Anecdotes, Poetry, and Incidents of the War: North and South. 1860-1865subscribers, 1867 - 560 páginas |
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... death of the brave , by the God in the skies , There's life in the old land yet ! his bowels all torn out . The air was full of hiss- ing bullets and bursting shells . Getting on my hands and knees , I looked for my flag . Thank God ...
... death of the brave , by the God in the skies , There's life in the old land yet ! his bowels all torn out . The air was full of hiss- ing bullets and bursting shells . Getting on my hands and knees , I looked for my flag . Thank God ...
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... death of her husband . All the unusual zest . A correspondent writes home about tenderness of a mother's love , all the strength of one celebration by the soldiers of the Ninth Lou- a wife's devotion , nerved her to start immediately ...
... death of her husband . All the unusual zest . A correspondent writes home about tenderness of a mother's love , all the strength of one celebration by the soldiers of the Ninth Lou- a wife's devotion , nerved her to start immediately ...
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... Death's sickle would be reaping ! As rise the distant cannon's tones , So mounts his martial ardor , His thoughts half on the work " in front " Half on his meagre larder . At length he's there at Centreville ! In sight and sound of what ...
... Death's sickle would be reaping ! As rise the distant cannon's tones , So mounts his martial ardor , His thoughts half on the work " in front " Half on his meagre larder . At length he's there at Centreville ! In sight and sound of what ...
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... death , and if he breathes no faster , and feels his limbs as free and his spirits as light as when taking a favorite promenade , he is more fitted for a hero than I am . In the agony of that moment - in the sudden and utter ...
... death , and if he breathes no faster , and feels his limbs as free and his spirits as light as when taking a favorite promenade , he is more fitted for a hero than I am . In the agony of that moment - in the sudden and utter ...
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... death must have come from the wind of a cannon ball , or from ex- citement . Lieutenant - Colonel De Monteil , who volun- teered in the assault upon the rebel battery , received his death wound while heading the advance , and while in ...
... death must have come from the wind of a cannon ball , or from ex- citement . Lieutenant - Colonel De Monteil , who volun- teered in the assault upon the rebel battery , received his death wound while heading the advance , and while in ...
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Anecdotes, Poetry, and Incidents of the War: North and South : 1860-1865 Frank Moore Vista completa - 1866 |
Anecdotes, Poetry, and Incidents of the War: North and South: 1860-1865 Frank Moore Vista completa - 1882 |
Anecdotes, Poetry, and Incidents of the War: North and South: 1860-1865 Frank Moore Vista completa - 1882 |
Términos y frases comunes
Alabama arms army asked ball battery battle battle of Chickamauga bonnie Blue Flag boys brave brigade bushwhackers called camp Capt Captain captured cavalry charge cheers Colonel command Confederate dead death enemy enemy's eral escape eyes feet fell field fight fire flag Fort Donelson Fredericksburg friends front gallant give ground guard guns hand head heard heart hill horse hour hundred INCIDENT Ishmael Day J. E. B. Stuart Kentucky killed lady Lieutenant look Maryland McClellan ment miles Minie ball morning mountain musket never niggers night North Carolina o'clock officer passed pickets prisoners rear rebel regiment replied retreat rifle river road rode secesh sent shell shot shout side soldier soon Stonewall Jackson tell thought tion told took troops turned Union woods wounded Yankee young Zouaves
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Página 388 - Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate : "To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods...
Página 287 - God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him might not perish, but have everlasting life.
Página 399 - But there is a road from Winchester town, A good broad highway leading down ; And there, through the flush of the morning light, A steed as black as the steeds of night, Was seen to pass, as with eagle flight...
Página 245 - WHEN I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes.
Página 437 - Once, to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side...
Página 82 - ' they say, " Except now and then a stray picket Is shot, as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket. "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." All quiet along the Potomac...
Página 183 - As hail rebounds from a roof of slate, Rebounds our heavier hail From each iron scale Of the monster's hide. " Strike your flag ! " the rebel cries, In his arrogant old plantation strain. ' ' Never ! " our gallant Morris replies ; " It is better to sink than to yield ! " And the whole air pealed With the cheers of our men.
Página 429 - That lay in the house that Jack built. This is the cow with the crumpled horn, That tossed the dog, That worried the cat, That killed the rat, That ate the malt, That lay in the house that Jack built.
Página 103 - In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea. With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me; As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free. While God is marching on.
Página 99 - He's in the saddle now. Fall in, Steady the whole brigade! Hill's at the ford, cut off; we'll win His way out, ball and blade. What matter if our shoes are worn? What matter if our feet are torn? Quick step! We're with him before morn — That's Stonewall Jackson's way.