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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), Border war, as seen and experienced by the inhabitants of Chambersburgh, Pa. (search)
we marched back to camp, and like soldiers we stept, Only stopping to drink to our chief, The provost, who'd shut up the bars, though by stealth We still had enough to drink to his health. The provost (I dreamed) I could never forget, And his aids I would always remember, How from morning till night they were sorely beset In that terrible month of September; When the foe in Middletown Valley was seen, As the sun went down in the west, And at dark had advanced already between Greencastle and Marion at least. But the provost (I dreamed) was a man who would have His will and his way in his station, And to show that the town he would certainly save, He issued a strict proclamation: “No citizen armed for the common defence,” His bitters could get of a morning; But the citizen-soldiers scorned abstinence, As their mode of attack was by horning. “In case the foe approaches the town,” The command was, “Destroy all the brandy,” But it did not say how, so my friend Mr. Brown, Thought to