Union Cavalry Song On Civil War Cover

I found this cover in a APS circuit today.



CAVALRY SONG.

Draw your girths tight, boys:
This morning we ride,
With God and the right, boys
To sanction our side,
Where the balls patter,
Where the shot shatter,
Where the shells scatter
Red death far and wide.
Pause not to think, boys,
Of maidens in tears:
Only this drink, boys,
Let's toss to our dears:
Then O for the battle,
The mad charging battle,
The cannon's fierce rattle,
The victors' wild cheers!
Look to your arms, boys,
Your friends tried and true:
How the blood warms, boys!
The foe is in view!
Forward! break cover!
Ride through them ! ride over
Them! baptize the clover
With blood as with dew.

Wow...they don't write songs like that any more...

Very, Very Cool Find!

Mike

Very nice cover.

Very nice cover. Can you tell which year it's from?

Very nice cover Tom.


Butch

You have to love the history behind some of these covers!

Very nice, Tom.

David

I found this one at the show in Quechee, Vt. yesterday. It has a bold Barre, Vt.
postmark and is addressed Emily C(assandra) Gove in Lincoln, Vt.



AMERICA.

My Country,'ti of thee,
Sweet land of Liberty,
Of thee I sing.
Land where our fathers died;
Land of the pilgrim's pride,
From every mountain side,
Let freedom ring.

My native country -- thee,
Land of the noble free,
Thy name I love.
I love thy rock and rills,
Thy woods and templed hills;
My heart with rapture thrills,
Like that above.

Let Music swell the freeze,
And ring from all the trees
Sweet freedom's song.
Let mortal tongues awake;
Let all that breathe partake;
Let rocks their silence break;
The sound prolong.
1865

Twenty Envelopes of various sizes, colors, and songs, sent by mail free of postage
for TEN CENTS. Address J. A. HOWELLS. Jefferson, Ashtabula Co., Ohio. 1863.

(The town of Lincoln, Vt. was named after the Revolutionary War hero Benjamin Lincoln).

Great covers Tom

Dianne