But take your gun and go, John,
Take your gun and go,
For Ruth can drive the oxen, John, And I can use the hoe.
I've heard my grandsire tell, John, (He fought at Bunker Hill,) How he counted all his life and wealth His country's offering still.
Shall we shame the brave old blood, John, That flowed on Monmouth plain? No! take your gun and go, John,
If you ne'er return again.
Then take your gun and go, etc.
Our army's short of blankets, John, Then take this heavy pair;
I spun and wove them when a girl, And worked them with great care. There's a rose in every corner, John, And there's my name you see; On the cold ground they'll warmer feel That they were made by me. Then take your gun and go, etc.
And if it be God's will, John.
You ne'er come back again,
I'll do my best for the children, John, In sorrow, want, and pain. In winter nights I'll teach them all That I have learned at school, To love the country, keep the laws, Obey the Saviour's rule. and etc. go,
Then take your gun
And in the village church, John, And at our humble board,
We'll pray that God will keep you, John, And heavenly aid afford;
And all who love their country's cause Will love and bless you too,
And nights and mornings they will pray For freedom and for you.
The contest decided with peace to the nation; My hero retired 'mid the loud acclamation Of men without number, and praise without measure; My own heart exulted in transports of pleasure.
O my happiness! O my happiness! O my happiness! How precarious!
Our Freedom, with order, by Faction rejected, A new Constitution our country erected;
My hero was raised to preside over the Union, And his cares intercepted our blissful communion:
O my happiness! O my happiness! O my happiness! How precarious!
Declining the trust of his dignified station, With joy to the seat of his dear estimation, Surrounded with honors, he humbly retreated; Sweet hopes, softly whispered, my bliss was completed, O my happiness! O my happiness! O my happiness! How precarious!
When the pangs of disease had fatally seized him, My heart would have yielded its life to have eased him; I prayed the Most High if for death He designed him, That he would not permit me to loiter behind him. O my Washington! O my Washington! O my Wash- ington! All was dubious,
When hope was all fled, and I saw him resigning His soul to his God without dread or repining, What, my heart, were thy feelings, lamenting, ad- miring,
To see him so nobly, so calmly expiring?
O my Washington! O my Washington! O my Washington! Has forsaken us!
When I followed his corpse with grief unconfined, And saw to the tomb his dear relics consigned, When I left him in silence and darkness surrounded, With what pangs of fresh anguish my bosom was wounded.
O my Washington! O my Washington! O my Washington!
I have seen the primal entry On the books beyond the sentry, Of the sentry standing ever, Gaunt and grim beside the river, At the bridge that passes over, At the dark bridge with the cover. On a midnight dank and dreary, When my form was weak and weary Then my spirit left its dwelling, Left it in another's keeping; In the kind care of another, Of a loving angel brother, Who had left his earth-friends weeping, And had crossed the river swelling, But had found a passage over- Found a backward passage over, Through the dark bridge with the cover, And had made another entry On the shore this side the sentry, Of the sentry standing ever Gaunt and grim beside the river, At the bridge that passes over, At the dark bridge with the cover.
As my spirit made its entry On the shore beyond the sentry, Of the sentry standing ever Gaunt and grim beside the river, At the bridge that passes over, At the dark bridge with the cover, There I met the writing angel With his records all before him, And a halo hanging o'er him, With his books named in the evangel.
With an anxious, saddened feeling Through my inner spirit stealing, Turned I to the writing angel, With his books named in the evangel, Just to learn the situation
Of our struggling, bleeding nation; Just to learn this from the entry On the books beyond the sentry, Of the sentry standing ever Gaunt and grim beside the river, At the bridge that passes over, At the dark bridge with the cover.
With a tear the angel said it: "There's your debt and there's your credit- Just inspect each primal entry On the books this side the sentry,
Of the sentry standing ever Gaunt and grim beside the river."
Turned I quick aside the cover, And I glanced the pages over, And I found the primal entry On the books beyond the sentry, Of the sentry standing ever Gaunt and grim beside the river, Was before the old embargo, When the Dutch ship with her cargo, Ploughed her keel across our waters, With her fettered sons and daughters, 'Twas a charge for "countless terrors," And the "middle passage horrors."
