Life With the Forty-Ninth Massachusetts Volunteers. by Henry T. Johns.For the author, 1864 - 424 pages |
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Page 14
... negro can bide his time . He has begged for the privilege of fighting ; the time may come when , with large bounties in our hands , we may beg him to join our ranks . Too numerous ever to be re- moved - God will give them the ...
... negro can bide his time . He has begged for the privilege of fighting ; the time may come when , with large bounties in our hands , we may beg him to join our ranks . Too numerous ever to be re- moved - God will give them the ...
Page 36
... negro melodies , dances , and occasionally a prayer - meeting , till the drums beat for evening roll - call , which is soon followed by " taps , " when lights disappear from all save officers ' tents , and quiet rules over the camp ...
... negro melodies , dances , and occasionally a prayer - meeting , till the drums beat for evening roll - call , which is soon followed by " taps , " when lights disappear from all save officers ' tents , and quiet rules over the camp ...
Page 39
... negro soldiers , though pressed on his acceptance by the conservative Governor Sprague , of Rhode Island , and that he has issued a pro- clamation , dated September 22d , 1863 , declaring free- dom to all slaves of rebel masters , who ...
... negro soldiers , though pressed on his acceptance by the conservative Governor Sprague , of Rhode Island , and that he has issued a pro- clamation , dated September 22d , 1863 , declaring free- dom to all slaves of rebel masters , who ...
Page 126
... negro as peculiarly sensual . If so , phrenology is a lie . The heads of the men are very deficient in animal force , the major part be- ing above and in front of the ears . Singular , but true ; the heads of the women indicate great ...
... negro as peculiarly sensual . If so , phrenology is a lie . The heads of the men are very deficient in animal force , the major part be- ing above and in front of the ears . Singular , but true ; the heads of the women indicate great ...
Page 127
... negro wo- man . She told him she came there to pray for our suc- cess , and that God would make us soldiers of the cross . Poor old woman ! freedom would benefit her but little , but in the thick darkness she was praying for it , and ...
... negro wo- man . She told him she came there to pray for our suc- cess , and that God would make us soldiers of the cross . Poor old woman ! freedom would benefit her but little , but in the thick darkness she was praying for it , and ...
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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...