The Civil War in Song and Story, 1860-1865P. F. Collier, 1889 - 560 pages |
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... heart , making a bad wound . Another blew off my hat ; another ( small bit ) entered my mouth , and broke out three of my best jaw - teeth , while the gravel , bits of frozen earth , and minute fragments of shell covered my face with ...
... heart , making a bad wound . Another blew off my hat ; another ( small bit ) entered my mouth , and broke out three of my best jaw - teeth , while the gravel , bits of frozen earth , and minute fragments of shell covered my face with ...
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... heart I lie ; For my country and her honor I'm fiercely free to die , But when the Lord who bought me , Asks for my service here , To fight the good fight faithfully I'm skulking in the rear . And yet I know that Captain All love and ...
... heart I lie ; For my country and her honor I'm fiercely free to die , But when the Lord who bought me , Asks for my service here , To fight the good fight faithfully I'm skulking in the rear . And yet I know that Captain All love and ...
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... Heart to heart , and hand to hand , Round the old graves of the land . Whoso shrinks or falters now , Whoso to the yoke would bow , Brand the craven on his brow . Freedom's soil has only place For a free and fearless race- None for ...
... Heart to heart , and hand to hand , Round the old graves of the land . Whoso shrinks or falters now , Whoso to the yoke would bow , Brand the craven on his brow . Freedom's soil has only place For a free and fearless race- None for ...
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... heart overcharged with grief . The strings snapped and reason tot- tered for a time , to fall , in two days , to the sleep of death . THE AMNESTY PROCLAMATION . - A few days after the publication of the President's Message and ...
... heart overcharged with grief . The strings snapped and reason tot- tered for a time , to fall , in two days , to the sleep of death . THE AMNESTY PROCLAMATION . - A few days after the publication of the President's Message and ...
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... heart Is lifted , I am strong to part Oh ! to reserve were shame ! -- Go , save our country ! she is first- Stand ... heart's dread pain Would traitor prove unto her will , And rising with rebellious thrill , Persuade me to remain . To ...
... heart Is lifted , I am strong to part Oh ! to reserve were shame ! -- Go , save our country ! she is first- Stand ... heart's dread pain Would traitor prove unto her will , And rising with rebellious thrill , Persuade me to remain . To ...
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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.