Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 7., Cavalry song.

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Our country's call.

Liberty not dead.

The old Ship of State.

The Second Louisiana : may 27th , 1863 .

An appeal to arms.

Mother, can I go?

Go, my boy, where duty calls you.

A midnight scene at Vicksburgh .

New-England 's dead.

A regiment of Greybeards.

Bravery of Capt. W. N. Green .

A wife on the battle-field.

The First recruit.

Laporte, Pa. , Feb. 4 .

Anecdote of Stonewall Jackson .

Anecdote of General Grant .

Songs of the rebels: the Southern cross.

Monody on the death of General Stonewall Jackson .

The drummer-boy of the Rappahannock .

A friendly interview between pickets.

Anecdote of Gen. Butler .

Southern Credulity.

The Propositions for an Armistice.

A Maine Secessionist.

Loyal Americans in Chili : official correspondence.

A company of Cherokees.

Incident of Stone River .

An Expedient to abate shinplasters

Richmond, Va. , July 29 .

The spirit of Illinois .

Chicago , Thursday , July 31 .

Original National Anthem.

The Black brigade at Port Hudson .

A brave Pennsylvanian.

A regiment saved by two women.

A model speech.

Richmond , May 13 , 1863 .

Adventure of Major Kiernan .

Fredericksburgh , Va., Dec. 25 , 1863 .

Aboiu Ben Butler .

A good camp story.

New-Orleans , April 18 .

Washington , April 24 , 1863 .

Worship of the negroes.

Whipped by women.

A daring Exploit.

Rebel Barbarities in East- Tennessee .

An Acrostic: in memory of O. Jennings Wise .

Harp of the South : a Sonnet.

A North-Carolina call to arms: air — the old North State .

Incidents of Grierson 's raid.

Unpolite Raiders.

A Singular spectacle in battle.

The Governor of St. Croix and the Alabama .

An Anglo-rebel.

The First attempt to arm negroes.

General Lee 's Wooing.

After the battle.

The forced recruit.

A welcome home.

For the Union .

The Eagle of the sea.

National war-song.

The hero of the drum.

Our country's call.

The cavalry scout.

The old Concern,

A voice from camp.

Songs upon the battle-field.

The war of cavalry and negroes.

An Insult to the flag Avenged.

Nashville , June 1 .

Pleasant Bedfellows.

Knoxville, Tennessee , June 4 .

A gallant deed and A chivalrous return.

Border war, as seen and experienced by the inhabitants of Chambersburgh, Pa.

Black soldiers.

The Industry of the women of the South .

Barbarity of the Yankees .

Incidents of Vicksburgh .

Perry 's rebel brigade at the battle of Gettysburgh .

Munchauseniana.

Sperryville , Thursday , August 7 , 1862 .

What was found in a prayer-book.

Munchauseniana.

Loyal Disciples.

Incidents of Port Hudson .

Squirrel-skin shoes.

General Lee on invasion.

Yankee Villainy and Flnnkeyism.

A woman's appeal for volunteers.

Hymn for the eighty-seventh Anniversary of American Independence.

The Constitution.

The rebel press on the Gettysburgh battle.

A hero of Gettysburgh .

A rebel bill of fare.

The surrender of Vioksburgh.

An incident at the battle of Gettysburgh .

Colonel C. F. Taylor : killed at the battle of Gettysburgh , July Second .

The dead at Vicksburgh .

The Northern invasion of Lee .

Song of the border.

The battle of Gettysburgh .

A beautiful letter.

Colonel Wilder at Chickamauga .

Songs of the rebels: no Union men.

What the South winds say.

Heart victories.

Behold he performeth that which is appointed me.--job 28:14 .

One of a hundred .

The schools of Fernandina .

A brave Irishman .

Beauregard and Gillmore .

Incidents of Fort Wagner .

General Stuart 's dinner eaten by General Buford .

Scouting among the Indians .

Arkansas Tactics.

A Yankee Spelling-book.

Ballad of Vicksburgh .

A curse for A nation.

The Sergeant 's cot.

The following lines

‘Cuteness of a Contraband scout.

Incidents of Chickamauga .

Treachery of the rebels.

How General Grant cares for his soldiers.

Incidents of picket life on the Rapidan .

Colonel Morrow 's Recollections.

Incidents of the Rappahannock .

Union League secrets.

Songs of the rebels: unlaurelled heroes.

Dixie all Right.

Trust to luck, Alabama .

Incidents of the fight with Mosby .

Rebel letters captured.

The expedition up the Yazoo .

Munchauseniana.

Heroism of Miss Schwartz .

Heroes of Gettysburgh .

A mother's story.

A scouting expedition.

Intercepted rebel mail.

Baltimore , June 25 , 1863 .

A severe Sufferer.

Chattanooga , Saturday , June 16 , 1863 .

A three days scout over Elk Ridge Mountain .

Incidents at Port Hudson .

Proposition to hang the Dutch soldiers.

Songs of the rebels: the Florida 's Cruise.

General Butler : a rebel song.

Illness of the Eagle .

Inflammatory Placards.

The Southern declaration of Independence .

Speech of Gen. Pemberton at Brookhaven, Miss. , June , 1863 .

New-York , July 13 .

A conscript's epistle to Jeff Davis .

Colored soldiers at Port Hudson .

A letter from President Lincoln .

Walter S. Newhall : ob. December 18 , Aet. 22 .

Grant at Chattanooga .

The dove of the regiment: an incident of the battle of Ohickamauga.

To Robert Gould Shaw .

The Mercedita : air — the battle of Bull run .

General Joe Hooker .

Incidents of the occupation of Hagerstown .

Negroes taken in arms.

Secesh sympathy.

Organized resistance to the Confederacy in Louisiana .

The rebel despotism in Georgia .

Songs of the rebels: beyond the Potomac .

Song of the Southern soldier.

The blue cockade.

The Right above the Wrong .

The South in arms.

The Landing on Morris Island, S. C.

Remarkable phenomenon.

She comes from St. Louis !

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Cavalry song.

by Elbridge Jefferson Cutler.

The squadron is forming, the war-bugles play.
To saddle, brave comrades, stout hearts for a fray!
Our captain is mounted-strike spurs, and away!

No breeze shakes the blossoms or tosses the grain.
But the wind of our speed floats the galloper's msa. e,
As he feels the bold rider's firm hand on the rein.

Lo! dim in the starlight their white tents appear!
Ride softly! ride slowly! the onset is near!
More slowly! more softly! the sentry may hear!

Now fall on the rebel — a tempest of flame!
Strike down the false banner whose triumph were shame!
Strike, strike for the true flag, for freedom and fame!
Hurrah! sheathe your swords! the carnage is done.
All red with our valor, we welcome the sun.
Up, up with the stars! we have won! we have won!

Van Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.

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