Then the next or second entry On the books beyond the sentry,
Of the sentry standing ever Gaunt and grim beside the river, At the bridge that passes over, At the dark bridge with the cover, Was for "wails of wives and mothers, And for sisters, fathers, brothers, When the auction-hammer thundered That all kindred ties were sundered." Then the next and final entry On the books beyond the sentry, Of the sentry standing ever Gaunt and grim beside the river, At the bridge that passes over, At the dark bridge with the cover, Was for "proceeds of the cargo, Brought before the old embargo," And I found the angel had it, With each mill of interest added— But we pass now to the credit As the writing angel had it. Turned I then again the cover, And I searched the pages over, But I found no credit entry On the books beyond the sentry, Of the sentry standing ever Gaunt and grim beside the river; Then I gave unto the angel All his books named in the evangel, When a deeper, saddened feeling Came across my spirit stealing; But the angel sternly said it- "You shall have your honest credit."
"When your land is filled with terrors Like the Middle Passage horrors,
All the horrors of each cargo Since the Dutch keel ploughed your waters, With her sable sons and daughters,
Long before the slave embargo:
"When your wails of wives and mothers, Of your sisters, fathers, brothers, Shall amount through all your slaughters To the wails of sons and daughters, Of the sable sons and daughters, Since the auction-hammer thundered That all human ties were sundered:
"When the proceeds of the cargo, Brought before the old embargo— When the proceeds as you had it, With each mill of interest added, Shall be squandered in your slaughters, 'Mid your wails of wives and daughters, You will get your honest credit!"
Then he closed the opening cover, When again I crossed the river, By the sentry standing ever Gaunt and grim beside that river; Then my spirit sought its dwelling, Left within a brother's keeping, Of an angel brother's keeping, When that brother left my dwelling, And recrossed the river swelling, From this land with sorrow laden, To his better home in Aidenn.
EXETER, September, 1862.
EXPLANATION OF ABBREVIATIONS IN THE INDEX.
D. stands for Diary of Events; Doc. for Documents; and P. for Poetry, Rumors and Incidents.
Abbeville, Miss., fight near,
D. 20 evacuated by the rebels, D. 21 ABBOTT, T., Lieut. Com., report of the fight off Charleston, Doc. 409 Abolitionist, a Union soldier, P. 81 "Abraham Lincoln," by W. D. Gal- lagher, P. 85 Accomac, Va., the slaves in, P. 17 Act for enrolling the National forces passed, D. 46, 49 ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS, D. 48, 76 ADAMS, GREEN, of Ky., D. 59
ADAMS, Major, First N. Y. Cavalry, D. 74 Adelaide, schooner, captured, D. 5 "Adventurer," schooner, captured,
"Agnes," schooner, captured, Alabama," privateer captures by, D. 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 23, 39, 48, 51, 61, 70, 77.
debate in the British House of
D. 58 Alabama, Governor Shorter's ap- peal to the people of, Doc. 290 "Alabama," schooner, captured, D. 64 "Aldebaran," schooner, captured, D. 54 Aldie, Va., Union raid into,
ANDERSON, GEO. B., rebel, death of, D. 4 ANDERSON, Gen., rebel. See Chancel- lorsville, Doc. 599 ANDERSON, P., Gen., rebel, Doc. 170 ANDREW, JOHN A., Gov., authorized
to raise colored regiments, D. 86 ANDREWS, C. M., Major. See Hay- market, Va. ANDREWS, JOHN W., Col., report of the battle of Fredericksburgh, Doc. 89 "A New Border State Song," by Paul Siogvolk, P. 12 A New Cassabianca, an incident of the Harriet Lane, P. 38 “Anglia," steamship, capture__of, Doc. 41
Union troops surprised at, reconnoissance to,
Alexandria, Miss., occupied,
Arbitrary Arrests." See Indiana,
Annandale, Va., Unionists surprised at, "Anna," yacht, captured, "Annie," steamship, ran the block- ade, "Annie Dees," schooner, captured, D. 16 "Ann Maria," schooner, captured, D. 16 Antietam, Md., notice of the battle of, D. 2; Doc. 13, 220 an incident of, P. 18 loss of the Fiftieth Georgia at, P. 13 the trophies of, P. 29 "Antona," account of the capture of, Doc. 345 An Union Soldier, no Abolitionist, P. 81 Apache Pass, N. M., rebel account of the battle of, P. 20 Apalachicola, Fla., account of the Expedition to, Doc. 186 P. 49 D. 33
A Song of Lamentation, by Ed- mundus Scotus,
Amite River, La., fight on,
"Ariel," schooner, captured,
fight at, AUGUR, C. C., Gen. See Port Hud-
Austin, Miss., account of the fight Doc. 634 "Avenger," capture of the, D. 32 AVERILL, W. W., Gen., D. 11, 19, 49, 56; Doc. 458, 606 A Way of Disgracing Soldiers, P. 11 AYRES, JOHN A., Lieut. Irish Bri- gade, Doc. 52
A Mother's Story, AMORY, T. I. C., Col., report of op- erations in North-Carolina, Doc. 257 An Appeal, by Oliver Wendell Holmes,
Ariel," U. S. mail steamer, cap- tured by the Alabama,
D. 23 "Aries" steamer captured, D. 58 Arkadelphia, Ark., fight at, D. 46 Arkansas, Col. Clayton's raid into, Doc. 601 Arkansas Cavalry, first loyal regi- ment of, Doc. 553; D. 40, 61 first infantry of, Doc. 554 Arkansas Post, Ark., official reports of the battle at, Doc. 359
Proclamation promulgating Presi- dent Lincoln's Emancipation Act, Doc. 293 report of his operations on the Opelousas River, Doc. 552 See Bayou Teche, La.
