An Errand to the South in the Summer of 1862 |
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... night on the 20th of May , and on the morning of the 21st we looked on the noble Hudson , the enormous ferry arks with their " walking beams , " ( as the top engine movement is called ) , and steam horns , were striding from shore to ...
... night on the 20th of May , and on the morning of the 21st we looked on the noble Hudson , the enormous ferry arks with their " walking beams , " ( as the top engine movement is called ) , and steam horns , were striding from shore to ...
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... NIGHT . ” I " All quiet along the Potomac , " they say , 66 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 in the Summer of ...
... NIGHT . ” I " All quiet along the Potomac , " they say , 66 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 in the Summer of ...
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... night , Where the soldiers lie peacefully dreaming , As their tents in the rays of the clear autumn moon , Or the light of the watch - fires , are gleaming . A tremulous sigh of the gentle night wind Through the forest - leaves slowly ...
... night , Where the soldiers lie peacefully dreaming , As their tents in the rays of the clear autumn moon , Or the light of the watch - fires , are gleaming . A tremulous sigh of the gentle night wind Through the forest - leaves slowly ...
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... night wind that rustled the leaves ? Was't the moonlight so wondrously flashing ? It looked like a rifle- " Ha ! -- Mary , good - bye ! " And the life - blood is ebbing and plashing . VI . All quiet along the Potomac to - night , No ...
... night wind that rustled the leaves ? Was't the moonlight so wondrously flashing ? It looked like a rifle- " Ha ! -- Mary , good - bye ! " And the life - blood is ebbing and plashing . VI . All quiet along the Potomac to - night , No ...
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... night some inconvenience was incurred on ac- count of the Federal Government not having restored the light - houses , although they had re- covered them from the Confederates for more than a year . Up to a late hour on Saturday night ...
... night some inconvenience was incurred on ac- count of the Federal Government not having restored the light - houses , although they had re- covered them from the Confederates for more than a year . Up to a late hour on Saturday night ...
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Page 20 - We, the People of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, That the Ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America...
Page 81 - Orleans, in return for the most scrupulous non-interference and courtesy on our part, it is ordered that hereafter when any female shall, by word, gesture, or movement, insult or show contempt for any officer or soldier of the United States, she shall be regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation.
Page 196 - When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion : we were like them that dream. Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen : the Lord hath done great things for them.
Page 40 - But even our commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand; neither seeking nor granting exclusive favours or preferences; consulting the natural course of things; diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams of commerce, but forcing nothing...
Page 218 - Hark to an exiled son's appeal, Maryland ! My Mother State, to thee I kneel, Maryland ! For life and death, for woe and weal, Thy peerless chivalry reveal, And gird thy beauteous limbs with steel, Maryland, my Maryland! Thou wilt not cower in the dust, Maryland ! Thy beaming sword shall never rust, Maryland ! Remember Carroll's sacred trust, Remember Howard's warlike thrust, And all thy slumberers with the just, Maryland, my Maryland!
Page 161 - That the provisions of an act entitled "an act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters...
Page 43 - ... accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Page 219 - Maryland ! But lo! there surges forth a shriek, From hill to hill, from creek to creek, Potomac calls to Chesapeake, Maryland, my Maryland! . Thou wilt not yield the Vandal toll, Maryland!