Anecdotes, Poetry, and Incidents of the War: North and South. 1860-1865 |
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... hundred and ten miles , and the greater portion of the route lay through a howling wilderness . The imaginary suffering that our soldiers endured during the two first days of their march was enormous . It was im- possible to steal or ...
... hundred and ten miles , and the greater portion of the route lay through a howling wilderness . The imaginary suffering that our soldiers endured during the two first days of their march was enormous . It was im- possible to steal or ...
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... hundred feet into some subterranean gulf , the pass being level for a quarter of a mile in width , winding over the mountains in a curve between the buttressed walls for more than half a mile , with the rocks torn sheer down from both ...
... hundred feet into some subterranean gulf , the pass being level for a quarter of a mile in width , winding over the mountains in a curve between the buttressed walls for more than half a mile , with the rocks torn sheer down from both ...
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... hundred and and came out ahead of them all . While on our fifty , inclusive of one Colonel , two Majors , two rout to Kingsport , a man by the roadside told Captains and five Lieutenants . It was now dark . me that the infantry and ...
... hundred and and came out ahead of them all . While on our fifty , inclusive of one Colonel , two Majors , two rout to Kingsport , a man by the roadside told Captains and five Lieutenants . It was now dark . me that the infantry and ...
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... hundred men was at Edwards ' Ferry , on the Virginia side . The whole distance from Ball's Bluff to the Maryland side of the Potomac , across Harrison's Island , is not six hundred yards . On Sunday night , Oct. 20 , 1861 , in obedience ...
... hundred men was at Edwards ' Ferry , on the Virginia side . The whole distance from Ball's Bluff to the Maryland side of the Potomac , across Harrison's Island , is not six hundred yards . On Sunday night , Oct. 20 , 1861 , in obedience ...
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... hundred men be safely retired in two small boats under the fire of a bloodthirsty and superior enemy ? Shall they be left to their fate , or will he reinforce them and share their peril ? Colonel Baker was not long in determining upon ...
... hundred men be safely retired in two small boats under the fire of a bloodthirsty and superior enemy ? Shall they be left to their fate , or will he reinforce them and share their peril ? Colonel Baker was not long in determining upon ...
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Page 103 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.
Page 399 - UP from the South at break of day, Bringing to Winchester fresh dismay, The affrighted air with a shudder bore, Like a herald in haste, to the chieftain's door, The terrible grumble, and rumble, and roar, Telling the battle was on once more, And Sheridan twenty miles away.
Page 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; Some great cause, God's new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right, And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
Page 438 - New occasions teach new duties : Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea. Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.
Page 254 - How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light. When I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 103 - Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer him! be jubilant, my feet! Our God is marching on. In the beauty of the lilies, Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me.
Page 254 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Page 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.