Anecdotes, Poetry, and Incidents of the War: North and South. 1860-1865 |
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... shell and fired it Eddie's drum . I asked permission to go to his across ! His lieutenant on the opposite shore , assistance . The officer hesitated , saying that the ran and picked it up , and all things went on orders were to march in ...
... shell and fired it Eddie's drum . I asked permission to go to his across ! His lieutenant on the opposite shore , assistance . The officer hesitated , saying that the ran and picked it up , and all things went on orders were to march in ...
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... shell covered my face with bruises . " I fell insensible , and lay so for some time , when another fragment of shell , striking me on the left leg , below the knee , brought me to my senses . My mouth was full of blood , fragments of ...
... shell covered my face with bruises . " I fell insensible , and lay so for some time , when another fragment of shell , striking me on the left leg , below the knee , brought me to my senses . My mouth was full of blood , fragments of ...
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... shell and shot ! But ere he ventures , careful soul ! To reach that scene of death , He seeks a cool and shady place ... shell bursts o'er his head- Will Russell calls a halt ! " Aw ! that was near ! no further need For me to make ...
... shell and shot ! But ere he ventures , careful soul ! To reach that scene of death , He seeks a cool and shady place ... shell bursts o'er his head- Will Russell calls a halt ! " Aw ! that was near ! no further need For me to make ...
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... shell burst on the United States gunboat Hetzel , and set her maga- zine on fire . Lieutenant Franklin , her executive officer , ordered the men to the magazine to ex- tinguish the fire ; but seeing that they hesitated , he took the ...
... shell burst on the United States gunboat Hetzel , and set her maga- zine on fire . Lieutenant Franklin , her executive officer , ordered the men to the magazine to ex- tinguish the fire ; but seeing that they hesitated , he took the ...
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... shells to put only the same species into each , as if the different snakes were mixed they would sting each other to death before having a chance to operate on Billy Wilson's Zouaves . The corners and interstices in each shell might be ...
... shells to put only the same species into each , as if the different snakes were mixed they would sting each other to death before having a chance to operate on Billy Wilson's Zouaves . The corners and interstices in each shell might be ...
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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.