The Greensborough Patriot
June 25, 1861
Page 1
From the Richmond
Whig.
The Battle at Bethel.
Tune Dixie
1.
Send out the news to West and South, and
spread it through the land!
Our noble boys have beat the foe at
Bethel!
We’ll praise and bless, with all our
hearts, the gallant, gallant band.
Who met the foe, and beat them back at
Bethel!
With three to one assailing—
At Bethel!
Bethel!
They felt their courage failing
When they came nigh to Bethel!
Hurrah!
Hurrah! For Monday’s fight at Bethel!
And glory to the noble boys who beat the
foe at Bethel!
(Repeat the last two lines.)
2.
Magruder led twelve hundred men, and did
not wish for more,
To meet four thousand Lincolnites at
Bethel!
Old Butler sent them out and said (some people say he swore.)
By dinner time he’d get our men at Bethel!
But all his valiant troops got
At Bethel! Bethel!
Was a hasty plate of soup –hot—
That burnt their mouths at Bethel!
Hurrah! Hurrah! For Butler’s feast at
Bethel!
The grape set all his teeth on edge the
day he dined at Bethel
(Repeat.)
3.
The old North State was wide awake, for
there was Col. Hill,
With all her sons who fought that day at
Bethel!
The Yankee Zouaves disliked their looks,
and couldn’t stand the drill,
When bayonets flashed along their line at
Bethel!
The word was “Right about,” sir,
In “double quick” at Bethel!
Hurrah! Hurrah! What time they made at
Bethel!
“Two forty on a plank,” is slow, to what
they did at Bethel!
(Repeat.)
4.
Brave Major Raudolph’s Howitzers sent out
their meat in shells.
Which Yankee stomachs didn’t like at
Bethel!
The Richmond and Henrico lads rung out a
peal of bells,
‘Twas music Yankees could not face at
Bethel!
The jig went on so fast, sir,
At Bethel! Bethel!
That back step came at last, sir,
And they danced away from Bethel!
Hurrah! Hurrah! For the Yankee jig at
Bethel!
If they want another lesson, let them call
again at Bethel!
(Repeat.)