The Civil War in Song and Story, 1860-1865P. F. Collier, 1889 - 560 pages |
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... seen . It arrested the attention of every soldier and according to his tempera ment he viewed it to right and left in silent admi- ration at the wonderful works of God , or in 16 ANECDOTES , POETRY , AND INCIDENTS . }
... seen . It arrested the attention of every soldier and according to his tempera ment he viewed it to right and left in silent admi- ration at the wonderful works of God , or in 16 ANECDOTES , POETRY , AND INCIDENTS . }
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... seen in our ken or rounded and carved , and overhung our travels , with its very large wheel driven by the winding path with all the softness of a summer Ital- tumbling waters at a mountain brook poured on ian landscape by Claude ...
... seen in our ken or rounded and carved , and overhung our travels , with its very large wheel driven by the winding path with all the softness of a summer Ital- tumbling waters at a mountain brook poured on ian landscape by Claude ...
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... seen able shots or have miserable guns , for they have breaking up his saddle with a rock and cutting not touched a man since we left the railroad , ex- up the leather with a knife to prevent secesh cept Col. Carter's orderly , shot in ...
... seen able shots or have miserable guns , for they have breaking up his saddle with a rock and cutting not touched a man since we left the railroad , ex- up the leather with a knife to prevent secesh cept Col. Carter's orderly , shot in ...
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... seen the inside of a house for months , of five hundred miles to and fro in twenty days , rested , after six days ' march and no sleep , as over an almost impracticable mountain country only such men can rest when they know the in mid ...
... seen the inside of a house for months , of five hundred miles to and fro in twenty days , rested , after six days ' march and no sleep , as over an almost impracticable mountain country only such men can rest when they know the in mid ...
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... seen ! What grunts of bliss beneath that hat O'er this unlooked - for manna ! While as he munched still rose and fell The buff and red bandanna ! At last he's full ! but quickly now His brain is all astir ; To forge fit bolts of caustic ...
... seen ! What grunts of bliss beneath that hat O'er this unlooked - for manna ! While as he munched still rose and fell The buff and red bandanna ! At last he's full ! but quickly now His brain is all astir ; To forge fit bolts of caustic ...
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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.