One after another, flags cased under a
gray sky, the regiments moved out of the camp grounds and took to the road for
Fredericksburg. The 24th New Jersey kept the cadence a little while after it
got on the road, instead of lapsing at once into route step, and struck up a
little ditty which it had composed to the tune of the John Brown song:
"We'll soon light our fires on the Rappahannock shore;
We'll soon light our fires on the Rappahannock shore; And tell Father Abraham
he needn't call for more-While we go marching on."
Down the road they
went, and the song died away, and the army trudged off to the east.
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