Anecdotes, Poetry, and Incidents of the War: North and South. 1860-1865subscribers, 1867 - 560 pages |
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... feet in height , soon made his post was upon a high eminence that overlooked appearance . the deep ravine in which our men had engaged Upon being introduced to his new comrade , he the enemy , until Totten's battery came to their ...
... feet in height , soon made his post was upon a high eminence that overlooked appearance . the deep ravine in which our men had engaged Upon being introduced to his new comrade , he the enemy , until Totten's battery came to their ...
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... feet had been the Federal lines she coolly gave them up to the shot away by a cannon - ball . After satisfying his officer commanding as . prisoners . In accounting thirst , he looked up into my face and said : " You for their capture ...
... feet had been the Federal lines she coolly gave them up to the shot away by a cannon - ball . After satisfying his officer commanding as . prisoners . In accounting thirst , he looked up into my face and said : " You for their capture ...
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... feet to the foe . Two lines pased over me , but soon they swayed back , trampling on the dead and dying . Halting about thirty yards in the rear , one line laid down and commenced firing . Imagine the situation . Right between two fires ...
... feet to the foe . Two lines pased over me , but soon they swayed back , trampling on the dead and dying . Halting about thirty yards in the rear , one line laid down and commenced firing . Imagine the situation . Right between two fires ...
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... feet ? " Sentinel ( without looking up ) . " That's the way we used to do when the war first began ; but that's played out long ago . " Colonel ( beginning to doubt if the man was on duty ) . Are you the sentinel here ? " Sentinel ...
... feet ? " Sentinel ( without looking up ) . " That's the way we used to do when the war first began ; but that's played out long ago . " Colonel ( beginning to doubt if the man was on duty ) . Are you the sentinel here ? " Sentinel ...
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... feet by tramping over the rocks to ease their own good horses , and trusting to Provi- dence to keep down the wide and swift rivers that drain these wild mountains . There was to ford , on going and coming , the Cumberland , Powell's ...
... feet by tramping over the rocks to ease their own good horses , and trusting to Provi- dence to keep down the wide and swift rivers that drain these wild mountains . There was to ford , on going and coming , the Cumberland , Powell's ...
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Page 388 - Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate : "To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods...
Page 287 - God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him might not perish, but have everlasting life.
Page 399 - But there is a road from Winchester town, A good broad highway leading down ; And there, through the flush of the morning light, A steed as black as the steeds of night, Was seen to pass, as with eagle flight...
Page 245 - WHEN I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes.
Page 437 - Once, to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side...
Page 82 - ' they say, " Except now and then a stray picket Is shot, as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket. "Tis nothing : a private or two now and then Will not count in the news of the battle ; Not an officer lost, only one of the men Moaning out all alone the death-rattle." All quiet along the Potomac...
Page 183 - As hail rebounds from a roof of slate, Rebounds our heavier hail From each iron scale Of the monster's hide. " Strike your flag ! " the rebel cries, In his arrogant old plantation strain. ' ' Never ! " our gallant Morris replies ; " It is better to sink than to yield ! " And the whole air pealed With the cheers of our men.
Page 429 - That lay in the house that Jack built. This is the cow with the crumpled horn, That tossed the dog, That worried the cat, That killed the rat, That ate the malt, That lay in the house that Jack built.
Page 103 - In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea. With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me; As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free. While God is marching on.
Page 99 - He's in the saddle now. Fall in, Steady the whole brigade! Hill's at the ford, cut off; we'll win His way out, ball and blade. What matter if our shoes are worn? What matter if our feet are torn? Quick step! We're with him before morn — That's Stonewall Jackson's way.