Camp-fire Sketches and Battle-field Echoes of 61-5King, Richardson & Company, 1886 - 624 pages |
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... battery of field guns on the wharf , and had they known there were Union troops on that steamer they would probably have sent us to the bottom of the river . Major Haskin , a one - armed veteran of the Mexican war , was in command of ...
... battery of field guns on the wharf , and had they known there were Union troops on that steamer they would probably have sent us to the bottom of the river . Major Haskin , a one - armed veteran of the Mexican war , was in command of ...
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... battery's breath , Your brave hearts never faltered While face to face with death . Then back from field and prison , A band of crippled men , The wreck of battle - surges , We welcomed you again . We saw your thin ranks falter , And ...
... battery's breath , Your brave hearts never faltered While face to face with death . Then back from field and prison , A band of crippled men , The wreck of battle - surges , We welcomed you again . We saw your thin ranks falter , And ...
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... battery , but depended wholly upon her ramming powers . It is worthy of consideration that in this hastily constructed ram there was a return to the method of Salamis and Actium ; that , too , against artillery compared with which the ...
... battery , but depended wholly upon her ramming powers . It is worthy of consideration that in this hastily constructed ram there was a return to the method of Salamis and Actium ; that , too , against artillery compared with which the ...
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... battery . The line in front stalks grimly into the smoke , and the line behind us makes its pres- ence known by a steady tramp ! tramp ! tramp ! One cannot tell whether a single regiment or a whole brigade is moving off to charge the ...
... battery . The line in front stalks grimly into the smoke , and the line behind us makes its pres- ence known by a steady tramp ! tramp ! tramp ! One cannot tell whether a single regiment or a whole brigade is moving off to charge the ...
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... battery . Deprived of these two favorite generals the shattered forces of the enemy retired in dismay to rally on Price's corps . The conflict raged with unremitting fury on the right and center , where Price , in a determined attempt ...
... battery . Deprived of these two favorite generals the shattered forces of the enemy retired in dismay to rally on Price's corps . The conflict raged with unremitting fury on the right and center , where Price , in a determined attempt ...
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Page 327 - UP from the meadows rich with corn, Clear in the cool September morn, The clustered spires of Frederick stand Green-walled by the hills of Maryland.
Page 525 - 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 327 - In her attic window the staff she set, To show that one heart was loyal yet. Up the street came the rebel tread. Stonewall Jackson riding ahead. Under his slouched hat left and right He glanced; the old flag met his sight. "Halt!
Page 327 - Who touches a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog! March on!" he said. All day long through Frederick street Sounded the tread of marching feet: All day long that free flag tost Over the heads of the rebel host.
Page 327 - -out blazed the rifle-blast. It shivered the window, pane and sash; It rent the banner with seam and gash. Quick, as it fell, from the broken staff Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf. She leaned far out on the window-sill, And shook it forth with a royal will. "Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag,
Page 604 - That on the admission of every new State into the Union, one star be added to the union of the Flag ; and that such addition shall take effect on the fourth of July next succeeding such admission.
Page 165 - Are there no foes for me to face ? Must I not stem the flood ? Is this vile world a friend to grace, To help me on to God...
Page 200 - DIRGE. FOR ONE WHO FELL IN BATTLE. ROOM for a Soldier! lay him in the clover; He loved the fields, and they shall be his cover; Make his mound with hers who called him once her lover: Where the rain may rain upon it, Where the sun may shine upon it, Where the lamb hath lain upon it, And the bee will dine upon it.
Page 368 - So when the summer calleth On forest and field of grain, With an equal murmur falleth The cooling drip of the rain...
Page 507 - Resolution to provide for the presentation of "medals of honor" to the enlisted men of the Army and Volunteer Forces who have distinguished, or may distinguish, themselves in battle during the present rebellion.