Life With the Forty-Ninth Massachusetts Volunteers. by Henry T. Johns.For the author, 1864 - 424 من الصفحات |
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... night found them yet deficient . The draft was to commence the coming Wednesday ; our brothers , outnumbered on the Potomac , were loudly calling for help , and it was decided to con- tinue the effort on the morrow , the Sabbath day ...
... night found them yet deficient . The draft was to commence the coming Wednesday ; our brothers , outnumbered on the Potomac , were loudly calling for help , and it was decided to con- tinue the effort on the morrow , the Sabbath day ...
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... night , these summonses enable us to form some idea of the health of the regiment . For two Sabbaths I have been on guard , and I enjoyed it , especially at night . A man has so few chances to be alone while in camp , that I could but ...
... night , these summonses enable us to form some idea of the health of the regiment . For two Sabbaths I have been on guard , and I enjoyed it , especially at night . A man has so few chances to be alone while in camp , that I could but ...
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... night , or that silence which at times falls on a crowd . It is a capital place for reflecting on what we are leaving , what we are leaving for , what future we are marching into . Sentinels , not only over a camp , but over a nation's ...
... night , or that silence which at times falls on a crowd . It is a capital place for reflecting on what we are leaving , what we are leaving for , what future we are marching into . Sentinels , not only over a camp , but over a nation's ...
الصفحة 46
... night increased the difficulty of bringing it back to the point from which it started . Not less than six- teen trips were made before those gallant officers crossed themselves , in the last trip it made . Let it be remem- bered that ...
... night increased the difficulty of bringing it back to the point from which it started . Not less than six- teen trips were made before those gallant officers crossed themselves , in the last trip it made . Let it be remem- bered that ...
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... was brought into play at once , in the erection of barracks , for we could obtain no tents for them . And comfortable barracks they are . As the north - westers sweep down on us these frosty nights , we would 54 LIFE WITH THE FORTY - NINTH.
... was brought into play at once , in the erection of barracks , for we could obtain no tents for them . And comfortable barracks they are . As the north - westers sweep down on us these frosty nights , we would 54 LIFE WITH THE FORTY - NINTH.
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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...