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Title: American War Ballads and Lyrics, Volume I (of 2) A Collection of the Songs and Ballads of the Colonial wars, the revolutions, the war of 1812-15, the war with Mexico and the Civil War Author: Various Editor: George Cary Eggleston Release Date: October 29, 2015 [EBook #50335] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN WAR BALLADS, VOL I *** Produced by Richard Tonsing, David Edwards and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Knickerbocker Nuggets NUGGET—"A diminutive mass of precious metal" 26 VOLS. NOW READY For full list see end of this volume "And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there." AMERICAN WAR BALLADS AND LYRICS A COLLECTION OF THE SONGS AND BALLADS OF THE COLONIAL WARS, THE REVOLUTION, THE WAR OF 1812-15, THE WAR WITH MEXICO AND THE CIVIL WAR EDITED BY GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON VOLUME I. NEW YORK AND LONDON G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS The Knickerbocker Press COPYRIGHT G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS 1889 The Knickerbocker Press, New York Electrotyped and Printed by G. P. Putnam's Sons CONTENTS PAGE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 1 PREFACE AND INTRODUCTION 3 THE COLONIAL WARS 11 LOVEWELL'S FIGHT 13 THE SONG OF BRADDOCK'S MEN 19 THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR 21 LIBERTY TREE 23 FREE AMERICA 25 EMANCIPATION FROM BRITISH DEPENDENCE 28 PAUL REVERE'S RIDE 32 WARREN'S ADDRESS 38 NATHAN HALE 40 THE BALLAD OF NATHAN HALE 43 THE BATTLE OF TRENTON 46 THE FATE OF JOHN BURGOYNE 48 THE PROGRESS OF SIR JACK BRAG 51 WAR AND WASHINGTON 53 COLUMBIA 57 TAXATION OF AMERICA 60 THE BATTLE OF THE KEGS 72 CARMEN BELLICOSUM 77 THE YANKEE MAN-OF-WAR 80 PAUL JONES' VICTORY 83 THE ROYAL ADVENTURER 87 EUTAW SPRINGS 90 AN ANCIENT PROPHECY 92 THE DANCE 94 SONG OF MARION'S MEN 97 HAIL COLUMBIA 102 THE WAR OF 1812-15 105 TRUXTON'S VICTORY 107 THE "CONSTELLATION" AND THE "INSURGENTE" 110 THE WASP'S FROLIC 113 "CONSTITUTION" AND "GUERRIÈRE" 115 THE "UNITED STATES" AND "MACEDONIAN" 118 THE "UNITED STATES" AND "MACEDONIAN" 121 PERRY'S VICTORY 126 YANKEE THUNDERS 128 YE PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND 131 COMRADES! JOIN THE FLAG OF GLORY 135 OUR NAVY 136 THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER 138 SEA AND LAND VICTORIES 141 OLD IRONSIDES 144 THE MEXICAN WAR 147 MONTEREY 149 BUENA VISTA 151 THE BIVOUAC OF THE DEAD 159 THE CIVIL WAR 165 BROTHER JONATHAN'S LAMENT FOR SISTER CAROLINE 167 THE TWELFTH OF APRIL 170 MEN OF THE NORTH AND WEST 174 RHODE ISLAND TO THE SOUTH 176 OUR COUNTRY'S CALL 178 A CRY TO ARMS 181 THE BANNER OF THE STARS 184 THE FLAG OF THE CONSTELLATION 186 THE STARS AND STRIPES 188 THE BONNIE BLUE FLAG 189 THE STRIPES AND THE STARS 191 DIXIE 193 THE OATH OF FREEDOM 197 CIVIL WAR 200 THE MASSACHUSETTS LINE 202 BETHEL 204 THE CHARGE BY THE FORD 209 MANASSAS 212 UPON THE HILL BEFORE CENTREVILLE 214 ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER Frontispiece THE COLONIAL WARS 11 LOVEWELL'S FIGHT 14 THE