Excerpt from The Charge of the Bean Brigade: A Description of the Grand Bean-Eating Journament for the Tonawanda News Gold Badge and Championship of New York, at Tonawanda, April 15, 1884, Under Auspies of Scott Post No, 129, G. A. R

Change of the Bean Brigade.

For years among the savants
It was a mooted theme
Whether as a fruit or berry,
Should be classed the goodly bean,
But while the question lingered
In controversial mist,
It was mustered in the Army,
Upon the ration list.

A staple dish it soon became,
And claimed the soldier's care,
Whate'er he lacked, be sure the bean
Still graced his bill of fare.
Or east or west, on land or sea,
Howe'er the diet changed,
The soldier and his dish of beans
Was never yet estranged.

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