Camp-fire Sketches and Battle-field Echoes of 61-5King, Richardson & Company, 1886 - 624 pages |
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... yard full of men , one of whom presented a pistol and ordered him to leave the place . He hurried to the store of Elijah Lewis , near by , and told him that " Parker's house was surrounded by kidnapers , who were trying to get him away ...
... yard full of men , one of whom presented a pistol and ordered him to leave the place . He hurried to the store of Elijah Lewis , near by , and told him that " Parker's house was surrounded by kidnapers , who were trying to get him away ...
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... yards in our front , and opened a terrific fire , but which went mostly over us . On re- ceiving the enemy's fire we lay down and waited until we could see their bodies to the waist , when we gave them a volley which was effective and ...
... yards in our front , and opened a terrific fire , but which went mostly over us . On re- ceiving the enemy's fire we lay down and waited until we could see their bodies to the waist , when we gave them a volley which was effective and ...
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... yards from our flank . Their colonel signaled us with his handkerchief , for the purpose of learning who we were , as it afterward appeared . We never dreamed that that was his purpose , thinking of course he knew us . All this took ...
... yards from our flank . Their colonel signaled us with his handkerchief , for the purpose of learning who we were , as it afterward appeared . We never dreamed that that was his purpose , thinking of course he knew us . All this took ...
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... yards of cotton expended in fashion- ing shirts and drawers so large that no Yankee soldier could pos- THE LORD WILL PROVIDE sibly fill one , ex- cept he were measured by his courage and en- durance . One pair fell into our hands ...
... yards of cotton expended in fashion- ing shirts and drawers so large that no Yankee soldier could pos- THE LORD WILL PROVIDE sibly fill one , ex- cept he were measured by his courage and en- durance . One pair fell into our hands ...
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... yards from it and diagonally to the right . Our battery consisted only of four guns , two three - inch rifled Rodmans and two twelve - pound howitzers . We halted in front of a clearing about ten acres in extent ; the two rifled guns ...
... yards from it and diagonally to the right . Our battery consisted only of four guns , two three - inch rifled Rodmans and two twelve - pound howitzers . We halted in front of a clearing about ten acres in extent ; the two rifled guns ...
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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.