Anecdotes, Poetry, and Incidents of the War: North and South: 1860-1865Frank Moore Arundel, 1882 - 560 pages |
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... reaching the dent happened . valley I followed the sound of the drum , and soon found him seated upon the ground ... reached the camp of the enemy the little fellow was dead . They next perpetrated other atrocities of a de- structive ...
... reaching the dent happened . valley I followed the sound of the drum , and soon found him seated upon the ground ... reached the camp of the enemy the little fellow was dead . They next perpetrated other atrocities of a de- structive ...
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... reached the Poor Fork at the Cumberland . Marched up its quicksand shores and beside the horizontal rock ledges that are natural for- tresses , ready made to the hand of the men of Harlan county to defend themselves from inva- sion by ...
... reached the Poor Fork at the Cumberland . Marched up its quicksand shores and beside the horizontal rock ledges that are natural for- tresses , ready made to the hand of the men of Harlan county to defend themselves from inva- sion by ...
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... reached the broad and swift Clinch river ; fording it , we halted at a very picturesque spot , where was a large old - time mansion and the only good flouring mill we had seen in our travels , with its very large wheel driven by the ...
... reached the broad and swift Clinch river ; fording it , we halted at a very picturesque spot , where was a large old - time mansion and the only good flouring mill we had seen in our travels , with its very large wheel driven by the ...
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... reached the topmost little saltpetre , as salt was scarce , and called two crest I cried , " All hail , Kentucky ! " and stretch- of my lads out of the ranks . One of them drew ed out my arm as if to grasp and welcome a long a sight on ...
... reached the topmost little saltpetre , as salt was scarce , and called two crest I cried , " All hail , Kentucky ! " and stretch- of my lads out of the ranks . One of them drew ed out my arm as if to grasp and welcome a long a sight on ...
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... ; how slowly let a mother tell ; how tedious let a widow speak who knows her idol broken in a distant land . Two weeks were past ere she reached Vicksburg Three days a sand bar ! What torture ! At 22 ANECDOTES , POETRY , AND INCIDENTS .
... ; how slowly let a mother tell ; how tedious let a widow speak who knows her idol broken in a distant land . Two weeks were past ere she reached Vicksburg Three days a sand bar ! What torture ! At 22 ANECDOTES , POETRY , AND INCIDENTS .
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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.