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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 25 (search)
Jackson, Miss., July 24.--Lieut-Col. Ferguson, of Starke's cavalry, with two companies and a field battery, has captured and destroyed a Federal mail steamer at Skipwith's Landing, eighty miles above Vicksburgh. Col. Ferguson succeeded in obtaining possession of the mail-bag from the ship Richmond, en route for Washington. The contents are highly interesting. Yankee letters admit the impossibility of capturing Vicksburgh without an immense land force, and admit that the Arkansas whipped Vicksburgh. Col. Ferguson succeeded in obtaining possession of the mail-bag from the ship Richmond, en route for Washington. The contents are highly interesting. Yankee letters admit the impossibility of capturing Vicksburgh without an immense land force, and admit that the Arkansas whipped them. They evince great terror of the Arkansas. Her appearance round the bend this morning was the signal for a general stampede. The bombarding continued slowly to-day.--Richmond Examiner, July 26.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 101 (search)
26. a song without a Title. composed by J. Ferguson, Co. A, twenty-first regiment Indiana volunteers. tune--Happy Land of Canaan. The rebels are enraged, To think we are engaged In trying to put down this cursed rebellion; We will show them that we can Turn out to a single man, To drive them to the happy Land of Canaan. Oh! oh! oh! Confeds, don't you know A good time for us is a-coming? We will show you that we're right, That you rebels cannot fight, And we'll blow you to the happy land of Canaan The rebels soon will find That the Yankees are the kind Of men to put down this rebellion; The rebs think they are strong; But 'twill not be very long, Until we send them to the happy land of Canaan. Oh! oh! oh! Ye rebels, don't you know That the Yankees from the North are a-coming? You may think we are in fun, But we'll make you rebels run, Or we'll blow you to the happy land of Canaan. Jeff Davis, he is wise, At least in rebel eyes; He is waiting for some foreign intervention. I