The Civil War in Song and Story, 1860-1865P. F. Collier, 1889 - 560 pages |
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... brave old tree Our fathers gathered in arms , and swore They would follow the sign their banners bore , And fight till the land was free . Half of their work was done , Half is left to do— Cambridge and Concord and Lexington ! When the ...
... brave old tree Our fathers gathered in arms , and swore They would follow the sign their banners bore , And fight till the land was free . Half of their work was done , Half is left to do— Cambridge and Concord and Lexington ! When the ...
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... brave boys had gone along . I always told them never to stop for me . Dead and wounded lay thick around . One captain of French's division BY JAS . R. RANDALL , By blue Patapsco's billowy dash , The tyrant's war - shout comes , Along ...
... brave boys had gone along . I always told them never to stop for me . Dead and wounded lay thick around . One captain of French's division BY JAS . R. RANDALL , By blue Patapsco's billowy dash , The tyrant's war - shout comes , Along ...
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... brave and determined scaman by all of his acquaint- ances around the New Basin . A sergeant and one soldier were placed aboard the " Clide , " with orders to steer for the New London , then some twelve or eighteen miles off . The wind ...
... brave and determined scaman by all of his acquaint- ances around the New Basin . A sergeant and one soldier were placed aboard the " Clide , " with orders to steer for the New London , then some twelve or eighteen miles off . The wind ...
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... brave . - To clear the road and let him pass , He hails each runaway ; But their respect for rank , alas ! Is broke and done away ! Wagon and cart , and man and beast , All in the turnpike jammed ; Mess pork and hams , and shot and ...
... brave . - To clear the road and let him pass , He hails each runaway ; But their respect for rank , alas ! Is broke and done away ! Wagon and cart , and man and beast , All in the turnpike jammed ; Mess pork and hams , and shot and ...
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... brave , devoted band , Whose action is honor , whose cause is good , We pledge our strong right hand . Work - work — work , - With earnest heart and soul Work work — work , --- -- To keep the Union whole . And ' tis O for the land of ...
... brave , devoted band , Whose action is honor , whose cause is good , We pledge our strong right hand . Work - work — work , - With earnest heart and soul Work work — work , --- -- To keep the Union whole . And ' tis O for the land of ...
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Page 399 - Up from the south, at break of day, Bringing to Winchester fresh dismay. The affrighted air with a shudder bore, Like a herald in haste, to the chieftain's door, The terrible grumble and rumble and roar, Telling the battle was on once more, And Sheridan twenty miles away.
Page 82 - All quiet along the Potomac," 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.
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 ; 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 399 - Foreboding to traitors the doom of disaster. The heart of the steed and the heart of the master 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...
Page 438 - New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea, Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.
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 399 - Or the trail of a comet, sweeping faster and faster, Foreboding to traitors the doom of disaster. The heart of the steed and the heart of the master Were beating like prisoners...
Page 453 - 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 460 - She has gone,— she has left us in passion and pride, — Our stormy-browed sister, so long at our side! She has torn her own star from our firmament's glow, And turned on her brother the face of a foe!
Page 321 - Never mind, General, all this has been MY fault — it is I that have lost this fight, and you must help me out of it in the best way you can.