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.