Mary Kasulaitis wrote: > > ...cho: There's Sergeant John McCafferty and Corp'ral Donahue > They make us march up to the crack in gallant Company Q; > The drums they roll, upon my soul, for that's the way we go > Forty miles a day on beans and hay in the Regular Army, Oh... ----------------------- Mary, Thanks for the lyrics. Found McCafferty mentioned several times in "The Great Shame" by Thomas Keneally. As Mike said, he was a cavalry officer who served with John Hunt Morgan. Per Keneally, one of McC's CW experiences was leading a detachment behind Federal lines, capturing an ammunition depot, loading the ammo on barges, and floating it down the Mississippi while under fire. Keneally's sources for this are "The Fenian Movement in the United States, 1858-1886" by William D'Arcy, Washington, 1947, and "The Bold Fenian Men" by Robert Kee, London, 1972. Dennis