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getoutofthisplace · 1 month

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Dear Gus & Magnus,

Usually when we eat dinner with the Grummers, we let you kids play for a while, then we put Martin and Magnus to bed and let the big kids put on pajamas and watch a movie while the parents hang out, but tonight we decided to let the little kids join in on the movie. Magnus was STOKED. Gus talked everyone into watching Aristocats, which is a favorite in our house right now. Rhett lost interest quickly, though, and spent the rest of the movie trying to convince everyone to abandon it.

We didn't go home until nearly 11pm and he (predictably) threw a fit when I pulled him from the bed because he was so tired. All in all, a good time, though. I can't believe how big the littles are getting.

Dad.

Little Rock, Arkansas. 3.22.2024 - 8.52pm.

#the grummers #gus choate #magnus choate #martin grummer #lane grummer #rhett grummer #movie night #kids #sleepover

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revolutionarywarhistory · 1 year

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"Flecking the hedges with red": Palmer's Ballad on the Maryland 400

A photograph of John Williamson Palmer who wrote ‘The Maryland Battalion’

Editor's note: this is an article I posted on September 28, 2016 on Finding the Maryland 400. Reposted from Academia.edu and my History Hermann WordPress blog.

In the past, we have written about poems and songs relating to the Maryland 400. [1] They were celebrated years after and during the Revolutionary War, with newspapers often containing poems and songs. Such poems included one about William Sterrett in 1776 and a song by Tom Wisner titled “The Old Line.” Poems and ballads, which are narrative poems, not only appeared in newspapers but also in books. This post analyzes the 1901 ballad titled “The Maryland Battalion in the Battle of Long Island” and its author. [2]

The ballad’s author was a native Baltimorean named John Williamson Palmer. He was a physician by profession, but later became a journalist, and served as a New York Tribune correspondent in Richmond, Virginia during the Civil War. [3] He traveled across the world to India and elsewhere in East Asia, worked for the East India Company, and warned acclaim after contributing to numerous periodicals. [4] During the Civil War, Palmer wrote the well-known ballad titled “Stonewall Jackson’s Way” during the Battle of Antietam in 1862. [5] This ballad became one of the South’s most popular lyrics. This is not surprising because Palmer joined the Confederate Army and later served on the staff of John C. Breckinridge, the Secretary of War of the Confederacy. [6] After the Civil War, he published a book of folk songs and numerous other books of note. He had become, as his former employer, the New York Tribune, called him, “a veteran balladist” who will “be long remembered” because of his good verse. [7] By the early twentieth century, some claimed that he become a writer with “vigorous lyric faculty.” [8]

“The Maryland Battalion” was originally printed in a 1902 book titled Every Day in the Year. The book was a “poetical anthology” which commemorated “the most striking events in history” and the men and women who “have left an imprint on their day and generation.” [9] The ballad was printed with an introduction making it clear it was about the Battle of Brooklyn. [10] His ballad fits with those he wrote about Stonewall Jackson and the Battle of the San Jacinto in 1836 by exhibiting a patriotic theme, from his point of view. [11]

The text of this ballad is reprinted below [12]:

