Anecdotes, Poetry, and Incidents of the War: North and South. 1860-1865subscribers, 1866 - 560 pages |
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... field for hours , the most awful moments of my life . As the balls from our line hissed over me within a foot of my head , I covered my face with both hands , and counted rapidly from one to one hundred , expecting every moment my ...
... field for hours , the most awful moments of my life . As the balls from our line hissed over me within a foot of my head , I covered my face with both hands , and counted rapidly from one to one hundred , expecting every moment my ...
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... field . " " Leave ? Why , that ain't what we come for . We're here to fight , " insisted the boys . " We came here with 1,040 men , " said the commander . " There are now 600 left . Fall back , boys ! " and the " lambs " sulkily retired ...
... field . " " Leave ? Why , that ain't what we come for . We're here to fight , " insisted the boys . " We came here with 1,040 men , " said the commander . " There are now 600 left . Fall back , boys ! " and the " lambs " sulkily retired ...
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... field , traversed several times the whole line of forces under his command , addressing pleasant words to officers and men , and setting them an example of coolness , courage , and confidence . From the Maryland shore fre- quent shells ...
... field , traversed several times the whole line of forces under his command , addressing pleasant words to officers and men , and setting them an example of coolness , courage , and confidence . From the Maryland shore fre- quent shells ...
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... field , and At eight o'clock all firing and noise had ceased , we may fairly suppose that one hundred men save the moans of the wounded , and the shrieks coming up and attacking them on their flank of the drowning in their vain attempts ...
... field , and At eight o'clock all firing and noise had ceased , we may fairly suppose that one hundred men save the moans of the wounded , and the shrieks coming up and attacking them on their flank of the drowning in their vain attempts ...
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... field . After the engagement was over , and ous height I know of . Up to this elevated position , his friends had retreated in confusion , a company where everything may be supposed to be pure and of secessionists came where they were ...
... field . After the engagement was over , and ous height I know of . Up to this elevated position , his friends had retreated in confusion , a company where everything may be supposed to be pure and of secessionists came where they were ...
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Page 81 - His truth is marching on. I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps; They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps; I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps His day is marching on. I have read a fiery gospel, writ in burnished rows of steel; "As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel, Since God is marching on.
Page 372 - 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 81 - Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer him! be jubilant, my feet! Our God is marching on. In the beauty of the lilies, Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me. As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free — While God is marching on.
Page 261 - God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him might not perish, but have everlasting life.
Page 221 - WHEN I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes.
Page 81 - He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat : Oh ! be swift, my soul, to answer Him ! be jubilant, my feet ! Our God is marching on. In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me : As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Page 414 - 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 232 - How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light. When I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair.
Page 161 - From the camp on the shore. Then far away to the south uprose A little feather of snow-white smoke, And we knew that the iron ship of our foes Was steadily steering its course To try the force Of our ribs of oak. Down upon us heavily runs, Silent and sullen, the floating fort; Then comes a puff of smoke from her guns, And leaps the terrible death, With fiery breath, From each open port. We are not idle, but send her straight Defiance back in a full broadside! As hail rebounds from a roof of slate,...
Page 65 - 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. 'Tis nothing: a private or two, now and then, Will not count in the news of the battle; Not an officer lost, — only one of the men, Moaning out, all alone, the death-rattle." All quiet along the Potomac...