 DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS. 
 
 
 State. 
 
 Location. 
 
 No. of 
 Members. 
 
 State. 
 
 Location. 
 
 Ko. of 
 Members. 
 
 Califorma 
 
 Connecticut 
 
 Illinois 
 
 YouotviUe 
 
 Noroton 
 
 882 
 353 
 
 30 
 
 ^V 
 463 
 
 134 
 
 73 
 40 
 
 New- Jersey 
 
 New-York 
 
 Ohio 
 
 
 3'3 
 
 1,058 
 
 595 
 
 Bath 
 
 Sandusky 
 
 Iowa 
 
 Marshailtown 
 
 Dodcre Citv 
 
 Pennsylvania 
 
 Rhode-Island 
 
 South-Dakota.... 
 
 Vermont 
 
 Wisconsin 
 
 Erie 
 
 Bristol 
 
 Hot Springs 
 
 423 
 39 
 
 Massachusetts 
 
 Michigan 
 
 Chelsea .^. :::;::. 
 
 Grana Eapids 
 
 Minnehaha 
 
 58 
 
 Waupaca 
 
 99 
 
 Nebraska 
 
 New-Hampshire.. 
 
 Grand Island 
 
 Tilton 
 
 3,292 
 
 Ahove is average number present ia State Homes for year ending June 30, 1891 
 
SOLDIEKS' nOUES— Continued. 
 
 Statistics OF Soldiers' Homes fob the Fiscal Year ending June 30, ) 
 
 Average number of members present, 
 Kational Homes 
 
 Average preseut and absent, National 
 H' lines 
 
 Whole number cared for, Kational Homes 
 
 l)eaths, Kational Homes 
 
 Average age of number cared for, Nation- 
 al Homes 
 
 Average age of those who died. National 
 Homes 
 
 Amount expended for support of Home 
 less construction and repairs. National 
 Homes 
 
 Annual cost of maintenance of each man. 
 National Homes ,' 
 
 Pensioners, number. National Humes 
 
 I'ensious, amount, National Homes 
 
 Average amount 01 pension, National 
 
 Ho.mes 
 Amount reported as sent to families 
 
 through Home Treasurers, National 
 
 Homes 
 
 Amipunt paid pensioners direct, National 
 
 Homes 
 
 Average number present in State Homes 
 
 Amount paid State Homes 
 
 Average number present for the year in 
 
 National and State Homes 
 
 1,046,147.03 
 
 ^,202 
 
 $520,697.85 
 19,106 
 
 UNITED STATES HOME FOR REGULAR ARMY SOLDIERS. 
 
 The United States Soldiers' Home in the District of Columbia receives and maintains discharged 
 soldiers of the regular army. All soldiers who have served twenty years as enlisted men in the army 
 (including volunteer service, if any), and all soldiers of less than twenty years' service who have in- 
 curred such disability, by wounds, disease, or injuries in the line of duty ivhile in the regular army, 
 as unfits them for further service, are entitled to the benefits of the Home. 
 
 A pensioner who enters the Home may assign his pension, or any part of it, to his child, wife or 
 parent, by filing written notice with the agent who pays him. If not so assigned, it is drawn by the 
 treasurer of the Home and held in trust for the pensioner, to whom it is paid in such sums as the 
 commissioners deem proper while he is an inmate of the Home, the balance being paid in full when 
 he talies his discharge and leaves the Home. Inmates are subject to the rules and articles of war, the 
 same as soldiers in the army. They are comfortably lodged, fed and clothed, and receive medical 
 attendance and medicines all without cost to them. There are 1,250 men now receiving the benefits 
 of the Home. 
 
 The Board of Commissioners consist of "the General-in-Chief commanding the army, the Sur- 
 geon-General, the Commissary-General, the Adjutant-General, the Quartermaster-General, the Judge 
 Advocate-General and the Governor of the Home." 
 
 Applications for admission to the Home may be addressed to the " Board of Commissioners,' 
 Soldiers' Home, War Department, Washington City, D. C," and must give date of enlistment and 
 date of discharge, with letter of company and ntimber of regiment for each and everv term of service, 
 and rate of pension, if any, and must be accompanied by^a medical certificate showing nature and 
 degree of disability, if any exists. , , 1 
 
 K^z SiUU JEilttia of t^r states of X\)t mntoit, I 
 
 STRENGTH OF THE NATIONAL GTTAKD AND OF THE AVAILABLE ARMS-BEARING POPU- ' 
 LATION OF EACH OF THE STATES AND TEIUUTORIES. 
 Compiled for The Wosld Almanac from record 
 Lieutenant W. R. Hamilton, Fifth Artillery, U. S. A. 
 
 in the War Department up to October i, 
 
 by 
 
 States and Terri 
 
 Alabama 
 
 Arizona 
 
 Arkansas 
 
 California 
 
 Colorado 
 
 Connecticut 
 
 Delaware ... 
 
 D. of Columbia, 
 
 Florida , 
 
 Georgia 
 
 Idaho 
 
 Illinois 
 
 Indiana 
 
 Invva 
 
 Kan'^as 
 
 Kentucky 
 
 Louisiana 
 
 Maryland 
 
 Massachusetts. 
 
 Michigan 
 
 Minnesota 
 
 Mississippi .... 
 
 Missouri 
 
 JVlontana 
 
 2,933 
 282 
 3.S67 
 1,965 
 2.461 
 1.6:6 
 1. 199 
 1-173 
 
 4.087 
 2,324 
 1.6: 
 
 485I 
 
 236 
 
 ^•S 
 
 8^8 
 
 ^11 
 
 t% 
 
 ^ 
 
 2,521 
 
 210 
 
 1.737 
 
 1 52 
 
 \:.f. 
 
 72 
 
 lOI 
 
 1,007 
 
 8^ 
 
 i.8:;4 
 
 182 
 
 4.01^ 
 
 37s 
 
 2,Vi 
 
 no 
 
 1.7^5 
 
 152 
 
 160. 
 14,980! 
 125,000 
 139.352 
 
 85,000 
 
 90,834 
 38,000 
 42,000 
 47.705 
 264.021 
 10,000 
 
 542,621 
 451.075 
 233.968 
 225,000 
 385,000 
 138.439 
 
 1 52,000 
 140,000 
 
 Nebraska 
 
 Nevada 
 
 New-Hampshire 
 
 New-Jersey 
 
 New-Mexico...., 
 
 New-York , 
 
 North-Carolina., 
 North-Dakota... 
 
 Ohio 
 
 Oregon 
 
 Pennsylvania... 
 
 Rhode-Island 
 
 South-Carolin 
 South-Dakota, 
 Tennessee.... 
 
 Texas 
 
 Vermont 
 
 Virginia 
 
 Washington. . 
 AVest-Virginia 
 Wisconsin. ... 
 Wyoming. ... 
 
 1,441 
 7.36: 
 
 Total 92,; 
 
 3.9S9 
 
 762 
 
 12,957 
 
 1,317 
 
 i.5< 
 7.747 
 1,185 
 4.704 
 
 4 SO 
 1.525 
 2,445 
 
 709 
 2. 587 
 1,040 
 
 2,463 
 227 
 
 36. 1 78 
 600,000 
 
 43.824 
 692,194 
 
 263.000 
 3C0.000 
 44,164 
 220,000 
 59.600 
 90.000 
 
 4,554 5,224] 101,981 9,311 19,760,156 
 
Winittti .States Hensfon Statistics. 
 
 NTTMBER OF PENSIONERS ON THE ROLLS JUNE 30, iSgi. 
 
 Natj. 
 
 Undkbthb Actof June27, 1890. 
 
 Invalids. Widows, 
 
 Invalids. Widows: 
 
 IS. O. 
 
 rnppKa, Kan 
 
 IiKliai.upulis, Ind... 
 
 Chicago, III 
 
 Vfashmgton, D.C. 
 
 Des Moines, la 
 
 Bdston, Mass 
 
 Philadelphia. Pa... 
 
 Buffalo, N. Y 
 
 Milwaukee, Wis 
 
 Detroit, Mich 
 
 Knoxvill.^ Tenii.... 
 New-York, N. Y... 
 Pittsburi^h, Pa 
 
 Concord, 
 
 Augusta. Me 
 
 San Francisco, CaL.. 
 
 6.929 
 8,821 
 8,475 
 4.972 
 
 7.31 
 7.49: 
 4.895 
 
 4'853 
 7.252 
 
 5.407 
 3.850 
 3.693 
 3. 500 
 700 
 
 Total......,..* 
 
 In crease du ring year 20 . ; 
 
 413.597 108,560 
 
 i3"856 
 4.48 
 6,oi;5 
 
 10,397 
 
 6,249 
 3.99: 
 
 3.QO< 
 ^2^6 
 
 3.567 
 
 5.938 
 4.327 
 1,049 
 
 774 
 1.252 
 
 72,862 
 62.5S0 
 57-771 
 54.336 
 46,001 
 40,^41 
 37.63!^ 
 37.329 
 36317 
 34.941 
 33.807 
 32.816 
 32.491 
 
 32.020 
 21,440 
 
 56.233 
 
 V «■'!' 
 44. 64^ 
 32. gx,-, 
 
 32.26\ 
 
 31.021 
 29,306 
 30 609 
 29.053 
 27.143 
 2=;. 230 
 
 7.139 
 15.764 
 
 _3jl9Z^ 
 
 436 138.216 
 
 Pensioners of the War of 1812— survivors, 284 ; widows, 7,590. Pensioners of the war with Mexico- 
 survivors, 16,379 ; widows, 6,976. ' 
 
 NUMBER OF PENSION CLAIMS. PENSIONERS AND DISBURSEMENTS, 1861-91. 
 
 1870. 
 1871. 
 1872. 
 1873. . 
 1874. 
 
 Tot.al. 
 
 AeMY AMD N* 
 
 Claims Allowed. 
 
 413 
 4,121 
 17.041 
 
 15.212 
 
 22.8S3 
 16.589 
 
 9. 46 J 
 7.292 
 5 721 
 7.934 
 6.468 
 6.551 
 5.937 
 5,760 
 5.360 
 7,282 
 7.414 
 7.242 
 10,176 
 21.394 
 
 27.414 
 27.580 
 31.937 
 35283 
 35,843 
 36.830 
 5". 395 
 41,381 
 
 BI.873 
 
 3.763 
 22,446 
 24.959 
 27.294 
 19.893 
 19.461 
 15,904 
 12.500 
 8.399 
 7.244 
 4,073 
 3.152 
 4.736 
 
 3.5.50 
 3.379 
 4.455 
 3.920 
 
 3,999 
 
 11,524 
 14,612 
 11,914 
 
 Total 
 Number of 
 Applica- 
 tions Filed. 
 
 36,75; 
 20.76! 
 26.066 
 24,8;i 
 43.969 
 26391 
 18.303 
 16.734 
 18,704 
 23.523 
 22,715 
 44.587 
 
 "•'if 
 141,466 
 
 3i.iif 
 4093? 
 
 48,77f 
 41.78' 
 40,9it 
 49.89: 
 72.465 
 75.726 
 
 39.487 
 40,171 
 
 i6,»,62 
 34.333 
 16,052 
 10,462 
 11,152 
 9.977 
 11,326 
 11,962 
 31,346 
 19,545 
 27.394 
 27,664 
 38.162 
 34.192 
 35,767 
 40.857 
 55.194 
 
 6o.2}2 
 ^6637 
 
 1.716,989 1,012,244 
 
 23,479 
 35.880 
 
 69' 505 
 75.957 
 
 82.8;9 
 87,521 
 93.394 
 i'3.954 
 119.500 
 121. 62s 
 122,989 
 124.239 
 128,723 
 131,649 
 138.615 
 145 410 
 164.110 
 182.633 
 206.042 
 225,470 
 247.146 
 270,346 
 306. 298 
 343.701 
 
 27.656 
 50.106 
 
 318275 
 118.911 
 114 613 
 111,832 
 107.898 
 103.381 
 92.349 
 104.140 
 105.392 
 104.720 
 103 064 
 97.616 
 97.286 
 97.979 
 95.437 
 
 io8.8'^5 
 116.C26 
 122.290 
 139.339 
 
 8.636 
 8.i;( 
 14.79 
 51.135 
 85,986 
 126.722 
 
 169 643 
 
 187.963 
 
 198,686 
 
 207 495 
 
 232.229 
 
 233.411 
 
 236.241 
 
 234,821 
 
 232.137 
 
 232 
 
 223,998 
 
 242,755 
 
 25°, 
 
 489.725 
 676, 160 
 
 Disbursement. 
 
 790.384.76 
 1,025,139.91 
 1,504,616 92 
 i,S25,U3.Il 
 
 28.422.884.08 
 27.780811.81 
 33.077.383-63 
 30.169.341.00 
 29.185.289.62 
 30.^93.719-56 
 29.683,116.63 
 28.35H99 69 
 2.8.580,1^704 
 26,844,415-18 
 33.780.526.19 
 57.240.^40.14 
 50 626, =38 51 
 54,296.28o.!;4 
 60,431.972.85 
 57.273.536,74 
 6^,693,706-72 
 64.=84. 270,45 
 74.815,48685 
 79.646.146.37 
 89,131,968.44 
 06.493.8go.19 
 18. 548,939. 71 
 
 $1.277,261.26307 
 
 In the total number of applications filed in 1891 are included 243,6 
 let of .June 27, 1890, and 706 survivors and 875 widows of the ' 
 allowed in 1891 are included 88,611 invalids and 13,776 widows, etc. 
 
 the act of .June 27, 1890, and 706 survivors and 875 widows of the war with 
 
 allowed in 1891 are included 88,611 invalids and 13,77' 
 
 vivors and 585 widows of the war with Mexico. There were also 1 
 
 invalids 
 
 id 78,: 
 
 .vs, etc., under 
 
 iilit-r of claimn 
 
 ider the act of .Ivine 27, 1890, and 336 sur- 
 
 during the year 3^3,582 applications under 
 
 the act of June 27, 189O1 in cases iu whicti pension haU already been allowed or applied for. 
 
UNITED STATES PENSION STATISTICS.— Continued. 
 
 Pension Agencies, Pension Agents, and Geooraphica 
 
 . Limits, June 30, 
 
 891. 
 
 Agknciks. 
 
 Agects. 
 
 Geographical Limits. 
 
 Pay-Plai es Naval 
 
 Pensioners. 
 
 Disbursements. 
 
 
 .Joseph A. Clark 
 
 William H. Usburiie. 
 J. bCLiikelbfryer.... 
 
 Isuac (:k-ineiit5 
 
 John G. Mitche.l.... 
 Thonuib P. Cheney.. 
 Stephen A. Marine.. 
 Edward H. Harvey.. 
 
 Nicholas Ensley 
 
 William Rule 
 
 O.J.Walton 
 
 Levi E. Pond 
 
 F.C. Loveland 
 
 W, H. Shelmire 
 
 H H. Bengough 
 
 John C. Currier 
 
 Bernard Kelly 
 
 Sidney L. Wilson.... 
 
 
 
 
 Bostou..".".:::: 
 
 Connecticut, Mass., Rhode Island. 
 Western Ke w-York 
 
 Boston 
 
 6,447,082 
 
 Buffalo 
 
 New-York City.... 
 
 6.440,389 
 
 Chicago ...... 
 
 Illinois 
 
 y.457,983 
 13 064,887 
 2.937,928 
 6,887,-52 
 
 
 
 
 Concord 
 
 New-Hampshire, Vermont 
 
 Iowa. Nebraska 
 
 Michigan 
 
 Indiana 
 
 Boston 
 
 )es Moines.... 
 
 Chicago 
 
 Detroit 
 
 Chicago 
 
 6,145.558 
 10.632,139 
 
 
 Washington 
 
 
 
 
 Milwaukee.... 
 
 -Minnesota, Dakotas, Wisconsin.. 
 East New-York, East New-Jersey. 
 East Pa., We-t N ew-Jersey 
 
 Chicago 
 
 1.578,935 
 
 Kew-Yorli 
 
 Philadelphia. . 
 Pittsburgh 
 
 New-York City.... 
 
 Philadelphia 
 
 Philadelphia 
 
 San Francisco 
 
 San Francisco. 
 Topeka 
 
 Pacific Coast 
 
 Colorado, Kansas. Mo., N. Mexico. 
 Del., Md., Virginia, W. Virginiaf. 
 
 Washington.... 
 
 Washington 
 
 9,016,769 
 
 Total 
 
 Si 18.435.827 
 
 * Excepiius; the States in the Louisville and Washington distiicts. t Also the District of Columbia a 
 foreign countries. The expenses of pension agencies in disbursing the pension fund during the fiscal year we 
 ^',569,787. This is independent of the expense of maintaining the pension bureau at Washington. 
 
 PENSIONERS IN EACH STATE AND TERRITORY. 
 
 Utah Ter. 
 Vermont., 
 
 
 .ofis 
 
 Alaska 
 
 14 
 
 Arizona 
 
 289 
 
 Arkansas... 
 
 IT. 
 
 California.... 
 
 Colorado ... 
 
 0.713 
 
 Connecticut.. 
 
 
 1,764 
 
 Dist.ofCoI.. 
 
 6,132 
 
 Flori'la 
 
 Georgia 
 
 1.671 1 
 
 Idaho 
 
 Illinois 
 
 Indiana 
 
 Indian Ter... 
 
 Kentucky.... 
 Louisiana.... 
 
 Maine 
 
 Maryland.... 
 Mass 
 
 537 
 49,711 
 55.70-: 
 
 17,610 
 7.867 
 25.953 
 
 .Missouri 
 
 Montana 
 
 Nebraska 
 
 Nevada 
 
 N. Hampshire 
 New-Jersey.. 
 New-Mexico . 
 New-York 
 
 ^4.447' 
 10,873 
 1,041 
 
 33.1351 
 
 792; 
 
 12,011 
 
 166 
 
 7.707 
 
 13,375 
 
 450 
 
 N, Carolina .. 
 North-Dakota 
 
 Ohio 
 
 Oklahoma.... 
 
 Oregon 
 
 ? eunsylvania 
 Rhode Island 
 S. Carolina... 
 South-Di'kota 
 Tennessee.... 
 
 >.325^ 
 
 2,497 
 977 
 
 "■? 
 2.263 
 
 63986 
 
 2,889 
 
 814 
 
 3572 
 
 12 214 
 5.270 
 
 Virginia , 
 
 Washington.., 
 West Virginia, 
 
 Wisconsin 
 
 Wyoming. 
 
 Foreign coun'i 
 
 Total. 
 
 5.256 
 
 2.885 
 9.787 
 20,969 
 364 
 2,646 
 
 676, 160 
 
 The oldest pensioner on the rolls, J une 30, 1891. was Mrs. Anne Hyd e, of Fi=hkill, N. Y., aged 102 years. 
 WIDOWS OF REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS ON PENSION ROLLS JUNE 30, 1891. 
 
 Al'irich, ijovey 
 
 Betz, lilizabeth 
 
 Brown, Mary 
 
 Cloud, Nancy 
 
 D.ibney, Sarah 
 
 Damon, Esther S 
 
 Dunmoie, Jane 
 
 Green, Nancy A 
 
 Heath, Sally 
 
 Jones, Nancy 
 
 Mayo, Rebecca 
 
 Morton, Olive C 
 
 Morse, Lucy 
 
 Rains, Nancy 
 
 Richard.^on, Patty... 
 
 Smith, Meridy 
 
 Snead, Mary 
 
 Turner, Asenath 
 
 Weatherman, Nancy. 
 Toung, Anni Maria. . 
 
 Kama of S. Idler. 
 
 AUlrich. Caleb 
 
 Betz, Peter 
 
 Brown, Joseph 
 
 Cloud, Will am , 
 
 Dabney, John Q 
 
 Damon, Noah 
 
 Merrill, James 
 
 Edens, Ellas 
 
 Heath, William 
 
 Darling. James 
 
 Mayo, Stephen , 
 
 Tuman, Peter 
 
 Morse, Ahial 
 
 Rains, John 
 
 Richardson. Godfrey. 
 
 Smith, William 
 
 Snead, Bowdoin 
 
 Durham. Samuel... 
 
 Service of Soldier 
 
 Widow's Re«idence. 
 
 N.Hampshire and R.I. troops, Seattle, Wasa. 
 Pennsylvania troops Harrislmrg, Pa. 
 
 Ditto. 
 
 Virginia troops 
 
 Ditto 
 
 Massachusetts troops.. 
 
 Connecticut troops 
 
 South Carolina troopj. 
 
 North Carolina troops. 
 
 North Carolina troops. 
 
 Virginia troops 
 
 New-York troops 
 
 Connecticut troops 
 
 Virgi- ia troops 
 
 New-York troops 
 
 North Carolina troops.. 
 
 I Virginia troops 
 
 ' Connecticut troops 
 
 Glascock, Robert Virginia troops. 
 
 Young. J 
 
 Pennsylvania troops. ..!'.!!!!. JEaston. Pa, 
 
 Knoxville, Tenn. 
 St. Pavl, Minn. 
 Barry, 111. 
 
 Plymouth Union, Vt. 
 Br'oadalin, N. Y. 
 Napoleon, Ind. 
 Burnside. Ky. 
 Jonesboro, Tenn, 
 Newbern. Va. 
 Elva.Mich. 
 East Barnard, Vt. 
 Carter Furnace, Tenn. 
 East Bethel, Vt. 
 Newnan, Ga. 
 Parksley, Va. 
 Manchester, N. T. 
 Liueback, Tenn. 
 
 It will be seen that it is possible that the widow of a Revolutionary soldier may he drawing a pension in the 
 year 1918. For a similar reason the wi dow of a veteran of the late Civ il War may be living in 2002. 
 
 PENSIONS TO WIDOWS OF PRESIDENTS AND FEDERAL OFFICERS. 
 The widows of Presidents Grant and Garfield receive annual pensions of $5,000 each. The following ia a 
 list of widows of prominent officers of the ariu\ and navy receiving pensions: 
 
 Mrs. 
 Mrs. 
 Mrs. 
 Mrs. 
 Mrs. 
 Mrs. 
 Mrs. 
 Mrs. 
 Mrs. 
 
 P. U. Sheridan 
 
 John C . Fremont. . . . 
 Geo. B. McClellan.. 
 
 George Crook 
 
 James Shields 
 
 S. Heinizelman 
 
 David McDougal,,.. 
 
 Rank, Husband. 
 
 Am.t.| 
 
 
 $2,000 
 
 Major-General 
 
 Major-General 
 
 Major-General 
 
 
 2.000 
 
 
 
 
 Major-General 
 
 Major-General 
 
 
 
 Major-General 
 
 2,000 
 
 Brigadier-General.. 
 Maior-General 
 
 1,200 
 
 1,200 
 
 Rear-Admiral 
 
 J, 200 
 
 Na.me. 
 
 Rank, Husband. 
 
 Mrs. E.O. C. Ord LMajor-Cientral. 
 
 Mrs. Robert Anderson I iint;ailii.r-Geiie 
 
 Mrs. George I. Stannard..M r : ' .. ■ > : :. 
 
 Mrs. Gabriel R. Paul l: 
 
 Mrs. James B. Ricketts.. I ' 
 
 Mrs. J. W. A. Nicholson.. 1:^ ,.: .> ,ii;,i ,,, . 
 
 Mrs. L. H. Rousseau !;■ .^.cu^i-ULue 
 
 Mrs. Jcihn F. Hartranft..jBrigudier-Gene 
 
 Mrs. Roger Jones Colonel 
 
 Mrs. G. K. Warren Major-General. 
 
 Mrs, David 1). Porter I Admiral , 
 
21 
 
 MEMORIAM. 
 
 Geo. H. Thomas, Major-General U. S. A., Army of the Cum- 
 berland, died March 28, 1870. • 
 
 D. G. Farrag-ut, Admiral U. S. N., died August 14, 1870. 
 
 Geo. G. Meade, Major-General U. S. A., Army of the Potomac, 
 died November 6, 1872. 
 
 Geo. A. Custer, Major-General U. S. A., died June 9, 1876. 
 
 Joseph Hooker, Major-General U. S. A., Army of the Potomac, 
 died October 31, 1879. 
 
 S. P. Heintzelman, Major-General U. S. A., Army of the 
 Potomac, died May 1, 1880. 
 
 James A. Garfield, Major-General U. S. V., Army of the Cum- 
 berland, died September 19, 1881. 
 
 Ulysses S. Grant, General U. S. Armv, died July 23, 1885. 
 
 George B. McClellan, Major-General U. S. V., Army of the 
 Potomac, died October 29, 1885. 
 
 Win field S. Hancock, Major-General U. S. Army, died Feb- 
 ruary 9, 1886. 
 
 John A. Logan, Major-General U. S. Y., Army of the Cum- 
 berland, died December 26, 1886. 
 
 General Quincy A. Gilmore, died April 7, 1888. 
 
 General Philip H. Sheridan, died August 5, 1888. 
 
 Major-General Chas. K. Graham, died April 15, 1889. 
 
 Major-General John F. Hartranft, died October 17, 1889. 
 
 Major-General Henry J. Hunt, died February 11, 1889. 
 
 Major-General George Crook, died March 21," 1890. 
 
 Major-General Robert C. Schenck, died March 23, 1890. 
 
 Major-General John A. Dix, died 1890. 
 
 Major-General John C. Fremont, died July 13, 1890. 
 
 Admiral David D. Porter, died February 13, 1891. 
 
 General William T. Sherman, died February 14, 1891. 
 
 Brigadier-General Henry A. Barnum, died iS91. 
 
 DIED OI\B THE FIELD OF HONOR. 
 
 Philip Kearney, Major-General U. S. V., September 1, 1862, 
 Chantilly, Va. 
 
 J. L. Reno, Major-General U. S. V., 3d Army Corps, Septem- 
 ber 14, 1862, South Mountain. Md. 
 
 John F. Reynolds, Major-General U. S. V., 1st Corps, Gettys- 
 buro-. Pa., July 1, 1863. 
 
 John Sedgwick, Major-General U. S. V., 6th Corps, Spottsyl- 
 vania, Va., May 8, 1864. 
 
 J. B. McPherson, Maior-General U. S. V., Army of the Ten- 
 nessee, Atlanta, Ga., July 22, 1864. 
 
 
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 MORNING GUNS. 
 
 DEPARTURE OF TROOPS IN 1861. 
 
 In 1861 the departure of our troops, the display of the flag, the 
 wild frenzy that shook the nation, were the chief topics of 
 thought and conversation, the chief hint toward action. It is 
 not too much to say that blood was at fever heat ; it fairly boiled 
 and seethed in everybody's veins. The papers were filled with 
 stories, reports, rumors, guesses, forebodings, and predictions. 
 
 To-day the veterans look back with pride and pleasure to 
 those dark days of '61, and recall the memories of their soldier 
 life. 
 
 Is it any wonder that the Grand Army are bound together 
 by such strong ties when you take into consideration that 
 
 "We have shared our blankets and tents together, 
 And have marched and fought in all kinds of weather, 
 And hungry and full we have been ; 
 Had days of battle and days of rest, 
 But the memory I cling to and love the best, 
 We have drunk from the same canteen." 
 
 RECOLLECTIONS OF A VETERAN- 
 
 Uprising at the North, Call to Arms, Soldier's Farewell, March 
 to the Front, Tenting on the Old Camp Ground, School of the 
 Soldier, Drummer's Call, Morning Gun, Reveille, Roll Call, The 
 Mess, Falling in for Rations, the Camp-fire, Drill, Battalion Re- 
 view, Bugle Call, Dress Parade, Guard Mount, The Counter- 
 sign, Grand Rounds, Arrival of the Mail, Do They Miss Me at 
 Home, Marching through Georgia, The Assembly, Skirmish 
 Line, Just Before the Battle, Commence Firing, Rifle Shots, The 
 Battle, Cease Firing, Victorv, After the Battle, The Flag of 
 Columbia. Tramp, Tramp, Tramp. Battle Cry of Freedom, Glory 
 Hallelujah, Kingdom Coming, Return of the A^eterans, When 
 Jolmnv Comes Marching Home. Grand Review, The Return 
 Home."^ Tlie Vacant Chair, The Grand Army of the Republic, 
 Tattoo, Taps, Lights Out. 
 
 RECORD OF THE UNION ARMY ANE^ 
 
 SOME OF ITS CRACK 
 
 REGIMENTS. 
 
 A RECENT LOOK OVER THE SECTIONS MADE FAMOUS BY GREAT 
 FIGHTING. 
 
 Recently, on looking over the maps showing the scenes of the 
 war in the East and in the West, I was surprised at the narrow- 
 
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 the most engagements took place. In the East the bloody 
 gromid was between Gettysburg, Pa., on the north and Suffolk, 
 Va., on the south, the western limit on a line draw^n through 
 Lynchburg, and the eastern through Norfolk. In this district, 
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 ties, where the Union loss in killed outright numbered over 50, 
 000, and the aggregate of Union killed and wounded was ovei 
 120,000. In tlie lesser engagements and in siege operations 
 probably 50,000 more were numbered with the casualties. 
 
 Here were fought the desperate struggles of Gettysburg, 
 Antietam, Malvern Hill, and Winchester, fields of glorious 
 memory to the veterans who conquered there. Here the Mon- 
 itor bore down tiie Merrimac, and led otf ni a new era of naval 
 warfare. Here, too, was Appomaitox. Back and forth over 
 this l3lood-stained arena the armies contended in the campaigns 
 of the Rappahannock, the Peninsula, the invasions of Maryland 
 and Pennsylvania, the Shenandoah, and the Wilderness. 
 
 Here fell young Ellsworth, bi'ave Phil Kearney, gray-haired 
 Mansfield, grand old ''Uncle John" Sedgwick, gallant Reynolds, 
 and the venerable and revered Wadsworth. Here the tliunder 
 tones of Hancock led the charge at Marye's Heights, the 
 "Bloody Aii^'^e," and Cold Harbor, and rallied the defenders of 
 Cemetery Ridge. Here " Little ^lac" rode along the serried line 
 with animating gesture by Antietam's reddened flood. Here 
 Phil Sheridan dashed down from Winchester to save the day at 
 Cedar Creek. Here the heroic sailor, ]\forris, went down with 
 the ill-starred Cumberland, shouting,' when sunnnoned to sur- 
 render to the Merrimac, "Never! I'll sink alongside'.'" Here 
 rose and fell the battle shouts of Hooker and Burnside. Here 
 Meade, with calm equipoise, guided the hosts that flung back 
 rebellion's foaming tide. Here Grant baffled the exultant hosts 
 of Lee and Longstreet by his ever memorable battle orders, 
 "Forward by the left flank!" 
 
 The graves of the Union dead in this consecrated arena num- 
 ber over ninety thousand, and tens of thousands more who 
 there received their death stroke were borne North to their last 
 resting-place. The plains of Manassas, the vales through which 
 tlie Shenandoah rolls its placid streams, the banks of the 
 Potomac and the James, were altars whereon the rich blood of 
 patriots was shed as libations to the god of nationality. The 
 men at Washington will shake hands heartily in memory of old 
 times, but not as Idaho and Oregon to New York and Maine; 
 ^vither because they were together at Antietam or Gettysburg 
 or Appomattox. 
 