Spruce Macaronis, and pretty to see, Tidy and dapper and gallant were we; Blooded fine gentlemen, proper and tall, Bold in a fox-hunt and gay at a ball; Prancing soldados so martial and bluff, Billets for bullets, in scarlet and buff— But our cockades were clasped with a mother’s low prayer And the sweethearts that braided the sword-knots were fair [13] There was grummer of drums humming hoarse in the hills, And the bugles sang fanfares down by the mills, By Flatbush [14] the bagpipes were droning amain, And keen cracked the rifles in Martense’s lane [15]; For the Hessians were flecking the hedges with red [16], And the grenadiers’ tramp marked the roll of the dead Three to one, flank and rear, flashed the files of St. George [17], The fierce gleam of their steel as the glow of a forge. The brutal boom-boom of their swart cannoneers Was sweet music compared with the taunt of their cheers— For the brunt of their onset, our crippled array, And the light of God’s leading gone out in the fray. Oh, the rout on the left and the tug on the right! The mad plunge of the charge and the wreck of the flight! When the cohorts of Grant [18] held stout Stirling [19] at strain, And the mongrels of Hesse [20] went tearing the slain; When at Freeke’s Mill the flumes and the sluices ran red, And the dead choked the dike and the marsh choked the dead! “Oh, Stirling, good Stirling, how long must we wait? Shall the shout of your trumpet unleash us too late? Have you never a dash for brave Mordecai Gist [21] With his heart in his throat, and his blade in his fist? Are we good for no more than to prance in a ball, When the drums beat the charge and the clarions call?” Tralára! Tralára! Now praise we the Lord For the clang of His call and the flash of His sword! Tralára! Tralára! Now forward to die; For the banner, hurrah! and for sweethearts, good-by! “Four hundred wild lads!” May be so. I’ll be bound ’T will be easy to count us, face up, on the ground. If we hold the road open, though Death take the toll, We’ll be missed on parade when the States call the roll— When the flags meet in peace and the guns are at rest, And fair Freedom is singing Sweet Home in the West. [22]

At the time, the ballad was positively received. Noted writer Rossiter Johnson said it reminded him of classic lyrics of another balladist, while the Chicago Tribune said that the ballad, along with his other writings, had become “familiar to the American people.” [23] The St. Louis Republic called it “blood-stirring” and the Baltimore Sun said it had no less “dash and ring” than his other ballads and would, which “rouse the blood to action and enthusiasm.” [24] Acclaimed poet Charles D. Roberts even praised it, calling it a “splendid piece of work, inevitable and unforgettable.” This flattery is not surprising because the ballad was written in style of that time by catering to a Victorian appetite for heroes and legends and preserving the Maryland 400’s story, while cultivating Maryland pride.

– Burkely Hermann, Maryland Society of the Sons of American Revolution Research Fellow, 2016.

Notes

[1] Another post on this blog also put the ‘Midnight Ride of Paul Revere’ into context as it relates to Maryland.

[2] Alan, a volunteer at the Baltimore County Historical Society, gave me a copy of this ballad this summer when I made a trip to this historical society. In order to be consistent, the word ballad is used even though some refer to it as a poem.

[3] Henry E. Shepard, The Representative Authors of Maryland: From the Earliest Time to the Present Day With Biographical Notes and Comments Upon Their Work (New York: Whitehall Publishing Company, 1911), 100; American History Told by Contemporaries: Welding of the Nation 1845-1900 (ed. Albert Bushnell Hart, Honolulu: University Press of the Pacific, 2002, reprint of 1921 edition), 282.

[4] Rand Richards. Mud, Blood, and Gold: San Francisco in 1849 (San Francisco: Heritage House Publishers, 2008), 201; Shepard, 100; American History Told by Contemporaries, 282.

[5] Richards, 86, 101; Southern Life in Southern Literature: Selections of Representative Prose and Poetry (ed. Maurice Garland Fulton, New York: Ginn and Economy, 1917), 259-261.

[6] American History Told by Contemporaries, 282; “Words of the Hour”: A New Anthology of Civil War Poetry (ed. Faith Barrett and Cristanne Miller, Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005), 389; Herman Melville, Correspondence (Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 1993), 516; Women reading Shakespeare 1660-1900: An anthology of criticism (ed. Ann Thompson and Sasha Roberts, New York: Manchester University Press, 1997), 110; Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition. The Merchant of Venice (ed. William Baker and Brian Vickers, New York: Thoemes Continuum, 2005), 86; Shepard, 100-101; Southern Life in Southern Literature, 259. Before the war, in 1855, he married Henrietta Lee, a Baltimorean who was a prolific writer and reader of Shakespeare. Palmer also had correspondence with the acclaimed novelist Herman Melville after the Civil War.

