This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ...fiery spray, Yet not a single soldier quailed When wounded comrades round them wailed Their dying shout at Monterey. And on--still on our column kept Through walls of flame its withering way; Where fell the dead, the living stept, Still charging on the guns which swept The slippery streets of Monterey. The foe himself ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ...fiery spray, Yet not a single soldier quailed When wounded comrades round them wailed Their dying shout at Monterey. And on--still on our column kept Through walls of flame its withering way; Where fell the dead, the living stept, Still charging on the guns which swept The slippery streets of Monterey. The foe himself recoiled aghast, When, striking where he strongest lay, We swooped his flanking batteries past, And braving full their murderous blast, Stormed home the towers of Monterey. Our banners on those turrets wave, And there our evening bugles play; Where orange boughs above their grave Keep green the memory of the brave Who fought and fell at Monterey. We are not many--we who press'd Beside the brave who fell that day; But who of us has not confess'd He'd rather share their warrior rest, Than not have been at Monterey? The Men Of Churubusco. THEY'LL point them out in after years--The men of Churubusco fight! And tender hearts will name with tears The gallant spirits quenched in night, When each who under Winfield fought, And kept the field alive, Was equal, in the deeds he wrought, To any common five--They'll point them out, those veterans then, As far beyond all common men, And each to each, with stern delight, Will name the Churubusco fight. They'll sing their praise, when they're no more--The men of Churubusco fight! And when their latest march is o'er--As one by one is lost to sight--Then girls will beg his friends to spare, From off that hoary brow, A shred but of the scattered hair Which waves so richly now: And loiterers by the inn-side hearth Will pause amid their tavern mirth, And, filling, fear since he has pass'd, They drink "to Churubusco's last!" They'll paint their deeds in statued hall--The deeds of Churubusco's fight: And o...
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