SONG OF BRADDOCK'S MEN 19 THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR 21 PAUL REVERE'S RIDE 33 THE BALLAD OF NATHAN HALE 43 THE BATTLE OF TRENTON 46 THE FATE OF JOHN BURGOYNE 48 CARMEN BELLICOSUM 79 THE YANKEE MAN-OF-WAR 80 PAUL JONES' VICTORY 83 SONG OF MARION'S MEN 97 THE WAR OF 1812-15 105 TRUXTON'S VICTORY 107 "CONSTITUTION" AND "GUERRIÈRE" 115 THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER 139 OLD IRONSIDES 145 THE MEXICAN WAR 147 MONTEREY 149 BUENA VISTA 152 THE CIVIL WAR 165 THE TWELFTH OF APRIL 171 THE BANNER OF THE STARS 184 CIVIL WAR 200 THE MASSACHUSETTS LINE 202 BETHEL 204 Typogravures by W. Kurtz. T ACKNOWLEDGMENT. HE EDITOR OF THESE VOLUMES MAKES GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE COURTESY OF MESSRS. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN, & CO., HARPER & BROTHERS, TICKNOR & CO., AND D. LOTHROP & CO., IN FREELY PERMITTING HIM TO MAKE USE OF POEMS OF WHICH THEY OWN THE COPYRIGHT, AND OF THEIR OTHER GOOD OFFICES. HE FEELS HIMSELF INDEBTED ALSO TO THE LIVING AUTHORS OF MANY POEMS HERE PRESENTED, FOR THEIR READINESS IN CONSENTING TO THE USE OF THEIR WRITINGS, AND FOR THE CARE THAT MANY OF THEM HAVE TAKEN TO FURNISH HIM WITH CORRECT VERSIONS OF POEMS COMMONLY PRINTED IN INACCURATE FORMS. HE IS UNDER SPECIAL OBLIGATIONS IN THIS REGARD TO GENERAL ALBERT PIKE, WHO HAS FURNISHED A TRANSCRIPT, FROM HIS OWN COPY OF A RARE, privately printed volume, of the stirring ballad "Buena Vista," for which a vain search had been made. I PREFACE AND INTRODUCTION. N THE PREPARATION OF THESE VOLUMES THERE HAS BEEN NO ATTEMPT AT COMPLETENESS. THE LITERATURE FROM WHICH THE MATERIALS ARE DRAWN IS MUCH TOO VAST TO BE COMPRESSED INTO TWO LITTLE VOLUMES LIKE THESE. THE AIM HAS BEEN SIMPLY TO MAKE THE COLLECTION FAIRLY REPRESENTATIVE IN CHARACTER, AND TO INCLUDE IN IT THOSE PIECES RELATING TO OUR SEVERAL WARS WHICH best reflect the spirit of the times that produced them. THE WORK OF SELECTION IN SUCH A CASE MUST ALWAYS BE DIFFICULT AND THE RESULT MORE OR LESS UNSATISFACTORY. THERE ARE MANY REASONS FOR THIS, SOME OF WHICH NO ONE WHO HAS NOT UNDERTAKEN A TASK OF THIS KIND CAN FULLY APPRECIATE. THERE IS NO FIXED STANDARD OF JUDGMENT BY WHICH TO MAKE A CERTAINLY JUST COMPARATIVE ESTIMATE OF THE QUALITY OF SEVERAL POEMS, SOME OF WHICH MUST BE TAKEN AND THE OTHERS LEFT. MERIT, IN THE CASE OF WAR POEMS, IS THE COMPOSITE RESULT OF SO MANY DIFFERENT things that no criticism CAN HOPE TO MAKE AN ENTIRELY SATISFACTORY QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF SUCH LITERATURE. THE POETIC QUALITY OF SOME PIECES ENTITLES THEM TO EDITORIAL ACCEPTANCE, QUITE IRRESPECTIVE OF OTHER CONSIDERATIONS, WHILE THERE ARE OTHER PIECES HAVING VERY LITTLE POETIC QUALITY, OR NONE AT ALL, WHOSE CLAIM TO CONSIDERATION ON OTHER GROUNDS IS INCONTESTABLE. MR. STEDMAN'S "WANTED—A MAN," MR. WILLIAM WINTER'S EXQUISITELY TENDER POEM "AFTER ALL," MISS OSGOOD'S "DRIVING HOME THE COWS," AND MR. GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP'S "KEENAN'S CHARGE," MAY SERVE AS EXAMPLES OF PIECES WHICH NO EDITOR WITH THE LEAST CAPACITY OF POETIC