Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 2.
Frank Moore, Ed.

Why the forward movement is Delayed,

Army officers declare that it is impossible to make a decided forward movement until more wagons have arrived. By the 15th of July the builders have contracted to furnish 1,000, and it is claimed that to march with a less number is simply out of the question.

Seventy-seven days have elapsed since the nation sprang to arms at its chieftain's call, and yet those immortal geniuses whose sublime military plans we are forbidden to scrutinize are waiting for the wagon. This suggests a new version of the old song:

Wait for the wagon.

I.
     A hundred thousand Northmen,
In glittering war array,
     Shout, “Onward now to Richmond!
We'll brook no more delay;
     Why give the traitors time and means
To fortify the way
     With stolen guns, in ambuscades?
Oh, answer us, we pray.”

chorus of chieftains.
     You must wait for the wagons,
The real army wagons,
     The fat contract wagons,
Bought in the red-tape way.

II.
     Now, if for army wagons,
Not for compromise, you wait,
     Just ask them of the farmers
Of any Union State.
     And if you need ten thousand,
Sound, strong, though second-hand,
     You'll find upon the instant
A supply for your demand.

chorus — No! wait for the wagons,
     The new army wagons,
The fat contract wagons,
     Till the 15th of July.

III.
     No swindling, fat contractors,
Shall block the people's way,
     Nor rebel compromisers:
'Tis Treason's reckoning day.
     Then shout again our war-cry,
“To Richmond onward move!
     We now can crush tile traitors,
And that we mean to prove!”

chorus — No! wait for the wagons,
     The fat contract wagons,
If red-tape so wills it,
     Wait till the Judgment Day.

New York, July 1, 1861.