Anecdotes, Poetry, and Incidents of the War: North and South : 1860-1865subscribers, 1866 - 560 pages |
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Page 11
... death within a foot of my head , There's faith in the streams , there's hope in the hills , my sabre , splitting it open , and knocking me BEAU HACKETT AS A ZOUAVE . - Militia companies have. tion the strongest associations that can ...
... death within a foot of my head , There's faith in the streams , there's hope in the hills , my sabre , splitting it open , and knocking me BEAU HACKETT AS A ZOUAVE . - Militia companies have. tion the strongest associations that can ...
Page 27
... death - like solemn appearance ing impressive incident occurred at Fort Sumter of Charleston , and the entire absence of anything on Major Anderson taking possession of that like business . It appeared as if a Scotch fast day place in ...
... death - like solemn appearance ing impressive incident occurred at Fort Sumter of Charleston , and the entire absence of anything on Major Anderson taking possession of that like business . It appeared as if a Scotch fast day place in ...
Page 37
... Death's sickle would be reaping ! As rise the distant cannon's tones , So mounts his martial ardor , His thoughts half on the work " in front " . Half on his meagre larder . At length he's there at Centreville ! In sight and sound of ...
... Death's sickle would be reaping ! As rise the distant cannon's tones , So mounts his martial ardor , His thoughts half on the work " in front " . Half on his meagre larder . At length he's there at Centreville ! In sight and sound of ...
Page 40
... death , and if he breathes no faster , and feels his limbs as free and his spirits as light as when taking a favorite promenade , he is more fitted for a hero than I am . In the agony of that moment — in the sudden and utter ...
... death , and if he breathes no faster , and feels his limbs as free and his spirits as light as when taking a favorite promenade , he is more fitted for a hero than I am . In the agony of that moment — in the sudden and utter ...
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... death must have come from the wind of a cannon ball , or from ex- citement . Lieutenant - Colonel De Monteil , who volun- teered in the assault upon the rebel battery , received his death wound while heading the advance , and while in ...
... death must have come from the wind of a cannon ball , or from ex- citement . Lieutenant - Colonel De Monteil , who volun- teered in the assault upon the rebel battery , received his death wound while heading the advance , and while in ...
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