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Camp Fire Stories of the Mississippi Valley Campaign Marie Louise Benkston No preview available - 2019 |
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Albert Sidney Johnston Allen arms army Army of Tennessee Banks Baton Rouge battalion batteries battle BATTLE OF MANSFIELD Bayou Beauregard bells boats Bowen brave breastworks burg Butler Captain capture Carroll Parish cavalry Champion Hill CHAPTER charge Church Colonel Seymour command Confederacy Davis Dick Taylor Eighteenth Louisiana enemy engaged eral Farragut federacy fell field fight fire flag flag of Louisiana force Fort Jackson forts fought front gallant Government Grant guard gunboats guns horse hundred isiana Jackson Jefferson Kentucky killed ladies Lake Providence Leonidas Polk Lieutenant Lincoln Louisiana soil Louisianians mand Mansfield marched miles military Mississippi River Mouton North Northern officers Orleans passed patriots picket plantation Polk Port Gibson Port Hudson President prisoners ravine Rebels regiment retreat schooner secession sent Shiloh shot siege slaves South Southern Stonewall Jackson supplies surrender Tennessee Third Louisiana troops Twenty-eighth Union United Vicks Vicksburg Virginia Washington Artillery women wounded
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Page 99 - Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire : your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
Page 99 - In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.
Page 73 - As the officers and soldiers of the United States have been subject to repeated insults from the women (calling themselves ladies ) of New 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 72 - As officers and soldiers of the United States have been subject to repeated insults from women, calling themselves ladies, of New Orleans, in return for the most scrupulous non-interference and courtesy on our part, it is ordered hereafter, when any female shall, by mere gesture or movement, insult, or show contempt for any officers or soldiers of the United States, she shall be regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman about town plying her vocation.
Page 104 - Whose music spoke of our hallowed joys And passionate farewells. But ere ye fall dismantled, Ring out, deep bells! once more; And pour on the waves of the passing wind The symphonies of yore. "Let the latest born be welcomed By pealings glad and long; Let the latest dead, in the churchyard bed. Be laid with solemn song. "And the...
Page 22 - he is not a Yankee. People make the greatest mistakes about these things. He is a gentleman of the South ; they have no property but land ; and I am told his territory was immense. He always lived at Paris and in the highest style, disgusted of course with his own country. It is not unlikely he may have lost his estates now ; but that makes no difference to me. « I shall treat him and all Southern gentlemen, as our fathers treated the emigrant nobility of France.
Page 47 - ... the middle of the nineteenth century. The latest instance of a fighting divine before the Right Reverend Dr. Polk would seem to have been the Bishop of Derry, who was slain at the battle of the Boyne in 1690. A characteristic touch of ecclesiasticism appeared in the first general order, which declared that " the invasion of the South by the Federal armies had brought with it a contempt for constitutional liberty and the withering influences of the infidelity of New England and of Germany combined...
Page 42 - The alternative which the North has laid before her people is the subjugation of the South, or what they are pleased to call absolute anarchy. The alternative before us is, the independence of the South or a despotism which will put its iron heel upon all that the human heart can hold dear. This mighty issue is to be submitted to the ordeal of battle, with the nations of the earth as spectators, and with the God of Heaven as umpire. The theatre appointed for the struggle is the soil of Virginia,...
Page 15 - That he had information of the most unquestionable certainty, that certain citizens of the Eastern States (I think he named Massachusetts particularly) were in negotiation with agents of the British government, the object of which was an agreement that the New England States should take no further part in the war then going on...
Page 19 - For this much is certain, that if institutions are to be judged by their results, in the composition of the councils of the Union, the slaveholders are much more ably represented than the simple freemen.