Life With the Forty-Ninth Massachusetts Volunteers. by Henry T. Johns.For the author, 1864 - 424 pages |
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... death of the offender . Now , that is not a death punishment for theft , but for an at- tempt to undermine government itself . Let him succeed , let a thousand others succeed unresisted , and where is the safety of property ? That ...
... death of the offender . Now , that is not a death punishment for theft , but for an at- tempt to undermine government itself . Let him succeed , let a thousand others succeed unresisted , and where is the safety of property ? That ...
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... ( and it is great ) to con- tinue the contest till victory or death . While African slavery is sure to go under the waves of this aroused ocean , future historians will scarcely recognize it as one 10 LIFE WITH THE FORTY - NINTH.
... ( and it is great ) to con- tinue the contest till victory or death . While African slavery is sure to go under the waves of this aroused ocean , future historians will scarcely recognize it as one 10 LIFE WITH THE FORTY - NINTH.
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... death ! Strange as it may sound to you , after the above , yet it is true , a better class of men are enlisting now than ever be- fore . Go through the county , see the comfortable homes they are leaving , learn their position and ...
... death ! Strange as it may sound to you , after the above , yet it is true , a better class of men are enlisting now than ever be- fore . Go through the county , see the comfortable homes they are leaving , learn their position and ...
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... death may be his ; but let it come when it may , by disease or bullet , I feel sure that it will be the death of a true soldier of Freedom . He is of the stuff that enters not into the making of shirkers and cowards . Dr. Witt S. Smith ...
... death may be his ; but let it come when it may , by disease or bullet , I feel sure that it will be the death of a true soldier of Freedom . He is of the stuff that enters not into the making of shirkers and cowards . Dr. Witt S. Smith ...
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... Death ! " Our pilot is stepping up to the great principles involved in this struggle , and we will find that God will clothe us with more earnestness , as each man puts to himself this question : " If Heaven should lose , and Hell ...
... Death ! " Our pilot is stepping up to the great principles involved in this struggle , and we will find that God will clothe us with more earnestness , as each man puts to himself this question : " If Heaven should lose , and Hell ...
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Page 41 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate.
Page 108 - THE maid who binds her warrior's sash With smile that well her pain dissembles, The while beneath her drooping lash One starry tear-drop hangs and trembles, Though Heaven alone records the tear, And Fame, shall never know her story, Her heart has shed a drop as dear As e'er bedewed the field of glory...
Page 41 - Tis of the wave and not the rock ; ,Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar. In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea ! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee...
Page 330 - One song employs all nations; and all cry, ' Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us!' The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy; Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous Hosanna round.
Page 31 - I will bear true faith and allegiance to the United States of America; that I will serve them honestly and faithfully against all their enemies whomsoever; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to the rules and articles of war.
Page 332 - We are living, we are dwelling, In a grand and awful time, In an age on ages telling, To be living is sublime.
Page 121 - Salisbury chooses, he may take their opinion and yours upon the issue which he himself will have raised— the issue between the Peers and the People — between the privileges of the few and the rights of the many.
Page 160 - The brave man is not he who feels no fear, . For that were stupid and irrational, But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.
Page 108 - Mid little ones who weep or wonder, And bravely speaks the cheering word, What though her heart be rent asunder, Doomed nightly in her dreams to hear The bolts of death around him rattle, Hath shed as sacred blood as e'er Was poured upon the field of battle...
Page 255 - Dark as the clouds of even, Ranked in the western heaven, Waiting the breath that lifts All the dread mass, and drifts Tempest and falling brand Over a ruined land ; So still and orderly, Arm .to arm, knee to knee, Waiting the great event, Stands the black regiment. " Down the long dusky line, Teeth gleam and eyeballs shine ; And the bright bayonet, Bristling and firmly set...