[2][b] That early pledge was set to music, and was sung at the meetings:— "This youthful band Do with our hand The pledge now sign- To drink no Wine, Nor Brandy red To turn the head, Nor Whiskey hot That makes the sot, Nor fiery Rum To turn our home Into a hell, Where none can dwell, Whence peace would fly, Where hope would die, And love expire 'Mid such a fire:- So here we pledge perpetual bate To all that can intoxicate.” During Hunt's travels over the country, he tried to organize a Cold Water Army society in every Sunday School which he visited..

[7] Soon after the formation of the Massachusetts Temperance Union, in 1838, they embraced the idea of educating the young in the principles of total abstinence by organizing the children into "Cold Water Armies".

[5] While for many years, there were juvenile temperance societies and other associations among children and youth, the Cold Water Army differed from them all, in some respects.

The Army sent large and enthusiastic delegations to the public temperance meetings held from 1837 to 1844 on the Fourth of July and Washington's Birthday.

[9] For a time, during the first half of the nineteenth century, the Army had a membership of about 200 boys and girls among the Cherokee Indians.

Scomp records its activity in Georgia in 1843, and stated that most of the Cold Water Army of Savannah enlisted for service in the Civil War, but few survived.

[5] Youthful soldiers paraded in their white and blue uniforms, waving their inscribed banners, and singing temperance songs.

[7] A Cold Water Army uniform button from Springfield, Massachusetts, of 1843, was characterized as solid, flat, gilt, 14.

[5] Aimed at children, the Cold Water Army and Youth's Picnic was a small, four page weekly periodical, of three columns, and about fourteen inches long.

Through all the years of mortal life Those drinks which cause pain, woe, and strife — Rum, Brandy, Whisky, Cordials fine, Gin, Cider, Porter, Ale, and Wine.