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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 15 (search)
An Effusion from Jeff Thompson.--Missouri produces not only warriors, but poets, and indeed a combination of both, as witness the following from the pen of Mr. Jeff Thompson--the veritable General Jeff, who, at the head of a company of Bush-wackers, has been firing into unarmed steamboats, and picking up stray travellers in South-west Missouri for the past six months, winning from rebel journals the soubriquets of the Swamp Fox, and the Marion of the Southern revolution. It is entitled HomMr. Jeff Thompson--the veritable General Jeff, who, at the head of a company of Bush-wackers, has been firing into unarmed steamboats, and picking up stray travellers in South-west Missouri for the past six months, winning from rebel journals the soubriquets of the Swamp Fox, and the Marion of the Southern revolution. It is entitled Home again, and appears in that whilom decorous newspaper, the New-Orleans Picayune: My dear wife waits my coming, My children lisp my name, And kind friends bid me welcome To my own home again. My father's grave lies on the hill, My boys sleep in the vale; I love each rock and murmuring rill, Each mountain, hill, and dale. Home again! I'll suffer hardships, toils, and pain For the good time sure to come; I'll battle long that I may gain My freedom and my home. I will return, though foes may st