I recited “Scott and the Veteran” today at school, and Mary
Field recited, “To Drum Beat and Heart Beat a Soldier Marches By”; Anna recited
“The Virginia Mother.” Every one learns war poems now-a-days. There was a
patriotic rally in Bemis Hall last night and a quartette sang, “The Sword of
Bunker Hill” and “Dixie” and “John Brown's Body Lies a Mouldering in the
Grave,” and many other patriotic songs. We have one West Point cadet, Albert M.
Murray, who is in the thick of the fight, and Charles S. Coy represents
Canandaigua in the navy.
SOURCE: Caroline Cowles Richards, Village
Life in America, 1852-1872, p. 132
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