Thanks for that Wm! All I can think is the previous ballad is so much alike I must have overlooked that page. The search is still on to identify the ballad. The first 4 stanzas are almost a companion piece to the previous ballad, both on the virtues of military drumming, but the remainder still looks like it could have come from a British broadside. About half a dozen of the ballads are obviously American Revolutionary pieces glorifying battle and scorning the British. They contain quite poetic language above the level of the usual broadside
doggerel, but the rest of this ballad is quite different in subject matter and style. I'll post the full ballad when I've typed it up. I have a few ideas as to what it might be and where I might find it. It actually makes for a decent ballad well worth putting a tune to.