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... fight , and Grant's army , though collected together hastily , green as militia , some regiments arriving with- out cartridges even , and nearly all hearing the dread sound of battle for the first time , had successfully withstood and ...
... fight , and Grant's army , though collected together hastily , green as militia , some regiments arriving with- out cartridges even , and nearly all hearing the dread sound of battle for the first time , had successfully withstood and ...
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... fight as well as they . Excuse so long a letter , which is very unusual from me ; but of course my life is liable to cease at any moment , and I happen to be a witness to certain truths which are now beginning to pass out of memory ...
... fight as well as they . Excuse so long a letter , which is very unusual from me ; but of course my life is liable to cease at any moment , and I happen to be a witness to certain truths which are now beginning to pass out of memory ...
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... he married Miss Elizabeth Shine , of North Carolina , a member of the old Scotch family of McIven , and settled down , to fight the Indians and subdue the soil , at Campbell's Station , near Knoxville 1865. ] 5 FARRAGUT .
... he married Miss Elizabeth Shine , of North Carolina , a member of the old Scotch family of McIven , and settled down , to fight the Indians and subdue the soil , at Campbell's Station , near Knoxville 1865. ] 5 FARRAGUT .
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... fight was bravely maintained for over two and a half hours , until the " Essex , " on fire for the third or fourth time , the flames at length threatening the magazine , her decks swept , her rigging shot away , her hull in a sinking ...
... fight was bravely maintained for over two and a half hours , until the " Essex , " on fire for the third or fourth time , the flames at length threatening the magazine , her decks swept , her rigging shot away , her hull in a sinking ...
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... fight formidable shore batteries , but it was undertaken and executed with zeal . Great difficulties had to be surmounted or set aside . Much valuable time and thought was expended in trying to get the steam - frigate Colorado , drawing ...
... fight formidable shore batteries , but it was undertaken and executed with zeal . Great difficulties had to be surmounted or set aside . Much valuable time and thought was expended in trying to get the steam - frigate Colorado , drawing ...
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Page 315 - How sleep the brave who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there ! ODE TO MERCY.
Page 573 - The arms, artillery, and public property to be parked and stacked, and turned over to the officers appointed by me to receive them. This will not embrace the sidearms of the officers, nor their private horses or baggage.
Page 515 - And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel, And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress
Page 323 - Though there were many giants of old in physic and philosophy, yet I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself; I may likely add, alter, and see farther than my predecessors.
Page 244 - THERE is a tear for all that die, A mourner o'er the humblest grave ; But nations swell the funeral cry, And Triumph weeps above the brave. For them is Sorrow's purest sigh O'er Ocean's heaving bosom sent : In vain their bones unburied lie, All earth becomes their monument ! A tomb is theirs on every page, An epitaph on every tongue : The present hours, the future age, For them bewail, to them belong. For them the voice...
Page 123 - Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth.
Page 230 - We close our view of Bonaparte's character, by saying, that his original propensities, released from restraint, and pampered by indulgence, to a degree seldom allowed to mortals, grew up into a spirit of despotism as stern and absolute as ever usurped the human heart. The love of power and supremacy absorbed, consumed him. No other passion, no domestic attachment, no private friendship, no love of pleasure, no relish for letters or the arts, no human sympathy, no human weakness, divided his mind...
Page 321 - GENTLEMEN: — I have your letter of the llth, in the nature of a petition to revoke my orders removing all the inhabitants from Atlanta. I have read it carefully, and give...
Page 375 - You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war. They are inevitable, and the only way the people of Atlanta can hope once more to live in peace and quiet at home, is to stop the war, which can only be done by admitting that it began in error and is perpetuated in pride.
Page 320 - Talk thus to the marines, but not to me, who have seen these things, and who will this day make as much sacrifice for the peace and honor of the South as the best-born Southerner among you!