On Sherman's Track: Or, The South After the War |
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American Andersonville Andrew Johnson army Atlanta attack autumn bureau carried cars cause Cave city Charles Sumner Charleston Chattanooga CHRISTIAN COMMISSION command Confederacy Confederate cotton crowded enemy England favour Federal feeling feet Fort Sumter freedmen Freedmen's Bureau Georgia give Government Grant guns hands heard heart hope interest Island Jefferson Davis journey labour lady land late Leonidas Polk LIBBY PRISON look ment miles military Mission Ridge Mississippi morning Morris Island Nashville negro never nigger night North Northern officer ourselves party passed plantations planters position present President prisoners railway Rebel rest Richmond river Savannah scene Secession seemed seen sent Sherman side slavery slaves soldiers South Carolina Southern steamer success sufferings supplies taken Tennessee thing thousand told town train troops turned Union Union armies wounded Yankee York
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Page 231 - tis gory, Yet 'tis wreathed around with glory, And 'twill live in song and story Though its folds are in the dust! For its fame on brightest pages, Penned by poets and by sages, Shall go sounding down the ages — Furl its folds though now we must.
Page 149 - So the struck Eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And...
Page 230 - tis weary; Round its staff 'tis drooping dreary; Furl it, fold it, it is best; For there's not a man to wave it, And there's not a sword to save it, And there's not one left to lave it In the blood which heroes gave it; And its foes now scorn and brave it; Furl it, hide it— let it rest!
Page 164 - We have also consumed the corn and fodder in the region of country thirty miles on either side of a line from Atlanta to Savannah, as also the sweet potatoes, cattle, hogs, sheep, and poultry, and have carried away more than ten thousand horses and mules, as well as a countless number of their slaves.
Page 72 - They have a right to the fruits of their industry ; and to the means of making their industry fruitful. They have a right to the acquisitions of their parents ; to the nourishment and improvement of their offspring ; to instruction in life, and to consolation in death. Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all its combinations of skill and force, can do in his favour.
Page 231 - Banner — it is trailing, While around it sounds the wailing Of its people in their woe. For, though conquered, they adore it, — Love the cold, dead hands that bore it, Weep for those who fell before it, Pardon those who trailed and tore it...
Page 231 - Banner — it is trailing! While around it sounds the wailing Of its people in their woe. For though conquered, they adore it! Love the cold dead hands that bore it! Weep for those who fell before it! Pardon those who trailed and tore it, But, Oh! wildly they deplore it Now who furl and fold it so.
Page 231 - tis hard for us to fold it; Hard to think there's none to hold it; Hard that those who once unrolled it Now must furl it with a sigh. Furl that Banner ! furl it sadly ! Once ten thousands hailed it gladly, And ten thousands wildly, madly, Swore it should forever wave; Swore that...
Page 99 - The line of battle was not far behind, and we saw the gray rebels swarm out of the ledge line of rifle-pits and over the base of the hill in numbers which surprised us. A few turned and fired their pieces; but the greater number collected into the many roads which cross obliquely up its steep face, and went on to the top. " Some regiments pressed on and swarmed up the steep sides of the Ridge, and here and there a color was advanced beyond the lines. The attempt appeared most dangerous ; but the...
Page 199 - The armies in the East and West acted independently and without concert, like a balky team, no two ever pulling together, enabling the enemy to use to great advantage his interior lines of communication for transporting troops from East to West...