APPRECIATION WOULD HESITATE TO INCLUDE IN SUCH A COLLECTION ON THE GROUND OF MERIT EVEN IF THEIR CHARACTER WERE SOMEWHAT AT VARIANCE, AS IN THIS CASE IT IS NOT, WITH THE SCHEME OF THE COLLECTION. ON THE other hand there are such things as "Three Hundred Thousand More," several of the rude songs of the war of 1812, and MANY OTHER PIECES, WHICH MAKE EQUALLY IMPERATIVE CLAIMS TO FAVOR ON GROUNDS THAT HAVE NO RELATION TO THE QUESTION OF poetic merit. THE SONG CONCERNING THE "CONSTITUTION AND GUERRIÈRE," FOR EXAMPLE, IS VERY NEARLY AS DESTITUTE OF POETIC QUALITY AS METRICAL WRITING CAN BE, AND YET NO EDITOR OF A COLLECTION LIKE THIS WOULD THINK OF OMITTING A PIECE THAT HAD FOR SO MANY years stirred the hearts of patriots and moved them to rejoice in the achievements of their country's heroes. THE COMPLEX NATURE OF THE CONSIDERATIONS THAT MUST DETERMINE THE CHOICE OF POEMS FOR INCLUSION IS BUT ONE OF SEVERAL DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED IN THE EXECUTION OF SUCH A TASK AS THIS. IN ANY EVENT, MANY THINGS MUST BE OMITTED WHICH MERIT INSERTION, AND THE READER WHO MISSES A FAVORITE PIECE IS PROMPT TO POINT TO OTHERS WHICH SEEM TO HIM LESS WORTHY, AND TO ASK WHY THESE WERE NOT MADE TO GIVE PLACE TO THE ONE OMITTED. THERE ARE THREE ANSWERS TO BE MADE TO THE CHALLENGE OF SUCH A READER: FIRST, THAT HIS JUDGMENT IN THE MATTER MAY BE WRONG; SECOND, THAT THE EDITOR, BEING HUMAN, MAY HAVE ERRED IN HIS CHOICE; AND THIRD, THAT IN A COLLECTION INTENDED TO BE BROADLY REPRESENTATIVE RATHER THAN COMPLETE, PREFERENCE MUST SOMETIMES BE GIVEN TO THE LESS WORTHY PIECE WHICH HAPPENS TO REFLECT SOME PHASE OF SENTIMENT NOT OTHERWISE PRESENTED, even at the cost of sacrificing the worthier one which illustrates aspects otherwise sufficiently shown. So much by way of explanation, not of apology; for if a book be in need of apology, no apology can be sufficient for it. IN THE MATTER OF ARRANGEMENT THE POEMS NATURALLY FALL INTO FIVE PRINCIPAL GROUPS. WITHIN THE GROUPS THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE EVENTS REFERRED TO HAS BEEN ADOPTED AS A GENERAL RULE OF ARRANGEMENT, WHILE FOR THE MOST PART POEMS THAT HAVE NO REFERENCE TO PARTICULAR EVENTS OR EPOCHS HAVE BEEN PLACED AT THE END OF THE GROUPS TO WHICH THEY BELONG. NO RULE OF ARRANGEMENT, HOWEVER, HAS BEEN PERMITTED TO DOMINATE OTHER CONSIDERATIONS WHERE OTHER CONSIDERATIONS HAVE SEEMED the more important. IN PRESENTING THE BALLADS AND LYRICS OF THE CIVIL WAR, IT HAS BEEN THOUGHT BEST NOT TO GIVE THOSE FROM THE NORTH AND THOSE FROM THE SOUTH IN SEPARATE GROUPS. THERE ARE SEVERAL OBJECTIONS TO SUCH AN ARRANGEMENT, OF WHICH IT IS PERHAPS SUFFICIENT TO MENTION A SINGLE ONE, NAMELY, THAT BY THE SEPARATION OF POEMS RELATING TO THE SAME EVENTS OR THE SAME ASPECTS OF THE STRUGGLE, MUCH OF THEIR HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE IS LOST, AND THE COMPARISON WHICH THE REFLECTIVE READER NATURALLY WISHES TO MAKE BETWEEN THE MOODS, IMPULSES, ASPIRATIONS, AND POINTS OF VIEW OF THE POETS ON OPPOSITE SIDES IS RENDERED MUCH more difficult and less satisfactory. IT WOULD BE A SPECIAL PITY, FOR EXAMPLE, NOT