poem
Rebel rhymes and rhapsodies
Frank Moore (1828–1904), 1864
Named on the page for Battle of Guilford Court House.
machine-read Machine-read (OCR) from a scanned book at the Internet Archive: expect misread words and names. The scan itself is at the library.
draft Matched to the battle automatically; not yet reviewed.
Passages that name the battle; the whole collection is at Internet Archive.
15 March 1781
Battle of Guilford Court House
YE MOURNFUL SKEDADDLE. 297
" To Dixie's cause I'll give what I
Have kej)t from love and gold,fell in the battle of Guilford, fighting for the Union," and then
•went to Richmond for a big Scilary ! IsTefandum dictu.* For proof, see State archives of Tennessee. The infamous
Kirk, captain of a guerrilla band, who was pardoned out of the
dungeon where he was confined for a brutal assassination, is a
noted example.
Public domain. Text from Internet Archive.