Anecdotes, Poetry, and Incidents of the War: North and South: 1860-1865Frank Moore Arundel, 1882 - 560 pages |
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... body . I can do the hand - springs , and the tumbling , and the lay down and roll- overs , which are done with or without a musket . I have been drilled till the drill has become a bore . I have drilled in all the marches and leaps and ...
... body . I can do the hand - springs , and the tumbling , and the lay down and roll- overs , which are done with or without a musket . I have been drilled till the drill has become a bore . I have drilled in all the marches and leaps and ...
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... body , safely reached the island . At the last discharge of the cannon it recoiled even to the edge of the cliff , and falling over , was inextricably lost in the rock and jungle . Later the two howitzers , which had not been fired ...
... body , safely reached the island . At the last discharge of the cannon it recoiled even to the edge of the cliff , and falling over , was inextricably lost in the rock and jungle . Later the two howitzers , which had not been fired ...
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... body when examined , and his 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 ...
... body when examined , and his 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 ...
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... bodies of senseless corpses , lest there be some aspirations met with the highest favor , and on the spark of life left in ... body left to be cared for by the enemy . The news nearly killed his affectionate mother , and she , with the ...
... bodies of senseless corpses , lest there be some aspirations met with the highest favor , and on the spark of life left in ... body left to be cared for by the enemy . The news nearly killed his affectionate mother , and she , with the ...
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... body rebelled against death , and fought every inch of the way , forcing As we stood looking at him , the ward master him to draw each breath with a spasm , and clench handed me a letter , saying it had been forgotten his hands with an ...
... body rebelled against death , and fought every inch of the way , forcing As we stood looking at him , the ward master him to draw each breath with a spasm , and clench handed me a letter , saying it had been forgotten his hands with an ...
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Page 401 - Were beating like prisoners assaulting their walls, Impatient to be where the battle-field calls ; Every nerve of the charger was strained to full play, With Sheridan only ten miles away. "Under his spurning feet, the road Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed, And the landscape sped away behind, Like an ocean flying before the wind ; And the steed like a bark fed with furnace ire, Swept on with his wild eye full of fire.
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 439 - And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light. Hast thou chosen, O my people, on whose party thou shalt stand, Ere the Doom from its worn sandals shakes the dust against our land ? Though the cause of Evil prosper, yet 'tis Truth alone is strong, And, albeit she wander outcast now, I see around her throng Troops of beautiful, tall angels, to enshield her from all wrong.
Page 455 - Blondin, stand up a little straighter — Blondin, stoop a little more — go a little faster — lean a little more to the north — lean a little more to the south?
Page 439 - Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side ; Some great cause, God's new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right, And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
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 390 - 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 401 - 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 103 - He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword; His truth is marching on. I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps; They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps; I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps: His day is marching on. I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel; "As ye deal with my condemners, so with you my grace shall deal; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel, Since God...
Page 103 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible, swift sword. His truth is marching on.