Mount to horse--mount to horse;
Forward, Battalion!
Gallop the gallant force;
Down with Rebellion!
Over hill, creek and plain
Clatter the fearless--
Dash away--splash away--
Led by the Peerless.
Carbines crack--foemen fly
Hither and thither;
Under the death-fire
They falter and wither.
Burn the bridge--tear the track--
Down with Rebellion!
Cut the wires--cut the wires!
Forward, Battalion!
Day and night--night and day,
Gallop the fearless--
Swimming the rivers' floods--
Led by the Peerless;
Depots and powder-trains
Blazing and thundering
Masters and dusky slaves
Gazing and wondering.
Eight hundred miles they ride--
Dauntless Battalion--
Down through the Southern Land
Mad with Rebellion.
Into our lines they dash--
Brave Cavaliers--
Greeting our flag with
A thunder of cheers.