Camp-fire Sketches and Battle-field Echoes of 61-5King, Richardson & Company, 1886 - 624 pages |
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... river , with no other result than might be expected . The mortars have not been ased for nearly eight hours . Poor fool , he might as well give up the vain aspiration he entertains of Capturing our city or extermination of our people ...
... river , with no other result than might be expected . The mortars have not been ased for nearly eight hours . Poor fool , he might as well give up the vain aspiration he entertains of Capturing our city or extermination of our people ...
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... river - about waist deep - was waded at dawn of the nineteenth amidst songs , jokes , and general hilarity . The Blue Ridge was passed at Ashby's Gap , and at evening of the same . day the head of the column arrived at Piedmont station ...
... river - about waist deep - was waded at dawn of the nineteenth amidst songs , jokes , and general hilarity . The Blue Ridge was passed at Ashby's Gap , and at evening of the same . day the head of the column arrived at Piedmont station ...
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... river . By this time the Sum- ter had got to sea , and the machinery of the McRae proving defective , her orders to run the blockade were countermanded and she was permanently attached to Commodore Hollins's com- mand . The McRae was a ...
... river . By this time the Sum- ter had got to sea , and the machinery of the McRae proving defective , her orders to run the blockade were countermanded and she was permanently attached to Commodore Hollins's com- mand . The McRae was a ...
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... river . It consisted of the steam corvette Richmond , the sail corvette Preble , and one other vessel whose name I have forgotten . Commander Hollins selected a dark night for the execution of his plan , which was as follows : To ram ...
... river . It consisted of the steam corvette Richmond , the sail corvette Preble , and one other vessel whose name I have forgotten . Commander Hollins selected a dark night for the execution of his plan , which was as follows : To ram ...
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... river they slipped their cables and made haste to bury their keels in the mud on the bar . There we found them wallowing in the morning and exchanged a few shots with them at long range . The Federal officer reported to Washing- ton ...
... river they slipped their cables and made haste to bury their keels in the mud on the bar . There we found them wallowing in the morning and exchanged a few shots with them at long range . The Federal officer reported to Washing- ton ...
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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.