Pen-pictures of the War: Lyrics, Incidents, and Sketches of the Rebellion; Comprising a Choice Selection of Pieces by Our Best Poets, Also, Current and Well Authenticated Anecdotes and Incidents of the War. Together with a Full Account of Many of the Great Battles, Also, a Complete Historical Record of All Events, Both Civil and Military, from the Commencement of the RebellionC.A. Alvord, 1864 - 344 pagini |
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... attack withstood . In all the terrors of the tumult bearing The people's heart of dauntless lionhood ? How many a hand forsook its wonted labor , Forsook its gains , as prizes fall'n in worth , To wield with pain the warlike lance and ...
... attack withstood . In all the terrors of the tumult bearing The people's heart of dauntless lionhood ? How many a hand forsook its wonted labor , Forsook its gains , as prizes fall'n in worth , To wield with pain the warlike lance and ...
Pagina 47
... ! No thoughts of home : The guidons that we bear are dearer . CHARGE ! Cling clang ! forward all ! Heaven help those whose horses fall : Cut left and right ! They flee before our fierce attack ! They fall ! THE 47 CAVALRY CHARGE .
... ! No thoughts of home : The guidons that we bear are dearer . CHARGE ! Cling clang ! forward all ! Heaven help those whose horses fall : Cut left and right ! They flee before our fierce attack ! They fall ! THE 47 CAVALRY CHARGE .
Pagina 48
... attack ! They fall ! they spread in broken surges . Now , comrades , bear our wounded back , And leave the foeman to his dirges . WHEEL ! The bugles sound the swift recall : Cling ! clang ! backward all ! Home , and good - night ! THE ...
... attack ! They fall ! they spread in broken surges . Now , comrades , bear our wounded back , And leave the foeman to his dirges . WHEEL ! The bugles sound the swift recall : Cling ! clang ! backward all ! Home , and good - night ! THE ...
Pagina 49
... attack , That so bright ere the blow Comes so bloodily back ; And foremost among them his colors he bore , — And here is the sword that my brave boy wore . It was kind of his comrades , ye know not how kind ; It is more than the Indies ...
... attack , That so bright ere the blow Comes so bloodily back ; And foremost among them his colors he bore , — And here is the sword that my brave boy wore . It was kind of his comrades , ye know not how kind ; It is more than the Indies ...
Pagina 202
... attacked an overpowering foe . Was either general of division better informed of the movements even of his own forces ? I doubt it . I only know that at sunset last evening , generals , colonels , and majors were all retiring , devoid ...
... attacked an overpowering foe . Was either general of division better informed of the movements even of his own forces ? I doubt it . I only know that at sunset last evening , generals , colonels , and majors were all retiring , devoid ...
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Pagina 32 - 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.
Pagina 18 - In her attic window the staff she set, To show that one heart was loyal yet. Up the street came the rebel tread, Stonewall Jackson riding ahead. Under his slouched hat left and right He glanced ; the old flag met his sight. " Halt ! " — the dust-brown ranks stood fast.
Pagina 43 - ' 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...
Pagina 17 - UP from the meadows rich with corn, Clear in the cool September morn, The clustered spires of Frederick stand Green-walled by the hills of Maryland.
Pagina 61 - Lay him low, lay him low, In the clover or the snow ! What cares he ? he cannot know : Lay him low...
Pagina 97 - The Union forever, hurrah! boys, hurrah, Down with the traitor, up with the star, While we rally round the flag, boys, rally once again, Shouting the battle-cry of freedom.
Pagina 32 - He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword; His truth is marching on. I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps; They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps; I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps: His day is marching on. I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel; "As ye deal with my condemners, so with you my grace shall deal; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel, Since God...
Pagina 18 - But spare your country's flag," she said. A shade of sadness, a blush of shame, Over the face of the leader came; The nobler nature within him stirred To life at that woman's deed and word: "Who touches a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog! March on!
Pagina 61 - The blades of heroes fence it round, Where'er it springs is holy ground; From tower and dome its glories spread; It waves where lonely sentries tread; It makes the land as ocean free, And plants an empire on the sea ! Then hail the banner of the free, The starry Flower of Liberty...
Pagina 60 - And God love us as we love thee, Thrice holy Flower of Liberty ! Then hail the banner of the free, The starry FLOWER OF LIBERTY.