Martial Music, War for Southern Independence: Jine LbNA #65467
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Add Location| Owner: | Connfederate  |
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| Plant date: | Aug 9, 2013 |
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| City: | Coventry |
| County: | Tolland |
| State: | Connecticut |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Nairon |
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| Last found: | Mar 22, 2020 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFOFF |
| Last edited: | Mar 14, 2019 |
Martial Music, War for Southern Independence:
Jine the Cavalry!
(One in an occasionally expanding series…)
“Jine the Cavalry”
CHORUS:
If you want to have a good time, jine the cavalry!
Jine the cavalry! Jine the cavalry!
If you want to catch the Devil, if you want to have fun,
If you want to smell Hell, jine the cavalry!
We're the boys who went around McClellian,
Went around McClellian, went around around McClellian!
We're the boys who went around McClellian,
Bully boys, hey! Bully boys, ho!
CHORUS
We're the boys who crossed the Potomicum,
Crossed the Potomicum, crossed the Potomicum!
We're the boys who crossed the Potomicum,
Bully boys, hey! Bully boys, ho!
CHORUS
Then we went into Pennsylvania,
Into Pennsylvania, into Pennsylvania!
Then we went into Pennsylvania,
Bully boys, hey! Bully boys, ho!
CHORUS
The big fat Dutch gals hand around the breadium,
Hand around the breadium, hand around the breadium!
The big fat Dutch gals hand around the breadium,
Bully boys, hey! Bully boys, ho!
CHORUS
Ol' Joe Hooker, won't you come out of The Wilderness?
Come out of The Wilderness, come out of The Wilderness?
Ol' Joe Hooker, won't you come out of The Wilderness?
Bully boys, hey! Bully boys, ho!
CHORUS
“JEB Stuart has been called (with much reason) the very essence of the bold cavalier, an image dear to every Southern heart. Although his men rode hard and fought hard, they also played hard when the time was right. And if Stuart was involved, music was sure to be an integral part of the festivities.
As Burke Davis describes it in The Last Cavalier:
[Stuart] coveted a banjo player in the Appomattox County regiment of Colonel T.T. Munford, one Sam Sweeney, a dark, handsome man in his early thirties who made music such as Stuart had never heard. Sam Sweeney was the younger brother of Joe Sweeney, said to be the "inventor" of the banjo, celebrated as one of the finest blackface minstrels, who had once played for Queen Victoria. Joe had died the year before, and now Sam carried on his minstrelcy. Stuart abducted him.
Colonel Munford left a plaint:
"Stuart's feet would shuffle at Sweeney's presence, or naming. He issued an order for him to report at his quarters and 'detained' him. It was a right he enjoyed, but not very pleasing to me or my regiment."
So there was always music. Sweeney on the banjo, Mulatto Bob on the bones, a couple of fiddlers, Negro singers and dancers, the ventriloquist, and others who caught Stuart's eye. Sweeney rode behind Stuart on the outpost day and night. Stuart [who was possessed of a fine baritone voice and sang even on his deathbed] often sang and Sweeney plucked the strings behind him. "Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still," "The Corn Top's Ripe," "Lorena" and "Jine the Cavalry."
"Jine the Cavalry," which became Stuart's theme song, recounts some of the General's more famous exploits, including his daring "Ride Around McClellan" in the early summer of 1862, his incursion into Pennsylvania, and his assumption of command during the Battle of Chancellorsville in May 1863 following the woundings of Stonewall Jackson and A.P. Hill.
When Sam died of smallpox in the winter of 1863, some of the joy went out of Stuart's life forever.”
From the Poetry and Music of the War Between the States website: http://www.civilwarpoetry.org/confederate/songs/jine.html
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Follow the link (cut and paste) to listen to “Jine the Cavalry” as performed by the excellent 2nd South Carolina String Band. I’ve had the privilege of listening, and even dancing to them at a number of Civil War Re-enactments over the years:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnflIwK6RYU
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BYOInk: there is no pen, bring a stamp pad or marker.
Letterbox Difficulty Rating:
Difficulty Rating = 1.0
Terrain Rating = 2.25
Thanx to Silent Doug; see: www.letterboxing.info/rating/
All directions are magnetic and a pace equals two (2) steps.
___________________________________________________________
Clues:
From US Rte. 6 turn onto the Hop River Rd. Park along the road near the yellow gates guarding the entrance to the Hop River Rail Trail and head East.
If you have not already followed Stonewall Jackson’s Way and Riding a Raid, then you might want to consider bringing those clues, too. After passing Ol’ Blue Light, Beauty Stuart, continue East passing under Pucker Street. If you have not already, check out one of Sherman's Neck Ties while Marching Through Georgia, then continue ahead to a gas line crossing the trail. Turn right onto the gas line, and pause at the right end post of the yellow bar-way. Look right into the woods line for two stumps.
Your cavalry trooper is bivouacked inside the hollow of the uphill stump, under a chunk of wood.
