A New Invasion of the South: Being a Narrative of the Expedition of the Seventy-first Infantry, National Guard, Through the Southern States, to New Orleans. February 24-March 7, 1881Board of officers, Seventy-first Infantry, 1881 - 127 páginas |
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... give us bad coffee , but he soured it with such an ungracious manner and surly speech , that had an alligator crawled out of his native mud and swallowed him , coffee , alleged sugar and all , it would have been a pleasing sight — but a ...
... give us bad coffee , but he soured it with such an ungracious manner and surly speech , that had an alligator crawled out of his native mud and swallowed him , coffee , alleged sugar and all , it would have been a pleasing sight — but a ...
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... Gives safety , strength and glory to a people ? --Thompson . HOLLY SPRINGS is only a short distance over the Missis- sippi border . A signal was flying there for the train to stop , and stop it did . Hundreds of people crowded about the ...
... Gives safety , strength and glory to a people ? --Thompson . HOLLY SPRINGS is only a short distance over the Missis- sippi border . A signal was flying there for the train to stop , and stop it did . Hundreds of people crowded about the ...
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... give a thousand dollars to get both of them out so they could exchange . Then the two veterans went off to get a drink , and everybody within hearing , wished that they had a bullet in some portion of their body . Colonel Horton of the ...
... give a thousand dollars to get both of them out so they could exchange . Then the two veterans went off to get a drink , and everybody within hearing , wished that they had a bullet in some portion of their body . Colonel Horton of the ...
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... give the regimental cheer . Then we marched to the Levee , and down to our boat , the Robert E. Lee . In some respects we were for- tunate in regard to our quarters , in others most unfortu- nate . I was just about to say that the fact ...
... give the regimental cheer . Then we marched to the Levee , and down to our boat , the Robert E. Lee . In some respects we were for- tunate in regard to our quarters , in others most unfortu- nate . I was just about to say that the fact ...
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... gives itself up to the intoxication of the hour . All business is prac- tically suspended and all classes join in the ... give their influence and money towards it and their example is followed by every citizen , however humble his rank ...
... gives itself up to the intoxication of the hour . All business is prac- tically suspended and all classes join in the ... give their influence and money towards it and their example is followed by every citizen , however humble his rank ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Adjutant amid arms bale Baltimore band banner Battalion beau ideal blue boat boys cabin Canal street Captain Carnival cars Chaplain cheers Chickahominy Cincinnati citizens Colonel Vose command Commissary Company cotton Craig Crescent City crowded depot detachment dinner February flag gangway gentlemen Gibson House gold Govenor guests hands heard honor icy towers Jenks King ladies Levee look Lord Louisiana main deck Majesty Mardi Gras Marsh Mayor miles military Mississippi morning National Guard North North Atlantic Squadron officers Ohio opened Orleans parade party pass peace pleasant Quartermaster railroad rank formation reception RICHARD VOSE river roared Robert E rolled route New York Royal Host saloon salute seemed sentry Sergeant Seventy-first New York Seventy-first Regiment side single rank sleep smiling soldiers South Southern stood Sunday night thing thousands throng ticket took train trip uniform veterans Washington Artillery Winfield Scott Featherstone
Pasajes populares
Página 12 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Página 89 - Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Página 13 - And this is in the night : — Most glorious night ! Thou wert not sent for slumber ! let me be A sharer in thy fierce and far delight, — A portion of the tempest and of thee...
Página 70 - Naught is seen in the vault on high But the moon, and the stars, and the cloudless sky, And the flood which rolls its milky hue, A river of light on the welkin blue. The moon looks down on old Cro'nest; She mellows the shades on his shaggy breast, And seems his huge gray form to throw In a silver cone on the wave below.
Página 90 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet But hark!
Página 21 - Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been. May sigh to think he still has found His warmest welcome at an inn.
Página 95 - Tis sweet to hear the watchdog's honest bark Bay deep-mouthed welcome as we draw near home; Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark Our coming, and look brighter when we come...
Página 78 - By the flow of the inland river, Whence the fleets of iron have fled, Where the blades of the grave-grass quiver, Asleep are the ranks of the dead; Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day; Under the one, the Blue; Under the other, the Gray.
Página 61 - Shouting and clapping, with confused din; That makes a prince. No, Lucio, he's a king, A true right king, that dares do aught save wrong, Fears nothing mortal, but to be unjust, Who is not blown up with the flattering puffs Of...
Página 5 - Oh, Peace ! thou source and soul of social life, Beneath whose calm inspiring influence, Science his views enlarges, Art refines, And swelling Commerce opens all her ports, Blest be the man divine who gives us thee...