 The bloody ground in the West is almost identical with the 
 State of Tennessee.. From Atlanta on the southern limit to 
 Knoxville on the northern is about 140 miles, and from Atlanta 
 to Memphis, on the west, about 300 miles. Within the limits 
 come Chickamauga, Stone River, and Shiloh, three of the des- 
 perate battles of the age. For three years the war raged back 
 and forth across the State of Tennessee. Fort Donelson, Nash- 
 ville, Murfreesboro, Knoxville, Chattanooga, and Corinth were 
 scenes of repeated struggles, sometimes the Union boys giving 
 
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 the blow and sometimes gallantly warding it off. Over seventy 
 thousand Union dead lie in the cemeteries of that district, and 
 tens of thousands were taken North from there fur burial. The 
 great movements of Confederate invasion of the North under 
 Bragg and Hood were met and checked in that section, 
 
 Thomas was the "Rock of Chickamauga," and the bulwark of 
 Nashville, within that region, and Hooker fought above the 
 clouds at Loolvout Mountain there. Brave Wallace fell there 
 fighting for the rescue of Prentiss at Shiloh. There Lytle went 
 down with the battle cry warm on his lips, "We can die but 
 once. Let us charge." There Corse held the fort at Allatoona 
 Pass, and noble McPherson, the richest sacrifice Avest of the 
 
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 THE BATTLE-FIELDS IN THE WEST. 
 
 Alleghany range, died braving the storm of Hood's onslaught at 
 Bald Hill. On the south-west border Grant wrested victory 
 from disaster at Shiloh, and on the north-east Burnside hurled 
 Longstreet back from the gates of Knoxville. In the interior 
 Rosecrans spurned danger amid the battle hail at Murfreesbor(\ 
 and on the south Sherman stormed Tunnel Hill and Mission 
 Ridge, not halting until his banners floated above the last 
 stronghold of the west, Atlanta; while on the waters that lave 
 the western border Foote's fleet of gunboats swept the channel 
 of enemies afloat and on shore 
 
 Were the veterans who cherish the memories of this hallowed 
 ground called upon to rise in their bivouac quarters at the 
 Washington encampment and salute old comrades in arms, State 
 lines would be seen to melt away in the rush. The battle-fields 
 of the Union were the nurseries of their fraternal ties. 
 
THE BLOODY BATTLES OF THE WAR. 
 
 THE MEN WHO DEALT THE BLOWS AND WORE AWAY THE RANKS 
 OP THE ENEMY. 
 
 Naturally a picturesque battle like Gettysburg, or a scene of 
 wholesale slaughter like Chickamauga or the Wilderness, 
 becomes an example for orators and expounders of history to 
 ring the changes upon, never rearranging or taking into 
 account newly developed facts. The following exhibit shows 
 that it makes but little difference where the fancy strikes, 
 whether east or west, in 18G2 or 1864, the same men were at it 
 dealing the blows that wore away the ranks of the enemy and 
 drained his life l)lood. 
 
 The battles take rank in this list in the order of highest 
 numerical loss, and to g&t the full significance the showing of 
 percentages given in the preceding tables should be examined in 
 connection with these figures. 
 
 List of battles in the order of the highest aggregate loss where 
 the number killed outright reached 1,000 on each side : 
 
 1. Gettysburg, 1863. Ninety-three thousand Union and 75,000 
 Confederates opposed. Union loss, 17,569 killed and wounded; 
 Confederate, 15,301; total, 32,870. 
 
 3. Spottsylvania, 1864. Had the Confederate loss in killed and 
 wounded equaled the Union at Spottsylvania this battle would 
 properly appear as No. 2. But such was not the case. The 
 Confederate records, so far as completed, relate to those iniji- 
 vidual commands that suffered most, and estimating from the 
 figures given for those it is evident that the Confederate loss 
 bore no comparison to the Union. The Union loss in killed and 
 wounded was 16.] 41. The forces opposed were approximately 
 118,000 Union and 64,000 Confederate. These figures represent 
 the numbers before the Wilderness was fought, but reinforce- 
 ments were constantly added to both armies, and the available 
 force of each did not vary much during the campaign. 
 
 3. Wilderness. 1864. The remarks in the last paragraph apply 
 equally well to the battle of the Wilderness. The armies fought 
 their full strength, viz. 118,000 Union and 64.000 Confederate. 
 Union loss, killed and wounded, 14,283; Confederate records 
 incomplete. 
 
 4. Chickamauga, 1863. 57,000 Union and 71,500 Confederates 
 opposed. Union loss in killed and wounded, 11,405; Confederate. 
 15,801. Total. 27,206. 
 
 5. Chancellorsville, 1863. 130.000 Union and 60,000 Confeder- 
 ates opposed. Union loss, 11,368 killed and wounded; Confed- 
 erate. 10.755. Total. 22.123. These figures cover the losses in 
 the whole Chancellorsville campaign. 
 
 G. Antietam, 1862. 60,000 Tnion and 40,000 Confederates 
 
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 engaged. Union loss, 11,657 killed and wounded; Confederate, 
 9,328. Total, 20,985. 
 
 7. Shiloh, 18G2. 58,000 Union and 40,000 Confederates engaged. 
 Union loss, 10,162 killed and wounded; Confederate, 9,740. 
 Total, 19,902. 
 
 8. Cold Harbor, 5 864. The remarks under the heading Spott- 
 sylvania apply to Cold Harbor also. 118,000 Union and 64.000 
 Confederates opposed. Union loss, 10,921 killed and wounded ; 
 Confederate, comparatively slight. 
 
 9. Second Bull Run, or Manassas, 1862. 63,000 Union and 
 54,000 Confederates engaged. Union loss, 10,199* in killed and 
 wounded; Confederates, 9,365, Total, 19,564. 
 
 10. Stone's River, 1862. 43,000 Union and 37,000 Confederates 
 engaged. Union loss, 9,532 killed and wounded; Confederate, 
 9,239. Total, 18,771. 
 
 11. Fredericksburg, 1862. 113,000 Union and 60,000 Confeder- 
 ates opposed. Union loss, 10,884 killed and wounded ; Confed- 
 erate, 4,724. Total, 15,608. 
 
 List of battles where the number of killed outright reached at 
 least five hundred on each side : 
 
 1. Gaines' Mill, 1862. 30,000 Union and 65.000 Confederates 
 engaged. Union loss, 4,000 killed and wounded ; Confederate 
 loss only partially reported. Best estimates place it double the 
 Union loss, making a total of about twelve thousand. 
 
 2. Seven Pines or Fair Oaks, 1862. 51,000 Union and 35,000 
 Confederates opposed, but not all engaged. Union loss, 4,384 
 killed and wounded ; Confederate, 5,729. Total. 10,113. 
 
 3. Malvern Hill, 1862. Losses not recorded separately. Con- 
 federates admit over five thousand killed and wounded out of 
 30,000 closely engaged. The Union loss was probably less than 
 half that number, and the total between seven and eight thous- 
 and men. 
 
 4. Winchester, or Opequon, 1864. 43,000 Union and 16,000 Con- 
 federates engaged. Union loss, 4,680 killed and wounded; Con- 
 federate. 4,000 (estimated). Total, 8,680. 
 
 5. Cedar Creek, 1864. 38,000 Union and 16,000 Confederates 
 engaged. Union loss, 4.074 killed and wounded ; Confederate, 
 3,000 (estimated). Total, 7,074. 
 
 6. Perryville, 1862. ^ 36,000 Union and 15,000 Confederates 
 closelv engaged. Union loss, 3,696 killed and wounded; Con- 
 federate, 3,145. Total, 6,841. 
 
 . To this list might be added the following, if the losses on both 
 sides had been recorded separately: Franklin and Nashville, 
 1864, where the Confederate loss in killed reached 500. The 
 Union loss on both occasions was less. Fort Donelson, 1862, 
 
 [Note. — About one-sixth of the number killed and wounded represents on the aver- 
 age, the killed outri£;ht, and two-sevenths of the number killed and wounded, repre- 
 sents very nearly the killed and mortally woiinded.] 
 
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 where the Union loss was 510 killed, the Confederate probably 
 less. Lookout Mountain, 1863, where the Union loss was 500 
 killed and the Confederate less, and Resaca, 1864, where the 
 Union loss Avas over 500 killed, but the Confederate is not 
 recorded. Where the figures for certain great battles are not 
 obtainable a computation of losses for the whole campaign will 
 serve to show to wliat extent the Union troops suffered. 
 
 In the "Seven Days' Battles," 1862, there were 105.000 Union 
 against 90,000 Confederate at the outset. The Union loss in 
 killed and Avouwded was 9,796; the Confederate, 19,195. In the 
 Maryland or Antietam campaign. 1862, the Union loss was 
 11,660 killed and wounded; the Confederate, 14,213. 
 
 In the Yicksburg campaign, I860, there were 4.3,000 (increased 
 to 75,000) Union and 40,000 (reduced to 28,000) Confederates 
 engaged. Union loss, 8,909 killed and wounded; Confederate, 
 4,832. In the siege of Port Hudson, 1863, 4,044 Union soldiers 
 were killed and wounded. In the Chattanooga campaign, 1863. 
 including Mission Eidge and Lookout Mountain, the Union loss 
 w^as 5,465 killed and wounded, against a Confederate loss of 
 2,541. 
 
 In the Atlanta campaign, 1864, the Union force ranged from 
 75,000 to 94,000, and the Confederate from 65,000 to 84,000. The 
 Union loss was 27,245 killed and wounded; the Confederate. 
 21,996. 
 
 In the Wilderness campaign, 1864, from the Rapidan to the 
 James, the Union loss was 50,499 killed and wounded. 
 
 In Sheridan's Shenandoah campaign, 1864, the Union loss was 
 13,831 killed and wounded. In the siege of Petersburg, 1864, 
 the Union loss was 29.978 killed and wounded, and in the Appo- 
 mattox campaign, which included the final assaults on the 
 Petersburg trenches, the Union loss w^as 8,687 killed and 
 wounded. 
 
 These details need no embellishment of words to strengthen 
 the picture of what the veterans endured in order to win the 
 honors a grateful people now accords them. And it is not only 
 what was suffered after the harness was put on, but what was 
 dared before the issue had gone so far. After Shiloh and the 
 "Seven Days" in 1862 the government asked for 300,000 men, 
 and 400,000 rushed to arms. After Murfreesboro, Gettysburg, 
 and Chickamauga at least a million men volunteered to keep 
 the depleted ranks up to fighting strength. 
 
 THE GRAND REVIEW. 
 
 The Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton, suggested that the 
 armies of Meade and Sherman should be formally reviewed in 
 the City of Washington before their final discharge from the 
 service of the United States. 
 
The Army of the Potomac, the Army of the Tennessee, and 
 the Army of Georgia therefore marched to the vichiity of Wash- 
 ington to be reviewed on May 23 and 24, 1865, for which the 
 necessary orders were issued by Lieutenant-General Grant. The 
 Army of the Ohio remained in North Carolina under the com- 
 mand of Major General John M. Schofleld. 
 
 The public and private buildings of the National Capital were 
 profusel}^ decorated; triumphal arches and reviewing stands 
 were erected at different points, and vast crowds of people 
 gathered from all sections to honor the returning veterans. 
 
 The teachers and pupils of the public schools of Washington 
 were assembled on the terraces and balconies of the Capitol, and 
 waved banners and sang patriotic songs as the soldiers passed. 
 
 Upon a strip of canvas along the front of the Capitol was 
 inscribed the legend, "The Only National Debt We Can Never 
 Pay Ts the Debt We Owe the Victorious Union Soldier." 
 
 Representatives of various States had erected stands, which 
 were filled by their sons and daughters, who while heartily join- 
 ing in the honors accorded to all the troops enthusiastically 
 applauded those who more directly represented their own par- 
 ticular States. 
 
 The principal reviewing stand was erected near the Executive 
 Mansion, and was occupied by President Johnson and his Cab- 
 inet, by diplomats and envoys of foreign nations, and by gov- 
 ernors of States. Among the latter were some especially 
 beloved by the soldiers and honored by the nation for their 
 invaluable and patriotic services as war governors, notably 
 John A. Andrews, of Massachusetts, and Andrew G. Curtin, of 
 Pennsylvania. 
 
 On the first day Lieutpnant-General Grant occupied a position 
 near the President, with distinguished naval officers and Gen- 
 erals Sherman, Howard, Logan, and others, whose troops were 
 to parade on the next day. It was while on this stand that Gen- 
 eral Logan was informed that he had been assigned to the com- 
 mand of the Army of the Tennessee. General Howard having 
 been appointed Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau. 
 
 Many of the officers and large numbers of the soldiers were 
 garlanded with flowers as they passed along the line of march. 
 
 " Sherman's Bummers" helped to relieve whatever of monotony 
 there was in the continual tramp, tramp, tramp of the armies. 
 A number were mounted on mules or on sorry-looking horses 
 borrowed from some quartermaster's camp of condemned ani- 
 mals, and carried chickens, pigs, and vegetables; others on 
 foot swung along in the free-and-easy gait learned on their long 
 march to the sea. 
 
 It was estimated that nearly 150,000 men participated in these 
 ceremonies— the Army of the" Potomac. 80.COO; the Army of the 
 Tennessee, 36,000; and the Army of Georgia, 33,000. 
 
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 Never before has such a pageant been witnessed at the cap- 
 ital of any nation, the passage of an army of citizen soldiers 
 who having by their valor saved the nation were now present 
 only that those necessary details might be completed which 
 would enable them to take their places in the ranks of peaceful 
 citizens. 
 
 With worn uniforms and tattered ensigns, telling eloquently 
 of service in the field, those men were now onh' anxious to 
 return to their homes and loved ones. Though joyfully return- 
 ing, and as representatives of all who had honorably served in 
 the armies and navies of the Union, thus receiving the plaudits 
 of the people whom they had so ably served, there were sad 
 thoughts not inharmonious with the occasion. 
 
 As they passed the reviewing stand where representative men 
 were assembled in their honor the marching soldiers missed 
 above all others that rugged, homely face which now would 
 have been lit with a halo of glory. Tlie g-reat patient heart, 
 that for four years had borne such a fearful strain, was now 
 stilled. In all the land no one w^as nearer the soldier's heart 
 than Abraham Lincoln. 
 
 Other forms were missing from the group — leaders of corps 
 and of armies, of whom John F. Reynolds, McPherson. and 
 Sedgwick, Kearney, and many others who had fallen in defense 
 of the Union. 
 
 But the thoughts of the soldiers were not then so much with 
 the absent leaders as with the more familiar forms of comrades 
 dear to their hearts but now numbered with the dead. Per- 
 chance they had been playmates in schoolboy days and bosom 
 friends in maturer years. Together they had responded to the 
 call of an imperiled country, together had faced the dangers of 
 the service. In camp and bivouac they had slept under the 
 same blankets and shared the contents of their haversacks and 
 canteens. 
 
 These, their comrades, had not lived to hear the joyful shouts 
 of victory, and were not to receive the embraces of their loved 
 ones. They had died that the nation might live. 
 
 The fond affection cherished for the honored dead but stimu- 
 lated the ties of sympathy and love for comrades living and 
 shattered the thrilling memories of the years of national strife 
 and warfare now happily over. 
 
 They were soon to part, each in his own way to fight the bat- 
 tle of life, to form new ties, new friendships, but never could 
 they forget the sacred bond of comradeship Avelded in the fire 
 of battle that in after years should be their stimulus to take 
 upon themselves the work confided to the people by President 
 Lincoln. "To bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him 
 wdio shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his 
 orphans. " 
 
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 "When we who have gathered here to-day to honor thy mem- 
 ory have lam down to rest beside thee, and our children's chil- 
 dren look upon the monument that is to be erected here, may 
 they say, with reverence, 'Here lies the man whose fame was 
 as wide as the world, whose military skill and undaunted cour- 
 
 (cOPVaiGHTED Bf 
 
 AaSOCIATISN.) 
 
 The Accepted Design for 
 
 THE TO^B OF €l^i^ERAL CRAi^T. 
 
 Built of light granite. Height, 160 feet. 
 
 Base, 100 feet square. Cost, $500,000. 
 
 age saved from dissolution the grandest nation under heaven, 
 and whose memory will be cherished when the marble and 
 granite shall have crumbled into dust.' 
 
 "Here lies Grant, the only conqueror of Lee, and the greatest 
 of all the Federal commanders. 
 
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 "His monumeni is the sublimest structure on the globe. It 
 arches the continent, and on its dome rests the clouds. In it is 
 the light and warmth of human liberty. A hero in war and in 
 peace, 'Grant,' who never ceased to fight or spoke of peace on 
 any terms save unconditional surrender. He had all the qual- 
 ities of a great soldier, he was loyal to his friends, loyah to his 
 family, loyal to his country, and loyal to his God. 
 
 "No effort of human hands can add a single laurel to his brow, 
 all the honors earth can give have been bestowed upon him, but 
 the people whom he served have resolved to fashion a tomb 
 worthy of his ashes, and rear in monumental rock a fitting 
 tribute to his fame, of the love of this nation for its great chief- 
 tain, and shall tell to all the world that the United States of 
 America does not fOrget her heroic dead," — Ex. from Gen. 
 Horace JPorter's Speech. 
 
 GENERAL GRANT'S MONUMENT AT RIVERSIDE PARK. 
 
 The sum of three millions of dollars has been spent by the city 
 in tlie work of decorating this pleasure 2T0und, Riverside Park. 
 
 General Grant's monument in Riverside Park, or more prop- 
 erly Riverside Drive, is an attraction such as no other city in 
 the world possesses. 
 
 It stands on the banks of the most beautiful river in the world, 
 a lofty eminence named Claremount, over three hundred feet 
 above the water's edge. On the opposite side of the river you 
 observe the high Palisades, Fort Lee, Shadyside, Pleasant Val- 
 ley, Edgewater, and the El Dorado. Thence extends a wonderful 
 view of the broad and busy river. Stretching to the noj-th you 
 see Fort Washington, High Bridge, Washington Bridge ; '^the 
 Cable, Northern and Hudson River Railroads; the Harlem River, 
 and up into Westchester County; the Hudson River, with its 
 winding stream shaded on both sides by its high bluffs, extend- 
 ing up to the Military Academy at West Point, where Grant 
 graduated as a soldier, and to the State Capitol at Albany, 
 
 From this bluff looking to the south as far as the eye can 
 reach over the Empire City of the United States, the City by the 
 Sea, sealed between two majestic rivers, you behold the greatest 
 harbor in the world with its entrance from the Atlantic Ocean ; 
 its narrows protected by Forts Columbus, Schuyler, Wads- 
 worth, Lafayette, Hamilton and Wood ; Sandy Hook ; Govern- 
 or's Island, the headquarters of the military division of the 
 Atlantic; the magnificent Statue of Liberty Enlightening the 
 World; the East River, with the largest bridge in existence, the 
 main span of which is over 1,595 feet, and the entire length 
 5,980 feet, joining the two great cities. New York and Brooklyn. 
 
 On the east is Hell Gate, Hunter's Point, Astoria, Blackwell's, 
 Ward's, and Randall's Islands, with all the different institutions 
 and asylums, and Long Island Sound. 
 
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 Looking around from this, one of the most beautiful spots 
 nature has ever made you are surrounded by one magnificent 
 panorama of splendor. 
 
 THE GRANT MONUMEINST. 
 
 Build it of granite strong and high 
 
 On a rock-ribbed resting-place, 
 And sheathe its point in tlie morning sky 
 
 And its feet in the earth's embrace. 
 
 And encarve it over and over again 
 
 With the symbols of valiant deeds. 
 For it tells of the nation's mightiest man 
 
 And the nation's mourning weeds. 
 
 And the sleeping dust in the sacred shrine 
 
 Shall be guarded with loving care 
 By brothers who stood in his battle line 
 
 When his thunders rent the air. 
 
 And his strokes for the flag of the brave and free 
 
 On the ranks of the rallying host 
 Were like the beat of the ceaseless sea 
 
 On the rim of a rock-bound coast. 
 
 O build it as strong as his mighty mind, 
 
 And spare neither toil nor cost, 
 And let it proclaim to all mankind 
 
 That he saved us when all was lost. 
 
 And the years shall roll o'er the place of his rest, 
 
 And the ages shall run to tell 
 Where the green sod covers his hero breast, 
 
 That he conquered himself as well. 
 
 J. S. Willis. 
 
 WHE^a THE LAST MAN D6ES. 
 
 Out of a dozen well-informed people who might nowadays be 
 asked how many Union soldiers and sailors saw service in the 
 War of the Rebellion it is probable tliat not more than two or 
 three would say they believed the number was anywhere near 
 two millions. Yet several hundred thousand more Northern 
 warriors than that took part in that great struggle. 
 
 The actual number of persons who saw service has never been 
 officially determined, and for that reason it is impossible to 
 make more than an approximate estimate of the number and 
 ages of the surviving veterans. 
 
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 The nearest approach to accurac.y in putting together the par 
 liculars on this subject has been the effort of Dr. F. C. Ains- 
 worth, major and surgeon of the United States Army, who lias 
 gathered together such data for the use of the Record and Pen- 
 sion Division of the War Department. 
 
 Even if the exact number and ages of the survivors at the 
 close of the war were known the problem of determining the 
 number now living and the probable duration of life for each 
 group of ages would still be involved in difficulty, for no life 
 table has ever been constructed which is applicable to such a 
 class of lives as that furnished by the veterans of the late war. 
 
 As shown by the latest official statement, there were furnished 
 by the different States and Territories during the war under 
 calls from the President 2,778,304 men. Of these 105,903 are to 
 be credited to the navy. 
 
 Allowing for re-enlistments, which are included in these fig- 
 ures, it appears that the total number of persons in both military 
 and naval service during that period was 2,213,305, and of these 
 1,727,353 were alive at its termination, excluding deserters. 
 
 In estimating from these facts the probable number of sur- 
 vivors at the present day two opinions of the expectation of life 
 of men of this class must be considered, for figuring of this 
 kind is based upon the mortuary and other tables iised by life 
 insurance companies in finding out just how long a man of a cer- 
 tain age should live. AVhile it is the generally accepted belief 
 tliat the expectation of old soldiers is less than that of men of 
 the same ages who have never been exposed to the shock of l)at- 
 tle and the hardships and privations of camp, field, and prison, 
 yet Major Ainsworth declares it has been ingeniously urged 
 that on the other hand, by the operation of the law of the sur- 
 vival of the fittest, the reverse is actually the case, for the rea- 
 son that the individuals of little endurance and tenacity of life, 
 whose early death shortens the average of life among civilians, 
 have long since been eliminated from the class to which the 
 veterans belong, have succumbed either to the hardships and 
 dangers of war or their subsequent results. So runs the argu- 
 ment for the second proposition, the average duration of life for 
 an equal number of men who did not serve in the war and were 
 not weeded out in its course is apt to be less than that of the 
 survivors. 
 
 Incorrect estimates and guesses after slight investigation 
 have been numerous, and the information which the ordinary 
 citizen, who was not old enough in the 'OOs to be one, or for any 
 reason may not have been a soldier or a sailor, possesses of the 
 army and nav}^ as they were then, or of the number of veterans 
 now living, is meager. 
 
 In making the calculations which are appended Major Ains- 
 worth has kept these considerations in view, and also the two 
 
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 beliefs of the greater o.^ less expectation of life for veterans of 
 the war as compared with that of non-veterans of the same 
 ages. 
 
 According to these estimates, the probable number of sur- 
 vivors two years ago was 1,5^85,471, and of these 149,531 would 
 be 62 years of age or over. This year there would be 1,236,076 
 for a total of survivors, of whom 22,692 have lived to be 62 years 
 old or older. 
 
 Following this method of calculation there would still be liv- 
 ing in the year 1940, veterans of the civil war, and not until 1945 
 would the survivors of the Eebellion be extinct. The same life 
 table (American male) which gives this result makes it probable 
 that more than a million will be living up to 1900 A. D., and if 
 these figures are correct there sliould be 820 veterans who will 
 not reach their sixty-second year till nine years after that, 
 when those youngsters will form a very small proportion of the 
 665,832 veterans which the table says should be still on earth in 
 1909. 
 
 The number of the veterans who have become members of the 
 G. A. R. is somewhat less than half the entire total of survivors 
 to-day. New additions to tlie ranks of that organization are 
 daily made, so that the present figures are larger than those 
 given in the reports at last year's encampment in Detroit. 
 
 The roster then contained nearlv 445,000 names, but there had 
 been more than this if the deceased former members should be 
 counted in. Added is a short list of figures which are not only 
 of much interest but also of possible value. 
 Estimated total number of survivors (deserters ex- 
 cluded), 1889 1,236,076 
 
 Total number of men furnished during the war (credits). 2,778,304 
 
 To Army 2,672,341 
 
 To Navy 105,963 
 
 Estimated total number of re-enlistments . . . 564,939 
 
 In Army 543,393 
 
 In Navy 21,546 
 
 Estimated total number of desertions .... 121,896 
 
 From Army 117,247 
 
 From Navy 4,649 
 
 Total number of deaths 364,116 
 
 In Army 359,528 
 
 In Navy 4,588 
 
 Estimated total number of individuals in service . 2,213,365 
 
 In Army 2,128,948 
 
 In Navy 84,417 
 
 Estimated total number of survivors at termination of 
 
 service (deserters excluded) 1,727,353 
 
 In Army 1,652,173 
 
 In Navy 75,180 
 
STRENGTH OF REBEL ARMY. 
 
 Editor National Tribune:— In your issue of March 10. in the 
 article (ni the strength of tiie rebel army during the War of the 
 Rebellion, the writer states that there were about 1,700,000 men 
 in the rebel army during the war. He is about right, for Major 
 Moore's roster of North Carolina troops gives 145,000 men 
 furnished the Confederate Army. Some three years ago General 
 D. H. Hill, C. S. A., at a reunion in Baltimore, Md., said that 
 the Confederate army numbered 600,000 men. all told. Then 
 how do3s it come that in nearly all the general engagements 
 during the war the forces engaged were about equal r Why, it 
 is absurd for any man to say that tjie rebels had to fight great 
 odds. If the truth ever is written from a Southern standpoint 
 we will find out that the rebels had 1,800,000 enlisted men on 
 their rolls. I have in my possession Clarke's Vicksburg (Miss.) 
 Almanac of 186G. Governor Parsons, in his proclamation to the 
 people of the State of Alabama, preliminary to the reorganiza- 
 tion in the State, says tliat fully 120,000 men of that State went 
 upon the battle-field, of whom 70.000 are dead or disabled. The 
 following is a list of men furnished by States, and their loss 
 during the four years of the war, 1861 to 1865: 
 
 States. 
 Alabama 
 Arkansas . 
 Florida .... 
 Georgia 
 Kentucky 
 Louisiana . 
 Mississippi 
 Missouri 
 Maryland 
 North Carolina . 
 South Carolina 
 Tennessee . 
 
 Texas .... 
 Virginia 
 
 \ Total .... 1,124,000 640,000 
 
 If all the men who once got into the rebel army were retained 
 during the war, or during their ability to serve, there were, 
 according to this calculation. 484.000 men in the rebe^ service at 
 the close of the war. But if allowances be made for desertions, 
 etc.. and for the sick in the hospitals who had recovered and 
 who are not counted by Governor Parsons among the disabled, 
 we shall find this number of 484,000 diminished to something- 
 like the actual number that surrendered to our forces or scat- 
 tered to their homes immediately after the fall of Richmond, 
 
 Enlistments. 
 
 Dead and Disabled. 
 
 120.000 
 
 70,000 
 
 . 50,000 
 
 30,000 
 
 17,000 
 
 10.000 
 
 . 131,000 
 
 76,000 
 
 50,000 
 
 30,000 
 
 . 60,000 
 
 34,000 
 
 78.000 
 
 45,000 
 
 . 40.000 
 
 24.000 
 
 40,000 
 
 24.000 
 
 . 140.000 
 
 65,000 
 
 65.000 
 
 40,000 
 
 . 60.000 
 
 34,000 
 
 93,000 
 
 53,000 
 
 . 180.000 
 
 105,000 
 
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 So you see, comrades, that the rebels as early as 1866 admitted 
 to having 1,1:34,000 men in the field, and you can also see that 
 the rebels did not lick five Yankees to their one. 
 
 Charles F. Kimmel, 
 
 Co. G, GOth 111., 
 72 High street, Dayton, O. 
 
 HISTORICAL EVES^ITS. 
 
 1859. John Brown's raid into Virginia, October 16. 
 
 1859. John Brown hung, December 1. 
 
 1861. Confederates attacked Fort Sumter, April 13 and 13. 
 
 1861. Fort Sumter surrendered, April 14. 
 
 1861. Union Army routed at Bull Run, July 21. 
 
 1861. Mass meeting. Union Square, New York, April 20. 
 
 1862. Engagement between Monitor and Merriinac, March 9. 
 
 1862. Seven days contest before Richmond began June 25. 
 
 1863. Great riot in New York, July 13 to 16. 
 1863. Stonewall Jackson died, May 9. 
 
 1863. Fort Sumter bombarded, December 9. 
 
 1864. General Sherman started on his march to the sea, 
 
 November 16. 
 
 1865. General Lee surrendered to General Grant, April 9. 
 1865. Jefferson Davis captured. May 10. 
 
 1865. Abraham Lincoln assassinated by J. Wilkes Booth 
 April 14. 
 
 1620. Negio slavery introduced into the United States bv the 
 Dutch. 
 
 1863. Negro slavery abolished in the United States by Abra- 
 ham Lincoln, January 1. 
 
 1793. Corner stone of Capitol at Washington laid, September 
 18. 
 
 1851. Corner stone of the extension of the Capitol was laid. 
 
 1860. Major Anderson transferred his entire command to 
 
 Fort Sumter. 
 
 1861. Fort Sumter surrendered, April 14. 
 
 1814. Star Spanaled Banner composed by Francis Scott Kev. 
 1881. General Garfield shot. 
 
 During the Rebellion 12,926 Union prisoners died in 
 Anderson ville prison. 
 
 1862. Battle of Shiloh. April 6, 
 
GENERAL GRANT S OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE BATTLE OF SHILOH. 
 
 "It becomes my duty again to report another battle fought 
 between iwo great armies, one contending for the maintenance 
 of the best government ever devised, and the other for its 
 destruction. 11 is pleasant to record the success of the arm; 
 contending for the former principle. 
 
 "The Union loss in the two days' fighting was 1,764 killed, 
 8,408 wounded, and 2,885 captured or missing; total, 13,047.. Of 
 these Bueli's Army of the Ohio lost 241 killed, 1,80? wounded, 
 and 55 captured or missing; total, 2,103. 
 
