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Thread #24089 Message #4173705
Posted By: Jack Horntip
02-Jun-23 - 09:19 PM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD: Chamber Lye / John Harloson's Saltpeter
Subject: ADD: Rebel Gunpowder
REBEL GUNPOWDER.
[From the Sema (Ala.) Sentinel of Oct. 1, 1863.]
"The Ladies of Selma are rspectfully requested to preserve all their chamber ley collected about their premises, for the purpose of making 'Nitre.' Wagons, with barrels, will be sent around for it by the subscriber.
[Signed,] JOHN HARROLSON, Agent of Nitre and Mining Bureau.
John Harrolson! John Harrolson! You are a funny creature; You've given to this cruel war A new and curious feature. You'd have us think while ev'ry man Is bount to be a fighter, The women, (bless the pretty dears,) Should be put to making nitre.
John Harrolson! John Harrolson! How could you get the notion To send your barrels 'round the town To gather up the lotion. We think the girls do work enough In making love and kissing But you'll now put the pretty dears To patriotic pissing!
John Harrolson! John Harrolson! Could you not invent a meter [sic], Or some less immodest mode Of making our salt-petre? The thing, it is so queer, you know-- Gunpowder, line the crankey-- That when a lady lifts her shift She shoots a bloody Yankee.
John Harrolson! John Harrolson! Whate're was your intention, You've made another contraband Of things we hate to mention. What good will all our fighting do, If Yanks search Venus' mountains, And confiscate and carry off These Southern nitre fountains!