GRIERSON'S RAID

By Hanford Lennox Gordon

Mount to horse — mount to horse;

Forward, Battalion!

Gallop the gallant force;

Down with Rebellion!

Over hill, creek and plain

Clatter the fearless —

Dash away — splash away —

Led by the Peerless.

Carbines crack — foemen fly

Hither and thither;

Under the death-fire

They falter and wither.

Burn the bridge — tear the track —

Down with Rebellion!

Cut the wires — cut the wires!

Forward, Battalion!

Day and night — night and day,

Gallop the fearless —

Swimming the rivers’ floods —

Led by the Peerless;

Depots and powder-trains

Blazing and thundering

Masters and dusky slaves

Gazing and wondering.

Eight hundred miles they ride —

Dauntless Battalion —

Down through the Southern Land

Mad with Rebellion.

Into our lines they dash —

Brave Cavaliers —

Greeting our flag with

A thunder of cheers.