Four years campaigning in the army of the PotomacDygert Bros. & Company, 1874 - 207 pages |
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... with Beauregard's . Our men are hurled back in utter confusion . The excitement is taken up by the citizens who went from Washington to witness the battle . They fly , and never pull up until they are safely 24 FOUR YEARS CAMPAIGNING.
... with Beauregard's . Our men are hurled back in utter confusion . The excitement is taken up by the citizens who went from Washington to witness the battle . They fly , and never pull up until they are safely 24 FOUR YEARS CAMPAIGNING.
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... pull up in front of Washington , after march- ing about thirty miles in the rain , slush and mud . Oh , how tired we are , as a few of us make our way to the Long Bridge , thinking to cross over to Washington and get something good to ...
... pull up in front of Washington , after march- ing about thirty miles in the rain , slush and mud . Oh , how tired we are , as a few of us make our way to the Long Bridge , thinking to cross over to Washington and get something good to ...
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... pull their covered wagons along the different roads ; the beautiful Potomac , as it winds its way to the sea ; the Long Bridge leading across the river connecting the sacred soil with Washington , whose beautiful Gov- ernment buildings ...
... pull their covered wagons along the different roads ; the beautiful Potomac , as it winds its way to the sea ; the Long Bridge leading across the river connecting the sacred soil with Washington , whose beautiful Gov- ernment buildings ...
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... pulls up on the line and opens out from the same post I am on . They fire on some rebels who are in plain sight , building forts . The way they get down and hug mother earth is astonishing to us , for not one is seen in a moment . After ...
... pulls up on the line and opens out from the same post I am on . They fire on some rebels who are in plain sight , building forts . The way they get down and hug mother earth is astonishing to us , for not one is seen in a moment . After ...
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... pull up in some fields to camp for the night . Early on the fifth of May it begins to rain , and heavy cannonading is heard not far off . Our advance have struck the enemy , and are forc- ing a fight . Our brigade fall in under the ...
... pull up in some fields to camp for the night . Early on the fifth of May it begins to rain , and heavy cannonading is heard not far off . Our advance have struck the enemy , and are forc- ing a fight . Our brigade fall in under the ...
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Page 155 - 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...
Page 155 - There's only the sound of the lone sentry's tread As he tramps from the rock to the fountain, And he thinks of the two in the low trundlebed Far away in the cot on the mountain. His musket falls slack ; his face, dark and grim, Grows gentle with memories tender As he mutters a prayer for the children asleep, For their mother : may Heaven defend her!
Page 182 - HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA, April 9, 1865. "GENERAL: I have received your letter of this date containing the terms of surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia as proposed by you. As they are substantially the same as those expressed in your letter of the 8th instant, they are accepted. I will proceed to designate the proper officers to carry the stipulations into effect. "RE LEE, General. "LIEUTENANT-GENERAL US GRANT.
Page 181 - 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 side-arms of the officers nor their private horses or baggage.
Page 156 - And the life-blood is ebbing and plashing. All quiet along the Potomac to-night — No sound save the rush of the river; While soft falls the dew on the face of the dead — The picket's off duty forever.
Page 180 - GENERAL: I received your note of this morning on the picket line, whither I had come to meet you, and ascertain definitely what terms were embraced in your proposal of yesterday with reference to the surrender of this army. I now ask an interview in accordance with the offer contained in your letter of yesterday for that purpose.
Page 181 - The officers to give their individual paroles not to take up arms against the Government of the United States until properly exchanged ; and each company or regimental commander sign a like parole for the men of their commands.
Page 181 - I propose to receive the surrender of the army of Northern Virginia on the following terms, to wit : Rolls of all the officers and men to be made in duplicate, one copy to be given to an officer to be designated by me, the other to be retained by such officer or officers as you may designate.
Page 156 - Leaped up to his lips — when low, murmured vows Were pledged to be ever unbroken ; Then drawing his sleeve roughly over his eyes, He dashes off tears that are welling, And gathers his gun closer up to its place, As if to keep down the heart-swelling.
Page 180 - AM) received, in consequence of my having passed from the Richmond and Lynchburg road to the Farmville and Lynchburg road. I am at this writing about four miles west of Walker's Church and will push forward to the front for the purpose of meeting you. Notice sent to me on this road where you wish the interview to take place will meet me.