Report of the battle of Cane Hill,
watering his horse in hell,
"Beauregard," rebel steamer, ran
BLYTH, Col., rebel. See Rebel Bar-
BENJAMIN, J. P., circular to foreign
BENJAMIN, PARK, BENTICK, Mr. See Charleston, S. C. BENTON, WM. G., Brig.-Gen., report of the battle of Port Gibson, Doc. 572 Bemis Landing, La., expedition from, D. 76 Berkley, Pa., draft troubles in, D. 4 Berlin, Md., skirmish at, D. 20 BERRY, W. W., Lieut.-Col., report of the battle of Murfreesboro, Doc. 139 Berry's Ferry, Va., fight at, D. 74 Berrysville, Va., Major Keenan's re- connoissance to,
Bolivar Heights, Va., Union pickets at, attacked, Bolivar, Tenn., fights near, D. 46, 52; Bombardment of Vicksburgh, deli- cated to Gen. Earle Van Dorn, P. 41 BONHAM, M. L., Gov, of South-Caro- lina, message of, April 3, Doc. 500 "Booneville," his account of the battle of Cane Hill, Doc. 184 Boston, Mass., drafting commenced in,
Barbee's Cross-Roads, Va., account of the fight at,
BERTRAM, HENRY, Lieut.-Col. Twen-
BARCLAY, J. B., heroism of the wife
Barclay's Fort, N. M., rumored at-
tieth Wis., report of the battle of Prairie Grove, Ark., Berwick's Bay, La., fight near,
BOYLE, J. T., Brig. Gen., Doc. 208; D. 31 BOYLE, JOHN, Ninth Kentucky Caval-
Berwick City, La., skirmish at, Bethel, Vt., curious proceedings in, P.
Big Bear Creek, Mo., fight at, Big Hill, Ky., fight near,
BARNEY, HIRAM, report on sales of
"Baron de Castine," brig, cap-
P. 49 D. 24 report of his expedition into Ar- kansas, Doc. 250 Col. Thirteenth Conn., Doc. 44, 545 BIRNEY, D. B., Major-Gen., Doc. 550 BIRNEY, WILLIAM, Lieut.-Col. Thirty- eighth N. Y. S. V., Doc. Black Bayou, Miss., fight at, D. Black flag advocated by rebels, P. 24 Black River, account of the battle of, Doc. 620 Blackwater Bridge, Va., reconnois- sance to, D. 53 Blackwater, Va., rebels dispersed at the, D. 16 Doc. 42 D.