 "The official report of Rebel losses was 1,728 killed, 8,012 
 wounded, and 959 missing; total, 10,699. This cannot be cor- 
 rect, for the Union troops after the battle buried, by actual 
 count, more rebel dead than thus reported in front of Sher- 
 man's and McClernand's divisions alone. The estimate of the 
 Union burial parties was that fully 4,000 rebel dead lay on the 
 whole field. " ' "U. S. Grant." 
 
 The First Grand Army Post was organized at Decatur, 111., 
 on the 6th day of April, 1866, by 
 
 B. F. Stevenson, Commander of Department. 
 E. M. Woods, Adjutant-General. 
 
 Twenty-six years ago the Grand Army of the Republic was 
 organized by about a dozen men; to-day it numbers about five 
 hundred thousand. 
 
 Twenty-seven years ago at Washington 150,000 men passed in 
 review to be mus^tered out of service. 
 
 Since that time m^any an old comrade or companion in arms, 
 patriot, brave warrior, and hero, has been mustered out of the 
 living army to join the ranks of the invisible hosts above. 
 
 September 20th. 1892. 
 
 The 26th National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Re- 
 public at Washington D. C, will be one of the largest in tiie 
 history of the organization. 
 
 Once more the living heroes will pass in review, and meet 
 comrades they have not seen since the war. 
 
 Every battle will be fought over again from Belmont to tin 
 Wilderness. 
 
 The Grand Army is to-day the representative organization of 
 the sokliers and sailors of America; the one great association 
 which includes the veterans of every army and all ranks ; the 
 men who followed the flag upon land, and who fought beneath 
 its folds upon the sea; men of every nationality, color, and 
 creed; the officer who wore the well won stars of general, and 
 the private whose only badge of distinction was in patriotic and 
 faithful services in the ranks— all upon the common level of 
 -"oiarades of the flag. 
 
25th national encampment of the G. a. R. at DETROIT IN 
 1891. THE GREATEST OF ALL CONVENTIONS. 
 
 Rapping the assemblage to order, the Commander-in-Chief 
 announced the formal opening- of the twenty-fifth annual en- 
 cainpment of the Grand Army of the Republic, and directed 
 the adjutant^g-eneral to call the roll of departments. 
 
 Every State and Territory in the Union, not even excepting 
 far-off Alaska, was represented, and the roll showed the fullest 
 attendance of delegates in the history of the organization. 
 
 The opening address of the Commander-in-Chief was listened 
 to attentively by the assembled veterans. 
 
 "Comrades," said Gen. Veazey, "this is the silver anniversary 
 of a birth, not of a wedding. The wedding occurred when the 
 bridegrooms, the youth of the land, enlisted in its defense. 
 Abraham Lincoln celel)rated the marriage nuptials. Columbia 
 was the bride. Her vesture Avas the nation's flag. The pledge 
 to re-establish that flag over the domain of Secessia was the 
 price of her hand. When the pledge was grandly redeemed 
 through bloody strife, through suffering and death, and after 
 the victors had placed on the brow of the bride a new diadem, 
 whose gems were honor, valor, fame, liberty, untainted with 
 slavery; a country reunited and free, the fruit of that marriage 
 was the Grand Army of the Republic, an oft'spring w-orthy of 
 its royal parentage. 
 
 INTERESTING STATISTICS. 
 
 "The date of the birth was April 6, 1866. The observance of 
 the silver anniversary began on the 6th day of April of this 
 year." 
 
 The reports of the other officers of the staff were presented 
 and spread before the encampment. The adjutant-general's re- 
 port showed that on August 1-4, 1800, there were on the rolls of 
 the order 44 departments, with 7,185 posts and 397,041 comrades 
 in good standing-. 
 
 The consolidated report of the adjutant-general for the period 
 ending June oO, 1891, as far as the returns have been received, 
 not all yet being in, shows in good standing forty-five de])art- 
 ments, with 7.409 posts and 398,067 comrades in good standing. 
 The sum expended in charity, as reported for the year ending- 
 June 30. 1890, was $217,957.54, relieving 21,634 persons; for the 
 year ending June 30, 1891, $333,699.85. 
 
 The total number of deaths reported for the year ending 
 June 30, 1890, was 5,479; for the vear ending June 30, 1891, 
 5,530. 
 
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 The quartermaster-general's report showed the assets of the 
 organization to be as follows: Cash balances on hand $1,804.18; 
 due by departments, 81,429.41 ; less due bv departments, $184.17; 
 balance, $1,243.24. United States bonds 1907, $10,000 (market 
 value, 117), $18,720.0). Supplies, $2,941.65. Total assets, $24,- 
 711.07. 
 
 G. A, R. STATE LEGISLATION IN NEW YORK. 
 
 Within the past few years the Legislature has enacted a num- 
 ber of laws affecting the interest of veterans. 
 
 While the members of the Grand Army have felt aud taken a 
 deep interest in such matters, a special and effective interest 
 has been shown by committees on legislation of the executive 
 committees. 
 
 MAY 30 A LEGAL HOLIDAY. 
 
 May 30th was made a legal holiday by act of the legislature, 
 passed May 22, 1873. 
 
 BURIAL OF VETERANS. 
 
 B}"" an act passed May 21st. 1884, provisions is made for the 
 burial of any honorably discharged soldier or marine who may 
 die without leaving means for funeral expenses. Such inter- 
 ment is not to be made in any cemetery or i)lot used exclusively 
 for the interment of the pauper dead. 
 
 The cost for interment is not to exceed $35. and an additional 
 sum of $15 is allowed for a headstone. 
 
 VETERANS NOT TO BE REMOVED. 
 
 By an act approved April 10. 1888, no person holding a position 
 by appointment, in any city or county of tlie State, who is an 
 honorably discharged soldier, sailor, or marine, shall be removed 
 from sucii position except for cause shown after a hearing. 
 
 GRAND ARMY BADGE. 
 
 B}^ an act passed Februaary 4, 1885, persons not duly entitled 
 to them are prohibited from wearing the badge of the Grand 
 Army of the Republic, under penalty of imprisonment not ox- 
 coeding tbirty days, or a fine not exceeding twenty dollars, or 
 bv both such fine and imprisonment. A similar law was passed 
 Januar}' 30, 1888, relative to the insignia or rosette of the Lojal 
 Legion. 
 
 PREFERENCE IN EMPLOYMENT. 
 
 By an act passed March 1st, 1886, amending an act passed 
 ?vlay^ 25. 1885, it is provided: 
 
 In grateful recognition of the services, sacrifices, and stiffer- 
 ings of persons who served in the army or navy of the United 
 
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 States in the late war, and have been honorably discharged 
 therefrom, they shall be preferred for appointment to positions 
 in the Civil Servic of the State, and of the cities affected by this 
 act over other persons of equal standing, as ascertained under 
 this act and the act hereby amended, and the person thus pre- 
 ferred shall not be disqualified from holding any position in said 
 Civil Service on account of his age nor by reason of any physi- 
 cal disabihcy, provided such disability does not render him in- 
 competent to perform the duties of tlie position applied for. 
 
 Orderlies, watchmen, and others designated, employed upon 
 public buildings, must be persons honorably discharged from 
 the Union Army or Navy during the Kebellion. 
 
 USE OF MEETING ROOMS. 
 
 Any county, city, town, or village is authorized to lease to any 
 Post of the Grand Army of the Republic any public building or 
 part thereof, at a nominal rent. Passed June 15, 1S8G. amended 
 March 19, 1888. 
 
 By act passed June 9th, 1888. provision shall be made in any 
 State armory for a proper and co:ivenient meeting room for 
 Posts, without expense. 
 
 By act passed May 1st, 1888, a suitably furnished room in the 
 State Hall was set apart, under the direction of the department 
 commander for the supplies and property of the Grand Army of 
 the Republic, relics and mementoes of tlie war, and for arrang- 
 ing and preserving the history of individuals who served in the 
 arm}^, navy, or marine corps during the Rebellion. 
 
 ISSUE OF ARMS TO POSTS. 
 
 By an act passed June 25, 1886, the adjutant-general is author- 
 ized to issue twelve stands of arms, complete, for the firing 
 squads of each post. 
 
 MONUMENTS. 
 
 By act passed May 20, 1886, $5,000 were appropriated for ex- 
 penses of commissioners to designate the positions and move- 
 ments of the troops of New York at Gettysburg; and on March 
 27. 1888, $74,500 were appropritited for monuments at Gettys- 
 burg, being $1,500 for each regiment or battery engaged in that 
 battle. 
 
 By act of the Legislature in 1887 the authorities of the citv of 
 Brooklyn are authorized to raise $100,000 by taxation, for "the 
 erection of a soldier's and sailor's monument in that citv. 
 
 And to-day the Empire City of the United Stat.ps. that fur- 
 nished the largest number of troops dnrino- the Rebellion, has 
 failed as yet to raise a monnment to its heroes, who fought 
 bled, and died to preserve the Union ' 
 
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 PART two. 
 
 Gr. J^, R. RECITATIONS 
 
 WHEfJ WE WERE BOYS IN BLUE. 
 
 BY CAPTAIN CHARLES E. NASH. 
 
 O comrades of the battle years, 
 
 When lighting was our trade; 
 O, you who charge with loyal cheers 
 
 'Gainst many a gay brigade I 
 'Tis joy to grasp again the hand 
 
 O' rare and cherisiied few — 
 Frail remnant of the mighty band 
 
 Who once were Boys in Blue. 
 
 No deadly bullets hiss to-night ; 
 
 No showers of shot and shell ; 
 We storm no more the bastioned heights, 
 
 " Mid wild Confederate yell ; 
 The long roll wakes the camp no more 
 
 The conflict to renew — 
 No crushing columns hither pour 
 
 Against the Boys in Blue. 
 
 The fort and trencli and grim redoubt, 
 
 Deep-groving hill and dale, 
 Send forth no more the victors' shout 
 
 Nor falling foeman's wail ; 
 No stricken comrade in his pain 
 
 Bequeaths the last adieu. 
 No more the torn and ghastly pain. 
 
 And dying Boys in Blue. 
 
 The peaceful years have lightly sped 
 
 Since you came proudly home. 
 And bore our flag with gallant tread 
 
 To rest 'neatii yonder dome ; 
 That faded banner victory crowned, 
 
 All riddled through and through, 
 The glorious flag we rallied round 
 
 When we were Boys in Blue. 
 
To-day you come from far and near, 
 
 And form the line again ; 
 Your badge is now the battle scar, 
 
 Your arms the crutch and cane ; 
 You grasp the hand with love and pride, 
 
 And old campaigns review, 
 And count the fields where side by side 
 
 You fought when Boys in Blue. 
 
 The fife and drum no more arouse — 
 
 Your martial work is done, 
 And time above your laureled brows 
 
 its silver threads have spun ; 
 While one by one along life's route, 
 
 Brave men who marched with you, 
 All overborne have fallen out 
 
 Since they were Boys in Blue. 
 
 And soon these glad reunions here 
 
 Will be forever past — 
 The broken ranks that close the rear 
 
 Will cross the ford at last ; 
 But on the world's illustrious page 
 
 Of heroes tried and true, 
 Will live enshrined from age to age. 
 
 The glorious Boys in Blue. 
 
 OUR HEROES SHALL LIVE. 
 
 BY HENRY WARD BEECHER. 
 
 Oh, tell me not that they are dead— that generous host, that 
 airy army of invisible heroes. They hover as a cloud of wit- 
 nesses above this nation. Are they dead that yet speak louder 
 than we can speak and in more universal language? Are they 
 dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society, 
 and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic 
 patriotism? Ye that mourn let gladness mingle with your tears. 
 He was your son, but now he is the nation's. He made your 
 household bright; now his example inspires a thousand house- 
 holds. Dear to his brothers and sisters, he is now brother to 
 every generous youth in the land. Before he was narrowed, 
 appropriated, shut up to you. Now he is augmented, set free, 
 and given to all. Before he was yours; now he is ours. He has 
 died from the family, that he might live to the nation. Not one 
 man shall be forgotten or neglected, and it shall by and by be 
 confessed of our modern heroes, as it is of an ancient hero, that 
 he did more for his country by his death than by his whole life, 
 
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 RELIC OF THE WAR. 
 
 On the wall above the mantel 
 
 Tiiere's an ancient weapon hung, 
 Tarnished, dusty, old, and rusty, 
 
 Springfield pattern, sixty-one. 
 And the spiders, all unconscious 
 
 Of its power upon it crawl. 
 And have webbed it. breech and muzzle, 
 
 Where it hangs apon the M^all. 
 
 Could it speak, 'twould tell, a story 
 
 That would startle young and old, 
 Tales of long and weary marches 
 
 Could that weapon true unfold. 
 Tales of battle, tales of carnage 
 
 That would blanch tlie bravest cheek, 
 From Bull Run to Appomattox, 
 
 Could that ancient weapon speak. 
 
 Dear, indeed, is that old musket, 
 
 It had sure voice long ago, 
 Not a friend so true and trusty 
 
 On the field to meet the foe. 
 Then it spoke and to a purpose. 
 
 Fiery was the taie it told, 
 Leaden was the fearful message, 
 
 From that weapon grim and old. 
 
 And I love it — who can blame me? 
 
 It and I were closest chums. 
 Old and rusty, tried and trusty. 
 
 Best of all your make of guns. 
 Comrades dead and comrades living, 
 
 It reminds me of you all. 
 Elbows touch whene'er I view it 
 
 As it hangs upon the wall. 
 
 Brings again your kindly faces 
 
 From that distant loug ago. 
 When we faced tlie storm of battle 
 
 On the field to meet the foe. 
 On the wall above the mantel 
 
 There's an ancient weapon hung, 
 Tarnished, dusty, worn, and rusty, 
 
 Springfield pattern, sixty-one. 
 
 --^Detroit Free Frees. 
 
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 A MEMORIAL DAY ALPHABET. 
 
 {Philadelphia Press.) 
 
 A veteran, sixty-two years old, sends the following Memorial 
 Day alphabet: 
 
 A is for army in battle array ; 
 
 B for brave boys we remember to-day. 
 
 C for their colors, the red. white, and blue; 
 
 D for their duty done nobly and true. 
 
 E for enlisted this Union to save ; 
 
 F for the flag and the flovv'rs on their grave. 
 
 G for the glory at Gettysburg won ; 
 
 H for our hopes, they're in heaven, at home. 
 
 I independence, for which they did strive. 
 
 J is for justice to those who survive. 
 
 K is for knapsacks, all packed and in place. 
 
 L is for liberty to the whole human race. 
 
 M is for Meade, now. alas, mustered out. 
 
 N for our navy, who helped knock them out. 
 
 O is for onward, our old battle crj. 
 
 P is for powder and power from on high. 
 
 Q is for quickstep, double quick on the foe. 
 
 R is for rally, rebellion o'erthiow. 
 
 S is for Sherman, for shot and for shell ; 
 
 T for tlie traitors we treated too well. 
 
 U for Union of States, hearts, and hands. 
 
 V for the victory valor demands. 
 
 W for war, which we deeply deplore. 
 X is for Xerxes, who now is no more. 
 
 Y for the years we campaigned it in youth, 
 Z zealously fighting for freedom and truth. 
 
 THE OLD CANTEEN. 
 
 BY G. M. WHITE. 
 
 Send it up to the garret? Well, no; what's the harm 
 If it hangs like a horse-shoe to serve as a charm? 
 Had its day. to be sure; matches ill with things here; 
 Shall I sack the old friend just because it is queer? 
 Thing of beauty 'tis not, but a joy none the less, 
 As my hot lips remember its old-time caress. 
 And i think on the solace once gurgling between 
 My lips from that old battered tin canteen. 
 
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 It has hung" by my side in the long, weary tramp. 
 Been my friend in the bivouac, barrack, and camp. 
 In the triumph, the capture, advance, and retreat. 
 More than light to my path, more than guide to my feet. 
 Sweeter nectar ne'er flowed, howe'er sparkling and cold, 
 From out chalice of silver or goblet of gold. 
 For a king or an emperor, princess or queen, 
 Than to me from the mouth of that old canteen. 
 
 It has cheered the desponding on many a night. 
 
 Till their laughing eyes gleamed in the camp-fire light. 
 
 Whether guns stood in silence, or boomed at short range, 
 
 It was always on duty ; though 'twould not be strange 
 
 If in somnolent periods just after "taps" 
 
 Some colonel or captain, disturijed at his naps. 
 
 May have felt a sus})icion that "spirits'" unseen 
 
 Had somehow bedeviled that old canteen. 
 
 But I think on the time when in lulls of the strife 
 It has called the far look in dim nyes back to life; 
 Helped to stanch the quick blood just beginning to pour. 
 Softened broad, gaping wounds that were stiffened and sore, 
 Moistened thin, livid lips, so despairing of breath 
 They could only speak thanks in the quiver of death; 
 If ail angel of mercy e'er hovered between 
 This world and the next 'twas that old canteen. 
 
 Then banish it not as a profitless thing, 
 Were it hung in a palace it well might swing 
 To tell in its mute, allegorical way 
 How the citizen volunteer won the day ; 
 Hovv' he bravely, unflinchingly, grandly won. 
 And how, w^hen the death-dealing work was done, 
 'Twas as easy his passion from war to wean 
 As this mouth from the lips of that old canteen. 
 
 By and by, when all hate for the rags with the bars 
 Is forgotten in love for the "stripes and the stars"; 
 When Columbia rules everything solid and sole, 
 From her own ship canal to the ice at the pole: 
 When the Grand Army men have obeyed the last call, 
 And the May flowers and violets bloom for us all; 
 Then away in some garret the cobweb may screen 
 My battered, old, cloth-covered tin canteen. 
 
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 THE SAME CANTEEN. 
 
 BY CHARLES G. HALPINE. 
 
 There are bonds of all sorts in this world of ours 
 Letters of friendship and ties of flowers, ' 
 
 And true lovers' knots, I ween; 
 The girl and the boy are bound by a kiss 
 But tnere's never a bond, old friend, like this— 
 
 We have drunk from the same canteen ! 
 
 It was sometimes water and sometimes milk 
 And sometimes applejack flne as silk; ' 
 
 But whatever the tipple has been. 
 We shared it together in bane or bliss, 
 And I warm to you, friend, when I tliink of this— 
 
 We have drunk from the same canteen ! 
 
 The rich and the great sit down to dine, 
 
 And they quaff to each other in sparkling wine 
 
 From glasses of crystal and green ; 
 But I guess in their golden potations they miss 
 The warmth of regard to be found in this— 
 
 We have drunk from the same canteen .' 
 
 We have shared our blankets and tents together 
 And have marched and fought in all kinds of weather 
 
 And hungry and full we have been ; ' 
 
 Had days of battle and days of rest. 
 But this memory I cling to and love the best— 
 
 We have drunk from the same canteen! 
 
 For when wounded I lav on the outer slope 
 With my blood flowing fast, and but little hope 
 
 Upon which my faint spirit could lean ; 
 V -J l^"' ^ remember, you crawled to my side, 
 And bleeding so fast it seemed both must have died. 
 
 We drank from the same canteen ! 
 
 AN OLD FAVORITE. 
 
 ANON, 
 
 There's a cap in the closet, 
 Old, tattered, and blue, 
 
 Of very sliglit value. 
 It may be, to you ; 
 
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 But a crown, jewel-studded, 
 Could not buy it to-day, 
 
 With its letters of honor, 
 Brave •'Company K," 
 
 Bright eyes have looked calmly 
 
 Its visor beneath, 
 O'er the work of the Reaper, 
 
 Grim harvester. Detithl 
 Let the muster roll, meager. 
 
 So mournfully say. 
 How foremost in danger 
 
 Was "Company K." 
 
 Who faltered or shivered? 
 
 Who shunned battle stroke? 
 Whose fire was uncertain? 
 
 Whose battle line broke? 
 Go ask it of history 
 
 Years from to-day. 
 And the record shall tell you 
 
 Not "Company K." 
 
 Though my darling is sleeping 
 
 To-day with the dead. 
 And daisies and clover 
 
 Bloom over hi j head. 
 I smile through my tears, 
 
 As I lay it away. 
 That battle-worn cap 
 
 Lettered "Company K." 
 
 CORPORAL JIM. 
 
 BY G. B. F. 
 
 "Jim Tanner, Commissioner of Pensions, must go. 
 
 Yes — I catch on to your meaning, 
 
 You reckon Jim Tanner "won't stay; 
 This is a grateful Republic, 
 
 You are patriots," you say ; 
 And whereas "tlie taxes are h^avy," 
 
 And whereas "the surplus is low," 
 Resolved, "We must stop paying pensions, 
 
 And Corporal Jim Tanner must go." 
 
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 Well, I'll be blanked if I can see, 
 
 With all the lights that I've got, 
 What clilference it makes to you kickers 
 
 If the Corpt)ral goes or not ; 
 And just right here I'm remarking 
 
 That you're showing a good deal of gall; 
 If there hadn't been no Jim Tanners 
 
 We would ha.ve had no surplus at all. 
 
 Why, we wouldn't have had a Nation, 
 
 To spell with a great big N, 
 If it hadn't been for Corporal Jim 
 
 And two million similar men. 
 Who bared their breasts to reb bullets 
 
 While you were making your wealth, 
 And sneaked in the rear in cowardly fear 
 
 Or went farther north for your health. 
 
 So kick about increase and re-ratings, 
 
 Cry pension frauds and all that, 
 Claim Tanner will bankrupt the country, 
 
 Be sure get your story down pat ; 
 Then write Sour Grapes on your banner, 
 
 Tell all the lies you can tell ; 
 But when the boys go back on Jim Tanner 
 
 Ice will be forty feet thick in hell. 
 
 IVaCARTY'S PENSSON CLAIM 
 
 "Are ye the pinsion-claim agent, 
 Whose name is down there on the dure? 
 
 Well, me name, sor, is Terrance McCarty, 
 An' I'll put me hat doon on the flure 
 
 While I tell yez me business. Tim Murphy- 
 He's a neighbor of moine, sor. is Tim, 
 
 Has jist got his pinsion, an' I, sor, 
 Did the boolk of the swearin' for him. 
 
 "These pinsions are very convanient. 
 
 An' they're aisy to git, too, yez see, 
 So I thought that I'd take wan meself, now, 
 
 An' have Tim do the swearin' for me. 
 So many are thrying for pinsions 
 
 That I thought that I'd thry it a whack, 
 For somehow in leppin' the bounties, 
 
 Bedad, sor, I hurted me back." 
 
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 THE DANDY FIFTH. 
 
 BY FRANK H. GASSAWAY. 
 
 'Twas the time of the workingmen's great strike, 
 
 Wlien all the land stood still 
 At the sudden roar from hungry mouths 
 
 That labor could not fill ; 
 When the tlmnder of the railroad ceased. 
 
 And startled towns could spy 
 A hundred blazing factories 
 
 Painting each midnight sky. 
 
 Through Philadelphia's surging streets 
 
 Marched the brown ranks of toil, 
 The grimj^ legions of the shops, 
 
 The tillers of the soil ; 
 White-faced militia-men looked on. 
 
 While women shrank with dread ; 
 'Twas muscle against money then, — 
 
 'Twas riches against bread. 
 
 Once, as the mighty mob tramped on, 
 
 A carriage stopped the wa}^ 
 Upon the silken seat of which 
 
 A young patrician lay. 
 And as, w^ith haughty glance, he swept 
 
 Along the jeering crowd 
 A white-haired blacksmith in the ranks 
 
 Took off his cap and bowed. 
 
 That night the Labor League was met, 
 
 And soon the chairman said : 
 "There hides a Judas in our midst, 
 
 One man wdio bows his head, 
 Who bends the coward's servile knee 
 
 When capital rolls by." 
 *' Down with him 1 Kill the traitor cur !" 
 
 Rang out the savage cry. 
 
 Up rose the blacksmith, then, and held 
 
 Erect his head of gray ; 
 " I am no traitor, though I bowled 
 
 To a rich man's son to-day ; 
 And though you kill me as I stand — 
 
 As like you mean to do — 
 I w^ant to teU you a story short. 
 
 And I ask you'll hear me through. 
 
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 " I was one of those who enlisted first, 
 
 The Old Flag to defend, 
 With Pope and Halleck, with 'Mac' and Grant, 
 
 I followed to the end ; 
 ind 'twas somewhere down on the Rapidan, 
 
 When the Union cause looked drear, 
 liat a regiment of rich young bloods 
 Came down to us from here. 
 
 Their uniforms were by tailors cut ; 
 
 They brought hampers of good wine ; 
 And every squad had a servant, too, 
 
 To keep their boots in shine ; 
 They'd naught to say to us dusty 'vets/ 
 
 And, through the whole brigade. 
 We called them the kid-gloved Dandy Fifth, 
 
 When we passed them on parade. 
 
 "Well, they were sent to hold a fort 
 
 The Rebs tried hard to take, 
 'Tvvas the key of all our line, which naught 
 
 While it held out could break. 
 But a fearful fight we lost just then — 
 
 The reserve came up too late ; 
 And on that fort, and the Dandy Fifth, 
 
 Hung the whole division's fate. 
 
 " Three times we tried to take them aid, 
 
 And each time back we fell. 
 Though once we could hear the fort's far guns 
 
 Boom like a funeral knell ; 
 Till at length Joe Hooker's corps came up, 
 
 And then straight through we broke ; 
 How we cheered as we saw those dandy coats 
 
 Still back of the drifting smoke ! 
 
 "With the bands all front and our colors spread 
 
 We swarmed up the parapet. 
 But the sight that silenced our welcome shout 
 
 I shall never in life forget. 
 Four days before had their water gone — 
 
 They had dreaded that the most — 
 The next their last scant ration went, 
 
 And each man looked a ghost, 
 
 "As he stood, gaunt-eyed, behind his gun, 
 
 Like a crippled stag at bay. 
 And watched starvation — though not defeat — 
 
 Draw nearer every day. 
 
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 Of all the Fifth, not fourscore men 
 
 Could in their places stand. 
 And their wliite lips told a fearful tale. 
 
 As we grasped each bloodless hand. 
 
 " The rest in the stupor of famine lay, 
 
 Save here and there a few 
 In death sat rigid against tlie guns. 
 
 Grim sentinels in blue ; 
 And their colonel, he could not speak or stir, 
 
 But we saw liis proud eye thrill 
 As he simply glanced to the shot-scarred staff 
 
 Where the old flag floated still ! 
 
 "Now I hate the tyrants who grind us down. 
 
 While the wolf snarls at our door, 
 And the men who've risen from us to laugh 
 
 At the misery of the poor ; 
 But I tell you, mates, wliile this weak old hand 
 
 I have left the strength to lift, 
 It will touch my cap to the proudest swell 
 
 Who fought in the Dandy Fifth !" 
 
 AN OLD SOLDIER'S STORY. 
 
 BY P. M DEKMOTT. 
 
 I've told thee, boy, a score of times, 
 
 And yet you ask again, 
 How and where your Uncle John 
 
 Had fallen 'mongst the slain ; 
 But boys will seek out knowledge, 
 
 And I find it as a rule. 
 They learn more from tales they're told 
 
 Than from books they read at school. 
 
 Well 'twas in those stirring times, my lad, 
 
 Long, long ere you were born, 
 That the rebel gray, at break of day, 
 
 On a cool September morn, 
 Came pouring into Maryland, 
 
 And on Antietam's plain, 
 A dreadful battle there was fought, 
 
 And many thousands slain. 
 
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 A hundred cannon on each side 
 
 Belched forth their flame and smoke, 
 Whilst the deadly tire of musketi-y 
 
 And the clash of saber stroke, 
 And tlie cheers of men who still fought on, 
 
 \nd the cries of those who fell, 
 Whilst the enemy's lines were charged upon, 
 
 To describe— no man can tell. 
 
 The tide of battle ebbed and flowed, 
 
 Tliis point now gained then lost ; 
 Erstwhile the grape and canister 
 
 Mowed down ihe rebel host. 
 Till at close of day those lines of gray 
 
 Seemed to waver, break, and run, " 
 Then the Union shouts which meant to say 
 
 Antietam's fought and won. 
 
 While victory, glorious victory, 
 
 CroAvned the efforts of that fight. 
 There was many a soldier mourning 
 
 In solitude that night 
 For the loss of friend or brother 
 
 Who fell on that gor}^ plain. 
 And henceforth, boy, remember, 
 
 Where your Uncle John was slain. 
 
 THE COUNTERSSGN. 
 
 'Twas near the break of day, but still 
 
 The moon was shining brightly ! 
 The west wind as it passed the flowers 
 
 Set each one swaying lightly ; 
 The sentry slow paced to and fro 
 
 A faithful night-watch keeping. 
 While in the tents behind him stretched 
 
 His comrades — all were sleeping. 
 
 Slow to and fro the sentry paced, 
 
 His musket on his shoulder, 
 But not a thought of death or war 
 
 Was with the brave young soldier. 
 Ah, no I his heart wf:s far away 
 
 Where, on a western prairie, 
 A rose-twined cottage stood. That night 
 
 The countersign was "Mary." 
 
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 And there his own true love he saw, 
 
 Her blue eyes kindly beaming, 
 Above them, on her sun-kissed brow. 
 
 Her curls like sunshine gleaming ; 
 And lieard her singing, as she churned 
 
 The butter in the dairy. 
 The song he loved the best. That night 
 
 The countersign was "Mary." 
 
 "Oh. for one kiss from her I" he sighed, 
 
 When, up the lone road glancing. 
 He spied a form — a little form, 
 
 With falt'ring steps advancing. 
 And as it neared him silently, 
 
 He gazed at it in wonder; 
 Then dropped his musket to his hand, 
 
 And challenged: "Who goes yonder"? 
 
 Still on it came. " Not one step more, 
 
 Be you man, child, or fairy. 
 Unless you give the countersign. 
 
 Halt! Who goes there?" " Tis Mary," 
 A sweet voice cried, and in his arms 
 
 The g.rl he'd left behind him. 
 Half-fainting fell. O'er many miles 
 
 She'd bravely toiled to find him. 
 
 "I heard that joii were wounded, dear," 
 
 She sobbed; "my heart was breaking; 
 I could not stay a moment, but. 
 
 All other ties forsaking, 
 I traveled by my grief made strong, 
 
 Kind Heaven watchins: o'er m<^. 
 Until— Unhurt and well?" "Yes, love," 
 
 " At last you stood before me. 
 
 "They told me that I could not pass 
 The lines to seek my lover. 
 Before day fairh' came; but I 
 Pressed on ere night was over, 
 I • And as I told my name I found 
 
 i The way free as our prairie," 
 
 I "Because, thank God! to-night," he said, 
 
 ' "The countersign is Mary." 
 
 •«®-^!r — Si — vt — S-TSt-TSr — Sr- 
 
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 WHEN JOHNNYCOMES MARCHING HOME. 
 
 (The Regiment's Return.) 
 
 BY E. J. CUTLER. 
 