Please stamp in away from the hiding place, and carefully avoid making or at least try to conceal social trails to the letterbox--especially in mud or snow! Kindly reseal the Lock-n-Lock type box, and re-hide the letterbox exactly where it was placed, covering it well and contact the placer if you find any problems.
Thank you, Connfederate
Hike length: 1-2 miles
Jine the Cavalry!
(One in an occasionally expanding series…)
“Jine the Cavalry”
CHORUS:
If you want to have a good time, jine the cavalry!
Jine the cavalry! Jine the cavalry!
If you want to catch the Devil, if you want to have fun,
If you want to smell Hell, jine the cavalry!
We're the boys who went around McClellian,
Went around McClellian, went around around McClellian!
We're the boys who went around McClellian,
Bully boys, hey! Bully boys, ho!
CHORUS
We're the boys who crossed the Potomicum,
Crossed the Potomicum, crossed the Potomicum!
We're the boys who crossed the Potomicum,
Bully boys, hey! Bully boys, ho!
CHORUS
Then we went into Pennsylvania,
Into Pennsylvania, into Pennsylvania!
Then we went into Pennsylvania,
Bully boys, hey! Bully boys, ho!
CHORUS
The big fat Dutch gals hand around the breadium,
Hand around the breadium, hand around the breadium!
The big fat Dutch gals hand around the breadium,
Bully boys, hey! Bully boys, ho!
CHORUS
Ol' Joe Hooker, won't you come out of The Wilderness?
Come out of The Wilderness, come out of The Wilderness?
Ol' Joe Hooker, won't you come out of The Wilderness?
Bully boys, hey! Bully boys, ho!
CHORUS
“JEB Stuart has been called (with much reason) the very essence of the bold cavalier, an image dear to every Southern heart. Although his men rode hard and fought hard, they also played hard when the time was right. And if Stuart was involved, music was sure to be an integral part of the festivities.
As Burke Davis describes it in The Last Cavalier:
[Stuart] coveted a banjo player in the Appomattox County regiment of Colonel T.T. Munford, one Sam Sweeney, a dark, handsome man in his early thirties who made music such as Stuart had never heard. Sam Sweeney was the younger brother of Joe Sweeney, said to be the "inventor" of the banjo, celebrated as one of the finest blackface minstrels, who had once played for Queen Victoria. Joe had died the year before, and now Sam carried on his minstrelcy
Colonel Munford left a plaint:
"Stuart's feet would shuffle at Sweeney's presence, or naming. He issued an order for him to report at his quarters and 'detained' him. It was a right he enjoyed, but not very pleasing to me or my regiment."
So there was always music. Sweeney on the banjo, Mulatto Bob on the bones, a couple of fiddlers, Negro singers and dancers, the ventriloquist, and others who caught Stuart's eye. Sweeney rode behind Stuart on the outpost day and night. Stuart [who was possessed of a fine baritone voice and sang even on his deathbed] often sang and Sweeney plucked the strings behind him. "Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still," "The Corn Top's Ripe," "Lorena" and "Jine the Cavalry."
"Jine the Cavalry," which became Stuart's theme song, recounts some of the General's more famous exploits, including his daring "Ride Around McClellan" in the early summer of 1862, his incursion into Pennsylvania, and his assumption of command during the Battle of Chancellorsville in May 1863 following the woundings of Stonewall Jackson and A.P. Hill.
When Sam died of smallpox in the winter of 1863, some of the joy went out of Stuart's life forever.”
From the Poetry and Music of the War Between the States website: http://www.civilwarpoetry.org/confederate/songs/jine.html
___________________________________________________________
Follow the link (cut and paste) to listen to “Jine the Cavalry” as performed by the excellent 2nd South Carolina String Band. I’ve had the privilege of listening, and even dancing to them at a number of Civil War Re-enactments over the years:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnflIwK6RYU
___________________________________________________________
BYOInk: there is no pen, bring a
Letterbox Difficulty Rating:
Difficulty Rating = 1.0
Terrain Rating = 2.25
Thanx to Silent Doug; see: www.letterboxing.info/rating/
All directions are magnetic and a pace equals two (2) steps.
___________________________________________________________
Clues:
From US Rte. 6 turn onto the Hop River Rd. Park along the road near the yellow gates guarding the entrance to the Hop River Rail Trail and head East.
If you have not already followed Stonewall Jackson’s Way and Riding a Raid, then you might want to consider bringing those clues, too. After passing Ol’ Blue Light, Beauty Stuart, continue East passing under Pucker Street. If you have not already, check out one of Sherman's Neck Ties while Marching Through Georgia, then continue ahead to a gas line crossing the trail. Turn right onto the gas line, and pause at the right end post of the yellow bar-way. Look right into the woods line for two stumps.
Your cavalry trooper is bivouacked inside the hollow of the uphill stump, under a chunk of wood.
Please stamp in away from the hiding place, and carefully avoid making or at least try to conceal social trails to the letterbox--especially in mud or snow! Kindly reseal the Lock-n-Lock type box, and re-hide the letterbox exactly where it was placed, covering it well and contact the placer if you find any problems.
Thank you, Connfederate
Hike length: 1-2 miles