Ransom Mack Poem, undated
March to vicksburg
We whipt them all around
though well they stood their ground
they knew not the foe they were fighting
They stood well at Champion hill
But soon they got their fill
And to black river all went a
Kighting
Then next at our command
We at vicksburg took our stand
and requested general Pem to
surrender
his answer being nay
we commenced without delay
To charge on their hopeful
Defender
General Ransom led the way
with his men in stern aray
But found it to great an under
taking
Then a general charge was made
By grant the plan was laid
Which resulted in a murderous
raking
it now was plainly seen
Thoug the fact we tried to screen
that the works were hard to be
taken
And yet we knew full well
that another charge would tell
but the plan was at once forsaken /
122
The plan that grant had laid
now upon their bacon prayed
for they now drew but greater
rations
their peas were geting scant
and they curst our general grant
and called him the imp of
creation
Our shelling now increased
and our douts were all released
general grant said they must soon come under
we approached them evry day
and often heard them say
That vicksburg must soon go to
thunder
General Logan plaid a trump
which made the rebels hump
he well understood their position
he made them up and get
and we knew not where they lit
as for that we made no provision
Their works he undermined
and explosion he designed
and though the charge worked
not its mision
it hoisted two or three
and blew a darkey free
from slavery to the side of
freedom
DATABASE CONTENT
| (6949) | DL0987.013 | 74 | Letters | 186X |
Tags: African Americans, Death (Military), Fighting, Siege of Vicksburg, Slavery, Ulysses S. Grant
People - Records: 1
- (2386) [writer] ~ Mack, Ransom
SOURCES
Ransom Mack Poem, undated, DL0987.013, Nau Collection