 He is coming, he is coming, my true-love comes home to-day! 
 All tlie city throngs to meet him as he lingers by the way. 
 He is coming from the battle with his knapsack" and his gun — 
 He, a hundred times my darling, for the dangers he hath run I 
 
 Twice they said that he was dead, but I would not believe the 
 
 he; 
 While my faithful heart kept loving him I knew he could not 
 
 die. 
 All in white will I array me, with a rosebud in my hair. 
 And his ring upon my hnger— he shall see it shining there I 
 
 He will kiss me, Jie will kiss me with the kiss of long ago ; 
 
 He \vill fold his arms around me close, and I shall cry, I know. 
 
 Oh, the years that I have waited— rather lives they seemed to 
 
 be— 
 For the dawning of the happy day that brings him back to me I 
 But the wcn-thy cause has triumphed. Oh, joy I the war is over I 
 He is coming, he is coming, my gallant soldier lover I 
 
 Men are shouting all around me, women weep and laugh for 
 
 joy, 
 Wives behold again their husbands, and the mother cJasps her 
 
 boy ; 
 All the city throbs with passion; 'tis a day of jubilee; 
 But the happiness of thousands brings not happiness to me ; 
 I remember, I rememljer, when the soldiers went away. 
 There was one among the noblest who has not returned to-da3^ 
 Oh, I loved him, how I loved him ! and I never can forget 
 That he kissed me as we parted, for the kiss is burning yet I 
 'Tis his picture in my bosom, where his head will never lie; 
 'Tis his ring upon my finger — I will wear it till I die. 
 Oh, his comrades say that dying he looked up and breathed my 
 
 name ; 
 They have come to those that love them, but my darling never 
 
 came. 
 Oh, tliey say he died a hero— but I knew how that would be ; 
 And they say the cause has triumphed — will that bring him 
 
 back to me? 
 
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 BIVOUAC OF THE DEAD. 
 
 BY THEODORE O'HARA. 
 
 The muffled drums' sad roll has beat 
 
 The soldier's last tattoo; 
 No more on life's parade shall meet 
 
 That brave and fallen few. 
 On Fame's eternal camping-ground 
 
 Their silent tents are spread, 
 And glory guards, with solemn round 
 
 The bivouac of the dead, 
 No rumor of the foe's advance 
 
 Now swells upon the wind. 
 No troubled thought at midnight haunts 
 
 Of loved ones left behind: 
 No vision of the morrow's strife 
 
 The warrior's dream alarms, 
 No braymg horn or screaming fife 
 
 At dawn shall call to arms. 
 Their shivered swords are red with rust, 
 
 Their plumed heads are bowed. 
 Their haughty banner, trailed in dust 
 
 Is now their martial shroud — 
 And plenteous funeral tears have washed 
 
 The red stains from each brow. 
 And the proud forms, by battle gashed, 
 
 Are free from anguisli now. 
 Tlie neighing troop, the flashing blade, 
 
 The bugles' stirring blast. 
 The charge, the dreadful cannonade, 
 
 Tlie din and shout are passed — 
 Nor war's wild note, nor glory's peal. 
 
 Shall tlirill with fierce delight 
 Those breasts that never more may feel 
 
 The rapture of the fight. 
 Like the fierce northern hurricane 
 
 That sweeps his great plateau. 
 Flushed with tlie triumph yet to gain 
 
 Came down the serried foe — 
 Who heard tlie thunder of the fray 
 
 Break o'er the field beneath, 
 Knew well the watchword of that day 
 
 Was victory or death. 
 Full many a nother's breath has swept 
 
 O'er Angostura's plain. 
 And long the pitying sky has wept 
 
 Above its mouldered slain. 
 
The raven's scream or eagle's fight, 
 
 Or shepherd's pensiv^e lay, 
 Alone now wake each solemn height 
 
 That frowned o'er tliat dread fray. 
 Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead, 
 
 Dear as the blood ye gave ! 
 No impious footstep here shall tread 
 
 The herbage of your grave ; 
 Nor shall your glory be forgot 
 
 "W liile Fame her record keeps, 
 Or Honor points the hallowed spot 
 
 Where Valor proudly sleeps. 
 
 PRESBDEIMT LBfJCOLgM'S ADDRESS AT THE 
 
 DEDICATION OF GETTYSBURG CEME- 
 
 TERY.-NOVEMBER, 8 864. 
 
 Four-score and seven years ago our fathers brought fortli upon 
 this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated 
 to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are 
 engaged in a great civil war, testing whetJier that nation, or 
 any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. 
 We are met on a great battle-field of that war. W^e are met to 
 dedicate a portion of it as the final resting-place of those who 
 here gave their lives that that nation might live. 
 
 It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But 
 in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we 
 cannot hallow this ground. The brave men. living and dead, 
 who struggled here, have consecrated it far above oar power to 
 add or detract. The world will little note, nor long re iiember, 
 what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. 
 
 It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to tlie 
 unfinished work they have thus far so nobly carried on. It is 
 rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remainii ; 
 l»efore us, that from these honored dead ^ye take increased df^\ >■ 
 tion to the cause for whicb they gave the last full measure »•' 
 devotion; that we here highh^ resolve that these dead shall not 
 have died in vain, that the nation shall, under God, have a new 
 birth of freedom, and that the government, of the people, by 
 the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth. 
 
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 PART Three. 
 
 Gr. J^. R. soiNf^as. 
 
 THE POWER OF PATRIOTIC SONG. 
 
 Shortly after tlie firing on Fort Sumter, a gentleman in Wash- 
 ington, stopping at Willards' Hotel, relates the following in- 
 cident. There was a feeling of terrible suspense and uncertainty 
 prevalent. Great reluctance to commence a war. the fearfii) 
 havoc of which could not be foreseen ; the Southern people were 
 enthusiastic, the Northern people undecided. One evening 
 when this dreadful feeing of gloom pervaded all hearts, a gen- 
 tleman began singing the "Star Spangled Banner;'' as he pro- 
 ceeded, his voice, at first feeble, grew^ strong and vigoi-ous. The 
 song was heard throughout the hotel, and one after another 
 the windows w^ere throwai open ; then first one and then another 
 joined in the song; until wdien the chorus of the second verse 
 w^as reached, there was a mighty chorus of men's voices. The 
 singing attracted the passers-by, who stopped and joined their 
 voices also in the chorus, which sw^elled forth from over a hun- 
 dred throats, electrified all w^ho heard and transhxed all w-ho 
 sang. At the close, men grasped each other's hands, and sent 
 forth cheer after cheer. The moment of indecision was past, 
 and the spirit of partriotism w^as thus awakened that saved the 
 Union. 
 
 (Cop3'righted.) 
 
 THE LITTLE BRONZE BUTTON. 
 
 (Air, The (31d Oaken Bucket.) 
 
 BY PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR, F. S. BARTRAM. 
 
 How dear to my heart are the comrades I cherish. 
 
 Who stood by my side in the battles' dark hours: 
 W1io offered their lives that the land should not perish, 
 
 The nation our fatlu^'s had left us for dower. 
 Who stayed not to question the right to defend her. 
 
 The mother who l)ore them, wdien enemies pressed; 
 But formost in battle, scorned coward surrender. 
 
 And earned them the signet that sliines on their breast. 
 
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 The little bronze'button, the veterans' button ; 
 
 The Grand Army button that shines on their breast. 
 It's the token of deeds of true partiot's daring; 
 
 It's the pledge of bright courage in battles of fray ; 
 There earned tliey the right to the honor of wearing 
 
 The symbol whose glory gi-ows brighter each dav. 
 No jeweled insignia, with diamonds entwining, 
 
 No cross of the legions by princess possessed. 
 Can ennoble the bosom on which it is shining. 
 
 Like the little bronze button they wear on their breast. 
 The eloquent button, the deed telling button; 
 
 The Grand Army button, that shines on their breast. 
 
 Whenever I see one, 'mid plainess or splendor, 
 
 In the garments of wealth or of povei'ty dress'd, 
 I know that the heart of a soldier is under 
 
 The little bronze button that shines on this breast. 
 So in life will I cherish, all honors exceeding, 
 
 And when, the March past, they shall lay me to rest. 
 Like a soldier I'll slumber, earth's tumult unheeding. 
 
 And the little bronze button shall sleep on my breast, 
 The Grand Army button, the heart cherished button, 
 
 The battle won button shall sleep on my breast. 
 
 COMRADES. 
 
 We from childhood played together, my dear comrade. Jack 
 and I ; 
 
 We would fight each other's battles, to each other's aid we'd fly ; 
 
 And, in boyish scrapes and troubles, you would find us every- 
 where ; 
 
 Where one went the other followed, naught could part us, for 
 we were 
 
 Chorus. 
 
 Comrades, comrades, ever since we were boys, 
 
 Sharing each other's sorrows, sharing each other's joys ; 
 
 Comrades when manhood was dawning, faithful whate'er might 
 betide. 
 
 And when danger threatened the Union my darling old com- 
 rades were there by my side. 
 
 When just budding into manhood I yearned for a soldier's life; 
 Night and day I dreamed of glory, longing for the battle's 
 
 strife ; 
 I said, "Jack, I'll be a soldier, 'neath the red, the white, and 
 
 blue ; 
 Good-by, Jack!" Said he, "No, never! if you go then I'll go, 
 
 too." 
 
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 Chorus. 
 
 Comrades, comrades, ever since we were boys, 
 
 Sharing each other's sorrows, sharing each other's joys: 
 
 Comrades when manhood was dawning, faithful vvhate'er might 
 
 betide, 
 When danger threatened my darling old comrade was there by 
 
 my side. 
 
 I enlisted, Jack came with me, and up-and-downs we shared ; 
 For a time our lives were peaceful, but at length war was 
 
 declared ; 
 Our dear flag had been insulted, we were ordered to the front. 
 And the reg'ment we belonged to had to bear the battle's brunt. 
 
 Chorus. 
 
 Comrades, comrades, ever since we were boys, 
 Sharing eacli other's sorrows, sharing each other's joys; 
 Comrades when manhood was dawning, faithful whate'er might 
 
 betide, 
 When danger threatened ni} darling old comrade was there by 
 
 my side. 
 
 In the night the savage foemen crept around us as we lay. 
 
 To our arms we leaped, and faced them, back to back we stood 
 
 at bay ; 
 As I fought a rebel at me aimed his bayonet like lightning's 
 
 dart, 
 But my comrade sprang to save me, and received it in his heart. 
 
 Chorus. 
 
 Comrades, comrades, ever since we were boys. 
 
 Sharing each other's sorrows, sharing each other's joys; 
 
 Comrades when manhood was dawning, faithful whate'er might 
 
 betide. 
 When danger threatened my darling old comrade was there by 
 
 my side. 
 
 (Copyrighted.) 
 
 THIRTY YEARS AGO. 
 
 (Air— Just Twenty Years Ago.) 
 
 BY PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR. F. S. BARTRAM. 
 
 By Heaven's grace v»-e meet again, 
 
 Old memories we renew; 
 We stand together just the same 
 
 As when the bullets flew ; 
 
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 We cling together as we did 
 When clouds were black with woe, 
 
 We sing together as we did 
 Nearlhirty years ago. 
 
 Times must have made our visions dim 
 
 "Since eighteen sixty-one;" 
 The silvered locks, the trembling limb, 
 
 Keveal what age has done: 
 But thne don't change our purpose— 
 
 We never backward go ; 
 Our faith in right is just as brim 
 
 As thirty years ago. 
 
 Our coimtry's fallen heroes sleep- 
 Some in neglected tomb ; 
 
 What though her living cripples creep 
 In want, distress, and gloom, 
 
 ISi o want can make their interest lag. 
 No sorrow, pain, nor woe. 
 
 They're just as loyal to the flag 
 As thirty years ago. 
 
 Mankind devotes the present hour 
 
 To rivah-y for place, 
 Intent alone on gain and power. 
 
 And scheme to win life's race; 
 What if we keep the past in vain— 
 
 What if our pace be slow, 
 Our hearts though few beat just as true 
 
 As thirty years ago. 
 
 (Copyrighted.) 
 
 THE REBEL PiCKET. 
 
 (Air — Annie Laurie.) 
 
 BY PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR, F. S- BARTRAM. 
 
 Potomac banks were bonny, 
 
 Some thirty years ago ; 
 'Twas there I met a " Johnny" 
 
 From Febeldom, you know, 
 
 From Rebeldom, you know. 
 
 Where rare persimmons grow ; 
 And for this beniglited "Johnny" 
 I'd ne'er lay down and die. 
 
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 His eyes with fire were gleaming, 
 
 While he crept on apace ; 
 His hair unkempt was streaming 
 
 Adown his grizzled face, 
 
 Adown his grizzled face. 
 
 Bereft of comely grace ; 
 And for this deluded "Johnny" 
 I'd ne'er lay down and die. 
 
 His clothes were gray and muddy, 
 His slouch hat without a hand. 
 
 His countenance was ruddy, 
 A gun was in his hand, 
 His gun was in his hand, 
 He was crawling o'er the sand ; 
 
 And for this gray, skulking "Johnny" 
 
 I'd ne'er lay down and die. 
 
 At last the bushes parted 
 
 Where I concealed had lain ; 
 He rose and backward started, 
 
 I hailed him, but in vain, 
 
 I halted h'un in vain. 
 
 Then took deliberate aim 
 At this skulking, fleeing "Johnny" 
 Who at full length did lie. 
 
 I cautiously approached him, 
 
 Deep sorrow filled my heart, 
 And as I bound his bleeding limb 
 
 His quivering lips did part, 
 
 His quivering lii)s did part. 
 
 He said with fluttering heart, 
 "Yank, fill me up with whisky straight, 
 Then lay me down to die." 
 
 (Copyrighted.) 
 
 AFTER THE BATTLE. 
 
 (We Old Boys.) 
 
 BY PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR, F. S. BARTRAM. 
 
 'Twas side by side as comrades dear, 
 
 In dark days long ago, 
 We fought the fight without a fear. 
 
 And rendered blow for blow; 
 In battle, march, or prison pen, 
 
 Each unto each was true, 
 As beardless boys became strong men. 
 
 And braved the long war through. 
 
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 Chorus. 
 We are the boys, the gay old boys, 
 
 Who marched in sixty-one ; 
 We'll ne'er forget old times, mj^ boys. 
 
 When you and I were young. 
 
 And tho' thro' all these years of peace 
 
 We're somewhat older grown, 
 The spirit of those early days 
 
 We'll ever proudly own ; 
 Our arand old flag is just as fair 
 
 As in the trying time 
 When traitors sought its folds to tear 
 
 And we suppressed the crime. 
 
 Chorus. 
 
 What if grim age creeps on apace, 
 
 Our souls shall not grow old ; 
 But we shall stand as m the days 
 
 When we were warriors bold ; 
 We stood for right— for our dear land — 
 
 For home, and all that's true; 
 So, firmly clasp hand unto hand, 
 
 And comradeship renew\ 
 
 Chorus. 
 
 (Copyrighted.) 
 
 THE C. A. R. 
 
 (Air — Lanriger Horatius.) 
 
 BY PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR, F. S. BARTRAM. 
 
 Comrades tried and ever true — 
 
 Members of the G. A. R. ; 
 Veterans who wore the blue 
 
 In the ranks of G. A. R. 
 Men who dre\v the Uuion sword — 
 Saved the flag from rebel horde — 
 Valor that mankind adored — 
 
 Loyal, faithful G. A. R. 
 
 Men of this heroic host. 
 
 In the ranks of G. A. R., 
 'Tis vour privilege to boast 
 
 Of the deeds of G. A. R. 
 You remember days of yore — 
 Comrades Ions' since gone before 
 Tenting now on mvstic shore. 
 
 Silent, faithful G. A. R. 
 
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 How these greetings dear to all 
 
 Members of the G. A. R., 
 Tenderest memoiies recall 
 
 To the living G. A. R. 
 Here our liopes and faith entwine- 
 Cling like tendrils to the vine, 
 Touch of kin almost divine 
 Binds the passing G. A. R. 
 
 (Copyrighted.) 
 THINKBNG TO-NBCHT. 
 
 (xVir— Tenting To-night.) 
 
 BY PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR, F. S. BARTRAM. 
 
 We are thinking to-night of the old camp ground. 
 
 Where the bosom of earth was one bed. 
 Though the years that we passed in that wearisome round. 
 
 Till the last good-by was said. 
 
 Chorus. 
 
 Many are the men we remember to-night. 
 
 Whose loss fills our hearts with regret, 
 Whose forms fondly clierished have passed from our sight. 
 
 But whose deeds we shall never forget. 
 
 Refrain. 
 
 Living to-night, thinking to-night, 
 Thinking of the old camp ground. 
 
 How brief seem the years since we drifted apart, 
 Since with thousands old time has stood still. 
 
 Yet those memories linger in each loving heart, 
 AVhile their places no other can fill. 
 
 Chorus. 
 
 Many are the men we remember to-night. 
 
 Whose loss fills our hearts with regret. 
 Whose forms fondly cherished have passed from our sight, 
 
 But whose deeds we shall never forget. 
 
 Refrain. 
 
 Living to-night, dying to-night, 
 Thinking of the old camp ground. 
 
THE STAIt-SPANaLED BANNEift. 05 
 
 1 say can you see by the dawn's early light, 
 
 What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming; 
 
 Whose broad stripes and bright Btars through the ixjrilous fight 
 O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming ; 
 
 And the rocket's red glare; the bombs bursting in air, 
 
 Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there ; 
 O ! say, does the star-spangled banner still wave, C Tp^„^^* 
 O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave ? ( 
 
 On the shore, dimly seen through the mist of the deep, 
 Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, 
 
 What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, 
 As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses ? 
 
 Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, 
 In full glory reflected now shines on the stream ; 
 'Tis the star spangled banner, ! long may it wave 
 O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave ! 
 
 Repeat. 
 
 And where is the band who so vauntingly swore 
 That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion, 
 
 A. home and a country should leave us no more ? 
 Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' jJoUution. 
 
 No refuge could save the hireling and slave 
 
 From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave, 
 
 And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave c „ . 
 
 O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. \ 
 
 ! thus be it ever when freemen shall stand 
 
 Between their loved homes and the foe's desolation ; 
 
 Bless'd with victory and peace, may the Heaven-rescued land, 
 Praise the powei^that has made and preserved us a nation ! 
 
 Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just. 
 And this be our motto — "Tu God is our trust. " 
 And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave C jjanp t 
 O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. ( 
 
66 THE FLAG OF FORT SUMXBK. 
 
 Air :— Star Spangled Banner. 
 
 O say. have you heard how tl«j Tia- of our sires 
 
 Was insulted by traitors, in boastful alliance, 
 When for Union's dear cause, over Sumpter's red fires. 
 In front of Rebellion it waved its defiance ? 
 Over Sumter it flew, 
 Over patriots true, 
 And through all that fierce conflict still dearer it grew. 
 Twas the Flag of Foit Sumter ! we saw it still wave 
 O'er the heads of the Free and the hearts of the Brave ! 
 
 That banner so bright, it was nailed to its mast, 
 
 As a sign that for Freedom there s still no surrender ; 
 And tile staff tliat up-bore it in battle's dread blast, 
 Yet remains to be raised by its gallant def nder ! 
 Over Sumter it flew, 
 Over Anderson true, 
 And through all the dark conflii t still dearer it grew. 
 Twas the Flag of Fort Sumter ! long may it wave 
 O er the heads of the Free and the hearts of (he Brave 1 
 
 When in Union's dear name, freedom's cause to sustain, 
 
 Round our Washingtons form, half a million assembled, 
 In tile Statue's proud hand, high unrolled once again, 
 
 Ro e the Flag that in danger's front never had trembled I 
 Streaming heavenward it flew. 
 Over patriots true. 
 And tliougli torn from tlie conflict, still dearer it grew. 
 Twas the Flag of Fort Sumter ! we saw it still wave 
 O er the heads of the Free and the hearts of the Brave ! 
 
 There are fields yet to win, there are conflicts to fight. 
 
 Till the foes of our Union are vanquished forever ! 
 But the flag that was nailed over Sumter's red height, 
 From the start' that upheld it no traitors can sever ; 
 It shall fly as it flew, 
 Over patriots true, 
 ■Whilst our oaths for the Union beneath we renew ; 
 For the Flag of Fort Sumter in glorv sludil wave 
 O'er the lioads of the Free and fciine LearU of llio Brave 1 
 
SHiiBMAiJ'S MARCH TO THE SIS A. - 6'( 
 
 Our camp-fire shone bright on the mountains 
 
 That frowned on the river below, 
 While we stood by oi.v guns in the morning, 
 
 And eagerly watched for the foe ; 
 'When a rider came Out from the darknesa 
 
 That hung over mountain and tree, 
 And shouted, " Boys, up and be ready, 
 
 For Sherman will march to the sea." 
 Then cheer upon oheer for bold Sherman, 
 
 "Went up from each valley and glen, 
 And the bugles rechoed the music. 
 
 That came from the lips of the men. 
 For we knew that the stars on our banner 
 
 More bright in their splendor would be, 
 And that blessings from Northland won' ' yreet «£ 
 
 When Sherman marched down to the t>ea. 
 Then forward, boys, forward to battle, 
 
 We marched on our wearisome way. 
 And we stormed the wild hills of Resaca, " 
 
 God bless those who fell on that day 1 
 Then Kenesaw, dark in Its glory, 
 
 Frowned down on the flag of the fi-ee, 
 But the East and the West bore our standards. 
 
 And Sherman marched down to the sesu 
 Still onward we pressed till our banners 
 
 Swept out from Atlanta's grim walls, 
 A-nd the blood of the patriot dampened 
 
 The soil where the traitor's flag falls ; 
 But we paused not to weep for the fallen, 
 
 Who slept by each river and tree, 
 Yet we twined them a wreath of the laurel. 
 
 As Sherman marched down to the sea. 
 Oh, proud was our army that morning. 
 
 That stood vrhcre the pine proudly tower?, 
 When Sherman said, " Boys, joxi are weary, 
 
 This day fair Savannah is ours !" 
 Then sung we a song for our chieftain. 
 
 That echoed o'er river and lea. 
 And the stars in our banner shone brighter. 
 
 When Sherman marched down to the sea. 
 And now, though our marching is over. 
 
 And peace and the Union are sure. 
 We think we will finish our labor, 
 
 And all that we fought for secure ' 
 
 By voting for wise men aad true men 
 
 That thej^ may our ^cnunels be, 
 To g-aard what our gall;;nt iik-ii went for 
 When Sherman marched dc w n to the mstm 
 
68 THE GRANT BOYS IN BLUE. 
 
 Air:— ''Red, White and Blue." 
 
 America, land of bright freedom, 
 
 No longer accursed by a slave, 
 "When tyrants denounce, never heeA tLeffl, 
 
 But up with the flag of the brave. 
 It shone o'er ranks in dark danger, 
 
 When missiles of death 'round us flew. 
 To skulking and fear 'tis a s'^ranger, 
 
 When borne by tne Graat Boys in Blue. 
 
 When borne by the Grant Boys in Blue, 
 When borne by the Grant Boys in Blue, 
 To skulking and fear 'tis u stranger. 
 When borne by the Grant Boys ir- Blue. 
 
 When rebels our Union to sever, 
 
 Made war o'er the land and the seas. 
 Not an inch would we' yield them, no, nt.Hi-\ 
 
 But threw our old flag to the breeze. 
 Around it tha valiant quick rally, 
 
 Their fealty to fi'cedom renew. 
 On the march, in battle and the sally. 
 
 Shone the flag of the Grant Boys in Blue. 
 
 Shone the flag, &c, 
 « 
 At Shiluh, at Vieksburg, at Lookout, 
 
 At Dcnelson, pelted by storm, 
 We bore it o'er rampart and redoubt, 
 
 Gave victory a lustre and form. 
 In the Wilderness, constant in battle, 
 
 Through weeks of dread conflict it flew, 
 'Twas seen in. the midst of war's rattle, 
 
 Proudly borne by the Grant Boys in Blue. 
 Proudly borne, &o. 
 
 No field but as victors we bore it. 
 
 When Grant our great leader was there, 
 Richmond fell, (only traitors deplore it,) 
 
 Appomatox saw Lee in despair. 
 Grant and victory, nothing could sever. 
 
 Grant and victory, the boast of the true, 
 The Army and Navy for ever, 
 
 Hu2za for the Grant Boys in Blue. 
 
 - Huzza for the Grant, Sco. 
 
GBANT'S MARSEILLES. 69 
 
 T« sons of Freedom, rally round him ! 
 
 Hark! hark ! what thousands bid you ris«l 
 Behold ! with laurels they have crowned him 
 
 What eager shouts and joyous cries ! 
 Shall treacherous minions, terror-breeding. 
 
 In council sit, a ruf&an band, 
 
 To shame and desecrate our land. 
 While we look tamely on, unheeding? 
 
 CHOKUS. 
 
 Arouse ! arouse ! ye brave, 
 
 Who fought to keep us free. 
 
 Once more, once more, fill up the ranks 
 
 For Grant and Victory I 
 
 Now, now omr country shrinks and trembles, 
 Not from the battle's rude alarms. 
 
 But fro'm the danger which dissembles, 
 The serpent-sting that silent harms. 
 
 Her generous bosom warmed the traitor. 
 Who turns and wounds her in the hour 
 When she has laid aside her power, 
 
 And dreams not foes at home await her. 
 
 Arouse ! arouse ! ye brave, & 
 
 Oh, Liberty I can men resign thee ! 
 
 Or e'er forget who rushed to save — 
 Whose arm, in danger's hour entwiaed thee, 
 
 Whose breast, a shield for thee, he gave ? 
 No, grateful millions round him rally, 
 
 With eager shouts and joyous cries — 
 Hark, how from mountain-top and valley. 
 
 The loud exalting pseans, rise I 
 
 Arouae I arouse ! ye brave, Si 
 
701 DSEAMED MY BOY WAS HOME AGAIK. 
 
 Lonel}-, weary, broken-hearted, 
 
 As I laid me down to sleep, 
 Thinking of the day we parted, 
 
 AVhen 30U told me not to weep ; 
 Soon I dreamed that peaceful Angels 
 
 Hovered o"er the battle-plain, 
 Singing songs of joy and gladness, 
 
 And my boy was liome again. 
 
 How well I know sucFi thoughts of joy. 
 
 Such dreams of bliss are vain I 
 My heart is sad, coy tears will flow. 
 
 Until my boy is home again. 
 
 Tears were changed to loud rejoicings. 
 
 Night was turned to endless day, 
 Loving birds were sweetly singing, 
 
 Flowers blooming in light array; 
 Old and young seemed light and cheerful, 
 
 Peace seemed everj'where to reign, 
 My poor heart forgot its sorrow ; 
 
 For, my boy was home again ! 
 
 How well I know, <fec. 
 
 But the dream is past: and with it 
 
 All my happiness is gone: 
 Cheerful thoughts of joy have vanished, 
 
 I must still in sonow mourn ; 
 Soon may peace with all its blessings. 
 
 Our unhappy land reclaim, 
 Then raj- tears will cease tlieir flowing. 
 
 And ray boy be home again ! 
 
 How well I know, <feo. 
 
THE SOLDIERS FXTNEAAlk 71 
 
 H&rk ! to the shrill trumpet calling. 
 
 It pierces the soft summer air ; 
 Tears from each comrade are falling. 
 
 For the widow and orphan are there; 
 Bayonets earthward are turning, 
 
 The drum muffled voice breathes around. 
 Yet he heeds not the voice of the mourner. 
 
 Nor wakes to the soft bugle's sound. 
 
 Sleep, soldier, tho' many may mourn thee, 
 
 And weep o'er thy cold form to day ; 
 Soon, soon will thy kiadred forget thee. 
 
 Thy name from the earth pass away; 
 The man thou hast loved as a brother. 
 
 Some friend in thy place shall have gain'd 
 Thy dog shall keep watch for another, 
 
 Thy steed by another be reined. 
 
 Tho' many now mourn for thee sadly, 
 
 Soon joyous as ever tlie\''ll be; 
 Thy bright orphan boy will laugli gladly, 
 
 As he sits on some brave comrade's knee. 
 Buttliere's one who'll be true to her duty, 
 
 Who will mourn for the lost and the brav«. 
 As when first in the blooro of her beauty. 
 
 She wept o'er her h v<^<^ soldier's grave. 
 
BRING MY BROTHER BACK TO MB. 
 
 Bring my brother back to me, 
 
 When this war is done; 
 Give us all tlie J03-8 we shared, 
 
 Ere it had begun ; 
 Oil ! bring my brother back to me, 
 
 Nt-ver moi-e to stray ! 
 This is all my earnest prayer, 
 
 Through the weary day. 
 
 Chorus, 
 
 Bring him back, bring him back, 
 With his smiling, healtiiful glee; 
 
 Bring him back, bring him back, 
 Bring my brother back to me I 
 
 All the house is lonely now. 
 
 And my voice no more. 
 In the pleasant summer eves-, 
 
 Greets him at the door. 
 Never more I hear his step 
 
 By the garden gate, 
 Wliile I sit in anxious tears, 
 
 Knowing not his fate. 
 
 Bring him back, Ac 
 
 Bring my brother back to me, 
 
 From the battle strife ; 
 Thou who watchest o'er the good. 
 
 Shield his precious life ! 
 When this war has pased away. 
 
 Safe from all alarms ; \ 
 
 Bring my brother home again, \ 
 
 To my longing arma ! 
 
 Brinnr l,im hncV, Ao- 
 
THE CHASaE AT ROANOKB. 
 
 Oh 'f see you not yonder the foe in his might ? 
 
 Tlie (lark battlements rise like dim siiadows before as ; 
 But, oh ! we are eager and long for the fight, 
 
 With faitli in our hearts and the flag streaming o'er us. 
 Wlien the first streak of nioru o'er tlie waters shall dawn, 
 
 With high throbbing bosoms we'll brave every storm, 
 And this be our watchword: Our dear Liberty, 
 
 The country that bore us, the land of the free 1 
 
 Up 1 onward ! Zouaves, through the battle and smoke, 
 
 'Mid the thunder of cannon, straight into the breach i 
 Charge, Blue-Devils ! see how the Rebels have broke. 
 
 Advance then — their columns you swiftly will reach. 
 Bright bayonets flash as we furiously dash 
 With splendid precision and nothing done rash ; 
 Our brave Kimball leads us the victory is won. 
 Our flag's on the ramparts, the battle ia done 1 
 
 T3ut, ah ! we must stop and relate how we sighed 
 
 For the brave the adored and lamented Monteil, 
 Chargez mes enfants 1 and a true soldier died. 
 
 With the soul of a patriot and heart firm as steel I 
 His praise will be sung upon every tongue, 
 
 While the hearta that are now with their anguish wrun|^, 
 Will be proud of the Zouave who died in the van, 
 
 The hero and Chrifltain fellow comrade, and man. 
 
74 MY COUNTRY'S FLAG OF STARS. 
 
 Words by Lieut. Wm. D. Porter, U. S. K. Music by Anton Straub 
 
 The Music of this Song is published by E. H. Harding. 288 Bowery. 
 sPrice, 10 cents. 
 
 I've roam'd for manj- a lengthen'd mile 
 
 Upon the stormy seas ; 
 I've seen some twenty banners float 
 
 Full proudly on the breeze. 
 That standard, too, Great Britain's prido. 
 