BRAGG, BRAXTON, Gen., official re- port of the battle of Stone River,
Batesville, Ark., descent on, Baton Rouge, La., occupation of, D. 26 Fight at, Doc. 223 P. 21
BLAIR, F. P., Gen. See Chickasaw
BAYARD, GEORGE D., Brig.-Gen., D. 12, 26 Bayou Bontouca, La., skirmish at, D. 17 Bayou Sara, La., destruction of rebel property at,
Bayou Teche, La., report of the fight Doc. 389 Official report of the operations on the, Doc. 527 Bayou Vermilion, La., fight at, D. 65 Bear Creek, Mo., skirmish on, D. 43 Bear River, W. T., account of the battle of, Doc. 401 Colonel Connor's report of the bat- tle of, Doc. 468 BEARD, OLIVER T., Lieut.-Col., report of the expedition to Doboy River, Ga., Doc. 200 notices of, D. 12, 13 Beaufort, N. C., Union meeting in, D. 5 BEAUREGARD, G. T., Major-Gen., re- port of the battle at Pocotaligo, Doc. 40 .orders non-combatants to leave D. 12
BLODGETT, WELLS II., Lieut., exploit of, P. 25 BLOODGOOD, E., Lieut.-Col., account of the battle of Thompson's Sta- tion, Doc. 442 Bloomfield, Ind., Union meeting at, D. Bloomfield, Mo., rebel guerrillas driven out of, D. 40 Adjutant Poole's descent on, D. 50 Blount's Mills, N. C., account of the fight at, Doc. 526 Blue Spring, Mo., fight at, D. 56 BLUNT, JAMES G., Brig. Gen., report of the battle of Old Fort Wayne, Doc. 29
"Break o' Day," capture of the, D. 23 Breathitt Co., Ky., rebels captured
BRECKENRIDGE,, Capt., rebel Sec- ond Virginia cavalry, Doc. 460 BRECKINRIDGE, Joux C., Gen.
See Stone River, Doc. 10 BRECKINRIDGE, W. C. P., Col., rebel, Doc. 466; D. 49 W. K. M., Col, De 3
BRECKINRIDGE, BREESE, JOHN, Brentville, Tenn., official report of
debate on the privateer Alabama, D. 58 British Parliament, debate on Am- erican cruisers, D. 67 Britton's Lane, Tenn., fight at, Doc. 222 Broad Run, Va., rebel raid near, D. 59 BROADY, K. A., Lieut.-Col., report of the battle of Chancellorsville, Doc. 583 BROOKS, W. S., Lieut. Nineteenth Iowa Regiment,
notices of, BYRNES, JAMES,
hatred of the rebels for, P. 82 Theo. Winthrop's opinion of, P. 35 epigram on, P. 10 D. 14, 27; P. 50 Doc. 500
Doc. 591, 594, 595 Portland Press account of, Doc. 591 "Carleton's " account, Doc. 594
Cacapon Bridge, Va., skirmish at, D. 18" Cairo," account of the destruction of the steamer, Doc. 253 Doc. 198 CALDWELL, JOHN C., Gen., Doc. 584" Chapman," schooner, seized, D. 55 "Charleston Mercury" advocates
Secretary Stanton's despatch in
reference to,
Chantilly, Va., battle of,
Chapel Hill, Tenn., fight near, D. 51 1 CHAPIN, Gen. See Port Hudson. CHAPMAN, A. B., Lieut.-Col. Fifty- seventh New York,
Calhoun, Ky., fight near,
Charleston, S. C., non-combatants ordered to leave,
Col. Fifty-Third Penn- sylvania Volunteers, BROUGHAM, Lord,
BROWN, C. L., Lieut., rebel, BROWN, E. B., Brig. Gen.,
D. 32; Doc. 350 BROWN, GEORGE, U.S.N., report of the capture of the "Indianola,"
D. 55, 71 D. 64 Gen. Wright's proclamation in, D. 60 Volunteers, Doc. 468
D. 12 people of, contribute lead pipes, D. 20 people of, return to the city, D. 35 steamers run the blockade of, D. 44 debate in the British House of
Commons on the blockade at, D. 46 price of bread advanced in, D. 49 à rebel steamer destroyed near, D. 75 reports of the naval fights off,
