Pennypacker, Samuel W. (Samuel Whitaker), 1843-1916
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And there the startling drum and fife Fired the living with fiercer life; While overhead, with wild increase. Forgetting its ancient toll of peace. The great bell swung as ne'er before: It seemed as it would never cease; And every word its ardor flung From off its jubilant iron tongue Was, "War! War! War! War!" A Pennsylvania Cavalry Charge. — At the battle of Chancel- lorsville the march of Stonewall Jackson^s command across the front of the Union Army was heard, and Colonel Pennock Huey, a Ph...iladelphian, Colonel of the Eighth Pennsylvania Cavalry, ordered his men to " Draw sabre and charge. " They rode through the Confederate Army and those left alive returned. It was " a desperate charge, completely checking the enemy. " Of the four commissioned officers who were in the lead Major Keenan and two others were killed, and the horse ridden by the fourth was killed. It was one of the most heroic events of POETRY 285 the war. Keenan rode to death and eternal fame. George Parsons Lathrop of Boston, assistant editor of the "Atlantic Monthly/' wrote the lyric which tells their tale: KEENAN'S CHARGE By the shrouded gleam of the Western skies Brave Keenan looked in Pleasonton's eyes For an instant clear and cool and still; Then, with a smile, he said: "I will.
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