The Maine bugle ... campaign; 1-5 Jan. 1894-Oct. 1898 - Maine.gov

80 THE MAINE BUGLE.
Reveille.
O voices winter-clear, awake !
In all the wild familiar shrines;
In thunder on the great shores break;
Call from the deathless mountain pines
The chant, that lulled their cradle rest.
The sweet refrain to heart and brain;
Cry " Welcome " !
down each cliff and crest
For these, our boys—the sons of Maine !
For two years and a half have the First Maine Cavalry skir-
mished with the First Maine BUGLE. They have fully found
out the lay of the land and ascertained the position of the
enemy, and now, in the usual cavalry custom, they propose to
withdraw the curtain of their ranks and let the infantry men of
Maine and the red artillery do some shooting. Don't be
alarmed about your flanks. The cavalry will be out that way,
somewhere, and when you have defeated the opposing foe you
will hear them yell as though they had performed all the fight-
ing. But in good fellowship do not take umbrage at their noise ;
for it is a military axiom that the cavalry yell on the flank or
in the rear of the enemy's column is as efifective in demoraliz-
ing their ranks as the sharp, close crack of repeating carbines.
The clear field now before you is all Maine, and on the field
thus developed and made ready for the muskets and guns of
the artillery and infantry, )'ou are urged to take your position
and open fire.
We ask the attention of every reader of this first Call to its
distinctive Maine flavor, and to the fact that such flavor is as
upright and fragrant as her northern spruce. One feature in
this Maine atmosphere is the adherence of her soldiers to an
unbending devotion to the lines of duty as relentless and full of
purpose as her northern winters. The first article—Comrade
Brown's, of the First Maine Heavy Artillery—has aroused crit-
icism and discussion. This is one purpose of the BUGLE. It