ONE FLAG, ONE LAND, ONE HEART, ONE HAND, ONE NATION, EVERMORE! YOI HARTEORD, OONI^., SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1870. NO. 49. batteries. The men stripped oft' their He f'liled to report at the expiiation of while wearily pacing his lonely post on Ijouvs at iomc. coats and knapsacks, and charged up a his leave, and was pronounced a deserter. the banks of the Rapidan, or watching hill and across towards the woods, where Officers wfire sent to arrest him, but he the stealthy foe in the wild morass of the "ALWAYS EEJOICING." they were literally mown down with could not be found. His father hearing Distnai Swamp, fervently prayed that the grape, cannister, and musketry. It was day would yet come when he could turn My life ilows on in endless song, of it, and knowing where he was, went to Above Earth's lamentation! here that Meagher's horse was killed un- his son and asked him if he was a deser- the military information he was acquiring I catch the sweet, though lar off hymn der him by a cannon ball, tiqd Meagher ter. to some account in striking a blow for That hails a new creation ; Through all the tuninlfc and the strife jumping up exclaimed, "Boys, look at "Do you think I am going down South dear old Ireland, no matter where, so as I hear tliat music ringing ; that flag ! Remember Fontenoy !" to fight for niggers ?'' was the son's reply that blow was aimed at England, Yes; It iinds an echo in my sonl— "Aye, but you took the bounty, and cruel, tyrannical England who not con- How can I keep from singing 1 But courage and valor were of no avail, for already a panic had seized the you tooi\ an oath to serve your country, tent with oppi;essing and pei'secuting us What though my joys and comforts die ? and if yon don't go I'll go in your place," fit home, now in an indirect and cowardly The Lord my Savior liveth. army, and on the right and on the left What though t he darkness gather round, it was all confusion. ' Instead of an said the father. manner sought the destruction of the na- Songs in the night he giveth ; orderly retreat it was an utter rout. And the next day an old mnn might tion that furnished us means of escape No storm can shako my inmost calm have been seen roaming through the camp and an asylum from their own unjust and While to that Refuge clinging— Colonel Sherman,(now General Sherman) Since Christ is Lord of heaven and earth in whose brigade the GOih were, ordered of the dorcoran Legion, making inquiries tyrannical rule. How can I keep I'rom singing % the regiment to fall back, which it did of the several officers if Ihey had the name From Newport News we went to I litt my eyes; the cloud grows thin; fighiing in good order, to its former of Alexander Gray on their rolls. Upon Suffolk, Va., where we did considerable I see the blue above it; position. And as the brave mariner in meeting one who answered in the affirma- fort building, picketing and fighting And day by day this pathway smooths tive he said: "Cm Aleck's father, and I'm through the Dismal Swamp. Since first I learned to love it ; the midst of the tempest, when all hearts The peace of Christ makes fresh my heart, fail, seizes the helm and tries to save the come to go in his place." When the offi- Here we were for six months without A fountain eveV springing ; ship, so Corcoran, scorning to retreat, cer proposed to get the old man a bounty receiving any pay. Uncle Sam's port- Ail things are mine since 1 am His— of bis own, he emphatically answered, monie being empty. I shall never for- How can I keep from singing 1 boldly placed hi mselt at the head of his b.md, and there, fighting like a hero, "No! all I want is for you to change the, get, while one day doi ig picket duty on trying to stem the torrent of disaster— name and age on your rolls;" and honest the b mks ot the Dismal Swamp Canal THE COECOBAN^ IRTSH LEGIOK not fleeing with the crowd, but in the John Gray donned the uniform of the reading in the New York Herald a speech A paper read by Capfc. P. OTarroJl belore Katbaiiiel position assigned him by his superior 69th, and marched forth at the age of of Mr. Pendleton's in Congress. There Lyoii Post No."2, Bepartinent of Connecticut officer, at his post of honor and of duty, forty-five to do battle for the land of his was an extra appropriation of twenty COMRADES of the Grand Artny :—I am ! he was t;ikcu prisoner. A Southern adoption. A