Camp-fire Sketches and Battle-field Echoes of 61-5King, Richardson & Company, 1886 - 624 pages |
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... Cheers for Davis and for the South , and taunts of " you can't fight , " " dig your graves , " " nigger stealers , " and " Yankee scabs , ” filled the air . Pistol and gunshots came from windows , roofs , and streets , while everything ...
... Cheers for Davis and for the South , and taunts of " you can't fight , " " dig your graves , " " nigger stealers , " and " Yankee scabs , ” filled the air . Pistol and gunshots came from windows , roofs , and streets , while everything ...
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... cheer , but in that awful roar the voice of man could not be heard ten feet away . Men fall to the right and left . The line stumbles over corpses as it hurries on . There are flashes in the smoke - cloud , explosions in the air ; men ...
... cheer , but in that awful roar the voice of man could not be heard ten feet away . Men fall to the right and left . The line stumbles over corpses as it hurries on . There are flashes in the smoke - cloud , explosions in the air ; men ...
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... cheer . No one sees his right or left hand man . For the time each one is alone . The line bends back - doubles up ... cheering and the horrible night- mare forces a single man to attack a dozen . Ah ! what is this ? All at once there is ...
... cheer . No one sees his right or left hand man . For the time each one is alone . The line bends back - doubles up ... cheering and the horrible night- mare forces a single man to attack a dozen . Ah ! what is this ? All at once there is ...
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... cheer to the scene , for the moment at least . The sick boys were lying on rough boards , or on tiles placed against the walls , with or without mattresses as it happened . Surgeons and hospital stewards and women. ( 37 )
... cheer to the scene , for the moment at least . The sick boys were lying on rough boards , or on tiles placed against the walls , with or without mattresses as it happened . Surgeons and hospital stewards and women. ( 37 )
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... cheer , pressed for- ward . The enemy , not liking the glittering steel , fell back , and the lost ground was won . Arboth planted his artillery in the road and opened on the enemy . The 2d Missouri deployed and pressed forward . The ...
... cheer , pressed for- ward . The enemy , not liking the glittering steel , fell back , and the lost ground was won . Arboth planted his artillery in the road and opened on the enemy . The 2d Missouri deployed and pressed forward . The ...
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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.