TO PLACE IN JUXTAPOSITION BRYANT'S "OUR COUNTRY'S CALL" AND TIMROD'S "A CRY to Arms." An essay of no little value to THE STUDENT OF THE INNER SPRINGS OF HISTORY MIGHT BE WRITTEN UPON THESE TWO POEMS WITH THEIR STRANGE SIMILARITIES AND THEIR STILL STRANGER CONTRASTS. INDEED A CRITIC OF CREATIVE ABILITY MIGHT ALMOST RECONSTRUCT THE HISTORY OF THE EVENTS WHICH PRODUCED THE WAR, AND DISCOVER THE CHARACTERS AND CIRCUMSTANCES AND, ABOVE ALL, THE POINTS OF VIEW OF THE PEOPLE ON EITHER SIDE OF THE CONTEST, BY A STUDY OF THESE TWO APPEALS, EVEN IF ALL OTHER SOURCES OF INFORMATION WERE LOST. FOR THIS AND OTHER REASONS IT HAS BEEN THOUGHT BEST TO MAKE BUT A SINGLE GROUP OF THE POEMS OF THE CIVIL WAR, BRINGING TOGETHER ALL THOSE THAT RELATE TO THE SAME OR TO LIKE SUBJECTS, AND INDICATING THE ORIGIN OF THE southern pieces by printing the word "Southern" at the end of each. IN THE SOUTH DURING THE CIVIL WAR, ALMOST ALL THE ADULT MALES, WITH SOME WHO WERE RATHER ADOLESCENT THAN ADULT, WERE UNDER ARMS. AS A CONSEQUENCE, THE MEN WHO WROTE THE POETRY OF THE SOUTHERN SIDE WERE NECESSARILY SOLDIERS. BUT IN less peculiar circumstances the men who write the poetry of war, the men who make the songs that soldiers love to sing, THE MEN WHO IRRESISTIBLY STIR PATRIOTISM IN THE BLOOD OF YOUTH, THE MEN WHO EMBALM HEROIC DEEDS IN THRILLING VERSE, AND TOUCH ALL HEARTS TO PITY AND ALL EYES TO TEARS BY THE TENDER PATHOS OF THEIR CHRONICLES OF SUFFERING, ARE NOT THE MEN WHO DO THE FIGHTING. IT WAS NOT A SOLDIER WHO WROTE "THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE," AND IT WAS THE GENTLE MASTER OF ABBOTSFORD THAT INTERPRETED THE DARING DEEDS OF KNIGHTLY TIMES IN SONG AND STORY. SO IN OUR CIVIL WAR THE MOST AND THE BEST OF THE POEMS, EXCEPT AS THE MATTER WAS DETERMINED AT THE SOUTH BY PECULIAR CIRCUMSTANCES, WERE THE WORK OF MEN WHO WERE NOT THEMSELVES COMBATANTS. CYNICAL REFLECTIONS HAVE SOMETIMES BEEN INDULGED IN ON THIS SCORE, BUT THEY ARE unjust and shallow, as cynical reflections are apt to be. The qualities that make one a poet are not those that make one a SOLDIER. SOMETIMES THE TWO CHARACTERS ARE UNITED IN ONE PERSON, BUT THAT IS RARE; AND THE MAN WHO HAS THE GIFT TO WRITE THE POETRY OF A WAR WHICH INVOLVES HUMAN LIBERTY AS ITS ISSUE, BEST SERVES THE CAUSE BY WRITING IT. HIS PART IS AS IMPORTANT AS THAT OF THE SOLDIER WHO BEARS ARMS, AND HIS INFLUENCE UPON THE RESULT IS QUITE AS GREAT. THE PATRIOTISM AND THE COURAGE OF THE GREEKS OWED MORE TO HOMER THAN TO THE WARRIORS WHOSE DEEDS HE CHRONICLED, AND PAUL REVERE DID FAR LESS FOR HIS COUNTRY BY WHAT WAS AFTER ALL A COMMONPLACE HORSEBACK JOURNEY, THAN LONGFELLOW LONG AFTERWARD DID BY TELLING THE story of that ride in quite other than commonplace poetry. OF THE EXTENT TO WHICH THE WAR SONGS AND BALLADS OF A PEOPLE INFLUENCE THE CHARACTER AND DESTINY OF THAT PEOPLE, MUCH HAS BEEN WRITTEN, AND THE TRUTH IS NOT YET HALF TOLD. OUR PRESENT CONCERN WITH THIS LITERATURE, HOWEVER, HAS LESS REGARD TO ITS INFLUENCE THAN TO ITS VALUE AS HISTORICAL MATERIAL. HISTORY RECORDS THE EVENTS IN A NATION'S LIFE; POETRY, AND ESPECIALLY BALLAD