The Boy's Book of Battle-lyrics: A Collection of Verses Illustrating Some Notable Events in the History of the United States of America, from the Colonial Period to the Outbreak of the Sectional War |
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Americans arms Arnold arquebus attack ball battle BATTLE-GROUND bayonet BENEDICT ARNOLD Bennington Betty Zane block-house bloody blow brave British bullets cannon charge cheer Cherry Valley Clinton Colonel command comrades corses cried crossed dark dawn dead deadly eager enemy fall fastly fear fell fierce fight fire firelocks Flag flame flanks fled foemen force Fort Dayton Fort Schuyler fought fray friends gallant gave guns hand hatchet heard heart Herkimer Hessians honor horse hundred Indians ISAAC SHELBY John Lewis JOHN STARK JOSEPH BRANT killed knew land leader loyalists Mingos morning never night o'er party Princeton rage rain rear retreated rifle river roar rode round Rouville rushed sabre savage Schuyler sent slain soldiers soon Soto spirit stirred stood stout SULLIVAN'S ISLAND Tarleton tell thee Tories Trenton troops Twas valley vengeance Walter Butler Washington Wheeling Creek wife wounded wrath yell
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Page 155 - tis wounded ; He waves on high his left; In vain he leads the movement, The ranks in twain are cleft. The men in scarlet waver Before the men in brown, And fly in utter panic — The soldiers of the Crown! I thought the work was over, But nearer shouts were heard, And came, with Gibbs to head it, The gallant Ninety-third. Then Pakenham, exulting, With proud and joyous glance, Cried, "Children of the tartan — Bold Highlanders — advance ! Advance to scale the breastworks, And drive them from their...
Page 115 - Spite the crackling of our camp-fires and our sentries' heavy tramp. Morning on the mountain border ranged in order found our forces. Ere our scouts announced the coming of the foe; While the hoar-frost lying near us, and the distant water-courses, Gleamed like silver in the sunlight, seemed like silver in their glow. Morgan ranged us there to meet them, and to greet them with such favor That they scarce would care to follow us again; In the rear, the Continentab — none were readier, nor braver;...
Page 154 - When came the voice of Carroll, Distinct and measured, "Fire !" Oh! then you should have marked us Our volleys on them pour — Have heard our joyous rifles Ring sharply through the roar, And seen their foremost columns Melt hastily away As snow in mountain gorges Before the floods of May. They soon re-formed their columns, And, mid the fatal rain We never ceased to hurtle, Came to their work again. The Forty-fourth is with them, That first its laurels won With stout old Abercrombie Beneath an eastern...
Page 118 - Then upon our very wheeling сamе the pealing of our volley. And our balls made red a pathway down the hill; Broke the foe and shrank and cowered ; rang again the voice of Howard — "Give the hireling dogs the bayonet!" — and we did it with a will. In the meanwhile one red;coated troop, unnoted, riding faster Than their comrades on our rear in fury bore; But the light-horse led by Washington soon brought it to disaster, For they shattered it and scattered it, and smote it fast and sore. Like...
Page 152 - HERE, in my rude log cabin, Few poorer men there be Among the mountain ranges Of Eastern Tennessee. My limbs are weak and shrunken, White hairs upon my brow, My dog — lie still, old fellow! — My sole companion now. Yet I, when young and lusty, Have gone through stirring scenes, For I went down with Carroll To fight at New Orleans. You say you'd like to hear me The stirring story tell Of those who stood the battle And those who fighting felL Short work to count our losses— We stood and dropp'd...
Page 167 - Scatheless from five hundred muskets. Safe from the lead-bearing flame. Eighty and one of the troopers Lie on the field of the slain — Lie on the red field of honor: Honor the nine who remain I Cold are the dead there, and gory.
Page 117 - Leaped the rattle of the battle and the roar; Fierce the hand-to-hand engaging, and the human freshet raging Of the surging current urging past a dark and bloody shore. Soon the course of fight was altered; soon they faltered at the leaden Storm that smote them, and we saw their centre swerve. Tarleton's eye flashed fierce in anger; Tarleton's face began to redden; Tarleton gave the closing order—
Page 119 - Yelped the dark and red-eyed sleuthhound unrelenting on their track. In their midst I saw one trooper, and around his waist I noted Tied a simple silken scarf of blue and white; When my vision grasped it clearly to my hatred I devoted Him, from all the hireling wretches who were mingled there in flight. For that token in the summer had been from our cabin taken By the robber-hands of wrongers of my kin...
Page 153 - Grew still more fierce and eager As Jackson's voice was heard : " Stand steady ! Waste no powder ! Wait till your shots will tell! To-day the work you finish — See that you do it well!
Page 100 - She gained that log-hut by the hill. But when, in apron wrapped, the cask She backward bore, to close her task, The foemen saw her aim at last, And poured their fire upon her fast. Bullet on bullet near her fell, While rang the Indians' angry yell; But safely through that whirring rain, Powder in arms, came Betty Zane.