Says stonewall Jackson to “Little Phil:” “Phil, have you heard the news?
Why, our ‘Joe’ Wheeler—‘Fighting Joe’—has gone and joined the blues.

“Ay, no mistake—I saw him come—I heard the oath he took—
And you ’ll find it duly entered up in yon great Record Book.

“Yes, ‘Phil,’ it is a change since then (we give the Lord due thanks)
When ‘Joe’ came...