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... ready to die , if need be , to save it from destruction . But at the tap of the drum at nine o'clock the laughter , the songs , the dances , the stories , the readings , and the prayer - meetings , all were brought to a close , the ...
... ready to die , if need be , to save it from destruction . But at the tap of the drum at nine o'clock the laughter , the songs , the dances , the stories , the readings , and the prayer - meetings , all were brought to a close , the ...
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... ready to meet the enemy , and waited impatiently for orders to march . There were grand reviews of troops during the fall , by which the officers and soldiers became somewhat accustomed to moving in large bodies . All of the troops ...
... ready to meet the enemy , and waited impatiently for orders to march . There were grand reviews of troops during the fall , by which the officers and soldiers became somewhat accustomed to moving in large bodies . All of the troops ...
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... ready . December passed , and the year completed its round . Cold nights and blustering days came , and the army , numbering two hundred thousand men , went into winter quarters . CHAPTER II . BALL'S BLUFF . T HERE were but ORGANIZATION ...
... ready . December passed , and the year completed its round . Cold nights and blustering days came , and the army , numbering two hundred thousand men , went into winter quarters . CHAPTER II . BALL'S BLUFF . T HERE were but ORGANIZATION ...
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... ready to hastening to Colonel Baker . A heavy column is behind the advance , " said Colonel Wistar , Lieutenant Bramhall was ordered to open upon them with his rifled gun . He brought it into position and fired a round or two , but two ...
... ready to hastening to Colonel Baker . A heavy column is behind the advance , " said Colonel Wistar , Lieutenant Bramhall was ordered to open upon them with his rifled gun . He brought it into position and fired a round or two , but two ...
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... ready to offer my poor life in vindication of that cause , and in sustaining a government the mildest and most beneficent the world has ever known . " 3 At three o'clock in the morning the soldiers were astir , roused by the drum - beat ...
... ready to offer my poor life in vindication of that cause , and in sustaining a government the mildest and most beneficent the world has ever known . " 3 At three o'clock in the morning the soldiers were astir , roused by the drum - beat ...
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A. P. Hill advance Antietam army artillery attack bank battle Boonesboro Bottom's Bridge brave bridge brigade Burnside Burnside's canister cannon cavalry centre Centreville Chickahominy church Coal Harbor Colonel Baker commanded cornfield corps crossed D. H. Hill division drive east enemy Fair Oaks fall back fell field fight fire flag flank force fought Franklin front ground Groveton guns Hagerstown Harper's Ferry Heintzelman hillside Hooker horses hundred infantry Jackson Kearney King's division Lee's Leesburg Longstreet Magruder Malvern Manassas Maryland Massachusetts McClellan Mechanicsville miles Miller's morning moved Muma's night o'clock officer Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Reserves pickets Poffenberger's Pope Porter position Potomac railroad ravine re-enforcements rear Rebel line regiment retreat Richmond ridge river Rulet's Savage Station Sedgwick sent Seven Pines Sharpsburg shells shot skirmishers soldiers stream Sumner thousand throwing troops turnpike Union Union army Virginia volleys Washington Williamsburg road woods wounded Yankees Yorktown
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Page 139 - In her attic window the staff she set, To show that one heart was loyal yet. Up the street came the rebel tread, Stonewall Jackson riding ahead. Under his slouched hat left and right He glanced; the old flag met his sight.
Page 140 - March on!" he said. All day long through Frederick street Sounded the tread of marching feet: All day long that free flag tost Over the heads of the rebel host. Ever its torn folds rose and fell On the loyal winds that loved it well; And through the hill-gaps sunset light Shone over it with a warm good-night. Barbara Frietchie's work is o'er, And the Rebel rides on his raids no more. Honor to her! and let a tear Fall, for her sake, on Stonewall's bier. Over Barbara Frietchie's grave Flag of Freedom...
Page 37 - He looked upon his people, and a tear was in his eye; He looked upon the traitors, and his glance was stern and high. Right graciously he smiled on us, as rolled from wing to wing, Down all our line, a deafening shout, "God save our Lord the King!
Page 107 - What I've committed to His hands, Till the decisive hour. 4 Then will He own my worthless name Before His Father's face, And in the New Jerusalem Appoint my soul a place. IAI'.
Page 139 - UP from the meadows rich with corn, Clear in the cool September morn, The clustered spires of Frederick stand Green-walled by the hills of Maryland.
Page 215 - You seem to act as if this applies against you, but cannot apply in your favor.
Page 214 - My dear Sir : You remember my speaking to you of what I called your over-cautiousness. Are you not over-cautious when you assume that you cannot do what the enemy is constantly doing? Should you not claim to be at least his equal in prowess, and act upon the claim?
Page 214 - The President directs that you cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy, or drive him south.
Page 139 - Fair as a garden of the Lord To the eyes of the famished rebel horde ; On that pleasant morn of the early fall When Lee marched over the mountain wall, — Over the mountains winding down, Horse and foot, into Frederick town. Forty flags with their silver stars, Forty flags with their crimson bars, Flapped in the morning wind : the sun Of noon looked down, and saw not one.
Page 215 - In coming to us he tenders us an advantage which we should not waive. We should not so operate as to merely drive him away. As we must beat him somewhere or fail finally, we can do it, if at all, easier near to us than far away. If we cannot beat the enemy where he now is, we never can, he again being within the intrenchments of Richmond.