 The boast of England's tars, 
 Tet none could thrill my heart like thee, 
 
 My Country's Flag of Stars. 
 Tet none could thrill my heart liice the«. 
 
 My Country's Flag of Stars. 
 
 Brazil's gay flag of gorgeous dyes, 
 
 Tlie banner of Old Spain, 
 Ev'n Gallia's bunting as it flies, 
 
 Is not undimm'd by stain. 
 Their lustre has been sullied oft 
 
 At home bj^ deadly jars, 
 But thy bright azure fold is pure, 
 
 My Country's Flag of Stars. 
 But thy bright azure fold is pure. 
 
 My Country's Flag of Stars. 
 
 In some fam'd foreign port I've seen 
 
 The ships of half the world, 
 To celebrate some gala day. , 
 
 Their bunting all unfurl'd, ' 
 
 With eager heart, I've glanced my eye 
 
 in 
 
MY COUNTRY'S FLAG OF STARS, [congludel 7J 
 
 Along their tap'ring spars, 
 Uiitil my gaze has fixed on thee, 
 
 My Country's Flao- of stars. 
 Cntil my gaze has fixed on thee. 
 
 My Country's Flag of Stars. 
 
 And as thy stripes and star-speck'd field 
 
 Broke on my eager sight. 
 My heart beat strong, my bosom thrilled 
 
 "With unalloyed delight. 
 I hailed thee as the cynosure 
 
 Of true Columbian Tars ; 
 The banner of the brave and free. 
 
 My Country's Flag of Stars. 
 The banner of the brave and free, 
 
 My country's Flag of Stars. 
 
 Oh Where's the heart, posseBsing but 
 
 One spark of freedom's zeal. 
 That does not, gazing on thy folds, 
 
 A patriot's spirit feel. 
 What veteran too, as he looks down 
 
 Upon his dear bought scars, 
 That does not hail thee with delight, 
 
 My Country's Flag of Stars. 
 That does not hail thee with delight^ 
 
 My Country's Flag of Stars. 
 
 L2J 
 
76 BENNY HAVENS, OH f 
 
 "Be^nt Havexs" was for many years a contraband seller of liquor* 
 and ^-iauda to the " T7ost Point Cadets," and in course of time, was 
 pxpelled from the immediate precincts of the niillitary academy. He 
 then opened a regular establishment a mile or two south of West 
 Toint, which has been a favorite place of resort for Cadets on a con- 
 vivial party, " sans permissione." The lamentedO'Brien, formerly a 
 sergeant in the aimy, was commissioned as a lieutenant in the "Ei<;hth 
 Infantry." Before or while about joining; his regiment, he stopped at 
 ■West Point to visit an eirrly friend of his, the late Major Kipi.ey A. 
 Arnold, then a first class Cadet, residing at K'o 32 " Kue de Cockloft," 
 in the old North Branch. They made frequent excursions to " Benny's." 
 The song was composed by O'BuiEX, AnxOLD, and others of the cl 'ss, 
 became, as it ia now, and ever will be, extremely popular with all 
 graduates who ever learned the way to "Benny Havens" during their 
 •cademical course at "West Point. A Graduate. 
 
 Come, tunc your voices comrades, and stand up in a row, 
 For to sintrinj^ sentimentally, we are about to go. 
 In the army there's so briety, promotion very slow, 
 So we'll sigh our reminisenceg of Benny Havens, Oh ! 
 
 O ! Benny Havens, O ! O ! Benny Havens, O I 
 We'll sigh our reminiso?nces of Benny Havens, 0| 
 O ! Benny H ivens, O! ! Benny Hevens, O ! 
 We'll sigh our reminiscences of Benny Havens, Of 
 
 Let us tonst our fo-ster father (the Republic as j-ou know,) 
 Who in the paths of science taunht us upwards for to go; 
 And then the madiens of our land, whose cheeks with roees 
 
 glow, 
 Whose smiles and tears were snng'mid cheers, at Benny Ilavena 
 
 01 
 
 ! Benny Havens, <tc. 
 To the ladies of the Empire State, whose hearts and albums 
 
 too, 
 Bear sad examples of the wrongs that stripling eoldiers do, 
 "We bid a sad adieu, our hearts with porrow overfl(jw. 
 Our loves and rhymings had their source at Benny Havens, Ohi 
 \ Beany Havens. 4c. 
 
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BENNY HAVENS, OH.-~[CoNTrauED.j 77 
 
 Of the smile-wreathed maids AVith virgin lips, like roses dipped 
 
 in dew. 
 Wlio are to be our better halves we'd like to take a view ; 
 But sufficient to the britlal day in tlie ill of it, you know, 
 So we'll cheer our hearts with chorusing old Benny Havens O I 
 I Benny Havens, <fec. 
 
 To the ladies of the army, our cups shall overflow I 
 Companions of our exile, and our shield '2;ainst every woe ! 
 We ihi-ow the grtuiitlet in their cause, and taunt the soulless f*-*^ 
 VVho'd hesitate to drink to them, and Benny Havens ! 
 
 O I Benn}' Havens, &c. 
 
 May we never lack a smile for friend, or stern heart for a foe, 
 May aH our paths be pleasantness, wherever we may go I 
 May the muster-roll of after years report us "statu qou," 
 And goodly samples of the age, of Benn.-j Havens 1 
 
 O I B«j»ny Havens, <fec. 
 
 Oh remember, gallant comrades, as o'er th<« past we go. 
 The ties that must be cut in twain, as o'er I'/fj's sea we tow\ 
 The hearts that throb in unison must moulder down below, 
 And laughing lips lie mute that wagg'd at Beijuy Havens 0\ 
 
 ! Benny Hivens, <fec, 
 
 'Tis said by commentators, when to other world* we go. 
 
 We follow the same handicraft we did in this below. 
 
 If this be true philosophy (the sexton, he says no). 
 
 What days of dance and song we'll have at Benny He«vi'„<, Ol 
 
 1 Benny Havens <fea. 
 
 As the ruby-tinted dahlia o^ves its purest, brightest 5I0W, 
 To the warmest rays that Sol can pour upon it liere below. 
 So our hearts acquire new joyousn-'ss from brilliant eyes thi4 
 
 throw 
 The genial rays upon onr aoals, and Benny Havens O ! 
 
 ! B€any HaveDS, if. 
 
 in 
 
78 GENERAL PAT. 
 
 Air: " Captain Jinks." 
 
 I'm General Pat of tlie Sons of Mars, 
 
 I smokes and eats tlie best cigars, 
 I drinks at all the wliiskey bars, 
 
 I'm f^ineral in the arinj' •, 
 Itache politicians all the tricks, 
 
 All the tricks, all the tricks, 
 J tache politicians all the tricks, 
 
 I'm one of the general committee. 
 
 Spoicn: Yes, gintleman, I'm one of tlie gineral committee of 
 our ward. "When I was before Patersburg wilh big fat Curncll 
 Glf*as(>n, I was going to be court-martialed one day for dcalinuf 
 out too much grog to the bhoys : but I wasn't court-martifiled 
 any -way, and I've come here to-night to be your lunnble aa*' 
 afFecMonate servant. 
 
 I"m Gineral Pat of the Sons of Mars, 
 I drinks at all the whiskey bars, 
 I eats and smokes the best cigars, 
 I'm a gineral in the array, 
 
 I3oined the corps in '61, 
 
 I tell you my boys it was no fun, 
 The very first battle I fell in, 
 
 I own I wasn't cut out for the army. 
 When I left home, my father he cried. 
 
 My brother he cried, my sister she cried, 
 Wlien I left home, my mother she cried, 
 
 " Arrah, Patsy, are ye going to the army ?" 
 
 [1] 
 
[GENERAI. PAT. [concluded.] 79 
 
 Spoken: " Ye3, mother," says I. "a clivil a pig will I ever 
 feed for you agin." " Well," says sl.e, " God bless ye, for ye 
 was always a good obadiant boy, and I hope you'll send n.e 
 W ^me a bit of your bounty, for the rint is coining due at the 
 J St of the month." " I will, mother," says I. " But iiowsoine- 
 ^er, gintlemin, I was always the first man in battle and the 
 iast out of it, and I never liked to cross my sword with a man 
 «hat had as white a face as I did, or spaking of the same 
 language, or a man from my own country, but if it was a na^nr 
 or a Dutchman, or a Cuban, or any other filibuster, begorra. he 
 wouldn't be master of his own scalp lor more than fifteen mm 
 utes, for 1 always was and always will be to the day I die-God 
 bless the mark ! 
 
 I'm Gineral Pat, Ac. 
 
 We met the enemy at Bull Run, 
 
 And I was there with my big gun, 
 When the rebels saw me, they all did run, 
 
 Away from me in the army, 
 The rebels they did all cry o«t. 
 
 They all did shout, they all bawled out, 
 The rebels the^ did all cry out, 
 
 Shoot that Irishman out of the army. 
 
 Spokm'. Yes. gintlemin, and, begorra, I was afraid they 
 were a-going to do it, and if they had, what would hav« been 
 the consequence? Why the Fenian Brotherhood would be de- 
 prived of one of its brightest ornaments. But you s.e tin y 
 havnt, gintlemin, and I'm here to-night to be your most hu.nble 
 and affectionate servant. 
 
 I'm Gineral Pat, <fec. 
 
80 SAIL COLUMBIA, HAPPY LANDl 
 
 Hail Columbia ! happj land ! hail, ye heroes ! heaven-bors 
 band! 
 Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause, 
 Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause, 
 And when Ihe storm of war was gone, enjoyed the peace your 
 
 valor won. 
 Let independence be our boast, ever mindful what it cost; 
 Ever grateful for the prize, let its altar reach the skies. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Firm united let us be, rallying round our liberty ; 
 
 As a band of brothers joined, peace and safety we shall find. 
 
 Immortal patriots, rise once more, defend your rights, defend 
 your shore. 
 Let no rude foe, with impious hand, 
 Let no rude foe, with impious hand. 
 Invade the shrine where sacred lies, of toil and blood the well- 
 earned prize. 
 While offering peace sincere and just, in heaven we place 8, 
 
 nifinly trust. 
 That truth and justice Avill iJrevail, and every scheme of boni. 
 age fail. 
 
 Firm united let us be, &o. 
 
 Sound, sound the trump of fame! let Washington's great 
 name 
 Ring through the world with loud npplause. 
 Ring through the world with loud applause ; 
 Let every clime to Freedom dear, listen with a joyful ear. 
 With eciual skill and god-like power, he goverii'd in the fear- 
 ful hour 
 Of horrid war ! or guides, with ease, the happier time* of 
 honest peace. 
 
 Firm united let us be, «&c. 
 
 Behold the chief who now commands, again to serve his 
 country, stands — 
 Tlie rock on which the storm will beat, 
 The rock on which the storm will beat; 
 But, armed in virtue firm and true, his hopes are flx'd on 
 
 Heaven and you. 
 When hope was sinking 'in dismay, and gloom obscured Colum- 
 bia's day, 
 His steady mind, from changes free, resolvod on death or 
 liberty. 
 
 Firm united let us be, &c. 
 
THE DRUMMER BOY OP SHILOH. 81 
 
 On Shiloh's dark and bloody ground, 
 
 The dead and wounded lay ; 
 Among them wag a drummer boy, 
 
 Who beat the drum tliat day. 
 A wounded soldier held him up , 
 
 His drum was by his side ; 
 He clasped his hands, then raised his eyee. 
 
 And prayed before he died : 
 
 Look down upon the battle-field, 
 
 O Thou, our Heavenly Friend I 
 Have mercy on our sinful souls ! — 
 
 The soldiers cried. Amen ! 
 For, gathered round a little group. 
 
 Each brave man knelt and cried — 
 They listened to the diummer boy, 
 
 Who prayed before be died. 
 
 Mother ! said the dying boy, 
 
 Look down from Heaven on me; 
 Receive me to thy fond embrace — 
 
 Oh ! take me home to thee — 
 I've loved my Country as my God ; 
 
 To serve them both I've tried — 
 He smiled, shook hands — death seized the boy. 
 
 Who prayed before he died. 
 
 Each soldier we})t, then like a child — 
 
 Stout hearts were the}^ and brave — 
 The Flag, his winding sheet — God's Book, 
 
 The key unto his grave. 
 They wrote upon a simple board 
 
 These words, This is a guide 
 To those who'd mourn the drummer boy. 
 
 Who prayed, be fore he died. 
 
 Ye, Angels' round the throne of grace. 
 
 Look down upon the braves. 
 Who fought and died on Shiloh's plain. 
 
 Now slumbering in their graves ; 
 How many homes made desolate 1 
 
 How many hearts have sighed ! 
 How many like that drummer boy. 
 
 Who prayed, before he died J 
 
82 I KNOW MY MOTHER'S HAND. 
 
 Words by W. Dbxtbr Smith, Jb. nsic by Hbkbt Tfcksb. 
 
 In one of oar late battles a young lieutenant had his right 
 foot 80 shattered by a fragment of a shell that, on reaching 
 Washington after one of those horrible ambulance rides, and 
 a journey of a week's duration, he was obliged to undergo 
 amputation of the leg. He telegraphed home, hundreds of 
 miles away, that all was going well, and with a soldier's forti- 
 tude composed himself to bear his sufferings alone. 
 
 Unknown to him, however, his mother, one of those dear re- 
 serves of the army, hastened up to join the main force. She 
 reached the city at midnight, and the nurses would have kept 
 her from him until morning. One sat by his *de fanning him 
 as he slept, her hand on the feeble, fluctuating pulsations which 
 foreboded sad results. But what woman's heart could resist 
 the pleadings of a mother then? In the darkness she was 
 finally allowed to glide in and take the place at his side. She 
 touched his pulse as the nurse had done. Not a word had 
 been spoken ; but the sleeping boy opened his eyes and said : 
 " That feels like my mother's hand ! Who is this be- 
 side me ? . It is my mother ; turn up th« gas, and lot mo see 
 mother I" ^ " 
 
 The two dear faces met in one long, joyful sobbing embrace, 
 and the fondness pent up in each heart sobbed and panted and 
 wept forth its expression. 
 
 The gallant fellow, just twenty-one, his leg amputated on the 
 last day of his three years service, underwent operation after 
 operation, and at last, when death drew nigh, and ho was told 
 by tearful friends that it only remained to make him comfort- 
 ble, said : " he had looked death in the face too many times 
 to be afraid now," and died as gallantly as did the mmu of th« 
 Cvimberland. ( 
 
 Thro' the darkness I have listened, 
 
 For the music of her voice, 
 For the gentle words of comfort, 
 
 That would make my heart rejoio» 
 All the weary hours I've counted, 
 . Measured o'er and o'er again, f 
 Yet no Mother came to cheer me, 
 Or to soothe my throbbing pain- 
 CHORUS. ■; 
 I have prayed she might be nea» SM 
 
 Ere I seek that other Land, / 
 And I feel she is Ijeside me, * 
 For I know vaj mottxer's hemd. 
 
WHEN JOHNNY COMES MAB.CHIHQ HOME 83 
 
 Hark I hear familiar footsteps. 
 
 And a •well-remembered sigh. 
 Bringing hafk the distant moments, 
 
 When youth's changeful hours went by ; 
 And I feel the gentle pressure, 
 
 On my brow, thy kisses fanned, 
 Tes I know she is beside me, 
 
 I can feel my mother's hand. 
 
 I have prayed, &», 
 
 Mother ! yes, it is my mother, 
 
 She is here beside me now, 
 In the world there is no other, 
 
 Who can calm my burning brow; 
 Let me look upon her features, 
 
 Which I oft with love have scanned. 
 Oh ! I know it is my mother, 
 
 For I feel her gentle hand. 
 
 I have prayed, &e. 
 
 WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME. 
 
 "When Johnny comes marching home again, hurrah, hurrafc 
 We'll give him a hearty welcome then, hurrah, hurrah ! 
 
 The men will cheer, the boys will shout ! 
 
 The ladies, they will all turn out, 
 And we'll all feel gay, 
 
 When Johnny comes marching home. 
 
 The old church-bell will peal with joy, hurrah, hurrah ! 
 To welcome home our darling boy, hvirrah, hurrah ! 
 
 The village lads and lasses say 
 
 With roses they will ytrew the way, 
 And we'll all feel gay. 
 
 When Johnny comes marching home. 
 
 Get ready for the Jubilee, hurrah, hurrah ! 
 
 We'll give the hero three times three, hurrah, hurrah I 
 
 The laurel-wreath is ready now 
 
 To place upon his loyal brow, 
 nd we'll all feel gay. 
 
 When Johnny comes marching home. 
 
 Let love and friendship, on that day, hurrah, hurrah f 
 Their choicest treasures then display, hurrah, hurrail 
 
 And let each one perform some part. 
 
 To fill with joy the warrior's heart, 
 And we'll all feel gay. 
 
 When Johnny comes marching: homo. 
 
84 TENTING ON THE OLD CAMP QKfOir^m. 
 
 We're tenting to-night on the old camp-ground. 
 
 Give us a song to cheer, 
 Omr weary hearts, a song of horns 
 
 JLnd friends we love so dear I 
 
 Many are the hearts that are weary to-night. 
 
 Wishing for the war to cease : 
 Many are the hearts looking for tha right. 
 
 To see the dawn of peace : 
 Tenting to-night, tenting to-night. 
 
 Tenting on the old camp-ground. 
 
 We've been tenting to-night on the old cainp-ground. 
 
 Thinking of the days gone by : 
 Of the loved ones at home, that gave us the hand, 
 
 And the teat that said : Good-bye 1 
 
 Many are the hearts, &(i. 
 
 We are tired of war on the old camp-ground : 
 
 Many are dead and gone, 
 Of the bravG and true, who've left their homes : 
 
 Others have been wounded long. 
 
 Many are the hearts, &o. 
 
 We've been fighting to-day on the old camp-groand : 
 
 Many are lying near, 
 Borne are dead, and some are dying. 
 
 Many are in tears ! 
 
 Many are the hearts that are weary to-night, 
 
 Wishing for the war to cease ; 
 Many are the hearts looking for the right. 
 
 To see the dawn of peace : 
 Dying to-night, dying to-night, 
 
 Dying on the old camp-ground. 
 
' KUrODOM cx>Mrwo. 
 
 Say, darkeys, hab you aeen de masaa, 
 
 Wid de muffstash on his face, 
 Gk) long de road some time dis momin''. 
 
 Like he gwine to leab de place ? 
 He se^ a smoke way up de ribbcr, 
 
 Whar de Linkum gunboats lay ; 
 He took his hat, an' let" berry suddoD, 
 
 An' I spec' he's run away I 
 
 CHOBUS, 
 
 De massa run ? ha ! ha 7 
 
 De darkey stay ? ho, ho I 
 It mus' be now de kingdom coium' 
 
 An' de year ob Jubilo I 
 
 He six foot one way, two foot tudder, 
 
 An' he weigh tree hundred pound, 
 His coat so big, he couldn't pay de tailor. 
 
 An' it won't go half way round. 
 He drill so much, dey call him Cap'an, 
 
 An' he get so dreflul tanned, 
 I spec' he try an' fool dem Yankees, 
 
 For to tink he's contraband. 
 
 De massa, ■ 
 
 T>e darkeys feel so berry lonesome, 
 
 Libing in de log-hoifce on de lawn, 
 Dey move dar tings to massa's pai-lor, 
 
 For to keep it while he's gone. 
 Dar's wine an' cider in de kitchen, 
 
 An' de darkeys dey'll hab some ; 
 I spose dey'll all be cornfiscated. 
 
 When de Linkum sojers come. 
 
 De 
 
 De oberseer he make us trouble. 
 
 An' he dribe us round a spell ; 
 We lock him up in de smoke-house cellar, 
 
 Wid de key trown in de well. 
 De whip is lost, de han'-cuff broken. 
 
 But de massa'll hab his pay, 
 He's ole enuff, big enuff, ought to kno-w batt«r 
 
 J)«n to went, an' run away. 
 
 De massa, A*. 
 
SG WHO WILL CARE FOR MICKY NOW 
 
 A Parody on : " Who will Care for Mother Now?" 
 
 Among the many heroic fellows who drew a prize in the 
 C. S. lottery, was a distinguished Frencliman — from Linierick-^ 
 tilt- oiilj' support of himself. On being tokl bf the Suro-eon he 
 woaid •' Pass," he placed his hand on his empty stomach, and 
 wliile a big tear of bravery rolled down his cheek, exclaimeJ 
 in accents that would have touched the heart of a wheel-barrow ; 
 *" Who wiwi care for Micky now?" 
 
 Arrah ! Molly darliTi' I am drafted. 
 
 Sure I must for a sog-er go ; 
 ,\.n' lave you all alone behind me, 
 
 For to fight the rebel foe — 
 But, be the powers ! me pluck is failin'. 
 
 Big drops of swate roll down my brow; 
 Ocli. millia murther ! I am drafted. 
 
 Who will care for Micky now ? 
 
 Chorus. ^Soon 'gainst ribels I'll be marching, 
 Wid the swate upon me brow — 
 Och, blud an' nouns! I'm kilt entirely: 
 Who will care lor Micky now ? 
 
 Arrah ! who will comfort me in sorrow, 
 
 Wid a drop of gin or beer ; 
 Wash me dirty shirts and stockin's ? 
 
 Faix ! tiiere's no one, I fear — 
 Me feet are blistered wid tiie marching. 
 
 Me knapsack makes nie shoulders bow — 
 Pork and crackers are me rations: 
 
 Who will care for Micky now ? 
 
 Soon 'gainst ribels, Ac. 
 
 Indade I miss me feather pillow 
 
 An' bed on which I used to lie — 
 The pine planks make me feel uneagy, 
 
 If I had wings, och ! wudn't 1 fly ! 
 But one ov me le^s is stiff, dear, 
 
 Since I was kicked be Murpiiy's cow; 
 I'm afraid I niver can skedaddle : 
 
 Who will care for Micky now ? 
 
 Soou 'gainst ribels, <ko. 
 
THE RETIRED SOLDIER "IB1 
 
 The retired soldier, bold and brave. 
 
 Now refits liis weary feet. 
 And in the shelter of the grave, 
 
 Has found a safe retreat; 
 To him the trumpet's piercing breath, 
 
 To arms, they call in vaiu ; 
 For quartered in the arms of death, 
 
 He'll never, never march ;igain. 
 
 March, march again, march, march again, 
 March, march again, march, march again, 
 For quartered in the arms of death. 
 He'll never, never march again. 
 
 A day when he left his father's home, 
 
 The charms of war to try. 
 O'er regions hath he had to roam, 
 
 No friend or mother nigh, 
 But still he marched contented on. 
 
 Met danger, death and pain, 
 And now at rest, all dangers o'er. 
 
 He'll never, never march again. 
 
 March, march, <fea 
 
 The sweets of spring by beauteous hand, 
 
 Lay scattered on his bier. 
 Whilst listening round his C(>mrade8 stand. 
 
 Gave honest Ned a tear, 
 "Whilst lovely Kate, for Ned's delight. 
 
 Chief mourner of the train, 
 Cried, as she view'd the solemn sight 
 
 He'll never, never march again. 
 
 March, march, Ac. 
 
88 WBITE A LETTER TO MY MOTHER. 
 
 "Word* by E. Bowers. Musio by P. B. Ibaa5». 
 
 An Officer, captured at the battle of Bull-R«n, relates the 
 following incident. After our capture, I observed a Fed- 
 eral prisoner tenderly cared for by a rebel soldier. I gleaned, 
 from their convei-sation, that they were brothers. Tlie brave 
 boy, while battling for the Union, received his death-wound 
 from his own brother, at that time a private in the rebel ranks. 
 Never shall I forget the lijok of utter despair depicted upon 
 that rebel's face ; the dying boy, with a smile of holy resigna- 
 tion, clasped his brother's hand, spoke of their father who war 
 then fighting for their dear old flag, of motlier, of home, of 
 childhood — then, requesting his brother to in'ite a li'ttei te 
 mother, and imploring him never to divulge the secret cf ti.- 
 death, the young hero yielded up las life. 
 
 Raise me in your armfai, my brother, 
 
 Let me see the glorious sun ; 
 I am weary, faint and dying, 
 
 How is the battle — lost or won ? 
 I remember you, my brother, 
 
 Sent to me that fatal dart : 
 Brother fighting against brother, 
 
 'Tis well — 'tis well that thus we part» 
 
 CHORUS. 
 "Write a letter to my mother, 
 
 Send it when her boy is dead: 
 That he perished by his brother; 
 
 Not a word of that be said! 
 
 Father is fighting for the Unicm, 
 
 And you may meet him on the field : 
 Could you raise your arm to smite him ? 
 
 Oh ! could you bid that father yield ! 
 He who loved us in our childhood. 
 
 Taught the infant prayers we said ! 
 Brother, take from me a warning, 
 
 ril soon be numbered with the dead. 
 
 Write a lettci-, »fco. 
 
 Do yon ever think of mother, 
 
 In our home within the glen. 
 Watching, praying for her children ? 
 
 Oh ! would you see that home again? 
 Brother, I am surely dying. 
 
 Keep the secret — for, 'tis one. 
 That would kill our angel mother. 
 
 If she but knew what you had done ! 
 
 Write a letter, «fce. 
 
MOTHEA KISSED MB IN MY DREAM. 
 
 89 
 
 A young soldier who was severely wounded at the battle of 
 ^.tietam lay at one of t.e hospitals at Frederick. A .nr,eo. 
 prsngb;hfs bea-.ide, .nd seeing his boyish face hghtcd uj 
 S a oeLfu^ smile, asked him how he felt. " Oh ! I am happy 
 rn^:oSrtednow,''the soldier replied; "last night, motho-, 
 kissed me in my dream t 
 
 Lying on my dying bed. 
 
 Through the dark r.nd silent night, 
 Praying for the coming day. 
 
 Came a vision to my sight ; 
 Near me stood the forms I loved, 
 
 In the sunlight's mellow gleam; 
 Folding me unto her breast, 
 
 Mother kissed me in my dream; 
 Mother, Mother, 
 Mother kissed me in my dream! 
 
 Comrades, tell her, when you write, 
 
 That I did my duty well. 
 Say that, when the battle raged, 
 
 Fighting in the van I fell. 
 Tell her, too, when on my bed 
 
 Slowly ebbed my being's stream, 
 How I knew no peace until 
 
 Mother kissed me in my dream 1 
 
 Mother, mother, &o. 
 
 Once again I long to see 
 
 Home and kindred far away ; 
 But I feel I shall be gone 
 
 Ere there dawns another day I 
 Hopefiilly I bide the hour 
 
 When will fade life's feeble beam, 
 Ev'ry pang has left me now. 
 
 Mother kisaed me in my dream ! 
 
 Mother, mother, &o. 
 
90 /UST BEFORE THE BATTLE, MOTHEB. 
 
 Just before the battle, Mother, 
 
 I'm thinking most of you, 
 While, upon the field, we're watching'. 
 
 With the enemy in view. 
 Comrades brave are round me lying, 
 
 Filled with thoughts of home and Godj 
 For, well they know that, on the morrow. 
 
 Some may sleep beneath tlie sod. 
 
 Farewell ! Mother, you may ncTcr 
 Press me to your heart again, 
 
 But oh ! you'll not forget me. Mother, 
 If I'm numbered with the slain 1 
 
 Ot ! I long to see you, Mother, 
 
 And the loving ones at home : 
 J5ut I'll never leave our Banner, 
 
 Till in honor I can come. 
 Tell the traitors, all around you. 
 
 That their cruel words, we know. 
 In ev'ry battle kill our soldiers, 
 
 By the help they give the foe. 
 
 Farewell ! Mother, <Sko. 
 
 Hark ! I hear the bugles sounding : 
 
 'Tis the signal for the light, 
 Kow ma.y God protect us. Mother, 
 
 As he ever does the right ! 
 Hear the " Battle-ciy of Freedom," 
 
 How it swells upon the aii- ! 
 Oh ! yes, we'll rally jt-iind our Standard, 
 
 Or we'll periah nobly there ! 
 
 JstfcweB 1 Hothci, do^ 
 
JUST AFTER THE BATTLB. 91 
 
 Still upon the field of battle 
 
 I am lying, mother dear, 
 With my wounded comradea, waitinff 
 
 For the morning to appear. 
 Many sleep to waken never 
 
 In this world of strife and death ; 
 jLnd many more are faintly calling, 
 
 With their feeble dying breath- 
 
 Mother dear, your boy is voinidcxJ, 
 And the night is drear with p-^in J 
 
 But still I feel that I shall see yoiJ, 
 And the dear old home again. 
 
 Oh! the first great charge was fearfull 
 
 And a thousand brave men fell» 
 Still, amid the dreadful carnage, 
 
 I was safe from shot and shell g 
 So, amid the fatal shower, 
 
 1 kad nearly passed the day, 
 When, hero, the dreaded Minnie struck me, 
 
 And I sunk amid the fray ! 
 
 Mather dear, &0. 
 
 Oh ! the glorious cheer of triumph. 
 
 When the foemen turned and fled. 
 Leaving us the field of battle, 
 
 Strewn with dying and with dead ! 
 Oh ! the torture and the anguish 
 
 That I could not follow on ; 
 But, here amid my fallen comrades, 
 
 1 muat wait till morning's dawn. 
 
 Motlier dear, OM. 
 
92 «' STAND BY THE FLAG." 
 
 Each day an extra blow. 
 Repudiate — we scorn the word, 
 
 And those who use it too ; 
 We are not knaves or bankrupts yet. 
 
 Nor are the Boys in Blue. 
 
 Hurrah, hurrah, &o. 
 
 Haste, loyal men, fill up your ranks, 
 
 Bring- every soldier out ; 
 This struggle ought to be our last, 
 
 And give the final rout. 
 But, lo, they come ! a sea of men ! 
 
 Impatient for the fray ; 
 They come ! they come ! in throngs so vast, 
 
 Our work shall seem but play. 
 
 Hurrah, hurrah, &o. 
 
 "STAND BY THE FLAG." 
 
 Words by Jno N. Wilder. Ksq. Music by Hbnbt Tookib. 
 
 Music of this Song published in the Radical DbcmCall. 
 
 Stand l)y the flajr, its folds have streamed in glory ; 
 
 To foes a fear, to friend a festal robe, 
 And spread in rhythmic lines the sacred story, 
 
 Of Frei dom's triumphs over all the globe. 
 Stand by the flag, on land and ocean billow ; 
 
 By it your fathers stood unmoved and true^ 
 Living defended, dying, from their pillow, 
 
 With their last blessings passed it on to you. 
 
 Stand by the flag, though death-shots ronnd it rattle 
 
 And underneath its waving folds have met, 
 In all the dread array of sanguine battle, 
 
 The quiv'ring lance and glitt'ring bayonet. 
 Stand by the flag, all doubt and treason scorning, 
 
 Believe with courage firm, and faitli sublime. 
 That it will float until th' eternal morning 
 
 Pales in its glories all tliti lights ui time. 
 