[7] “A Southern Poet.” The Evangelical Episcopalian. Vol. 14, no. 1. March 1902. pp. 464; Every Day in the Year: A Poetical Epitome of the World’s History (ed. James L. Ford and Mary K. Ford, New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1902), v. Others called him “one of America’s real poets,” before his death in 1906.

[8] John Wanamaker, Book News: A Monthly Survey of General Literature. Vol. 19 (Philadelphia: John Wanamaker, 1901), 684.

[9] Every Day in the Year, 289.

[10] Ibid, 133, 157-158.

[11] Poetry of the People (ed. Charles Mills Gayley and Martin C. Flaherty, Boston: Ginn & Company Publishers, 1904), 238-239; The Home Book of Verse: American and English 1580-1918 Third Edition (ed. Burton Egbert Stevenson, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1918), 2429; Index of Current Literature (ed. Edward J. Wheeler). Vol. 40. New York: The Current Literature Publishing Company, Jan-June 1906, 449-450.

[12] The tune of this ballad is not known.

[13] “Scarlet and buff” is a reference to the uniforms Smallwood’s soldiers and said to have worn. In actuality they did not wear these uniforms. Instead, they wore white linen or hunting shirts, leather breeches, leather belts, stockings, leather shoes with buckles, and felt hats.

[14] General Sullivan was driven back by the Hessians, hired soldiers fighting for the British, and flanked by Clinton’s forces in Flatbush.

[15] Martenese’s lane was a road that was the Greenwood cemetery’s southern border in Brooklyn.

[16] As a private of the Maryland William McMillian put it in his description of the battle, “We were surrounded by Healanders [Scottish Highlanders] on one side, Hessians on the other.”

[17] The “files of St. George” are British soldiers.

[18] A British general named James Grant commanded the left wing during the battle.

[19] Lord Stirling, or William Alexander, was a veteran of the Seven Years War, and was a brigadier general during the battle.

[20] Refers to Hessians.

[21] Mordecai Gist was a native Baltimorean and commanded the Marylanders during the Battle.

[22] The last lines are saying that people should fight at any cost for their freedom and is challenging readers to fight and not be weak.

[23] The Missionary Review of the World vol. 24, part 2. Funk & Wagnalls, 1901, 160.

[24] The Missionary Review of the World, 115, 160, 181-182; The Literary Digest Vol. XXII, no. 25. June 22, 1901, 1A2.

#maryland 400 #john williamson palmer #poems #revolutionary war #mordecai gist #patriotism #confederacy #civil war #hessians #germany

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unhowl · 4 years

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getoutofthisplace · 1 month

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Dear Gus & Magnus,

Front-yard afternoon playdate with the Grummers today. The back of the truck is still a popular place to be.

Dad.

Little Rock, Arkansas. 3.19.2024 - 5.42pm.

#pick-up truck #spring #gus choate #rhett grummer #lane grummer #magnus choate #martin grummer #kids

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getoutofthisplace · 1 month

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Dear Gus & Magnus,

The Grummers joined us for dinner on the back porch tonight -- Mom made ravioli. It was good to catch up with them and enjoy the great weather before the mosquitos show up.

Dad.

Little Rock, Arkansas. 3.14.2024 - 6.14pm.

#lane grummer #rhett grummer #gus choate #kids table #spring #outdoor eating

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getoutofthisplace · 2 months

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Dear Gus & Magnus,

The weather was pretty today and I was glad to come home to you and the Grummer kids playing in the front yard. Magnus is making some progress on that scooter.

Dad.

Little Rock, Arkansas. 2.15.2024 - 5.35pm.

#magnus choate #lane grummer #martin grummer #jacob grummer #ridgeway drive #kids #hillcrest #scooters

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getoutofthisplace · 3 months

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Dear Gus & Magnus,

The weather has turned nice and the neighborhood kids had taken to the streets by the time I got home from work.

