Report of the Proceedings of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee at the ... Meeting[s] ..., Volumes 14-16The Society., 1885 - United States |
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... Hills and the siege of Vicksburgh . From the latter point he was transferred to the Department of the Gulf , where he did gallant service , closing his military career in the capture of Mobile . Upon his return to civil life , in the ...
... Hills and the siege of Vicksburgh . From the latter point he was transferred to the Department of the Gulf , where he did gallant service , closing his military career in the capture of Mobile . Upon his return to civil life , in the ...
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... hill near the old log house called " Shiloh Meeting House , " which gave name to the battle . We had a colored man called " Bustamente , " who was our cook , and looked after our horses . I remember that morning well ; we all mounted ...
... hill near the old log house called " Shiloh Meeting House , " which gave name to the battle . We had a colored man called " Bustamente , " who was our cook , and looked after our horses . I remember that morning well ; we all mounted ...
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... hill from the water's edge to the general plateau above , and new roads were made by the wagoners hauling out from the boats to the several camps . All these roads as marked on the maps were mud roads ; not roads at all in a military ...
... hill from the water's edge to the general plateau above , and new roads were made by the wagoners hauling out from the boats to the several camps . All these roads as marked on the maps were mud roads ; not roads at all in a military ...
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... hill we could here the cowards say to my men : You will get it ! You will come back ! You will see ! and many other such expressions : yet our men went bravely up and formed in line of battle , Generals Buell and Nelson both with me ...
... hill we could here the cowards say to my men : You will get it ! You will come back ! You will see ! and many other such expressions : yet our men went bravely up and formed in line of battle , Generals Buell and Nelson both with me ...
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... hill , I discovered through the thick underbrush that I was nearer a line of rebel cavalry faced from me than I was to my own line , and the rebels just at that moment gave a cheer evidently preparatory to charging on company B. I waved ...
... hill , I discovered through the thick underbrush that I was nearer a line of rebel cavalry faced from me than I was to my own line , and the rebels just at that moment gave a cheer evidently preparatory to charging on company B. I waved ...
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Page 180 - Hurrah ! hurrah ! we bring the jubilee ! Hurrah ! hurrah ! the flag that makes you free ! So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the sea, While we were marching through Georgia.
Page 102 - ... thus saith the Lord God, behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.
Page 101 - ... .Then said he unto me, prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, Son of man, and say to the wind, thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
Page 102 - And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel, and one king shall be king to them all, and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.
Page 448 - Freedom ! thou art not, as poets dream, A fair young girl, with light and delicate limbs, And wavy tresses gushing from the cap With which the Roman master crowned his slave When he took off the gyves. A bearded man, Armed to the teeth, art thou ; one mailed hand Grasps the broad shield, and one the sword ; thy brow, Glorious in beauty though it be, is scarred With tokens of old wars ; thy massive limbs Are strong with struggling. Power at thee has launched His bolts, and with his lightnings smitten...
Page 539 - In the prison cell I sit, Thinking, Mother dear, of you, And our bright and happy home so far away, And the tears they fill my eyes Spite of all that I can do, Tho' I try to cheer my comrades and be gay.
Page 532 - Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil; rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Page 515 - That from and after the fourth day of July next, the Flag of the United States be thirteen horizontal stripes, alternate red and white ; that the union have twenty stars, white in a blue field.
Page 452 - His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
Page 453 - A duty devolves upon me which is perhaps greater than that which has devolved upon any other man since the days of Washington. He never would have succeeded except for the aid of Divine Providence, upon which he at all times relied. I feel that" I cannot succeed without the same Divine aid which sustained him, and on the same Almighty Being I place my reliance for support...