The Maine Bugle ..., Volumes 2-3Maine Association., 1895 |
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Page 97 - As you are now so once was I; As I am now so you must be, Prepare for death and follow me.
Page 3 - I pray you, speak not ; he grows worse and worse; Question enrages him : at once, good night : — Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once.
Page 104 - No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!
Page 105 - Tis nothing : a private or two now and then Will not count in the news of the battle ; Not an officer lost — only one of the men Moaning out all alone the death-rattle.
Page 305 - If General Gibbon and the Fifth Corps can get up to-night, we will perhaps finish the job in the morning. I do not think Lee means to surrender until compelled to do so.
Page 246 - Terry, he said, was taken prisoner, but may get out. I send this by a negro I see passing up the railroad to Michlenburg. Love to all. Your devoted son, WM. B. TAYLOR, Colonel...
Page 4 - GENERAL : — I received your note of this morning on the picketline, whither I had come to meet you and ascertain definitely what terms were embraced in your proposition of yesterday with reference to the surrender of this army. I now request an interview in accordance with the offer contained in your letter of yesterday for that purpose.
Page 247 - Davies's brigade this morning around on my left flank. He captured at Fames's Cross Roads pieces of artillery, about two hundred wagons, and eight or nine battle-flags, and a number of prisoners. The Second Army Corps is now coming up. I wish you were here yourself. I feel confident of capturing the Army of Northern Virginia if we exert ourselves.
Page 105 - But the whole day of camp life is not yet described; the night remains, and latterly it is no unusual scene as the gloaming gathers to see a group quietly collect beneath the dusky shadows of the forest trees — "God's first temples" — whence soon arise the notes of some familiar hymn awaking memories of childhood and home.