AND SO WILL THE BOYS IN BLUS. 93 
 
 Pootry and Music By E. W- LooKB. 
 
 The bugle call rings loud and clear, 
 
 And loud the rolling drum ; 
 Our comrades haste to seek their pcuftc^ 
 
 The time for work has come ; 
 The beacon fires burn bright again. 
 
 They flash on every hill ; 
 From sea to sea the shout goes up. 
 
 We march to victory ^tili ! 
 
 CHORUS. 
 Hurrah ! hurrah ! for our noble cause ! 
 
 Hurrah for our leaders true ! 
 We'll stand by the men who stood by the flag 
 
 And so will the Boys in Blue. 
 And so will we all, and so will we all, 
 
 Our pledge we now renew ; 
 We'll strike once more for the cause we lore, 
 
 And so will the Boys in Blue ! 
 
 Through gloomy years of bloody strife, 
 
 We've battled side by side ; 
 With brave, true hearts and sinewy arma 
 
 We've stemmed each fi'ry tide. 
 Eternal Justice iierv'd us then, 
 
 And gave the conquering will; 
 With hearts afiame, and God our trust, 
 
 We strike for Justice still. 
 
 Hurrah, hurrah, &o. 
 
 Our motto. Equal rights to all ; 
 
 The ballot shall be free ; 
 Who stakes his life to save the flag 
 
 May vote with you and me. 
 We'll ask him not his birth or kin. 
 
 Or prate about his hue, 
 But every man unstained with crime 
 
 May vote with Boys in Blue. 
 
 Hurrah, hurrah, &0 
 
 We'll keep the nation's sacred pledge. 
 
 Pay every dime we owe ; 
 Each loyal arm will gladly strike 
 
94 KISS ME AS OF OLD, MOTHE&. 
 
 On the field of batile, mother, 
 
 Ail tlie iiiglit alone I lay, 
 Angels watcbinj;: o'er rue, mother. 
 
 Till the breaking- of the day ; 
 I l;«y thinking of you, mother, 
 And the loving ones at home, 
 Till to our dear cottasje, mother, 
 Boy again I seemed to come, 
 CHORUS. 
 Kiss for me my brother, sister. 
 
 When I sleep deep in the gravi^ 
 T 11 I died true to my country — 
 Her honi.r trii d to save. 
 I must soon be going, mother, 
 
 Going to the home of rest; 
 KirtS me as of old, mother, 
 
 Press me nearer to your breast ; 
 
 Would I could repay you, mother. 
 
 For your ffdthful love and care, 
 
 God uphold and bless you, mother. 
 
 In this bitter woe you bear. 
 
 Kiss for ma, ate. 
 
 I'VE COME HOME TO DIE. 
 
 Dear mother, I remember well 
 
 The parting kiss you gave to me. 
 When merry rang the village bell, 
 
 My heart "as full of joy and glee. 
 I did not deem that one short year, 
 
 "Would crush the hopes that soared so high } 
 Oh ! mother dear, draw near to me. 
 Dear mother, I've come home to die. 
 CHORUS. 
 Call sister, brother to my side, 
 
 And take your soldier's last good-by©| 
 Oh! mother, dear, draw near to me, 
 Di-ar mother, I've come home to dlsw ' 
 Dear mother, sister, brother, all. 
 
 One parting kiss — to all good-bye: 
 Weep not, but clasp your hands in mine. 
 
 And let me like a soldier die 1 
 I've met the foe upon the field. 
 
 Where kindred fiercely did defy. 
 Ifciight for right— God bless our flag ! 
 Dear mother, I've come home to die. 
 
 Cull sister, eU 
 
TELL. MOTHER I DIE HAPPY. 
 
 I am (lying, comrades, dying 
 
 As you hear me, lightly tread ; 
 Soon, ah, soon, I shall he lying 
 
 With the silent, sleeping dead ! 
 I am dying, comrades, dying. 
 
 Still the battle rages near; 
 Tell me, are our foes a flying? 
 
 I die happy. Mother dear! 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Tell my Motht-r 1 die happy, 
 
 That for me she must not weep; 
 
 Tell her ho'V I lon;^ to kiss her. 
 Ere I sunk in death to ^eep ! 
 
 I am going, comrades, going; 
 
 See how damp mj^ forehead's now; 
 Oh, I eee the Angels coming, 
 
 With bright garlands for ray brow 
 Bear tliis message to my Mother : 
 
 How in death that God was near. 
 Me to bless and to support me; 
 
 I die happ3', Mother dear ! 
 
 Tell my Mother, Ac. 
 
 Lay me, comrades, 'neath the willow. 
 
 That grows on the distant shore ; 
 Wrap the Starry Flag around me, 
 
 I would press its folds once more; 
 JLet the cold earth be my pillow. 
 
 And the Stars and Stripes my shroud ; 
 JSooB, oh ! soon, I shall be marching 
 
 A.mid the Heavenly Crowd ! 
 
 Tell my Mother, Ac. 
 
96 THE VACANT CHAIK 
 
 We shall meet, but we sliall miss him; 
 
 There will be one vacaut chair ; 
 We shall linger to caress him, 
 
 While we breatlie our evening prayer, k 
 When, a year ago, we gathered, 
 
 Joy was in hia mild blue eye; 
 But a golden cord is severed. 
 
 And our hopes in ruins lie. 
 
 We shall meet, but we shall miss him ; 
 
 There will be one vacant chair; 
 We shall linger to caress him, 
 
 When we breathe our evening prayeR 
 
 At our fireside, sad and lonely, 
 
 Often will the bosom swell 
 At remembrance of the story 
 
 How our noble Willie fell; 
 How he strove to bear our banner 
 
 Through the thickest of the fight. 
 And upheld oyr country's honor. 
 
 In the strength of manhood's might. 
 
 We shall meet, Ac 
 
 True, they tell us wreaths of glory 
 
 Ever more will deck his brow ; 
 But this soothes the anguish only, 
 
 Sweeping o'er our heart strings now; 
 Sleep to-daj', early fallen ! 
 
 In thy green and narrow bed ; 
 Dirges from the pine and cypress 
 
 Mingle with the tears we shed. 
 
 We shall meet, &c 
 
DEAH MOTHER I'VE COME TO DIB. 97 
 
 Werds by E. Bowehs. Music by IIenut Tuckb«- 
 
 Dear Mother, I remember well 
 
 The parting kiss you gave to me, | 
 
 When merry rang the village bell ; 
 
 My heart was full of joy and glee ; 
 I did not dream that one short year, 
 
 Would crush the hopes that soar'd so high. ! 
 Oh ! Mother dear, dra\, near to me, 
 
 Dear Mother, I've come home to die. 
 
 Call sister, brother, to my side, 
 And take your Soldier's Insb Good-bye, 
 Oh ! Mother dear, drav,- near to mo. 
 Dear mother, I've come home to die. 
 
 Hark! Mother, 'tis the village bell, 
 
 I can no longer with you stay : 
 My Country calls, to arms ! to arms I 
 
 The foe advance in fierce array ! 
 The vision's past, I feel that now, 
 
 For Country 1 can only sigh ; 
 Oh ! Mother dear, draw near to me, 
 
 Dear Mother, I've come home to die. 
 
 Call sister, brother, &o. 
 
 Dear Mother, Sister, Brother, all, 
 
 One parting kiss to all: Good-bye ! 
 Weep not ! but clasp your hand in mine, 
 
 And let me like a soldier die ! 
 Fve met the foe upon the field. 
 
 Where kindred fiercely did defy, 
 I fought for right, God bless the Flag ! 
 
 2D«ar, Moth-er I've come home to die I 
 
 Oall aiater, brother, &«. 
 
98 THE BOLD Z0UAVE3» 
 
 1. Solo. 
 
 Gaily the bold Zouaves 
 Dash o'er tlie plain, 
 
 Beariug- clown the enemy, 
 ilot fearing death or pain. 
 
 Hail to the bold Zouaves, 
 Who ne'er from danirer fly; 
 
 Bold Zouaves! bold ZouavasI 
 They conquer or die. 
 
 2. Solo. 
 
 Rough is the soldier's life, 
 
 Hard oft his fare; 
 Yet in the deadly strife. 
 
 There's nought he will not dar*. 
 
 Hail to the soldiers brave. 
 
 Who ne'er from danger fly- 
 Soldiers brave ! soldiers brav® I 
 They conquer or die, 
 
 8. SoLo. 
 
 Peaceful, at dead of night, 
 
 Of home soldiers dream. 
 They sleep till, in morn's grey light, 
 
 Watch-fires cease to <rleani. 
 
 [n 
 
BOLD ZOUAVES. [Guncludkd.j 99 
 
 Rouse i rouse ! drumbeat alarms, 
 
 Fresli claii;;ers ever nigh — 
 To arms! to arms ! To arms ! to *rm«f 
 
 To conquer, or die. 
 
 4. Skmi-Cuorus. 
 
 Forward, march ! your couutry calli^ 
 
 Where cannons roar — 
 Fear not, thoujj^li riflt-balls 
 
 Like hail-storm pour. 
 
 Double Chords. 
 
 Shout ! sliout, for victory ; 
 
 From danger never fly — 
 Fair Freedom's sons can only say. 
 
 We conquer or die. 
 
 5. Solo. 
 
 Glorious fhe warrior's crown, 
 When the victory's gained — 
 
 When lie lays liis armor down, 
 The Stars and Stripes maintained. 
 
 Hail ! thoijgh with many scars, 
 » Mid mad Rebellion's cry — 
 Our nation's Flng ! tiie Stripes and Stars ! 
 That Flag shaU nevei- die I 
 
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100 BRAV^ BOYS ARE THEY. 
 
 Heavily falls the ra'n. 
 
 Wild are the; breezes to-nifjht ; 
 But 'neath the roof tlie iiours, as they fl^^y 
 
 Are iiappy aiul caltn and brii;lit; 
 Gatherinj? round the tire-side, 
 
 Tlioui^li it be summer time, 
 We sit and talk of brothers abroad, 
 
 Forgettiug the midnight chime. 
 
 Brave boys are tliey, 
 
 Gone at their country's call ; 
 And yet, and yet we cannot forget 
 
 Tliat many brave boys must fall. 
 
 Under the homestead roof, 
 
 Nestled so cosy and warm, 
 While soldiers sleep with little or naught 
 
 To shelter them from the storm, 
 Resting on grassy couches. 
 
 Pillowed on hillocks damp; 
 Of martial fare how little we know. 
 
 Till brothers are in tlie camp ! 
 
 Gone at their country's call, Ac. 
 
 Thinking no less of them, 
 
 Loving our country tlie more, 
 We sent"them forth to fight for the Flag, 
 
 Tlieir Fathers before tliem bore, 
 Though the great tear-diops started, 
 
 TliTs was o^u- parting trust; 
 tbd bless you ! boys : we'll welcome you home. 
 When rebels are in dust. 
 
 Gone at their country's call, Ac 
 
 May the bright wings of love 
 
 Guard them wherever they roam . 
 
 The time lias come when brotiiers must eght, 
 And sisters must pray at home. 
 
 Oh ! the dread field of "battle- 
 Soon to be strewn with graves! 
 
 If brothers fall, tlien bury tliem where 
 Our banner in triumpli naves f 
 
 (joue at their eountrj's call, Sc 
 
BROTHER'S FAINTING AT THE POOift iqI 
 
 Yonder comes a weary soldier, 
 
 With fait' ring steps across the moor; 
 Jlein'ries of the past steal o'er me ; 
 
 He totters to the cottage-cfoor. 
 Look ! my heart can not deceive me: 
 
 'Tis one we deemed on earth ao more, 
 Ctill Mother, haste, do not tarry, 
 
 For, Brother's fainting at the cloor. 
 
 Kindly greet the weary solc!i^r, 
 Words of comfort may resiors. 
 
 Yon may have an absent Brother, 
 Fainting at a stranger's door. 
 
 Icxi us, Brother, of the battle, 
 
 TVhy you were numbered with the >iluin', 
 We, WHO thought you lost forever, 
 
 Now clasp you to our arms again ; 
 Oh ! may others share the blessing, 
 
 Wliich Heaven kindly keeps in store : 
 May they meet their absent loved ones, 
 
 Ay, e"en though fainting at the door ! 
 
 Kindly gr^ejt, ikf 
 
 I was wounded and a pris'ner, 
 
 Our ranks were broken, forced to fly , 
 Thrown within a gloomy dungeon. 
 
 Away from friends, alone to die. 
 Still the hope was strong within me, 
 
 A cherished hope that would restore: 
 " have lived, by Heaven's blessing. 
 
 To meet my loved ones at the door. 
 
 Kindly greet, &o. 
 
102 WE ARE COMING FATHER ABRAHAM 
 
 We are cominj;, Father Abraham, 
 
 Tliree hundred tliousand more; 
 From Mississippi's winding stream, 
 
 And from New England's sliore. 
 We leave our ploughs and workshops. 
 
 Our wives and cliildren dear; 
 With hearts too full of utterance, 
 
 With but a silent tear. 
 We dare not look behitid us, 
 
 But stead fasflj' before — 
 We are coming. Father Abraham, 
 
 Three hundred thousand morel 
 
 We are coming, we are coming. 
 
 Our Union to restore ; 
 We are coining, Father Abraham, 
 
 With three hundred thousand more. 
 
 If you look across the hill-tops, 
 
 Tliat meet the Northern sky ; 
 Long moving lines of rising dust. 
 
 Your vision may descr}'. 
 And now the wind, an instant. 
 
 Tears the cloudy veil aside ; 
 And floats aloft our spangled flag, 
 
 In glory and in pride. 
 And bayonets in the sunlight gleam. 
 
 And bands brave music pour — 
 We are coming. Father Abraham, 
 
 Three huudred thousaud more. 
 
 We are coming. Ac. 
 
^Z A»E COMING RATHER ABRAHAM. tCoNOLuaWk 103 
 
 If you look all up our valleys, 
 
 Where Die growing harvests shine; 
 You may see our sturdy fdrmer boys. 
 
 Fast fonniiig into line. 
 And cliildren from llieir mother's knees. 
 
 Are pulling at the weeds; 
 .And learning liow to reap and sow. 
 
 Against tiieir country's needs. 
 Aud a farewell group stan Is weeping 
 
 At every cottage door — 
 We are coming. Father Abraham, 
 Xbree hundred thousaad uiore 1 
 
 We are coming, ^^ 
 
 You have called us. and we're comings 
 
 By Richmand's bloody tide; 
 To lay us down for freedom's sake, 
 
 Our brothers' bones beside; 
 Or from foul treason's savage group 
 
 To wrench the murderous blade j. 
 And in the face of foreign foes. 
 
 Its fragments to parade. 
 Six hundred thousand loj-al men. 
 
 And true, have gone before— 
 We are coming, Father AbrahatBp 
 
 Three hundred thousand more 5 
 
 We are coming, &v. 
 
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104: THE RATAPLAN. 
 
 What a charm has the drnm with its tan-a-ran-t<.n. 
 
 When we march to the gay parade ! 
 O, the music we love is tlie bold rataplan, 
 
 And the rubadub merrily play'd. 
 Every heart is Inspired by its magical sound. 
 
 There's a soul in the stirring drum, 
 ^nd there is not a voice while its echoes rebound. 
 
 But would cry " Let the enemy come." 
 
 So merrily, O ! 
 So cheerily, I 
 
 So merrily march away, 
 Eatnplan ! rataplan ! rataplan ! rataplan I 
 March away while we may, 
 'Tis a gay gala day, 
 And our banners are flaunting' high. 
 
 In the sun sword and gun flash around ever} on.- 
 With a glance just as bright as the sky. 
 
 To the field when we march, how the tan-»-ran-tan 
 
 Makes the heart of the soldier glow I 
 Let him hear but the roll of the bold rataplan, 
 And liow gallantly forward he'll go I 
 "When the battle is done, 
 And the victory won, 
 Still the sound «f the rolling drum 
 Sends its echoes afar, 
 From the red field of war. 
 To the dear friends who welcome us home. 
 
 Tlk€n merrily, ifcc 
 
KISS JOE, MOTHER^ KISS YOXTB. DAmS^&. 105 
 Words by Uetta C. Lord. Musio by Q V. tivat 
 
 Kias me, mother, kiss jo-ar darling. 
 
 Lean my head upon yowr breast. 
 Fold your loving arms around me^ 
 
 I am weary, let me rest. 
 Scenes of life are swiftly fading, 
 
 Brighter seems the other shore : 
 I am standing by the river, 
 
 AngeLs wait to waft me o'er. 
 
 Kiss me, mother, kiss your darling 
 Lean my head upon your breast. 
 
 Fold your loving arms around ms, 
 I am weary, let me rest. 
 
 Css me, mother, kiss your darling, 
 
 Breathe a blessing on my brow : 
 For, 111 soon be with the Angels, 
 
 Fainter grows my breath e'en now. 
 Tell the loved ones not to murmur ; 
 
 Say I died our Flag to save, 
 jLnd that I shall slumber sweetly 
 
 la the soldier's honored grave. 
 
 Kiss me, mot^***;, An, 
 
 t)h ! bow dark this world is gromng, 
 
 Hark ! I hear the Angel Bandj 
 How I long to join their number 
 
 In that fair and happy land ! 
 Hear you not that Heavenly mua'n, 
 
 boating near so soft and low ? 
 I must leave you — farewell, mother I 
 
 Sjm n^ oiiOA before I go. 
 
 Kiss me moibaT*. &«. 
 
106 ELLSWORTH'S AVENGERS. 
 
 AlK : — " -Anuie Lisle." 
 
 Down where the patriot army, 
 
 Near Potomac's side ; 
 Guards the glorious cause of freedom, 
 
 Gallant ElLswortli died. 
 Brave was the noble chieftain ; 
 
 At his couutiy's call, 
 Hastened to the field of battle, 
 
 And was first to fall ! 
 
 Strike, freemen for the Union I 
 
 Sheath your swords no more; 
 While remains in arms a traitor, 
 
 On Colanibia's shore ! 
 
 Entering the traitor city. 
 
 With his soldiers true ; 
 Leading up the Zouave tolumns, 
 
 Fixed became his view. 
 See: that rebel dag i.s floating 
 
 O'er you building tall; 
 Spoke he, while his dark eye glistened. 
 
 Boys, that flag m ust fall ! 
 
 Strike, Freemen, St& 
 
 Quickly, from its proud position. 
 
 That base flag -wa.s torn ; 
 Trampled 'neath the feet of Freemen, 
 
 Circling Ellsworth's iorm. 
 See him bear it down the landing, 
 
 Past the traitor's door ; 
 Hear him groan : Oh ! God, they've shot him I 
 
 EUsvvurth is uo more. 
 
 Strike, Freemen, <fc% 
 
 Fir.st to fall, thou youthful martyr, 
 
 Hapless was thy fate ; 
 Hastened we, as thy avengers. 
 
 From thy native State. 
 Speed we on, from town and city, 
 
 Not for wealth or fame ; 
 But because we love the Union, 
 
 And our Ellsworth's name. 
 
 Strike, Freemen, &«. 
 
 Traitor's hands shall never sunder 
 
 That for which you died ; 
 Hear the oath our lips now ntter. 
 
 Thou, "ur nation's pride. 
 By our hop6.>! of yon bright heaven ! 
 
 By the land we love ! 
 By the God who reigns abonre us! 
 
 We'll avenge thy blood. 
 
 ^ Stiilte, Freemen, &c. 
 
GRAFTED INTO THE ARMY. 101 
 
 Our Jimmy has gone for to live in a tent, 
 
 Tliey have grafted him into the arm}'; 
 He finally puckered up courage and went, 
 
 Wlien they grafted him into the army. 
 I told them the child was too young : alas I 
 
 At the Captain's fore quarters, they say, he would pass, 
 They train'd him up well in the infantry class — 
 
 So, they grafted him into the army. 
 
 Jimmy, farewell ! your brothers fell 
 Way down in Alabarmy ; 
 
 1 thought they would spare a lone widder's heir. 
 But they grafted him into the army. 
 
 Dressed up in liis unicorn, dear little chap I 
 
 They have grafted him into the army ; 
 It seems but a day since he sot in my lap; 
 
 But they grafted liim into the army : 
 And these are the trousers, he used to wear — 
 
 The very same buttons — the patch and the tear- 
 But Uncle Sam gave him a bran new pair. 
 
 When they grafted him into the army, 
 
 0, Jimmy, farewell ! (to. 
 
 Now, in my provisions I see him revealed. 
 
 They iiave grafted him into the army; 
 A picket beside the contented field. 
 
 They have grafted him into the army. 
 He looks kinder sickish — begins to cry, 
 
 A big volunteer standing right in his eye ! 
 Oh 1 wjiat if the ducky sliould up and die. 
 
 Now they've grafted him into the army. 
 
 Jimmy, farewell, Ao. 
 
108 WHO WTLL, CA-RE FOB, MOTHER NOW? 
 
 Daring one of our late battles, among many other noble fel- 
 lows that fell, was a young men who had been the only support 
 of an aged and sick mother for years. Hearing the Surgeon 
 tell those who were near him, that he could not live, he placed 
 his hand across his forehead and, with a trembling voice, said, 
 while burning tears ran down his fevered cheeks : " Who will 
 ear* for mother now ?"' 
 
 Why am I so weak and weary ? 
 
 See how faint my heated breath, 
 All around to me seems darkness 
 
 Tell me, comrades, is this death V 
 Ah ! how well I know your answer, 
 
 To my fate I meekly bow, 
 If you'll only tell me truly ; 
 
 Who will care for mother now ? 
 
 Soon with angels I'll be marching, 
 With bright laurels on my brow, 
 
 I have for my country fallen. 
 Who will care for mother now ? 
 
 Who will comfort her in sorrow ? 
 
 Who will dry the fallen ti-ar, 
 Gently smooth the wrinkled forehead ? 
 
 Who will whisper words of cheer ? 
 Even now I think I see her. 
 
 Kneeling praying for rae ! how, 
 Can I leave her in her anguish ? 
 
 Who will care for mother now ? 
 
 Soon with angela, &e. 
 
 Let this knapsack be my pillow, 
 
 And my mantle be the sky ; 
 Hasten, comrades, to the battle, 
 
 I will like a soldier die. 
 Soon with angels Til be marching, 
 
 With bright laurels on my brow ; 
 I have for my Country fallen, 
 
 Who will care for mother now ? 
 
 Sqob. with angel^ At. 
 
GOD WILL. CARE FOR MOTHER NOW 109 
 
 AiR:— " "Who will cars for Mother now." 
 
 Weep no more, nobly fallen ! 
 
 Banish sorrow from thy heart; 
 Hark ! the anj^els, rouiul thee hov'ring, • 
 
 Words of peace and joy impart. 
 §ee ! they bid you join their number. 
 
 Wreath briglit laurels round tliy brow, 
 Murm'nnj? softly as they crown thee: 
 
 God will care f«r mother now. 
 
 Choeus. 
 
 Weep no more, nobly fallen I 
 Let not sorrow cloud thy brow; 
 
 Holy Anojels round thee whisper : 
 God will care for mother now. 
 
 When that mother, sad and lonely, 
 
 Mourns her loved and cherished on«, 
 When in agony she murmurs: 
 
 Give me back my darling son f 
 When she's crushed and bowed with troublft 
 
 And her iieart is filled with tears; 
 Then, the angels sweetly whisper: 
 
 God will wipe away her tears. 
 
 Weep no more, Ac. 
 
 Oh ! how sweet those words of comfort 
 
 To tiie dying soldier's ear ! 
 Wlio so anxiuosly is asking: 
 
 " Who will cherish mother here, 
 When I reach that land of glory, 
 
 And before my Maker bow?" 
 Sweetly comes tiie whispered answer*. 
 
 God will care for mother now. 
 
 -^eep no more, iie. 
 
110 COMMEMORATION. 
 
 On the 30th day of May, 1868, with one accord, the loyal 
 people of the Union visited the graves of the dead Union sol- 
 diers and strewed them with flowers. 
 
 The following beautiful jwem expressing so gracefully and 
 tenderly, the feelings connected with the day with it commem- 
 orates, is from the pen of Gen. Charlen* C. Van Zandt • 
 
 May SOth, 1868. 
 
 "With tolling bells, and booming guns ; 
 And muffled drum-beat's throb, 
 • With heavy step and shrouded flags, 
 V Each half drawn breath a sob. 
 
 The solemn Army marches through 
 
 The quiet listening town ; 
 To deck with memory's flowery stars, 
 . The green turned up with brown. 
 
 The little mounds of dew wet grass ; 
 
 The chiselled blocks of stone, — 
 Where soldiers rest, where heroes sleep, 
 
 Wrapped in the flag — alone ! 
 
 Ho ! comrade with the single ana. 
 Give me a wreath of green 
 
 To hang upon this snowy slab, 
 The rain drops silvery sheen. . 
 
 Upon its glossy laurel leaves 
 Are tears our Mother weeps — 
 
 Now some Immortelles for a crown 
 For here our General sleeps. 
 
 This is a very little mound, 
 
 He was so young to die, — 
 Give me some Rose-buds and those sprigs 
 
 Of fragrant Rosemaiy. 
 
COMMEMORATION, [concluded.] m 
 
 No-w brother with the shattered leg, 
 
 Hand me those Hyacinths blue, 
 To place upon this grassy hill. 
 
 For he was always true. 
 White, sunrise-flushed Arbutus buds, 
 
 Are just the very things, 
 To sweetly serve the drummer boy, 
 
 He sleeps in life's young spring. 
 That Passion flower of glorioup bloom 
 
 Like Him who died to save ; 
 With these white Liilies, stainless, sweetj, 
 
 Rest on the Chaplain's grave. 
 Those bright Verbenas' perfect red, 
 
 These valley liilies white, 
 Those blue-beils and forget-me-nots, 
 
 These Daisies starred with bright. 
 Have gathered from the rainbow tints 
 
 Old Glory's stripes and gold — 
 Her Color Sergeant's grave shall bear, 
 
 These fruits of wounds untold. 
 Lavender and Cassia, 
 
 Of each a little spray — 
 He was a Christian, and he loved 
 
 To teach his men to pray. 
 This man was old, full threescore years. 
 
 When he went forth to fight, 
 Bring me some Ivy's glossy leaves 
 
 And full blown Roses white. 
 Some scarlet holly berries here, 
 
 And mistletoe's green spray, 
 This soldier fell in the wild fight 
 
 We had on Christmas day. 
 A branch of that sweet Orange bloom 
 
 And one red flower — the tide 
 Of his young life poured out and left 
 
 A broken hearted bride. 
 Scatter the flowers we bear, around 
 
 The white tents of the dead, 
 The night comes down, the day is done 
 
 The old Flag overhead — 
 
 Hangs silently and wearily. 
 
 The rain falls on the sod. 
 Our loved ones sleep, how well they died 
 
 For Freedom and for Grod. 
 
 I 
 
112 WILLIE HAS GONE TO THE WAR. 
 
 The blue bird is singing its lay, 
 
 To all tbe sweet flowers of the dale ; 
 The wild bee is roaming', at play ; 
 
 And soft is the sigh of the gale ; 
 I stray by the brook-side, alone, 
 
 Where oft we have wandered before, 
 And weep for my loved one — my own; 
 
 My Willie has gone to the war 1 
 
 CHORU3. 
 
 Willie has gone to the war, 'Willie— 
 Willie, my loved one — my own : 
 
 "Willie has gone to the war, Willie— 
 Yf illie, my loved one, has gone. 
 
 It was there, where the lily-bells grow, 
 
 That I last saw his ^ioble ^ oung face ; 
 But now he has gone to the foe — 
 
 Oh ! dearly I love the old place ! 
 The whispering waters i-epeat 
 
 The name that I love, o'er and o'er. 
 And daisies, that nod at my feet. 
 
 Say : Willie has gone to the war ! 
 
 Willie has gone, < 
 
 The leaves of the forest will fade, 
 
 The roses will wither and die. 
 And Spring to our home in the glade. 
 
 On fairy-like pinions, will fly ; 
 But still I will hopefully wait, 
 
 Till the daj' when those battles are o'er; 
 And pine like a bird for its mate, 
 
 Till Willie, comes home from the war. 
 
 Willie has gone, i 
 
MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA. II3 
 
 By iiermisBion of Root and Oadt. 
 
 Brinjr the good old bugle, boys ! we'll eing auotlicr song- 
 Sing it with that spirit that will start the world along — 
 Singf it as we used to sing it fifty thousand strong, 
 While we were marching through Georgia. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 " Hurrah ! hurrah ! wo bring the Jubilee ! 
 Hurrah ! Hurrah ! the flag that makes you free !" 
 So we sing the chorus from Atlanta to the sea. 
 While we were marching through Georgia. 
 
 How the darkies shouted when they heard the joyful sound ! 
 How the turkeys gobbled which our commissary found I 
 How the sweet potatoes even started from the ground, 
 While we were marching through Georgia. 
 
 Hurrah, hurrah ! &c. 
 
 Tes, and there were Union men who wept with joyful tears. 
 When they saw the honored flag they had not seen for years ; 
 Hardly could they be restrained from breaking off in cheers. 
 While we were marching through Georgia. 
 
 Hurrah, hurrah ! &c. 
 
 " Sherman's dashing Yankee boys will never reach the coast '" 
 So the saucy rebels said, and 'twas a handsome boast, 
 Had they not forgot, alas, to reckon with the host, 
 While we marching through Georgia. 
 
 Hurrah, hurrah ! &c. 
 
 So we made a thoroughfare for Freedom and her train, 
 Sixty miles in latitude — three hundn-d to the main ; 
 Treason fled before us, for resistance was in vain, 
 While we were marching through Georgia. 
 
 Hurrah, hurrah ! &c. 
 
 But the march is not yet finished, nor will wo ^et disband, 
 While still a trace of treason remains to curse the land, 
 Or any foe agninst the flag uplifts a threatening hand, 
 ' For we've been marching through Georgia. 
 
 Hurrah, hurrah ! &c. 
 
 When Right is in the White House and Wisdom in her seat 
 The reconstructed Senators and Congress men to gieet. 
 Why then we may stop marching, and rest our weary ioet, 
 J'or we've been marching through Georgia. 
 
 Hurrah, hurrah ! Ac 
 
114 IT'S ALL UP IN DIXIE. 
 
 Words and music by Henuy Tucker. 
 
 This cruel war is almost done, 
 
 Poor old Jeff. 
 The game j-ou've lost and Abe lias won. 
 
 Poor old Jeff. 
 You'd better just tlirow up tlie thing, 
 And take what's call'd " leg bail," 
 For if you're caught you're bound to swing. 
 
 Poor old Jeff. 
 
 " It's all up in Dixie !" 
 " It's all up in Dixie !' 
 The Jig is up in Dixie's Land! 
 
 LET UNION STAND FOREVER >. ,' 
 
 You thought in Broadway grass would grow, 
 
 Poor old Jeff. 
 I think you find it is no go. 
 
