The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1Newell, R. H. (Robert Henry)
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The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1
Newell, R. H. (Robert Henry)
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction
"I have the honor to say to your lordship, that your lordship must
be aware of your lordship's important duty as a Minister to the
United States, and I trust that your lordship will pay a little
attention to your lordship's grammar when next your lordship
addresses your lordship's most obedient servant. Your lordship will
permit me to say to your lordship, that your lordship is in no way
capable of interpreting the Constitution to your lordship's
American friends; and I trust your lordship will not be offended
when I state to your lordship, that your lordship will find nothing
in the Constitution to compel your lordship to demand your
lordship's passport on account of the recent capture of State
prisoners from one of your lordship's government's vessels, your
lordship."
I read this extract to Colonel Wobert Wobinson, of the Western Cavalry,
my boy, and he said its only fault was, that it hadn't enough lordships
in it.
"Lordships," says he, "lend an easy grace to State documents, and are
as aristocratic as a rooster's tail at sunrise."
The colonel is a natural poet, my boy, and abounds in pleasing
comparisons.
The review of seventy thousand troops near Munson's Hill, on Thursday,
was one of those stirring events, my boy, which we have been upon the
eve of for the past year. A new cavalry company, for the Mackerel
Brigade, excited great attention as it went past, and I understand the
President said that, with the exception of the horses and the men, it
was one of the finest cavalry mobs he ever saw. The horses are a new
pattern; fluted sides, polished knobs on the haunches, and a hand-rail
all the way down the back. A rebel caught sight of one of these fine
animals, the other day, and immediately fainted. It was afterward
ascertained that he owned a field of oats in the neighborhood.
Yours, variously,
ORPHEUS C. KERR.
LETTER XXI.
DESCRIBING CAPTAIN VILLIAM BROWN'S GREAT EXPEDITION TO ACCOMAC, AND ITS
MARVELLOUS SUCCESS.
WASHINGTON, D.C., December 1st, 1861.
'Twas early morn, my boy. The sun rushed up the eastern sky in a state
of patriotic combustion, and as the dew fell upon the grassy
hill-sides, the mountains lifted up their heads and were rather green.
Far on the horizon six rainbows appeared, with an American Eagle at
roost on the top one, and as the translucent pearl of the dawn shone
between them, and a small pattern of blue sky with thirty-four stars
broke out at one end, I saw--I beheld--yes, it ees! it ees! our Banger
in the Skee yi!
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