Bull Run to Bull Run: Or, Four Years in the Army of Northern Virginia. Containing a Detailed Account of the Career and Adventures of the Baylor Light Horse, Company B., Twelfth Virginia Cavalry, C. S. A., with Leaves from My Scrap-bookB.F. Johnson Publishing Company, 1900 - 412 pages |
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Page 19
... fire , can hardly be said to have smelt powder . On July 4th , General Johnston , who was in command of the Army of the Shenandoah , joined us at Darkesville with his whole command , and his little army was drawn up in line of battle to ...
... fire , can hardly be said to have smelt powder . On July 4th , General Johnston , who was in command of the Army of the Shenandoah , joined us at Darkesville with his whole command , and his little army was drawn up in line of battle to ...
Page 21
... fire , and the enemy soon took advantage of the situation . and opened on Companies C and G at short range . Under this galling fire , with some of our officers shouting to the men , " don't fire ; they are friends , " our men were some ...
... fire , and the enemy soon took advantage of the situation . and opened on Companies C and G at short range . Under this galling fire , with some of our officers shouting to the men , " don't fire ; they are friends , " our men were some ...
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... fire into our ranks . When the call was made , it was accompanied with the report that Jackson wanted the men to charge that battery , and volunteers from the company were slow in responding . At this juncture , Charlie Crane , a youth ...
... fire into our ranks . When the call was made , it was accompanied with the report that Jackson wanted the men to charge that battery , and volunteers from the company were slow in responding . At this juncture , Charlie Crane , a youth ...
Page 58
... fire was at once opened upon the speeding train from more than a dozen revolvers , and in a moment the obstruction was reached , and the train came to a dead halt . The engineer was at once dethroned , and the cars entered . The first ...
... fire was at once opened upon the speeding train from more than a dozen revolvers , and in a moment the obstruction was reached , and the train came to a dead halt . The engineer was at once dethroned , and the cars entered . The first ...
Page 59
... Fires were built in the two passenger cars and one express car , and the pine piled on to facilitate the burning . And here a sigh involuntarily escaped from some of us . To see the old " low - back cars , " upon which many of us had ...
... Fires were built in the two passenger cars and one express car , and the pine piled on to facilitate the burning . And here a sigh involuntarily escaped from some of us . To see the old " low - back cars , " upon which many of us had ...
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Page 302 - THE harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed. Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls, As if that soul were fled. — So sleeps the pride of former days, So glory's thrill is o'er, And hearts, that once beat high for praise, Now feel that pulse no more.
Page 198 - I believe you to be a brave and skillful soldier, which, of course, I like. I also believe you do not mix politics with your profession, in which you are right. You have confidence in yourself, which is a valuable, if not an indispensable quality. You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm...
Page 26 - 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 15 - Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate : 'To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods...
Page 226 - SOLDIER'S DREAM. Our bugles sang truce — for the night-cloud had lowered, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered, The weary to sleep and the wounded to die.
Page 53 - For time at last sets all things even — And if we do but watch the hour, There never yet was human power Which could evade, if unforgiven, The patient search and vigil long Of him who treasures up a wrong.
Page 197 - I have placed you at the head of the Army of the Potomac. Of course I have done this upon what appear to me to be sufficient reasons, and yet I think it best for you to know that there are some things in regard to which I am not quite satisfied with you. I believe you to be a brave and skillful soldier, which of course I like.
Page 197 - No life Can be pure in its purpose and strong in its strife And all life not be purer and stronger thereby.
Page 330 - He was a foe without hate, a friend without treachery, a soldier without cruelty, a victor without oppression, and a victim without murmuring. He was a public officer without vices, a private citizen without wrong, a neighbor without reproach, a Christian without hypocrisy, and a man without guile.
Page 314 - Then sweet the hour that brings release From danger and from toil; We talk the battle over, And share the battle's spoil. The woodland rings with laugh and shout, As if a hunt were up, And woodland flowers are gathered To crown the soldier's cup.