See Bear River. CALLIOUX, —, Capt., colored, D. 78 "Calypso," steamer, ran the block- ade, D. 55 CAMERON, CHARLES S., Capt. Ninth Illinois Cavalry, D. 65 Camp Jackson, Mo., anniversary of attack on, Camp Moore, La., fight at, D. 78 CANDY, CHARLES, Col., D. 29; Doc. 305 Cane Hill, Ark., official reports of the battle of, Doc. 182 CANNON, WILLIAM, Gov. of Delaware, D. 54 proclamation of March 11, 1863, Doc. 446 Cape Girardeau, Mo., reports of the battle at, Doc. 562 Carbondale, Pa., draft troubles in, D. 4 "Carleton's " description of Dahl- gren's reconnoissance, Doc. 180 his account of the battle of Chan- cellorsville, Doc. 594 CARLIN, Col., expedition to Clarkes- ville, Tenn., D. 17 "Caroline," steamer, captured, D. 8 Carpet clothing used at the South, P. 17 CARR, E. A., Gen., report of the bat- tle of Port Gibson, Doc. 568 CARROLL, S. S., Gen., report of the battle of Chancellorsville, Doc. 580 CARRUTH, Lieut.-Col. Thirty-fifth
Massachusetts Regiment, Doc. 196 CARRUTH,, Capt., his battery,Doc. 535 Carrsville, Va., skirmish near, D. 3 fights near, D. 74 a serious mistake near, D. 75 CARTER, G. W., Col., rebel, D. 20; Doc. 562 CARTER, SAMUEL P., Gen., D. 82 expedition of, to East-Tennessee,
CHEATHAM, WM. S., Gen., rebel, Doc. 174 "Chenango," gunboat, launched, D. 55 Cherokee Indians, repeal of ordi- nance of secession, D. 50 "Cherokee," steamer, captured, D. 71 Chicago, Ill., Union meeting at, D. 62 Chicago"Times," suppressed, D. 44, 72 suppression of, rescinded, D. 47 "Chicago Journal," account of the battle of Prairie Grove, Ark.,
Doc. 74 Chickasaw Bayou, Miss., reports of the battle at, Doc. 819 Chickasaw Bluffs, Miss., fight at, Doc. 320 rebel reports of the battle of, Doc. 322 CHICKERING, THOS. E., Col., expedi- tion of, into Louisiana, Doc. 624 notice of, D. 58 Choctaw Indians captured near Pon- chatoula, La., D. 78 Chuckatuck, Va., reconnoissance to, fight at, CHURCHILL,
official report of the battle of Fred-
second attempt of, to cross the
Doc. 396 D. 15, 24, 26, 38;
Carthage, Tenn., rebel camp sur-
Bush, A. K., Capt., report of the battle of Murfreesboro, Doc. 149
CASSIDY, MICHAEL, Col. Sixth N. Y. S. V., Doc. 540 CATAHOULA, steamer, attacked by rebels, CATHCART, CHARLES W.,
"Cincinnati," gunboat, account of the destruction of, "Clara," rebel schooner, ran the blockade,
"But God is over all." By M. H. Cobb,
P. 2 Butler, Bates Co., Mo., fight near, D. 9 BUTLER, BENJAMIN F., Major-General, report of the battle of Labadie- ville, Doc. 44 order confirming the Confiscation Act, Doc. 190 order in reference to negroes, D. 10 continues the order of Gen. Lovell, D. 12 order assessing rebels, D. 23 farewell address to the Army of the Gulf, Doc. 269; D. 25 address to the people of New-Or- leans, Doc. 270 ten thousand dollars offered for
Catholics, Bishop of Ohio denounces the Knights of the Golden Circle,
Chambersburgh, Pa., rebels enter, D. 1; Doc. 1 excitement in, D. 14 CHAMBLISS, T. E., rebel, P. 32 Champion Hill, Miss., official reports of the battle at, Doc. 615 Chancellorsville, Va., reports of the battle of, Doc. 579
D. 70 Catlett's Station, Va., fight at, D. 33 "Caucasian," the, suppressed, D. 72 Cedar Co., Mo., rebel barbarities in, D. 66 Central Mississippi Railroad destroy- ed by the Nationals, Doc. 231 CESNOLA, S. P. D., Col., report of Stahel's reconnoissance, Doc. 202 CHALMERS, Gen., rebel. See Austin, Miss.
"Clarita," schooner, captured CLARK, F. S., Col., report of the bat- tle of Ponchatoula, La., Clarkson, Mo., expedition to, D. 8 CLAY, JAS. B., D. 46 CLAYBROOK, -, Col., rebel, D. 52 CLAYTON, POWELL, Col., account of his raid into Arkansas, Doc. 601 CLEBURN, P. R., Brig.-Gen., rebel. See Stone River.
CLENDENIN, D. R., Col.,
Clifton, Tenn., captured, CLINGMAN, Brig. Gen., rebel, Clinton, La., skirmish near, CLOUD, W. F., Major, Kansas Second
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