"What regiment is this, captain?"
"Why, don't you know?
"This is all that is left of the old Ninth Massachusetts—all that is left of us boys!
"Our dead and wounded are in the woods over there!
"Oh! we lost our colonel, boys; the gallant Cass, one of the best fighters and bravest man in the army!
"We saved our colors, though, and we had to fight to do it!
"Go in, Irish Brigade! Do as well as the Ninth did!
"Three cheers for the stars and stripes!
"Give three for the old Bay State!
"Hurrah!"