Rebel Brag and British Bluster: A Record of Unfulfilled Prophecies, Baffled Schemes, and Disappointed Hopes ...American News Company, 1865 - 111 pages |
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Page 3 - And Irish Nora's eyes are dim For a singer dumb and gory; And English Mary mourns for him Who sang of
Page 3 - Voice after voice caught up the song, until its tender passion rose like an anthem, rich and strong, — their battle-eve confession. Dear girl, her name he dared not speak, but, as the song grew louder, something upon the soldier's cheek washed off the stains of powder.
Page 2 - They lay along the battery's side. Below the smoking cannon; Brave hearts from Severn and from Clyde, And from the banks of Shannon. They sang of love, and not of fame ; Forgot was Britain's glory; Each heart recalled a different name, But all sang "Annie Laurie.
Page 11 - Johnson, of all who contended against the great rebellion which tore these colonies from England, can you hear the chorus which rings through the State of Marion, Sumpter, and Pinckney, and not clap your ghostly hands in triumph ? That voice says " If we could only get one of the Royal race of England to rule over us, we should be content.
Page 28 - We may anticipate with certainty the success of the Southern States so far as regards their separation from the North. I cannot but believe that that event is as certain as any event yet future and contingent can be.
Page 63 - That all commissioned officers in the command of said Benjamin F. Butler be declared not entitled to be considered as soldiers engaged in honorable warfare, but as robbers and criminals, deserving death ; and that they and each of them be, whenever captured, reserved for execution.
Page 2 - the soldiers cried, The outer trenches guarding, When the heated guns of the camps allied Grew weary of bombarding. The dark Redan, in silent scoff, Lay, grim and threatening, under ; And the tawny mound of the Malakoff No longer belched its thunder. There was a pause. A guardsman said : " We storm the forts to-morrow ; Sing while we may, another day Will bring enough of sorrow.
Page 63 - Second — That the private soldiers and non-commissioned officers in the army of said Butler be considered as only the instruments used for the commission of crimes perpetrated by his orders, and not as free agents ; that they, therefore, be treated, when captured as prisoners of war, with kindness and humanity, and be sent home on the usual parole that they will in no manner aid or serve the United States in any capacity during the continuance of this war, unless duly exchanged.
Page 66 - Now you know 4 why I have from the first never believed it possible that the South could succeed, and I have not founded that faith merely on moral instincts which teach us to repudiate the idea that anything so infernal should succeed. No. It is because in this world the virtues and the forces go together, and the vices and weakness are inseparable. It is, therefore, I felt certain that this project never could succeed.