 Poor old Jeff. 
 When sugar grows on clierry trees, 
 
 And rivers turn to rum, 
 The grass may grow wliere'er you please. 
 Poor old Jeff. 
 
 " It's all up in Dixie,' 
 
 You've often boasted how you'd fight. 
 
 Poor old Jeff. 
 But that "last ditch " di)n't turn out right, 
 
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ITS ALL UP WIIH DIXIE. [Uorjof ^msd 1 115 
 
 Poor oM Jeff. 
 You'll find tliat fij^hting for the rag, 
 
 Vou ouce so proudly flew, 
 " Hold fast a better dog than Bragg," 
 
 Poor old Jeff 
 
 *' It's all up in Dixie," <L« 
 
 Four precious Knaves are in each pack, 
 
 Poor old Jefr. 
 You've had some four score at j-our back, 
 
 Poor old Jeff. 
 But knaves don't alwa3'S win the same, 
 
 You'll find it out to your cost 
 Old Uncle Sam holds " High, Low, Game," 
 
 Poor old Jeff. 
 
 " It's all up in Dixie," Ac. 
 
 Your boys have sometimes nobly fought, 
 
 Poor old Jeff. 
 When bread and beef you stole or bought. 
 
 Poor old Jeff. 
 But brave or not, your hungry band, 
 
 Will learn, I fear, too late. 
 That RIGHT with MIGHT must rule this land. 
 
 Poor old Jeff 
 
 " It's all up in Dixie," dc 
 
116 THE RISING OF PENNSYLVANIA. 
 
 Composed by A. J. H. Dugannb. 
 
 Hurrah ! for Pennsylvania ! 
 
 She's blazing up at last ! 
 Like a red furnace, molten 
 
 With Freedom's rushing blast ! 
 From all her mines the war light shines, 
 
 And out of her iron hills. 
 The glorious fire leaps higher and higher. 
 
 Till all the land it fills. 
 From valley green and mountains blue 
 
 Her yeomanry arouse ! 
 And leave their forges burning, 
 
 And the oxen at their ploughs: 
 And spring up from highland and headland, 
 
 And muster in forest and plain. 
 By the blaze of their fiery beacons. 
 
 In the land of Antony Wayne. 
 
 Hurrah! for Pennsylvania! 
 
 Her sons are clasping handa 
 Down from the AUeghanies, 
 
 And up from Jersey's sands, 
 Juniata fair to the Delaware, 
 
 Is winding her bugle bars ; 
 And the Susquehanna, like war-like banner. 
 
 Is bright with Stripes and Stars ; 
 And the hunter scours his rifle. 
 
 And the boatman grinds his knife, 
 And the lover leaves his sweetheart. 
 
 And the husband leaves his wife ; 
 And the women go out in the harvest, 
 
 To gather the golden grain, 
 While the bearded men are marching, 
 
 In the land of Anthony Wayne." 
 
 Hurrah ; for Pennsylvania ! 
 
 Through every vale and glen, 
 Beating, like resolute pulses. 
 
 She feels the tread of men ; 
 From Erin's lake her legions break — 
 
 From Tuscarora's gorge ; 
 And with ringing shout they are tramping out 
 
 From brave old Valley Forge ; 
 And up from the plains of Paoli 
 
 The minute men march once more ; 
 And they carry the swords of their fathers. 
 
 And the flags their fathers bore ; 
 And they swear, as they rush to battle, 
 
 That never shall cowardly stain 
 
THE RISING OF PENNSYLVANIA, [conclude©.] X17 
 
 Dishonor a blade or banner in the land of Anthony Wayne. 
 Hurrah ! for Pennsylvania ! 
 
 She fears no traitor hordes ; 
 Bulwarked, on all her borders, 
 
 By loyal souls and swords 
 From Delaware's strand to Maryland, 
 
 And bright Ohios marge, 
 Pverj' freeman's hand is her battle brand 
 
 Every freeman's heart her targe ; 
 And she stands, like her Delaware Breakwater, 
 
 In fierce Rebellion's path. 
 To shiver its angry sui-ges. 
 
 And baffle its frantic wrath, 
 And the tide of Slavery's Treason 
 
 Shall dash on her in vain — 
 Rolling back from the ramparts of Freedom — The land of An- 
 thony Wayne. 
 
 Hurrah ! for Pennsylvania ! 
 
 We hear her sounding call — 
 Ringing out Liberty's summons 
 
 From Independence Hall ! 
 That tocsin rang, with iron clang, 
 
 In the Revolution's hour, 
 And 'tis ringing again, through the hearts of the men, 
 
 With a terrible glory and power ; 
 And all the People hear it — 
 
 That mandate old and grand ; 
 " Proclaim to the uttermost nation 
 
 That Liberty rules the land !" 
 And all the people chant it — ,v 
 
 That brave and loyal strain — 
 On the borders of Pennsylvania, the land of Anthony WajTie J 
 Hurrah ! for Pennsylvania ! 
 
 And let her soldiers march 
 Under the arch of Triumph — 
 
 The Union's star-lit Arch! 
 With banners proud and trumpets loud, 
 
 They come from border fi-ay — 
 From the battle-fields, where hearts were shields, 
 
 To bar the Invader's way 1 
 Tlurrah ! for Pennsylvania ! 
 
 Her soldiers well may march 
 Beneath her ancient banner — 
 
 The Keystone of our Arch ! 
 And all the mighty Northland 
 
 Will swell the triumph rain — 
 Vtom the land of FenusjlTaoia, the Ismd of Anthony Wayne 1 
 
118 TRAMP ! TRAMP ! TRAJO» J 
 
 The Prisoner's Hope. 
 
 In the prison-cell I 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 I can do, 
 Tho' I try to cheer my comrades and be gay. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Tramp, tramp, tramp ! the boys are marching, 
 Cheer up ! comrades, they will come, 
 
 And beneath the Starry Flag, 
 
 We shall breathe the air again, 
 
 Of the Free-land in our own beloved hom». 
 
 In the battle-front we stood, 
 
 When their fiercest charge they made, 
 And they swept us off, a hundred men or more ; 
 
 But, before we reached their lines, 
 
 They were beaten back dismayed, 
 And we heard the cry of Vict'r3% o'er and o'er. 
 
 Tramp, tramp, tramp ! df. 
 
 So, within the prison-cell. 
 
 We are waiting for the day 
 That shall come to open wide the iron door ; 
 
 And the hollow eye grows bright. 
 
 And the poor heart almost gay, 
 As we think of seeing home and friends, once mora 
 
 Tramp, tramp, tramp ! *e. 
 
OJT! ON! OWi 119 
 
 A SEQUEL TO " TRAMP, TRAMP, rRAMRf 
 
 Oh / the day it came at last 
 
 Wlien the grlorious tramp was fieard. 
 And the b(\v8 came marching fifty thousand strongs 
 And we grasped each other's hands, 
 Though we muttered not a word, 
 A8 the booming of our cannon rolled along. 
 
 'ITOKUS. 
 
 On, on, on, the boys came marching, 
 Like a grand majestic sea ; 
 And they dashed away the guard from the heavy iron ioor, 
 And we stood beneath the starry banner free. 
 
 Oil ! tlip fi^eblest heart jPrrew strong. 
 And the most despondent sure. 
 When we heard the thrilling sounds we loved so well. 
 For we knew that want and wne 
 We no longer should endi'r,., 
 When the hosts of Ireedom readied our prison ceiu 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 On, on, on, tbe boys came marrbing. 
 Like a grand majestic sea ; 
 Ard they dashed away the guard from tbe lieavy Iron door, 
 And we stood beneath the starr; banner free. 
 Oh ! the war is over now. 
 
 And we're safe at home again. 
 And tlie cause we've fought and suffered i<v is wuu ; 
 But we never can fororet, 
 
 'Mid our woes and 'mid our pain, 
 tlow the glorious Union boys came trampinjt on. 
 
 CHORUS. 
 Yes, yes, yes, the boys came marching. 
 Like a grand majestic sea ; 
 And they dashed away the guard from the liea^j" i'on door. 
 And we stood beneatli the starry banner free. 
 Oh, 'twas Grant w]>o led them on 
 When they came to set us free. 
 And we glory in the sound of his dear name. 
 That has dear and deurer grown 
 To tlie ears of such as we. 
 Since to let us out of prison down he caoM. 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Grant and the boys came onward marcbing'. 
 Like a grand majestic sea. 
 And they aaslied away the guard from the heavy iron \"*. 
 And we et(^ beneath the stfury baaner fro*. 
 
120 PARODY ON LORD LOVELl.. 
 
 Lord Love! ic sat in St. Cliaik'n' Hotel. 
 
 In St. Charles' Uotel sat he ; 
 As fine a case of a Southern swell, 
 
 As ever you'd wish to see— see — see, 
 
 As ever you'd wish to see. 
 
 Lord Lovell the town had vowed to defend, 
 
 A waving his swoid on liiorh ; 
 He swore that his la.st ounce ot powder he'd spend 
 
 And in the last ditch he'a die.'' 
 
 He swore by hlacTc and he swore 'by blue, 
 
 He swoie by the stars and the bars : 
 That never he'd fly from a Yankee crew. 
 
 While he was a'son of Mars. 
 
 He had fifty thousand gallant men, 
 
 Ffty thoiisand men bad be ; 
 ■Who had all sworn -with him that they'd never surrender 
 
 To any tarnation Yankee. 
 
 He had forts no Yankee alive could take, 
 
 And had iron-clad boats a score; 
 And batteries all around the lake, 
 
 And along the river shore, 
 
 Sir Farragut came -with a mighty flee*, 
 
 VTith a niiiihty fleet came he ; 
 And Lord Lovell iristanter becan to retreat 
 
 Before the first boat he could see. 
 
 Oh ! tarry. Lord Lovell, Sir Farragut cried, 
 
 Oh! tarry. Lord Lovell, said he ; 
 I rather think not, Lord Lovell replied, 
 
 For, I'm in a great hurry. 
 
 I like the drinks at the St. Charles' Hotel, 
 
 But I never could bear strong Porter: 
 Bspecially when it's served on the shell. 
 
 Or mixed iu an iron mortar. 
 
 I reckon you're right, SirFarragut said: 
 I reckon you're right, said he • 
 For, if my Poi ter should fly to yonr head, 
 A terrible smash there'd be. 
 
 Oh! a wonder it was to see them run, 
 
 A wondeT'fiil thing to see ! 
 And the Yankees sailed up -vvithout firing aguu, 
 
 And captured their great citie. 
 
 Lord Lovell kept running all day and night, 
 
 Lord Lovell a running kept he : 
 For. he swore he couldn't abide the sight 
 
 Of the gun of a live Yankee. 
 
 "When Lord Lovell's life -was brought to a close. 
 By a sharp-shooting Yankee gunner,- 
 
 From his head there sprouted a red, red nose, 
 From his feet a— Scarlet Runuer. 
 
BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPTJBLIC. 121 
 
 Air .— " Glory Hallelujah." 
 
 Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord ; 
 He is tramping out tl>e vintage VNhere the grapes of wrath are 
 stored; ' 
 
 He has loosed the fateful lightning of hb terrible 8Wiit sword 
 His truth is inarchiug ou. 
 
 Glory ! glory ! Hallelujah ! 
 Glory ! glory ! Hallelujah ! 
 Glory ! glory ! Hallelujah ! 
 His trutli is nmrching oa. 
 
 I have seen him in the watch fire of a hundred circling camps ; 
 Th*y have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps. 
 I can read his righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps; 
 His day is marching on. 
 
 Glory ! glory I Hallelujah, Ac. 
 
 1 have read a tiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel; 
 .'Aa ye deal with my contemners, so v^rith you my grace shall 
 
 deal ; . , i • i i 
 
 Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel 
 Since God is marching on." 
 
 Glory ! glory ! Hallelujah ! Ac. 
 
 He -nus sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat \ 
 He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat. 
 Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him 1 be jubilant, Biy feet ! 
 Our God is marching on. 
 
 Glory ! glory ! Hallelujah ! <fec. 
 
 In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea. 
 With a glorv in his bosom that transfigures you and me ; 
 As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free. 
 "While God is marchitig on. 
 
 Glor^' ! gh)ry ! Hallelujah 1 Ac. 
 
122 MARCHING ALONG. 
 
 By permiasion of Wm. A Pond, & Co. 
 
 The army is gathering from near and from far ; 
 The trumpet is sounding the call for the war ; 
 A brave man's our leader, he's gallant and strong, 
 We'll gird on our armor, and be marching along. 
 
 Marching along, we are marching along, 
 
 Gird on the armor and be marching along; 
 
 A brave man's our leader, he's gallant and strong; 
 
 For Grant and for Colfax, we're marching along ! 
 
 The foe is before us, in battle array ; 
 
 But let US not waver, or turn from the way. 
 
 The Lord is our strength, and the Union's our song ; 
 
 With courage and faith, we are marching along. 
 
 Marching along, &c, 
 
 We sigh for our Country, we monrn for our dead : 
 For them, now, we hope the last blood has been shed ; 
 Our cause is the right one : our foe's in the wrong ; 
 Then gladly we'll sing as we're marching along ! 
 
 Marching along, &c. 
 
 The flag of our country is floating on high ; 
 VVell sti nd by that Flag, till we conquer or die ! 
 A brave man's our leader, he's gallant and strong ; 
 We'll gird on our armor, and be marching along ! 
 
 Ma»-ching along, <&«. 
 
MARCHING ALONG. NO. !». 123 
 
 Our Country has called her brave sons to the field ; 
 to false-hearted traitors, she never must yield ; 
 rhea forward true soldiers, let tliia be our song; 
 To conquer or die ! we are marching along ! 
 
 Marching along, we are marching along. 
 The Union to save we are marching along ! 
 Let traitors beware ! for there's death in our song 
 To conquer or die ! we are marching along ! 
 
 Tho' strewn be our path with the dying and dead ; 
 rho' to battle, tlirough rivers of blood, we are led ; 
 Our liearts will be firm, and our courage be strong ; 
 For God is our guide, as we're marching along ! 
 
 Marphing along, <fec 
 
 Near the graves where our comrades lie sleeping in deitlh, 
 We soon for our country may yield our last breath ; 
 We'll fight till we die! let our flag but still wave ! 
 For a briaht ray of glory will hallow each grave ! 
 
 Marching along, Ac 
 
 Then, on let us march ! boys — on, to the fight ! 
 Success must be ours, since our cause is the right; 
 Three cheers for our flag, and three cheers for our song; 
 To conquer or die ! we are marching along ! 
 
 Marching along, <tc. 
 
124 "OTJR" MARYLAND. 
 
 The rebel thieves were sure of thee, 
 
 Mnryland, our Maryland ! 
 And boasted they would welcome be, 
 
 Maryland, our Maryland ! 
 But now they turn and now tliey flee, 
 "With Stone-wall Jackson and with Lee, 
 And loyal souls once more are free ! 
 
 Maryland, our Maryland 1 
 
 With plundered guns and stolen swords, 
 
 Maryland, our Maryland ! 
 On thee they came in ruffiim hordes, 
 
 Maryland, our Maryland I 
 With raving oatlis and roaring words. 
 And pirate's knives and hangman's cords, 
 They swarmed across the border fords, 
 
 Maryland, our Maryland I 
 
 Through pass ways of the mountain crags, 
 
 Maryland, our Maryland ! 
 They bore tiieir vile st cession flags, 
 
 Maryland, oiir Maryland I 
 Like beggar troops in filthy rags. 
 Barefooted men, and spavined nags, 
 Their voices iioarse with Southern braga, 
 
 Maryland, our Maryland ! 
 
 Like dogs all raving for a crumb, 
 Maryland, our Maryland ! 
 They madly rushed for bread and rum, 
 
 Maryland, our Maryland ! 
 
 But backward run, with voices dumb. 
 
 And drooping hatids and faces glum, 
 
 They ran from Union's rolling drum, 
 
 Maryland, our Maryland I 
 
THE BOLD VOLTJNTEES. 125 
 
 Air:—" The Bold Soldier Boy." 
 
 O, there's no use now in sighing. 
 Or crying — 
 Or shying — 
 For traitors are defying 
 Tlje flag we hold so dear! 
 
 And there's not a girl we love, sir, 
 Though timid iie a dove, sir, ' 
 That will not cast the glove, sir, 
 When treason walks so near ; 
 
 With all her charms. 
 She'll rouse to arms ; 
 With love's alarms — 
 She crit'S 
 
 Arise ! 
 Tour country is in danger, my Bold Volunteer ! 
 Oh, there's work, boys, to be done, 
 None may slum — 
 None will run — 
 There's a battle to be won 
 For the land we hold so dear ! 
 
 And if one there be who'd falter. 
 Or shrink from freedom's altar, 
 His end may be a halter. 
 His meed a felon's bier ; 
 Whilst far away. 
 In Freedom's fray. 
 We'll win the day. 
 And fly 
 
 On high. 
 The flag that's left in keeping of the Bold Volunteer 
 
 O I we're off to meet the foemen, — 
 Eiich yeoman 
 A Roman ; 
 Away from the pleasant homes and 
 The scenes we hold so dear ; 
 
 But the hearts we leave behind us 
 In memory's ties shall bind us. 
 Of kindred to remind us, 
 And friendship's joys sincere ; 
 In battle's reel, 
 'Mid clash of steel, 
 And trumpet's peal. 
 We'll h«^ar. 
 So clear, 
 The voices that are praying for the Bold Volunteer ! 
 
126 COLUMBIA RULES THE SEA. 
 
 And when, to drum and fife. 
 From the strife, 
 Full of life, 
 B.ick to sweetheart and to wife 
 We shall march with sonps of cheer. 
 
 Oh ! the jnys that then will meet U8. 
 The sniih-.s that then will trreet U8, 
 The lips thai will entreat us. 
 With kisses doubly dear ! 
 
 Such royal pay, 
 On victory's day. 
 Might make us pray 
 For war, 
 
 Once more. 
 To call again to conflict the Bold Volunteerl 
 
 COLUMBIA RULES THE SEA. 
 Words by Josiah D. Canning, " Peasant Bard." Music by Hbmrt tuOMB 
 
 The pennon flutters in the breeze, 
 
 The anchor comes " apeak," 
 " Let fall, sheet home," the briny foam. 
 
 And ocean's wastes we seek. 
 The boominyr gun speaks our adieu. 
 
 Fast fades our native slujre. 
 
 Columbia free, shall rule the sea, 
 Britannia ruled of yore. 
 
 We go the tempest's wrath to dare, 
 
 The billows maddened play. 
 Now climbing liifrh against the sky. 
 
 Now rolling low away, 
 While Yankee Otik bears Yankee hearts. 
 
 Courageous to the core. 
 
 Columbia free, &«. 
 
 We'll bear her flag around the world. 
 
 In thunder an i in flame, 
 The sea-girt isles a wreatli of smiles. 
 
 Shall form around her name. 
 The winds shall pipe her peans loud, 
 
 The billowy chorus roar. 
 
 Columbia fvee, &a 
 
GLORY HALLELUJAH ! NO. 1. 127 
 
 John Brown's body lies a mouldering in the graye, 
 Jona Brown's body lies a mouldering in tlie grave, 
 Joha Brown's body lies a mouldering iu tlie grave, 
 His soul's marching on I 
 Chorus.— Glory Hally. Hallelujah ! 
 Glory Hally, Hallelujah ! 
 Glory Hally. Hallelujah ! 
 His soul's marching on. 
 He's gone to be a soldier in the army of our Lord. 
 He's gone to be a soldier in the army of our Lord, 
 He's gone to be a suldier in the army of our Lord, 
 His soul's marching on ! 
 Glory Hally, Hallelujah ! 
 Glory, Haiiy, Hallelujah ! 
 Glory Hally, Hallelujah ! 
 His soul's marching on ! 
 John Brown's knapsack is strapped upon his back, 
 John Brown's knapsack is strapped upon his back, 
 John Brown's knapsack is strapped upon his back, 
 His soul's marching on ! 
 Glory Hally, Hallelujah ! 
 Glory Hally, Hallelujah ! 
 Glory Hally, Hallelujah ! 
 His soul's marching on ! 
 His pet lambs will meet hiui on the way. 
 His pot lambs will meet him on the way. 
 His pet lambs will meet him on the way. 
 They go marching on ! 
 Glory Hally, Hallelujah . I 
 Glory Hally, Hallelujah ! 
 Glory Hally, Hallelujah*! 
 As they go marching on ! 
 They will hang Jeff Davis to a sour applr tret, 
 They will hang JefF Davis to a sour apple tree, 
 They will hang Jeff Davis to a sour apple tree. 
 As they go luarcliiiig along! 
 Glorv Hally, Hallelujah ! 
 Glory Hally, Hallelujah ! 
 Glory Hally, Hallelujah ! 
 As tliey go marching along I 
 Now, three rousing cheers for the Union 1 
 Now, three rousing cheers for the UniocI 
 Now, three rousing cheers for the Union I 
 As we go marching on 1 
 
128 GLORY HALLELUJAH! NO. 2. 
 
 Glory Hally, Hall.-li.jah ! 
 Glory Hallv, Hallelujuli ! 
 Glory Hally, Hallelujah ! 
 Hip, hip, hip, hip, Hurrah ! 
 Our Sokliers, now, are marchiiif^ tu'ards the South, 
 Our Si)l(liers, now, are ninrcliing to'anis the Soutn, 
 Our Soldiers, now, are niarcliing to'ards the Soutli, 
 To wipe out Secession. 
 Choeus.— Glory ! Glory I Hallelujah ! 
 
 Tiie Stars and Stripes forever wave ! 
 
 Glory ! Glory ! Hallelujah ! 
 
 The Union we sliail save ! 
 
 Treason^ soon, will be forced to dig its grave, 
 
 Treason, soon, will be forced to dig its grave, 
 
 Treason, soon, will be forced to dig its grave, 
 
 Never again to rise I [Glory ! Glory ! Ac. 
 
 The Rebels, now, are shaking with alarm, 
 The Rebels, now, aie shaking with alarm. 
 The Rebels, now, are shaking w iih alarm, 
 
 Want to be let alone ! [Glory ! Glory I <kc. 
 
 Run, JefT, run ! if you wish to save your neck, 
 
 Run, JefT. run ! if you wish to save your neck, 
 
 Run, Jeff, run ! if you wish to save your neck, 
 
 Tor we are ou your heels ! 
 
 Glory ! Glory I Ac. 
 To Friends, hope, but to traitors we'll give rope, 
 To Fiiends, hope, but to traitors we'll give rope, 
 To Friends, hope, but to traitors we'll give rope, 
 
 A warning to mankind ! Glorj- ! Glory ! <tc. 
 We've whipt them on the plain, whipt 'em on the sea. 
 We've whipt them on tiie plain, whipt 'em on the sesi. 
 We've whipt them on the plain, whipt 'em on the si a, 
 "Victory has been ours ! [Glory 1 Glory I <tc. 
 Then, three cheers for our noble Volunteers, 
 Then, three cheers for our noble Volunteers, 
 Then, three cheers for our noble Volunteers, 
 
 And gallant Navy Blues ! [Glory ! Glory ! Ac. 
 
 Again our Fhig will float throughout the laud, 
 
 Agaiu our Flag will float throughout the land. 
 
 Again our Fla;; vvill float tlirouuhout the land, 
 
 Triuiiiphaul, Proud and Free ! 
 
 Glory ! Glory 1 Ac 
 tJnited once more, may God keep us so, 
 Ifnited once more, may God keep us so. 
 United once more, may God keep us so. 
 
 Forever, and for aye ! [Glory ! Glory 1 Ao. 
 
GLORY HALLELUJAH ! No 3. 129 
 
 Jolin Brown'3 body lies a mouldering in the grave, 
 While weep the sons of bondage, whom he ventured all to save, 
 But tho' he loat his life in struggling for the slave 
 His soul is marching ou ! 
 
 Glory, Glory Hallelujah ! 
 Glory, Glory Hallelujah ! 
 Glory. Glory HdUhijah ! 
 His soul i^j marchiiifr on. 
 
 John Brown was a hero undaunted, true and brave; 
 And Kansas knew his valor, wliea he fought herrigiitsto save; 
 Aud DOW, tiiough grass grows green above iiis grave. 
 His soul is marching on. 
 
 Glor}-, &c. 
 
 He captured Harper's furry with his nineteen men so true. 
 And he frightened Old Virginny, till siie trembled through 
 
 and through. 
 They hung him for a traitor: themselves a traitor crew; 
 But his soul is marching on. 
 
 Glory, <fec. 
 
 John Brown was John the Baptist of Christ we are to see, 
 Christ who of the bondman shall the Libei-ator be ; 
 And soon, throughout the suuiiy South, the slaves shall all be 
 free; 
 
 For his soul is marching on. 
 
 Glory, <fec. 
 
 Ti)e conflict that he heralded, he looks from Heaven to view 
 On the army of the Union, with his Flag, red-, white, and blue, 
 And Heaven shall ring with anthems o'er the deed they mean 
 to do ; 
 
 For bis soul is marching ou 
 
 Glory. &c. 
 
 Ye soldiers of Freedom, then strike, while strike you may. 
 The death-blow of oppressii)ii, in a bftter time and way ; 
 For the dawn of old John Brown has brightened into day, 
 And his soul is marching on. 
 
 Glory. Ae. 
 
130 GLORY HALLELUJAH ! No. 4. 
 
 John Brown's hotly lies nioulilering in the grave, 
 John Browu'a body lies slumbering in the grave, 
 But John Brown's soul is marcliing with the brave, 
 His soul is marching on. 
 
 Glory, <tc. 
 
 fle has gone to be a soldier in the army of the Lord, 
 He is sworn as a private in the ranks of the Lord, 
 He shall stand at Armageddon witii his brave old sword. 
 When heaven is marching on. 
 
 Glory, <fec. 
 
 tie shall file in fhont when the lines of battle form, 
 He shall face to front when the squares of battle form, 
 Time with the cohjnia and charge with the storm, 
 When men are marching on. 
 
 Glorj-, <fec. 
 
 Jih 1 foul tyrants do yen "hear liim as he comes ? 
 Ah I foul traitors do you know him as he comes, 
 Jo the thunder of the cannon and the roll of the drums, 
 As we go marching on ? 
 
 Glory, <tc. 
 
 Men may die and moulder in the dust, 
 Men may die and arise again from dust. 
 Shoulder to shoulder in (he lanks of the just, 
 When God is niai-chin<r on. 
 
 Glory, <fe«. 
 
GLORY HALLELUJAH ! No 6. 131 
 
 Jolm Brown died on a scaffold for the slave ; 
 Dark -was the hour wlicn we dug liis hallowed grara; 
 Kow Cod nvenges the life he gladly gave — 
 Freedom reigns to-day ! 
 
 Glory, glory hallelujah, 
 Glory, glory hallelujah. 
 Glory, glory hallelujah, 
 Freedom reigns to-day. 
 
 Jolin B'-own sowed and his harvesters are we : 
 Honor to him who has mack the bondman free ! 
 Loved evermore shall our iiuble ruler be — 
 Freedom reigns to-day ' 
 
 Glory, <fec. 
 John Brown's body lies mouldering in the grave ; 
 Bright o'er the sod, let the starry banner wave, — 
 Lo ! for the millions he periled all to save, 
 Freedom reigns to-day ' 
 
 Glory, «fec. 
 
 John Brown lives — we are gaining on our foes — 
 Right shall be the victor whatever may oppose — 
 Fresh, through the darkness, the wind of morning blows- 
 Freedom reigns to-day ! 
 
 Glory, <te. 
 
 John Brown dwells where the battle strife is o'er 
 Fate cannot harm him nor sorrow stir him more; 
 Earth will remember the crown of thorns he wore, 
 Freedom reigns to-day ! 
 
 Glory, Ac. 
 
 John Brown's body lies mouldering in the grave ; 
 John Brown lives in the triumphs of tlie brave ; 
 John Brown's soul not a higher joy can crave — 
 Freedom rejgns to-day ! 
 
 Glorv, Ac. 
 
132 BUMMERS COME AND MEET US. 
 
 Aiu: — "John Browu's Song." 
 
 Freedom is our leader now, we've liad our last retreat; 
 Freedom is our leader now, we've had our last retreat; 
 Freeduin is our leader now, we ve had our last retreat; 
 We'll now go marching on. 
 
 Say, brothers, will }-ou iDeet us ? 
 Say. brothers, will j-ju meet us? 
 Say, brothers, will you meet us? 
 As we go marching on. 
 
 Thomas turned a Somerset, and gave the Rebels rats; 
 Thomas turned a Somerset, and gave the Rebels rats; 
 Thomas turned a Somerset, and gave the Kbels rats; 
 And sent them rolling home. 
 
 Oh, brothers, we will joiu him : 
 
 Oil, brothers, we will join him ; 
 
 Oh. brotliers, we will join him; 
 
 And send tiiem roiling home. 
 
 How are you, Johnny Bull, old boy ? How are you, Joh>n^' 
 
 Bull?' 
 How are you, Johnny Bull, old boy? How are you, Johnny 
 
 Bull ? 
 If you want to fight, old Roast Beef, you will get your belly 
 
 full. 
 
 And then go rolling home. 
 
 Oh. Johnny, don't you fight us; 
 Oh, Johnny, don't you fight us; 
 Oh, Johnny, don't you fight us; 
 Or we'll send you rolling home. 
 
 We'll have a farm in Dixie, boys, and put some freemen on it; 
 We'll have a farm in Dixie, boys, and put some freemen on it; 
 "We'll have n farm in Dixie, boys, and put some freemen on it; 
 And then we'll simmer down. 
 
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BUMMERS COME AND MEET US.— (CuNOLUBfi®.) 133 
 
 01), sisters, come and join us ; 
 
 Oh, sisters, come and join us ; 
 
 Oh, sisters, come and join us; 
 
 Way down in Dixie's Latid. 
 
 0!i, boys, we'll sip our cobblers then, and cloud our Meer- 
 schaum pipes ; 
 
 Oil, boys, we'll sip our cobblers then, and cloud our Mei-r. 
 schauui pipes; 
 
 Oil, boys, we'll sip our cobblers then, and cloud our Meei 
 schaum pipes ; 
 
 Way down in Dixie's Land. 
 
 Oh, bummers oome and meet ug, 
 
 Oh, hummers come and meet us, 
 
 Oh, bummers come and meet us, 
 
 Way down in Dixie's Land, 
 
 There lies the whiskj'-bottle emply on the shelf. 
 - There lies the whisky-botlle empty on the shelf, 
 There lies the whisky-bottle empty on the shelf, 
 But there's some more in the Demi-John. 
 Oh, bummers, don't you leave us. 
 Oh, bummei's, don't 30U leave us, 
 01), bummers, don't you leave us, 
 We'll soon go iwirching on. 
 
 The girls we left behind us, boys, our sweethearts at the 
 
 North, 
 The girls we left behind us, boys, our sweethearts at the 
 
 North, 
 The oirls we left behind us, bovs, our sweetliearts at the 
 
 North, 
 
 Smile on us as we march. 
 
