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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 263 (search)
82. the Yankee Volunteers. As sung by Private Ephraim Peabody, on the night after the march through Baltimore. Come, all ye true Americans that love the Stripes and Stars, For which your gallant countrymen go marching to the wars; For grand old Massachusetts raise up three rousing cheers-- Three times three and a ti-ger for the Yankee Volunteers! The nineteenth day of April they marched unto the war, And on that day, upon the way, they stopped at Baltimore, And trustingly expected the customary cheers Which every loyal city gives the Yankee Volunteers. But suddenly in fury there came a mighty crowd, Led on by negro-drivers, with curses long and loud, With frenzied imprecations, with savage threats and sneers, They welcomed to the city the Yankee Volunteers. So furious grew the multitude, they rushed at them amain, And a great storm of missiles came pouring like a rain. Amid a thunderous clamor, such as mortal seldom hears, They tried to cross the city, did the Yankee Volun
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 496 (search)
ospect of your raising a small amount in this market! Our Mr. Sturgis will be happy to dine with you at 8 o'clock to-morrow evening. Exeunt omnes. While this scene was being enacted at the Barings, Mr. Dudley Mann waited upon our countryman Peabody, who holds three hundred thousand dollars of repudiated Mississippi bonds, on which there is due more than six hundred thousand dollars of interest. Mr. Mann was very magnificent and grandiloquent, but, withal, prosy; and Peabody, suffering froPeabody, suffering from gout and Mississippi repudiation, lost his temper; and, shaking his clenched fist at the rebel, emphatically said: If I were to go on 'Change and hunt up the suffering and starved widows and orphans who have been ruined by your infamous repudiation of honest debts, and proclaim that you are here to borrow more of our gold and silver to be again paid by repudiation, (as I believe it is my duty to do,) you would inevitably be mobbed, and find it difficult to escape with your life. Good morning