The Drum Beat/Number 10/A Soldier's Response
A SOLDIER'S RESPONSE.
"A few words of congratulation and encouragement to the patriotic friends of the Soldiers, who are making such noble efforts in our behalf, in our much loved city of Brooklyn! God speed you, my friends, and the noble cause for which you are working! You are most effectually warring against the enemies of our country; for you are gladdening the hearts of our soldiers wherever they may be, as they read of the unanimous exertions you are putting forth in their behalf. The sound of the "Drum Beat" of the Brooklyn and Long Island Fair has reached the encampments of the soldiers, hibernating on the sacred soil, and mingles its cheering notes with the stirring reveille, and the warning tattoo. When the shrill bugle and the trumpet bid us "Fall in," and the clatter of musketry announces to us the approaching conflict, our hearts will be nerved to action, and our spirits cheered, as we think of those who are so nobly working for us! We will march to certain victory, for we feel how "sweet it is to die for one's country." A. Soldier.
Alexandria, Va., Feb. 24, 1864.