Anecdotes, Poetry, and Incidents of the War: North and South: 1860-1865Frank Moore Arundel, 1882 - 560 pages |
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... hills back of Fredericksburg looked as of land from which most of the wood had been though they were in possession of ... hill for at home and among friends - but to think of a more than an hour , watching them , and the fellow dying as ...
... hills back of Fredericksburg looked as of land from which most of the wood had been though they were in possession of ... hill for at home and among friends - but to think of a more than an hour , watching them , and the fellow dying as ...
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... hill commanding the camp being persuaders in fours around the hill to charge with sabre too potent to be gainsaid . The telegraph was should there be resistance . When the firing instantly destroyed before an intimation of our slacked ...
... hill commanding the camp being persuaders in fours around the hill to charge with sabre too potent to be gainsaid . The telegraph was should there be resistance . When the firing instantly destroyed before an intimation of our slacked ...
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... hill - tops , and throwing down some lead in a very the Cumberland . The men shouldered their spiteful way , but did no damage . I concluded , blankets , gave one last look at their steed stiff- after crossing and seeing one fellow ...
... hill - tops , and throwing down some lead in a very the Cumberland . The men shouldered their spiteful way , but did no damage . I concluded , blankets , gave one last look at their steed stiff- after crossing and seeing one fellow ...
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... Hill we were met by a wagon train ladened an incident . The horse of one of my soldiers with rations and corn that had been sent for by yielded up his life on the rugged paths this side Gen. Carter's messenger pressed on before us at of ...
... Hill we were met by a wagon train ladened an incident . The horse of one of my soldiers with rations and corn that had been sent for by yielded up his life on the rugged paths this side Gen. Carter's messenger pressed on before us at of ...
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... hill - side , ' down the glen , Rouse the sleeping citizen : Summon out the might of men ! Like a lion growling low ... hills of your sires Fling to heaven your signal - fires . Oh ! for God and duty stand , Heart to heart , and hand to ...
... hill - side , ' down the glen , Rouse the sleeping citizen : Summon out the might of men ! Like a lion growling low ... hills of your sires Fling to heaven your signal - fires . Oh ! for God and duty stand , Heart to heart , and hand to ...
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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.