POETRY, REFLECTS THE CHARACTER, THE ASPIRATIONS, THE PASSIONS, AND THE PURPOSES OF A PEOPLE; AND VIEWED IN THIS LIGHT A STUDY OF THE WAR BALLADS AND LYRICS OF OUR COUNTRY MUST FILL EVERY READER'S MIND WITH HOPE AND COURAGE. MANY OF THE POEMS PRESENTED IN THESE LITTLE VOLUMES ARE RUDE, SOME OF THEM BEING SCARCELY BETTER THAN DOGGEREL, WHILE MUCH OF THE MATERIAL IS POETRY OF A VERY HIGH ORDER; BUT THERE ARE CERTAIN CHARACTERISTICS COMMON TO ALL THE POEMS, AND THESE ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS THAT DISTINGUISH A VIRILE RACE WHICH ENCOUNTERS DIFFICULTY WITH STALWART COURAGE AND CONFRONTS DANGER WITH AN UNRUFFLED MIND. IT IS THE POETRY OF STRENGTH AND MANLY SELF-RELIANCE. THERE IS NOT A PLAINT OF WEAKNESS ANYWHERE IN IT. IT IS INSPIRED FROM BEGINNING TO END BY A HIGH AND UNFALTERING FAITH IN THE TRUTH OF THE DOCTRINES OF HUMAN LIBERTY THAT UNDERLIE our entire history and constitute the vital principle of our institutions. THE RUDER POEMS ARE A TRIFLE TRUCULENT NOW AND THEN PERHAPS, BUT SOME LITTLE TRUCULENCE MAY BE ALLOWED AS A POETIC LICENSE TO THE POET WHO SINGS OF HIS COUNTRYMEN'S PROWESS IN JUST WARS. IN PREPARING THIS LITTLE COLLECTION THE EDITOR HAS HAD OCCASION TO READ ANEW THE ENTIRE BODY OF AMERICAN WAR POETRY OF THE BALLAD AND LYRIC CLASS, AND HE ENDS THE EXAMINATION WITH A FEELING OF INTENSE SATISFACTION IN THE KNOWLEDGE THAT THERE IS NOT AN UNMANLY OR A COWARDLY LINE IN IT and scarcely an ungenerous one. THE COLONIAL WARS [T LOVEWELL'S FIGHT. HIS BALLAD, WRITTEN IN 1725, SOON AFTER THE BATTLE OF MAY 8TH, IN THAT YEAR, WAS SAID BY A CONTEMPORARY WRITER TO BE "THE MOST BELOVED SONG IN ALL NEW ENGLAND," THOUGH "CHEVY CHACE" HAD BEEN KNOWN THERE ALMOST AS WELL AS IN OLD ENGLAND. THE NAME OF THE AUTHOR IS LOST TO US, BUT HIS WORK HAS BEEN PRESERVED IN PENHALLOW'S "HISTORY OF THE WARS OF NEW ENGLAND WITH THE EASTERN INDIANS," 1726. THE BALLAD IS RUDE AND DESTITUTE OF POETIC QUALITY; BUT IT HAS EXTRAORDINARY INTEREST AS THE EARLIEST AMERICAN WAR BALLAD KNOWN TO US AS HAVING BEEN DEAR TO THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE WHO SANG OR RECITED IT. IT HAS INTEREST, ALSO, AS A REFLECTION OF MANNERS. THE COMMENDATION BESTOWED UPON THE CHAPLAIN for scalping Indians as well as killing them is suggestive.—EDITOR.] LOVEWELL'S FIGHT. OF worthy Captain Lovewell, I purpose now to sing, How valiantly he served his country and his king; He and his valiant soldiers did range the woods full wide, And hardships they endured to quell the Indian's pride. 'T was nigh unto Pigwacket, on the eighth day of May, They spied a rebel Indian soon after break of day; He on a bank was walking, upon a neck of land, Which leads into a pond as we're made to understand. Our men resolved to have him, and travelled two miles round, Until they met the Indian, who boldly stood his ground; Then up speaks Captain Lovewell: "Take you good heed," says he, "This rogue is to decoy us, I very plainly see. "The Indians lie in ambush, in some place nigh at hand, In order to surround us upon this neck of land; Therefore we'll march in order, and each man leave his