The Civil War in Song and Story, 1860-1865P. F. Collier, 1889 - 560 pages |
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... head , There's faith in the streams , there's hope in the hills , my sabre , splitting it open , and knocking me the following account of his experiences in the service : [ Green Seal . ] ADROIT SMUGGLING : - A HERO INDEED . O Colonel ...
... head , There's faith in the streams , there's hope in the hills , my sabre , splitting it open , and knocking me the following account of his experiences in the service : [ Green Seal . ] ADROIT SMUGGLING : - A HERO INDEED . O Colonel ...
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... head down to the on the extreme left . I took my saddle off , hols - water , and at the same time put my hand down ters and all , and hung it on a branch of a peach- to where the revolver was , and pulled it forward tree , and my ...
... head down to the on the extreme left . I took my saddle off , hols - water , and at the same time put my hand down ters and all , and hung it on a branch of a peach- to where the revolver was , and pulled it forward tree , and my ...
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... head and shoulders over down the road toward Knoxville . Jeff Davis all his companions . It looked exceedingly rug ... heads and striking the fence between our horses . under the severe toil of marching , and it became I got tired at the ...
... head and shoulders over down the road toward Knoxville . Jeff Davis all his companions . It looked exceedingly rug ... heads and striking the fence between our horses . under the severe toil of marching , and it became I got tired at the ...
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... head to look into his features , over the top of my shaded lamp , I discovered that he was wrapped in a thin cloak , which effectually con- cealed his face and features from my view ; and as I raised my head , he spoke : - " What are ...
... head to look into his features , over the top of my shaded lamp , I discovered that he was wrapped in a thin cloak , which effectually con- cealed his face and features from my view ; and as I raised my head , he spoke : - " What are ...
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... head of the hole through it , while others were calling for rabble rout of miscreants , and Winter Davis had powder to blow them all up in a heap . Finding fled in dismay , and the men of wealth and official that it would be sure ...
... head of the hole through it , while others were calling for rabble rout of miscreants , and Winter Davis had powder to blow them all up in a heap . Finding fled in dismay , and the men of wealth and official that it would be sure ...
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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.