Soldier life, secret serviceReview of reviews Company, 1911 - United States |
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1817 LIBRARIES Allan Pinkerton Antietam April arms Army of Northern Atlanta balloon battalion batteries battle boys brigade Bull Run camp campaign Captain captured cavalry Chattanooga CHIGAN cipher City Point Colonel command Confederacy Confederate army COPYRIGHT Department despatch drill duty enlisted Federal armies field fighting fire flag forage force FORT MCREE fought Fredericksburg front Gettysburg Government Grant gray guns headquarters hundred infantry killed later leaders Lee's Lieutenant lines Major-General Maryland McClellan ment messages MICHIGAN miles military movements muskets mustered North Northern Virginia operations organized PATRIOT PUB Petersburg photograph shows Pinkerton Potomac Quartermaster's railroad ranks regiment REVIEW OF REVIEWS REVIEWS CO Richmond Rifles River road scouts Second Bull Run secret service sent Sheridan Sherman Signal Corps signal officer soldier South Southern spies station supplies telegraph Tennessee thousand tion took troops uniforms Union armies veterans volunteers wagons Washington Wesley Merritt West wounded York Zouaves
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Page 11 - So let the wide world wag as it will, We'll be gay and happy still." The contrast between the sentiment of the song and the environment of the column was sufficiently striking.
Page 11 - ... that body of incomparable infantry, the Army of Northern Virginia, which for four years carried the revolt on its bayonets, opposing a constant front to the mighty concentration of power brought against it ; which, receiving terrible blows, did not fail to give the like ; and which, vital in all its parts, died only with its annihilation.
Page 11 - A conspicuous feature of this Southern army is its Americanism. Go from camp to camp, among the infantry, the cavalry, the artillery, and you are impressed with the fact that these men are, with very few exceptions, Americans. Here and there you will encounter one or two Irishmen.