pack; Therefore we'll march in order, and each man leave his pack; That we may briskly fight them, when they make their attack." They came unto this Indian, who did them thus defy, As soon as they came nigh him, two guns he did let fly, Which wounded Captain Lovewell, and likewise one man more, But when this rogue was running, they laid him in his gore. Then having scalped the Indian, they went back to the spot Where they had laid their packs down, but there they found them not. For the Indians having spied them, when they them down did lay, Did seize them for their plunder, and carry them away. These rebels lay in ambush, this very place hard by, So that an English soldier did one of them espy, And cried out, "Here's an Indian"! with that they started out, As fiercely as old lions, and hideously did shout. With that our valiant English all gave a loud huzza, To show the rebel Indians they feared them not a straw: So now the fight began, and as fiercely as could be, The Indians ran up to them, but soon were forced to flee. Then spake up Captain Lovewell, when first the fight began: "Fight on, my valiant heroes! You see they fall like rain." For as we are informed, the Indians were so thick A man could scarcely fire a gun and not some of them hit. Then did the rebels try their best our soldiers to surround, But they could not accomplish it, because there was a pond, To which our men retreated, and covered all the rear, The rogues were forced to face them, although they skulked for fear. Two logs there were behind them that close together lay, Without being discovered, they could not get away; Therefore our valiant English they travelled in a row, And at a handsome distance, as they were wont to go. 'T was ten o'clock in the morning when first the fight begun, And fiercely did continue until the setting sun; Excepting that the Indians some hours before 't was night Drew off into the bushes and ceased awhile to fight. But soon again returned, in fierce and furious mood. Shouting as in the morning, but yet not half so loud; For as we are informed, so thick and fast they fell, Scarce twenty of their number at night did get home well. And that our valiant English till midnight there did stay, To see whether the rebels would have another fray; But they no more returning, they made off towards their home, And brought away their wounded as far as they could come. Of all our valiant English there were but thirty-four, And of the rebel Indians there were about fourscore, And sixteen of our English did safely home return, The rest were killed and wounded, for which we all must mourn. Our worthy Captain Lovewell among them there did die, They killed Lieutenant Robbins, and wounded good young Frye, Who was our English chaplain; he many Indians slew, And some of them he scalped when bullets round him flew. Young Fullam, too, I'll mention, because he fought so well, Endeavoring to save a man, a sacrifice he fell: But yet our valiant Englishmen in fight were ne'er dismayed, But still they kept their motion, and Wymans captain made. Who shot the old chief Pagus, which did the foe defeat,