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"But there was music of another character, to which our ears became accustomed in time,—the rollicking tunes played during the marches, after reveille in the morning, and just before tattoo in the evening. Many of them were familiar to our fathers' ears,—
" For we are the same our fathers have been,
We see the same sights our fathers have seen.
We drink the same stream, we view the same sun,
And run the same course our fathers have run."
and heard on the field of Waterloo, at Fontenay, in the Indies, and on the Plains of Abraham, where the fleur-de-lis went down before the cross of St. George. "Yankee Doodle," "The White Cockade," "The Bold Soldier Boy," " St. Patrick's Day," " Larry O'Gaff," "Jefferson's Liberty," "Garry Owen," " Sprig of Shillalah," and many others whose lively bars played by a good fife and drum corps, dispelled the weariness of a long march. Occasionally these lively airs were exchanged for those of a more solemn character, like the "Dead March in Saul," " Pleyel's Hymn," "America," etc., as the remains of those who died of disease or wounds were conveyed to their last resting-place."
History of the Seventeenth regiment, New Hampshire volunteer infantry. 1862-1863
By Charles Nelson Kent
" For we are the same our fathers have been,
We see the same sights our fathers have seen.
We drink the same stream, we view the same sun,
And run the same course our fathers have run."
and heard on the field of Waterloo, at Fontenay, in the Indies, and on the Plains of Abraham, where the fleur-de-lis went down before the cross of St. George. "Yankee Doodle," "The White Cockade," "The Bold Soldier Boy," " St. Patrick's Day," " Larry O'Gaff," "Jefferson's Liberty," "Garry Owen," " Sprig of Shillalah," and many others whose lively bars played by a good fife and drum corps, dispelled the weariness of a long march. Occasionally these lively airs were exchanged for those of a more solemn character, like the "Dead March in Saul," " Pleyel's Hymn," "America," etc., as the remains of those who died of disease or wounds were conveyed to their last resting-place."
History of the Seventeenth regiment, New Hampshire volunteer infantry. 1862-1863
By Charles Nelson Kent