 Oh, sweetliearts, don't forget us, 
 Oil, sweethearts, don't forget us, 
 Oh, sweethcaris, don't forget us. 
 We'll soon come marching horn's. 
 
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134 A UNION SHIP AND A UNION CREV/. 
 
 AiB— " A Yankee Ship." 
 
 A Union Ship and a Union Crew, 
 
 Tally hi ho, you know ! 
 O, her flag is the flag of the red, white and blue, 
 
 With the stars aloft and alow ; 
 Her sails are spead for the Northern breeze, 
 
 And she dashes the spray from her prow, 
 For her flag is the proudest that floats o'er the seas. 
 
 And 'tis shining the loveliest now ! 
 
 O, a Union Ship, &c. 
 
 A Union Ship and a Union Crew, 
 
 Tally hi ho, you know ! 
 Every man aboard is a patriot true, 
 
 Whether placed aloft or alow ; 
 Though the blackening sky and the whistling wind 
 
 Are foretelling a Southern gale, 
 Not a lubber you'll see, not a skulker you'll And, 
 
 For the cry is, "on deck there ! a sail ! " 
 There are pirates astern, but we'll give them a shot — 
 
 To the guns, aloft and alow I 
 
 A Union Ship, &c. 
 
 A Union Ship and a Union Crew, 
 
 Tally hi ho, you know ! 
 To the soil of Freedom we'll ever prove true — 
 
 Brave hearts aloft and alow 1 
 Bearing down, comes the Rebel-ship, fierce with pride, 
 
 With her yellow Palmetto outspread; 
 But anon, she'll be swept from the foaming tide. 
 
 While the stars and stripes float o'erhead ! 
 For we'll strike to no foe, while the free winds blow. 
 
 Or a man's left aloft or alow ? 
 
 A Union Ship, &c. 
 
THE BATTLE CRY OF FREFDOM. 135 
 
 (battle-song.) 
 
 We are marching to the field, boys, we are goinsr to the fight, 
 
 Shouting the battle-cry of freedom. 
 And we bear the glorious stars for the Union and the right. 
 
 Shouting the battle-cry of freedom. 
 
 The Union forever, Hiirrah, boys, Hurrah, 
 
 Down with the traitor, up with the star. 
 
 For we're marching to the field, boys, going to the 
 
 fight. 
 Shouting the battle cry of freedom ! 
 
 We will meet the rebel host, boys, with fearless heart and true 
 
 Shouting the battle-cry of freedom, 
 A-nd we'll show what Uncle Sam has for loyal men to doj 
 
 Shouting the battle-cry of freedom. 
 
 The Union forever, &c. 
 
 If we fall amid the fray, boys, we'll face them to the last, 
 
 Shouting the battle-cry of freedom, 
 And our comrades brave shall hear us, as they go rushing pa«t, 
 
 Shouting the battle cry of fi-eedom. 
 
 The Union forever, &c. 
 
 Yes, for Liberty and Union we're springing to the fight. 
 
 Shouting the battle cry of freedom, 
 And the victory shall be ours, for we're rising iu our might 
 
 Shouting the battle cry of freedom. 
 
 The Union forever, &c. 
 
186 JEFF DAVIS. 
 
 A NEW IRISH SONG OF THE TIMES. 
 
 "Words by T. L. Donnelly. Music by Emil Stadler. 
 
 The Music of this Song is published by E. H. Harding, 288 Bowery 
 Price 10 cents. 
 
 Oh ! once I could eat my fill of good meat, 
 
 And whiskey galore, I could roule into m«, 
 ] could slreel up and down cv'ry street in tliis town, 
 
 With always a quarter to go on a spree. 
 My clothes they were good, I ne'er thought of wood, 
 
 A pick or a spade ne'er enter'd my mind. 
 But now I'm in grief, since that blackhearted thief, 
 
 Jeff Davis ; he brought these hard times upon me. 
 
 Oh! bad luck to him early. 
 Bad luck to him dearly, 
 May the devil admire h m, 
 
 Where e'er he maj' be ; 
 May musquitoes smite him, 
 And rattlesnakes bite him, 
 The traitor that brought 
 
 These hard times upon me. 
 
 Oh I I walk up and down every street in this town, 
 
 And the devil a smell of a glass can I get. 
 Oil 1 I go everywhere to ease my despair. 
 
 But the hunger begor, keeps me in a big sweat, 
 Of my clothes there's as much as would boulster a crutch, 
 
 And my shirt wants a rivet or two in each seam, 
 Miy the hangman be brief when he swings that old thief, 
 
 Jeff Davis that brought these hard times upon me. 
 
 B^kI luck to him early, <fec. 
 
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JEFF. DAVIS. [C0NCLUDK1.J 137 
 
 So badly I'm broke, I can't raise a smoke. 
 
 Not eveo a pin can I find in the street. 
 Nor a Slump of segar tlio' I sarch near and far 
 
 Oh ! they're made into cloth it is my belief! 
 riie Oyster Bay Swells sometimes give me some shells. 
 
 To polish my tee-th on by way of a snack-, 
 My stomach gets riley, and then I curse wildly, 
 
 Jeff Davis, that brought these hard times upon me. 
 
 Bad luck to him early, (fee. 
 
 Oh ! Dl spit in my fist, and then Til enlist, 
 
 And off to the wars I'll march bould as brass, 
 I'll fight till I die, and e'er I will fly 
 
 I'll measure the length of myself on the grass I 
 Like a brigadier private I'll rush on the foe, 
 
 And HI slather tlie rebels both high and low ! 
 Oh its then I'll knock blazes out of Jefferson Davis, 
 
 The traitor that brought these hard times upon me. 
 
 May his trees never bear, 
 
 May his head have no hair. 
 May bunions like onions. 
 
 Grow out of his feet. 
 May Dr. Tumblety drug him. 
 
 And John Heenan plug him. 
 The traitor that brought 
 
 These hard times upon me. 
 
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138 THE RED, WHITE AND BLUEo 
 
 Oh, Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean, 
 
 The home of the Brave aud the Free ; 
 The Shrine of each Patriot's devotion, 
 
 A World oflfors Homage to Thee ! 
 Thy mandates make Heroes assemble, 
 
 When Liberty's form stands in view ; 
 Thy banners make tyranny tremble, 
 
 When borne by the Red, White and Blue. 
 
 cnoKus. 
 
 When borne by the Red, White and Blue, 
 When borne by the Red, White and Blue ; 
 Thy Banners make Tyranny tremble, 
 WTien borne by the Red, White and Blue. 
 
 When war waged its wide desolation, 
 { And threatened our land to deform, 
 Tlie Ark then of Freedom's foundation, 
 
 Columbia rode safe through the storm. 
 With her garland of victory o'er her. 
 
 When so proudly she bore her bold crew, 
 "Vv ith her Flag proudly floating before her, 
 ■ The boast of the Red, White and Blue. 
 
 The boiist of the Red, &c. 
 
 The wine cup, the wine cup bring hither. 
 
 And fill you it up to the brim ; 
 May the memory of Washington ne'er wither 
 
 Nor the Star of his glory grow dim! 
 May the servics united ne'er sever. 
 
 And hold to their colors so true I 
 The Army anc Navy forever ! 
 
 Thiee cheerf for the Red, White and Blue '. 
 Three cheers for the Red, Ac 
 
THE STANDARD BEARElt. 139 
 
 Upon the tented field a Minstrel Knioht, 
 
 Beside his standard lonely watch was keeping, 
 
 And thus, amid the stillness of the nijjht, 
 
 He strikes his lute, while nil around is sleeping— 
 
 CHORUS. 
 The lady of my love — I will not name. 
 
 Although I wear lier colcrs as a token, 
 For I would fijrht for liberty and fame, 
 
 Beneath the flaf; where first our vowa were sjiokeil. 
 The night is past, the conflict's come with dawn, 
 
 The Minstrel Knight has seen its forlitying ; 
 'Miist death and carnage onward still are borne — 
 
 His softg is heard 'midat thousands around him d'"*ij^ 
 The lady of my love, Ac- 
 Stern Death now sated quits the gory plain ; 
 
 Tlie life blood from the Warrior Bard is streaming. 
 While on his flag he rests his hand with pain, 
 
 And fjiintly sings — his eyes with fervor beaming. 
 The lady of my love I will not name ; 
 
 I'll still retain her colors as a token ; 
 I've fought and fell for libi rty and lame. 
 
 And never have our knightly vows been broken, 
 
 VIVA ^'AMERICA. 
 
 ■Words and Music by H. AIillard. 
 Noble Republic I happiest of lands, 
 
 Foretnost of nations C\)lunibia stands — 
 Freedom's proud banner floats in the skiei, 
 Where shouts of Liberty daily arise. 
 'United we stand, divided we fall." 
 Union forever — freedom to all. 
 
 CHORUS, 
 Throughout the world our motto shall be— ■ 
 Viva I'America, home of the free ! 
 Should ever traitor rise in the land, 
 
 Curs'd be iis liomestead, wither'd his hand; 
 Shame bn his mera"ry, scorn be his lot. 
 
 Exile his heritage, his name a blot ! 
 "United we stand, divided we fall." 
 Granting a home and freedom to all. 
 
 Throughout the world, kc. 
 To all her heroes — Justice ami Fame, 
 
 To all her foes, a traitor's foul name ; 
 Our Stars ami Stripes still proudly shall wave, 
 
 Emblem of Liberty, fl'ig of the brave. 
 " United we stand, divided we fall," 
 Q-ladly we'll die at our conntrv's call. 
 
 Tiwouchout the world. &o 
 
140 THE UNION OATH. 
 
 By A. J. H. DuGANKB. 
 Music of this Soug published in the Radical Drum-Call. 
 
 A voice o'er the land goes fortb ! 
 
 'Tis the voice of a nation Free ! 
 To the East, and the West and the South and the 
 North, 
 Kolliug on like the soundinfj sea ! 
 'Tis the voice of the Free ! 
 
 'Tis the sliout of ilie True. 
 As they swear by the Flag, 
 Of the Red, White and Blue, 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 To be true to the TInion for ever I 
 
 Do you hear what it saith. 
 By the bugle's breath ? 
 
 To be true to the Union forever. 
 
 When Royalty vanquished fled. 
 
 And the Patriot's power was born, 
 We surounded our Flag o'er the graves of our dead. 
 And the first union oath was sworn ! 
 
 'Twas the oatii of the Free — 
 'Twas the oath of tlie True — 
 
 And the^- swore by the Flag, 
 Of the Red, White, and Blue 
 
 To be true to the Union, &c 
 
 Rhode Island the clarion blew, 
 
 And Connecticut swelled the blast — 
 i>eniisylvania re-echoed to Jersey's halloo, 
 And" to Georgia the war-cry past ! 
 'TwHS the cry of the Free — 
 'Twas the shout of the True! 
 And they swore by the Flag 
 
 Of the Red White and Blue, 
 
 To be true to the Union, &c. 
 
 Vircinia the crown o'ertrod, 
 
 Massachusetts the sceptre broke ; 
 From tiie brave Caroliuas the trump went abroad, 
 And New York with a sliout awoke I 
 'Twas a shout of the Free! 
 
 'Twas a word of the True! 
 And they swore by the Flag 
 Of the Red, Wliiie and Blue. 
 
 To be true to the Uni9n, &c, 
 
THE UNION OATH.— Concluded. 141 
 
 From Maryland's blossoming vales, 
 
 From New Hampshire's abode of snows, 
 From tlK Green Mountain peaks, and the Delaware dales, 
 Rolling onward, the shout arose. 
 'Twas the shout of the Free ^ 
 
 'Twas the voice of the True ! 
 As they swore by the Flag 
 Of the Red, White and Blue, 
 
 To be true to the Union, &c. 
 
 Though the Rebel and the Traitor rose, 
 
 And the land grew red with scars, 
 By the arm of the Lord we have scattered our foes, 
 And above us still shine the stars. 
 'Twas the deed of the Free, 
 
 'Twas the work of the True, 
 
 "When they swore by the Flag 
 
 Of the Red, White and Blue, 
 
 To be true to the Union, &c. 
 
 We have trampled Rebellion's grave, 
 
 Over Slavery's dust we stand. 
 And the Union of old that our fathers gave, 
 We return to the whole wide land; 
 With the shout of the Free, 
 
 With the oath of the True, 
 We have sworn by the Flag 
 Of the Red, White and Blue, 
 
 To be true to the Union, &c. 
 
 For Union the fathers wrought, 
 
 And for Union the sons have bled; 
 By the martyrs who died and the heroes who fOGgnt* 
 We are still in the Union led. 
 'Tis the oath of the Free, 
 
 'Tis the oath of the True, 
 For we swore bv the Flag 
 Of the Red, White and Blue, 
 
 To be true to the Union, &c. 
 
142 OUR COLOR GUARD. 
 
 BATLLE SONG AND CHORUS. 
 Words by Thomas J. Diehl. Music by Henrt Tdo»»«i, 
 
 Now onward ! onward ! let it wave, 
 
 Amid the cannon's roar, 
 Borne by the noble and the brave, 
 
 Thro' streams of crimson gore ; 
 Amid the battle's fiercest strife, 
 
 There ever let it be, 
 And guard it with devoted life, 
 
 That standard of the free 1 
 
 Hurrah boys ! Hurrah boys 1 
 Hurrah I Hurrah ! Hurrah ! 
 Onward ! onward ever be 
 " Our color guard" supplied. 
 
 " Stand by those colors !" many an eye 
 
 Is looking up to-day. 
 To see that frlorious emblem fly 
 
 Where danger checks the way. 
 " Stand by those colors !" many a soul 
 
 Will gain new strength to die, 
 If in the red tide's fiercest roll 
 
 Those colors proudly fly. 
 
 Hurrah boys 1 &o. 
 
 On ! color guard ! Oh, noble, brave. 
 
 How one by one they fall. 
 But not their fate ! nor yet the grave 
 
 Our brave lads can appal. 
 Now from the ranks lern^ eagerly. 
 
 Like groom to meet his bride 
 A score of volunteers — and see ! 
 ^ " Our color guard" supplied. 
 
 Hurrah boys ! «fto. 
 
THE CUMBERLAND'S CREW. 143 
 
 Oh ! shipmates, come, gather, and join in my ditty ; 
 
 It's of a terrible battle that happened, of late: 
 Let each good Union-Tar shed a sad tear of pity. 
 
 When he thinks of the once gallant Cumberland's fat«. 
 The Eighth day of March told a terrible story, 
 
 And many a brave tar to this world bid Adieu ! 
 Yet our Flag it was wrapt in a mantle of glory, 
 
 By the lieroic deeds of the Cumberland's crew. 
 
 On that ill-fated day, about ten in the morning, 
 
 The sky it was clear, and bright shone the Sun: 
 The drums of the Cumberland sounded a warning 
 
 That told every seaman to stand by his gun. 
 An Iron-clad Frigate down on us came beoring, 
 
 And high in the air the Rebel Flag flew ; 
 The Pennant of Treason she proudly was waving, 
 
 Determined to conqiier the Cumberland's crew. 
 
 Then, up spoke our Captain with stern resolution, 
 
 Saying: my boys, of this monster now don't be dismay«<^ 
 We swore to maintain our beloved Constitution, 
 
 And to die for our Country we are not afraid ! 
 We fight for the Union : our cause it is glorious, 
 
 To the Stars and the Stripes we will stand ever true. 
 We'll sink at our quarters, or conquer victorious ! 
 
 Was answered, with cheers, from the Cumberland's crew. 
 
 Now our gallant ship fired her guns' dreadful thunder. 
 
 Her broad-side, like hail, on the Eebel did pour : 
 The people gazed on, striick with terror and wonder : 
 
 The shots struck his sides, and glanced harmless o'er; 
 But the pride of our Navy could never be daunted, 
 
 Tho' the dead and the wounded her deck they did strew: 
 And the Flag of our Union how proudly it flaunted. 
 
 Sustained by the blood of the Cumberland's crew ! 
 
 Slowly they sunk beneath Virginia's waters ! 
 
 Their voices on earth will ne'er be heard more. 
 They'll be wept by Columbia's brave sons and fair daughters 1 
 
 May their blood be avenged on Virginia's shore ! 
 In that batrle-stained gi-ave they are silently lying — 
 
 Their souls have for ever to earth bid Adieu ! 
 But the Star-Spangled Banner above them is flying : 
 
 It was nailed to the mast by the Cumberland's crew I 
 
 They fought us three hours, with stern resolution, 
 
 Till those Rebels found cannon would never avail thea; 
 For, the Flag of Secession has no power to gall them. 
 
144 THE BATTLE-CRY OF FREEDOM ! 
 
 Tho' the blood from their scuppers it crimson'd the tide? 
 She struck us amidst-ship, our planks she did sever : 
 
 Her sharp Iron-prong pierced our noble ship through : 
 And still, as they sunk on that dark rolling river, 
 
 "Ws"ll die at oiu' guns ! cried the Cumberland's crew. 
 
 Columbia's sweet birth-right of Freedom's communion, 
 
 Thy Flag- never floated so proudly before : 
 For, the spirits of those that died for the Union, 
 
 Above its broad folds now exxiltingly soar ! 
 And when our sailors in battle assemble, 
 
 God bless our dear Banner, the Red, Wliite and Blue I 
 Beneath its bright Stars, we'll cause tyrants to tremble, 
 
 Or sink at our guns, like the Cumberland's crew ! 
 
 THE BATTLE CEY OF FREEDOM. 
 (rallying song.) 
 
 Yes, we'll rally round the Flag, boys, we'll rally once again, 
 
 Shouting the battle-ciy of Freedom ; 
 We will rally from the hill-side, we'll gather from the plain, 
 
 Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom ! 
 
 CHORUS. 
 The Union forever ! hun-ah ! boys, hurrah ! 
 
 Down with the Traitors, up with the Stars ! 
 While we rally round tho Flag, boys, rally once again, 
 
 Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom ! 
 
 We are springing to the call of our Brothers gone before, 
 
 Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom ! 
 And we'll fill the vacant ranks with a million Feeemen more, 
 
 Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom I 
 
 The Union for ev^r ! «S;c. 
 
 We will welcome to our numbers the boys all true and brave. 
 
 Shouting the battle-cry of freedom ! 
 And although he may be poor, he shall never be a slave, 
 
 Shouting the battle-cry of freedom ! 
 
 The Union for ever ! &c. 
 
 So we're springing to the call from the East and from the West, 
 
 Shouting the battle-cry of freedom ! 
 And we'll hurl the rebel crew from the land we love the beet, 
 
 Shouting the battle-cry of freedom ! 
 
 The Union for ever, &•. 
 
THE OLD UATIOW WAQO->f. 14^ 
 
 BY ROBEET M. HART, 
 
 AiK:— " Wait for the Wagon." 
 
 The easjle of Columbia, in majesty ancl pride, 
 SMll soars aloft in i^lory, tliougli trnitors liave defied 
 The flag we dearly cherish — the emblem of our will— 
 B iptir^ed in blood of lieroes 'way down on Bunicer Hill. 
 
 Chorus. — Sara builL the wajjon, 
 
 'I'lie Old Union Wagon, 
 The stnr-crested wa^on, 
 To give the boys a ride. 
 
 The war screech of that eas^le is heard from shore to shore. 
 For clouds of dark rebellion our sky has siirouded o'er: 
 But freedom and its suidight will bre:ik tlie ulooniy pall, 
 And scorch the brow of treason with powder, shell and ball. 
 
 Bring on the wagon, 
 
 The Old Union Wagon, 
 
 Tlie tri-colored wagon, 
 
 We're waiting for a ride. 
 King Cotton may be master o'er those who bend the knee. 
 But cannot rule a people who ever will be free 
 As are the winds of heaven — whose every t-li()U<i;ht and deed 
 Shall emanate from Justice, and not from Cotton seed. 
 
 Stick to the wagon, 
 The Old Union Wagon, 
 The triumphal wagon. 
 And we'll all safely ride. 
 
 Old Abe is in the wagon, and Scot is by his side. 
 And Seward drives the horses to take a Union ride; 
 While Butler is not idle, and Camproii is true, 
 And we're all in the wagon with Yankee doodle-doo. 
 
 Shove on the wagon. 
 The Old Union Wagon, 
 God bless the Wagon, 
 While patriots shall ride. 
 
 There's none can smash the wagon — 'tis patented and strong. 
 And built of pure devotion, by those who hate tlie wrong — 
 Its wheels are made of freedom, which patriots adore: 
 The spokes when rightly counted, just number thirty-four. 
 
 Keep in the wagon. 
 The Old Union Wagon, 
 The oft-tested wau'tm. 
 While millions take a ride. 
 
146 THE FLAG OF THE FREE. 
 
 Nobly onr Flag flutters o'er us to-day, 
 
 Emblem of peace, Pledi^e of Liberty's sway ; 
 Its foes shall tremble and shrink in dismay, 
 
 If ere insulted it be ! 
 Our Stripes and Stars, loved and honored by all. 
 
 Shall float forever where freedom may call ; 
 It still shall be the Flao; of the Free, 
 
 Emblem of sweet Liberty / 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Here we will gather its cause to defend ; 
 
 Let Patriots rally and wise counsel lend; 
 It still shall be the*^Fla^ of the Free 
 
 Emblem of sweet Liberty ! 
 
 With it in beauty no flag can compare ; 
 
 All nations honor our banner so fair. 
 If to insult it a traitor siiould dare, 
 
 Crushed to the earth let him be ! 
 Freedom and Progress our watchword t(>-<iaj: 
 
 When duty calls, who dares disobey ? 
 Honor to Thee, Thou Flag of the Free, 
 
 Emblem of sweet Liberty 1 
 
 Here we Avill gather, the. 
 
 THE FLAG OF OUR UNION. 
 
 "A song for our Banner" the watchword recall^ 
 
 Which gave the Republic her station 
 United we stand, divided we fall ! 
 
 It made and preserved us a nation. 
 The uniiin of lakes, the union of lands, 
 
 The union of States none can sever; 
 riie union of hearts the union of hands, 
 
 And the Flag of our Union forever and ever J 
 Tiie flag of the Union for ever ! 
 
 What God in his infinite wisdom designed. 
 
 And armed with republican thunder, 
 Not all the earth's despots and factions combined 
 
 Have the power to conquer or sunder: 
 The union of lakes, the union of lands. 
 
 The union of States none can sever: 
 The union oi hearts, the union of hands, 
 
 And the fl.ig of the Union forever and ev«r; 
 The flag of the Union for ever ! 
 
TJNFUBIO THE GLORIOUS BANNER. 147 
 
 Unfurl the glorious banner, let it sway upon the breeze, 
 The emblem of our country's pride on land, and on the seas ; 
 The emblem of our liberty, borne proudly in the wars. 
 The hope of every freeman, the gleaming stripes and stars. 
 
 Then unfurl the glorious banner out upon the welcome air, 
 Kead the record of the olden time upon its radiance there : 
 In the battle it shall lead us, and our banner ever be, 
 A beacon-light to glory, and a guide to victory. 
 
 The glorious band of patriots who gave the land its birth, 
 Have writ witli steel in history the record of its worth ; 
 From east to west, from sea to sea, from pole to tropic sun, 
 Will eyes grow bright and hearts throb high at the name 
 of Washington. 
 
 Then unfurl the glorious banner, &c. 
 
 Ah ! proudly should we bear it, and guard this flag of ours. 
 Borne bravely in its infancy amid the darker hours ; 
 <( nly the brave may bear it, a guardian it shall be 
 For those who well have won the right to bestow of liberty. 
 Then unfurl the glorious banner, &c, 
 
 'J'he meteor flag of seventy-six long may it wave in pride* 
 
 'Jo tell the world how nobly the patriot fathers died ; 
 
 When from the shadows of their night outburst the brilli- 
 ant sun, 
 
 It bathed in light the stripes and stars, and lo ! the field 
 was won. 
 
 Then unfurl the gionous banner, &c. 
 
148 HURRAH YOB. THE WHITE, RED AND BLTJSJ. 
 
 HusVi'd is the clamorous trumpet of war, 
 Hush'd, hush d is the trumpet of war ; 
 
 The soldier's retired from the clangor of arms, 
 Tlie drum rolls a peaceful hurraii. 
 'Tis cheering to think on the past, 
 'Tis cheering to think we've been true, * 
 
 "iis cheering to look on our stars and our stripes, 
 And gaze on our white, red an<l blue. 
 Hurrali for the white, red and blue. 
 Hurrah fur the white, red and blue, 
 'Tis cheering to look oa our stars and our stripes, 
 And gaze on our white, red and blue. 
 
 Here's a sigh for the brave that are dead. 
 
 Here's a sigh for the brave that are dead. 
 
 And who would not sigh for the glorious brave. 
 
 That rest on a patriot bed ? 
 
 'Tis glory, for country to die, 
 
 'Tis glory that's solid and true ; 
 
 "Tis glory to sleep 'neath our stars and our stripes. 
 
 And die for our wlnte, red and blue. 
 
 Hurrah for the white, red and blue. 
 
 Hurrah for the white, red and blue, 
 
 'Tis glory to sleep 'neatn our stars and our stripes, 
 
 And die for the white, red, and blue 
 
 Here's freedom of thought and of deed. 
 
 Here's freedom in valley and plain. 
 
 The first song of freedom that rose on our hills, 
 
 Our sea-shore re-echoed again. 
 
 'Tis good to love country and friends, 
 
 Tis good lo be honest and true: 
 
 'Tis good to die shouting on sea, or on shore, 
 
 " Hurrah for the white, retl, and blue," 
 
 Hurrah for the white, red. and blue, 
 
 Hurrah for the white, red, and blue, 
 
 'Tis good to die shouting, at sea or on shore, 
 
 •' Hurrah for the white, red, aud blue !" 
 
WHEN THIS CRUEL WAR IS 0V:ER. 149 
 
 Wor-ds and Music by HsNiiy Tucker. 
 
 Dearest love, do you remember 
 
 When we last did meet, 
 How you told me that you loved me. 
 
 Kneeling at my feet ? 
 Oh ! how proud you stood before noe, 
 
 In your suit of blue. 
 When you vow'd to m.e and country, 
 
 Ever to be true. 
 
 Weeping, sad and lonely, 
 
 Hopes and fear, ho w vain ; 
 Yet praying, when this cruel war is oroe; 
 
 Praying: that we meet again! 
 
 Wlien the summer breeze is sighing, 
 
 Mournfully, along ! 
 Or when autumn leaves are falling, 
 
 Sadly breathes the song. 
 Oft, in dreams, I see thee lying 
 
 On the battle plain, 
 Lcmely, wounded, even dying, 
 
 Calling, but in vain. 
 
 Weeping, sad and lonely, &e. 
 
 If, amid the din of battle, 
 
 Nobly j'Ou should fall, 
 Far away fi-om those who love you. 
 
 None to hear you call : 
 Who would whisper words of comfort, 
 
 Who would soothe your pain ? 
 Ah ! the many cruel fencies, 
 
 Ever in my brain. 
 
 Weeping, sad and lonely, <Sm. 
 
 But our country called you, darling. 
 
 Angels cheer your way ; 
 While our nations's son's are fighting, 
 
 We can only pray. 
 Nobly strike for God and liberty, 
 
 Let all nations see 
 How we love our Starry Banner, 
 
 Euibleiu of the free ! 
 
 Wseping, sad an<? lonely, A*. 
 
150 MOTHER, IS THE BATiLE OVEB-P 
 
 Mother is tlie battle over ? 
 
 Tlioiisands kave been slain, they say^ 
 Is my fatlici- C'imiii<j ? Tell me. 
 
 Have the patriots gain'd the day ? 
 Is lie well or is lie wounded — 
 
 Mother, do you tliink he's slaia? 
 If you know I pray you tell me, 
 
 Will my father come again ? 
 
 Mother dear, you're always sighingj, 
 Since you last the papers read, 
 
 Tell ine now whj- you are crying, 
 Wliy that cap is on your head? 
 
 Oh ! I see you can not tell me — 
 
 Father's one among the slain, 
 
 Although he lored us very dearly. 
 He will never come again." 
 
 Yes, my boy, your noble father. 
 
 Is one number'd witli the slain— 
 We shall not see him more on earth. 
 
 But in iieaven we'll meet again. 
 He ditd for America's glory, 
 
 Our day may not be far betweeOj 
 But I hope at the last moment, 
 
 That we shall all meet again. 
 
AMERICA. 151 
 
 My country 'tis of th^ 
 Sweet land of liberty, 
 
 Of thee I sing ; 
 Land where our fathers dio^ 
 Land of the pilgrims' pride, 
 Prom every mountain side. 
 
 Let freedom ring. 
 
 My native country, thee, 
 Land of the noble free— 
 
 Thy name I love ; 
 I love th}" rocks and rills, 
 Tliy woods and templed hills S 
 My heart with rapture thrills 
 
 Like that above. 
 
 Let music swell the breeze. 
 And ring from all the trees. 
 
 Sweet freedom's song ; 
 Let mortal tongues awake. 
 Let all that breathe partake. 
 Let rocks their silence breal% 
 
 The soimd prolong. 
 
 Our father's God to the^ 
 Author of Liberty, 
 
 To thee I sing 
 liong may our land be brighfe 
 With freedom's holy light ; 
 protect us by thy might. 
 
 Great God, our King. 
 
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 the American Tongress, the Uritish Parliament, the Legislature 
 
 of Xew York, the Grand Lodge of F. and A. Masons, etc. 
 
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 RY THE AUTHOR OF 
 
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 ABSTRACT OF CONTENTS. 
 
 Preface . .What is Public Business?.. ..Rules of Order.. ..Motions, bow 
 made Chairman— bis requisites: necessity of impartiality; dignity requi- 
 site "The Meeting.... Points of Order.. ..Debate.. ..Speakers. . ..Arraug- 
 intr for a Meeting. . . The " Call ". . . . A New Club. . . .Alma Mater.. . Boys in 
 Blue Committee of Arran^-ements Caucus and Caucusing Conven- 
 tions '"' Town Meetings.... Ward Meetings... Committees.. ..Kesolutious 
 and Motions. ..Amendments. .. .Eules. . ..Divisions. . ..Yeas and Nays.... 
 A Oiiorum Speaking. . . .Points of Order and Appeals. . . .Debate. . . Ques- 
 tions Privileged Questions. .. .Committee of the Whole. .. .Call ot the 
 House".'.. Adjournment.... By-Laws of Citizens" Central Committee.... 
 Forms and Formulas. . . .Farmers' Club . . lusurauce Club ... Social Club . . 
 British Parliament. . . . Congress of United States. . . .Business Bules of U. 8. 
 Senate .Bu.siiiess Eules of U. S. Hout^e of Kepreseutatives. . . Joint Busi- 
 ne<;s Eules of the two Houses. . . .Eule.s of the Senate of New York Eelating 
 to Order Rules and Order of New York Assembly. . ..Jomt Rules of the 
 Senate and Asserablv . Routine of a Business Meeting.. ..Masonic Rules 
 of Order.... Parliaineutary Authorities. .. .Parliamentary Summary .... Con- 
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