I took Gus to gymnastics. When we got home, he noticed the stars and had questions, so we sat on my tailgate and I tried to show him how to find Orion without using a phone. It was only a couple of minutes, but that was probably my favorite two minutes of the day.

Dad.

Little Rock, Arkansas. 1.30.2024 - 5.26pm.

#lane grummer #martin grummer #magnus choate #constellations #kids #ridgeway drive #scooter #strider

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getoutofthisplace · 5 months

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Dear Gus & Magnus,

Magnus is still sick and was sleeping on Mom, so I came home from working at the coffee shop to walk the big kids home from school. On the way, the three of them argued about what it took to win "the race" -- being the first one or the last one. Lane got mad and finally ran away from the boys. I tried to explain to anyone who would listen that nobody won if the rules of the race changed in the middle of the race to accommodate any certain person involved in the race...but no one though I knew what I was talking about.

Yiayia and Nene (and Nene's friend Rick) came down to watch Gus in his holiday program at PHE, then we had tacos. Magnus didn't sleep again, so Mom and I divided up the night like we did when he was a baby. I laid beside his crib and comforted him until 1.30am, then gave him some medicine and dropped him off with Mom in our bed. The lack of sleep is starting to get to us. Poor Gus, while he's the only one actually getting sleep, he's having to deal with three cranky personalities right now.

Dad.

Little Rock, Arkansas. 12.12.2023 - 3.01pm.

#lane grummer #rhett grummer #gus choate #after school #walking home from school #kids #race

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getoutofthisplace · 7 months

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Dear Gus & Magnus,

I came home from work to find a decent Ridgeway crew hanging out in our front yard, which is always fun to come home to. Bikes, balls, Beyblades. We're so close to fall and I can't wait.

Dad.

Little Rock, Arkansas. 9.13.2023 - 5.25pm.

#ridgeway drive #neighborhood #martin grummer #jacob grummer #liz choate #rhett grummer #benjamin talpos #lane grummer #antonia kar #front yard

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getoutofthisplace · 8 months

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Dear Gus & Magnus,

The Grummers were at our house when I got home from work today. You guys wanted to play in the backyard, so I sat on the porch and watched you while Mom and Jacob and Martin stayed inside. Gus and Rhett had fun throwing the ball with Suki, which I appreciated -- Rhett used to be terrified of her. Lane and Magnus played in the castle, but then Lane locked Magnus out and she refused to let him in after I asked her to. Finally I told her she was going to have to get out of the castle if she couldn't share. When she still refused, I told her to come out of the castle and she screamed "I HATE THIS DAY!" and "I DIDN'T WANT TO COME TO THE CHOATES' ANYWAY!" and stomped inside.

Later, Mom said, "So, Lane came in and slammed the door and when Jacob asked her what was up, she said, 'Guy said he hated me.' What happened out there?"

I have my fingers crossed that your friends don't grow up thinking I'm an asshole in the way I thought some of my friends' parents were assholes.

Dad.

Little Rock, Arkansas. 9.1.2023 - 6.06pm.

#parenting #lane grummer #rhett grummer #gus choate #suki choate #suki and gus #playing #kids #backyard #castle

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getoutofthisplace · 7 months

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Dear Gus & Magnus,

Mom worked today, so Gus came with us to soccer. Magnus has shown some improvement on kicking the ball, but he has a hard time focusing. Gus helped me wrangle him. Afterward, we went with a crew to Shipley's on Cantrell and basically took over the place. Then we went to the Children's Library so Gus could get the Zoey & Sassafras book he wanted. Cory and the big Grummer kids were there as well, so we played for a while on the playground. Then Gus's friend Evelyn showed up. Gus has told me that lots of kids have crushes on each other at school and Evelyn has a crush on Isaac. While they were playing chase at the library, I heard Evelyn say to Gus, "I'm going to pretend you're Isaac... Come here, my love!" She chased Gus and he ran from her. I laughed.

