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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), 39. Gen. Rousseau crossing rolling Fork. (search)
39. Gen. Rousseau crossing rolling Fork. by Miss Sophia H. Oliver. We cross this ford, he exclaimed, never to retreat again to this side. We are to march forward. There is to be no backward movement. It is victory or death. The command was about to be given and repeated through the lines, when Gen. Rouesseau, in the van, rising in the saddle, exclaimed: Men, follow me! I expect none of you to do what I am not willing to do myself, and, springing from his horse, he stepped briskly into the stream, and crossed the breast-high ford on foot. His men, cheering wildly, followed their General, crying they would follow wherever he dared to lead. --Correspondence Louisville Journal. Upon a river's verdant banks Our troops advanced at dawn of day; Their pathway to the invading ranks Across the bridgeless river lay. But ere their watery track they take, Lo! thus their gallant leader spake: “Brave soldiers: once that river passed, Onward must be our battle cry, Our all is on the