The Civil War in Song and Story, 1860-1865P. F. Collier, 1889 - 560 pages |
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... tell of the strife begun When Liberty's second April sun Was bright on our brave old tree ! -- FUN ON THE RAPPAHANNOCK : A soldier of the Eighth Ohio regiment , writing from Fal- mouth , makes the following notes on the move- ments in ...
... tell of the strife begun When Liberty's second April sun Was bright on our brave old tree ! -- FUN ON THE RAPPAHANNOCK : A soldier of the Eighth Ohio regiment , writing from Fal- mouth , makes the following notes on the move- ments in ...
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... tell and night , leaving his own horse in exchange , it if there was " anybody hurt , " but we came off taking only one to make a horse - trade Morgan clear . After fording the north Holston at its fashion . Some hundreds of horses were ...
... tell and night , leaving his own horse in exchange , it if there was " anybody hurt , " but we came off taking only one to make a horse - trade Morgan clear . After fording the north Holston at its fashion . Some hundreds of horses were ...
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... how slowly let a mother tell ; how tedious let a widow speak who knows her idol broker 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 broker 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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... tell the boys about it . " Papers are frequently exchanged by the pickets , but the rebels tell our men that their officers do not like them to get our papers of late as " there is nothing encouraging in them . " --- cruelest of all ...
... tell the boys about it . " Papers are frequently exchanged by the pickets , but the rebels tell our men that their officers do not like them to get our papers of late as " there is nothing encouraging in them . " --- cruelest of all ...
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... tell what the little craft was , as she had no color flying . man , they rushed below , armed themselves with their swords , knizes , and pistols , bagged their clothing and a few little valuables , then prepared for the boats , as they ...
... tell what the little craft was , as she had no color flying . man , they rushed below , armed themselves with their swords , knizes , and pistols , bagged their clothing and a few little valuables , then prepared for the boats , as they ...
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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.