After Magnus's nap we crushed cans and played in the backyard. Rhett came over and joined us. I baked cod for dinner. It was a good day.

Dad.

Little Rock, Arkansas. 10.7.2023 - 10.59am.

#rhett grummer #gus choate #magnus choate #lane grummer #merry go round #children's library #library #hillary clinton chilren's library #playground #kids

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getoutofthisplace · 1 year

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Dear Gus & Magnus,

I left early this morning to catch a flight to Denver, where I'll meet with our water team over the next couple of days to discuss the Garver brand in Colorado and get some footage/photos of our team there. Meanwhile back at the ranch, this photo showed up on our Ridgeway Drive text thread. I'm so thankful you two get to grow up on the same section of the street as lots of other kids with parents we like. I can't wait to see what the recreation of this picture looks like in 15 years.

Dad.

Little Rock, Arkansas. 2.28.2023 - 5.57pm.

#ridgeway drive #ridgeway kids #eli strong #isaac strong #alex borne-williams #madeleine borne-williams #gracie morgan #rhett grummer #lane grummer #gus choate #magnus choate #martin grummer #benjamin talpos #kids #Charlie clark #cute

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getoutofthisplace · 7 months

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Dear Gus & Magnus,

As soon as I got back from Northwest Arkansas this afternoon, we loaded up and went to Camp Clearfork on the invitation of the Grummers. Cory's dad and his friend have been bringing their families (and friends) to this place I'd never heard of for 31 years. The Cerratos also came this year. The group rented out the whole place and hired someone to handle all the meals -- this year it was the guy from Afrobites, which is a place I've been meaning to visit ever since I sampled it at Taste of Little Rock.

I think there were something like two dozen of us, all bunking in cabins and hanging out. We stayed up way past bedtime so you two could play Beyblades and trade Pokémon cards while the grown-ups played catchphrase. The best part of this place is that there's no cell reception. It was nice to hang out with so many grownups and not one of them had his nose in a phone.

Dad.

Royal, Arkansas. 9.22.2023 - 8.30pm.

#camp clearfork #pokemon #beyblades #magnus choate #lane grummer #aria cerrato #zoey cerrato #gus choate #rhett grummer

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getoutofthisplace · 1 year

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Dear Gus & Magnus,

The Grummers hosted a party for Jacob's work tonight, so we agreed to keep the big kids for them. It was Gus's first time to have friends sleeping over and I think they all had fun. When I got Mags out of the bath and he realized Rhett and Lane were still at our house, he was STOKED. He crawled right up beside Rhett to watch the movie. We put the Grummer kids on the Nugget beside Gus's bed.

Dad.

Little Rock, Arkansas. 3.11.2023 - 6.06pm.

#lane grummer #gus choate #rhett grummer #magnus choate #liz choate #sleepover #kids

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getoutofthisplace · 1 year

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Dear Gus & Magnus,

Leigh Ann and the Grummers joined us for pizza and play time at our house tonight. It's worth noting how much Magnus loves the cowboy had Grandpa & Tutu sent him a while back. When I change his diaper in the morning, he always reaches for it.

Dad.

Little Rock, Arkansas. 11.20.2022 - 7.21pm.

#magnus choate #martin grummer #lane grummer #rhett grummer #gus choate #kids #cowboy #cowboy hat #toys #playdate

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getoutofthisplace · 1 year

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Dear Gus & Magnus,

This morning I had orientation for the UA-Little Rock Alumni Board, of which I am now a part. I'm excited about the opportunity to help make my alma mater -- and our city -- better.

We had dinner at the Grummers' house. Afterward, I put Magnus to bed and the big kids watched a movie while the grown-ups caught up -- we haven't hung out in a while. When I went upstairs to tell Gus it was time to go home and go to bed, he was asleep.

Dad.

Little Rock, Arkansas. 1.13.2023 - 11.48pm.

#lane grummer #gus choate #rhett grummer #sleepy #cozy #kids #movie night

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