Life With the Forty-Ninth Massachusetts Volunteers. by Henry T. Johns.For the author, 1864 - 424 من الصفحات |
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... hour , carried into the battle - field , would render any army invincible . What fatality is opposed to our success ? We ask with our President , " Is it possible that God is on the side of the rebels ? " No ! He wants to be on our side ...
... hour , carried into the battle - field , would render any army invincible . What fatality is opposed to our success ? We ask with our President , " Is it possible that God is on the side of the rebels ? " No ! He wants to be on our side ...
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... hours of guard - duty are over , and just when we are be- ginning to enjoy the luxury of expansion , he returns , and a wet bed - fellow is sometimes the result : and if he over- sleeps himself so as not to hear the guard - call , we ...
... hours of guard - duty are over , and just when we are be- ginning to enjoy the luxury of expansion , he returns , and a wet bed - fellow is sometimes the result : and if he over- sleeps himself so as not to hear the guard - call , we ...
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... hour . We turn from Co. B , otherwise known as " Pomeroy Guards , " in compliment to Robert Pomeroy , Esq . , of this town , and introduce to your notice Co. " C , " called " Berk- shire Guårds , ” to which I have the honor to belong ...
... hour . We turn from Co. B , otherwise known as " Pomeroy Guards , " in compliment to Robert Pomeroy , Esq . , of this town , and introduce to your notice Co. " C , " called " Berk- shire Guårds , ” to which I have the honor to belong ...
الصفحة 33
... hour before breakfast . breakfast , our streets are cleaned up , and at 8 A. M. we have guard mountings . The guards ... hours on duty , and have four hours for rest , or as we call it , " two hours on and four hours off . " We are ...
... hour before breakfast . breakfast , our streets are cleaned up , and at 8 A. M. we have guard mountings . The guards ... hours on duty , and have four hours for rest , or as we call it , " two hours on and four hours off . " We are ...
الصفحة 35
... hours of the night , or that silence which at times falls on a crowd . It is a capital place for reflecting on what we are ... hour and a half . About noon we dine ; then , at two o'clock , comes another season of drilling ; and at five ...
... hours of the night , or that silence which at times falls on a crowd . It is a capital place for reflecting on what we are ... hour and a half . About noon we dine ; then , at two o'clock , comes another season of drilling ; and at five ...
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الصفحة 41 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate.
الصفحة 108 - THE maid who binds her warrior's sash With smile that well her pain dissembles, The while beneath her drooping lash One starry tear-drop hangs and trembles, Though Heaven alone records the tear, And Fame, shall never know her story, Her heart has shed a drop as dear As e'er bedewed the field of glory...
الصفحة 41 - Tis of the wave and not the rock ; ,Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar. In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea ! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee...
الصفحة 330 - One song employs all nations; and all cry, ' Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us!' The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy; Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous Hosanna round.
الصفحة 31 - I will bear true faith and allegiance to the United States of America; that I will serve them honestly and faithfully against all their enemies whomsoever; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to the rules and articles of war.
الصفحة 332 - We are living, we are dwelling, In a grand and awful time, In an age on ages telling, To be living is sublime.
الصفحة 121 - Salisbury chooses, he may take their opinion and yours upon the issue which he himself will have raised— the issue between the Peers and the People — between the privileges of the few and the rights of the many.
الصفحة 160 - The brave man is not he who feels no fear, . For that were stupid and irrational, But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.
الصفحة 108 - Mid little ones who weep or wonder, And bravely speaks the cheering word, What though her heart be rent asunder, Doomed nightly in her dreams to hear The bolts of death around him rattle, Hath shed as sacred blood as e'er Was poured upon the field of battle...
الصفحة 255 - Dark as the clouds of even, Ranked in the western heaven, Waiting the breath that lifts All the dread mass, and drifts Tempest and falling brand Over a ruined land ; So still and orderly, Arm .to arm, knee to knee, Waiting the great event, Stands the black regiment. " Down the long dusky line, Teeth gleam and eyeballs shine ; And the bright bayonet, Bristling and firmly set...