And the effervescent valor of Ye Chivalry broke forth,
When they learned that nineteen madmen had the marvellous assurance—
Only nineteen—thus to seize the place, and drive them frightened forth;
And Old Brown,
Osawatomie Brown,
Found an army come to take him encamped around the town.
But to storm with all the forces we have mentioned was too risky;
So they hurried off to Richmond for the Government Marines—
Tore them from their weeping matrons—fired their souls with Bourbon whiskey—
Till they battered down Brown’s castle with their ladders and machines;