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“Then she sang:   Dumbarton’s drums beat bonnie O, When they mind me of my dear Johnnie O! How happy am I When my soldier is by, While he kisses and blesses his Annie O! Tis a soldier alone can delight me O, For his graceful looks do invite me O! While guarded in his arms I’ll fear no war’s alarms, Neither danger nor death shall e’er fright me O!   My love is a handsome laddie O, Genteel, but ne’er foppish or gaudy O! Though commissions are dear, Yet I’ll buy him one this year, For he’ll serve no longer a cadie O! A soldier has honor and bravery O, Unacquainted with rogues and their knavery O! He minds no other thing But the ladies or the king, For every other care is but slavery O!   Then I’ll be the captain’s lady O! Farewell, all my friends and my daddy O! I’ll wait no more at home, But I’ll follow with the drum, And whene’er that beats I’ll be ready O! Dumbarton’s drums sound bonnie O! They are sprightly like my dear Johnnie O! How happy I shall be When on my soldier’s knee, And he kisses and blesses his Annie O!”
― Joseph A. Altsheler, Apache Gold

“It's no small accomplishment to be a good dictionary.”
― Joseph Alexander Altsheler, The Guns of Bull Run - A Story of the Civil War's Eve

“the”
― Joseph Alexander Altsheler, The Texan Republic Trilogy: Illustrated with Pictures & Maps-The Texan Star, the Texan Scouts, the Texan Triumph

“PRISONERS”
― Joseph Alexander Altsheler, The Texan Republic Trilogy: Illustrated with Pictures & Maps-The Texan Star, the Texan Scouts, the Texan Triumph

“keep on following, waiting our chance,”
― Joseph Alexander Altsheler, Apache Gold