braver man never went into million dollars called for by the Secre- called upon this evening to present you officer said that amidst the few which action, nor was more faithful sentinel tary ofthe Treasniy, in order to pay off with a sh »rt sketch relative to the history held their ground, Corcoran's regiment ever placed on guard. He was in every the troops in the field. Mr. Pendleton of my regiment, the 69th New York, Cor- stood like a rock in the whirlpool rushing engagement up to the battle of Coal Har- opposed it and concluded one of his most coran's Irish Legion. The 69th was an j. The Irish fought like heroCvS, bor, where he was severely wounded. He vigorous speeches by saying that he organization in g^ood military standing 1 ^^ retired. The recovered in hospital, and is row living thanked God that he never did and never mustering over 1,800 men at the com- 69th lost in this fight upwards of 150 in New Ycrk, in the enjoyment ot a pen- would vote a»vay one dollar to pay North- mencement of the war; and when the men, killed and wounded, including >;ome sion granted by a grateful government. ern hirelings for the purpose of oppress- first gun was fired on Fort Sumter, they of its bravest officers. The gallant Major After the legion was raised, which con- ing his Southern brothers. I thought at did not hesitate long about the proper Haggerty was among the first to fall, sisted of the 69ih, lo5th, l64th and 170th the lime, that every soldier should make course to pur.sue. Glancing at the iis- shot through the heart. Capt. J. P. New York reglaients, they embarked on a note of that speech, and charge it to'tho pect of the coming struggle, they could Mclvor, who was then under arrest for transports for the South. During the account of those who were prolonging the see a reflex of the history of their own some breach of military discipline, and voyage our brigade surgeon, John Dwyor, war by encouraging our enemies an'd try- unfortunate country, and looking back consequently could not wear his sword, composed and sung the following vigor- ing to dishearten our brave men in the through the distant pages of that history, seized a shillaluh and went into the fight ous verses, which were received with en- field. they remembered that it was disunion at the head of his company. He was thusiasm :— On the 29th of Jan , '63, General Roger which first occasioned the downfall of taken prisoner with (llorcoran. HUllKAH FOR THE 69TI1, MY BOYS. A Pryor came down to a place called Ireland. They saw in 1861 a similar Deserted House, nine miles from Suffolk, danger threatening the life of this great After the battle of Bull Run the 69th Jir :—27ie Young May Moon. Hurrah for the ()9th, my boys, just to see what kind of fellows those Republic, the o .ly nation on earth where returned to New York, the time for which they volunteei ed having expired previ- The brave old (i9th, my boys ! mud-sill Irishmen were. He evidently the oppressed refugees of Europe could Once more we all meet hadn't a very exalted idea of their fighting find an asylum- Tiiey saw the enemies I ous to that unfortunate engagement, and Our friends here to greet, And present them our campaign laurels, boys. qualities, for about this time Jeft' Davis of liberty and Union, in this country, although chagrined by defeat and the loss of their colonel, they were not dis- reviewed the troops and works at Vicks- sending their emissaries across the ocean, We've i)roved our Celtic blood, my boys, bnrg, when ho expressed the opinion that crawling on their knees to Queen Vic- couraged; for they immediately reorgan- We've I'ought by iield and flood, my boys ! ized and tendered their services to the Let no one then dare those splendid fortifications, the key to toria and Louis Napoleon, begging for To say that we fear ; Missisippi, by nature almost impregna- assistance to enable them to destroy this Government, which were accepted for 'Tis not in our language at all, my boys. nine months. iJuring the second term ble, and rendered doubly so by being de- government, and trail that glorious em- Hurrah for the flag of Green, my boys. fended by the chivalry ofthe South,coiild blem of liberty, the Stwrs and Stripes, in of their enlistment they were quartered The richest that ever was seen, my boys ! on Arlington IJeights, near Washington, Long, long may it wave never be taken by Northern armies, which the dust.