“Come all you valiant soldiers, and a story I will tell,
It is of a noted battle you all remember well;”—
The Battle of the Mississippi: (R. R.)
“The tyrants’ broad pennant is floating
In the South, o’er our waters so blue;”—
The Battle of the Stove Pipes: [By Nannie Lemmon (?).] (R. B. B. 86½.)
“On Munson’s heights the Rebel Banners wave.
Their hungry hosts, their ‘loyal’ legions brave,”—
The Battle Rainbow: By John R. Thompson, of Va. S. L. M., June, ’62. (W. G. S.)
“The warm weary day was departing, the smile