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... face to face with his old master , who was lying seriously wounded at the foot of a tree in the belt of timber which divided the ploughed and corn fields already spoken of . The negro was rivetted to the ground by the sight of his old ...
... face to face with his old master , who was lying seriously wounded at the foot of a tree in the belt of timber which divided the ploughed and corn fields already spoken of . The negro was rivetted to the ground by the sight of his old ...
Page 88
... faces for sympathy and support : nor turned they here in vain . The chorus of Liberty was swelled by the voices of Clarkson , and Wilberforce , and Fox ; and under the Premiership of Earl Grey complete emancipation by compensation was ...
... faces for sympathy and support : nor turned they here in vain . The chorus of Liberty was swelled by the voices of Clarkson , and Wilberforce , and Fox ; and under the Premiership of Earl Grey complete emancipation by compensation was ...
Page 97
... face ten thousand bayonets for his convic- tions ! He seemed disposed to render me physically incapable of further service in Virginia . But my friend H. held him , and thus preserved me . Presently , when the coast was clear , I came ...
... face ten thousand bayonets for his convic- tions ! He seemed disposed to render me physically incapable of further service in Virginia . But my friend H. held him , and thus preserved me . Presently , when the coast was clear , I came ...
Page 101
... face ; it bore the scar of an Indian arrow . He was a general of cavalry , of solid frame and frank ruddy face - General Bayard . On the day of which I write I saw some men bearing a wounded officer from the left of our line , and ...
... face ; it bore the scar of an Indian arrow . He was a general of cavalry , of solid frame and frank ruddy face - General Bayard . On the day of which I write I saw some men bearing a wounded officer from the left of our line , and ...
Page 108
... face of Russell , our commander ; the desperate marching , suggested to my mind that we were making a rush for a coveted position , lest the enemy should reach it first . Men were dropping like hops from exhaustion , heat , and ...
... face of Russell , our commander ; the desperate marching , suggested to my mind that we were making a rush for a coveted position , lest the enemy should reach it first . Men were dropping like hops from exhaustion , heat , and ...
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Four Years in the Army of the Potomac: A Soldier's Recollections (1881) Evan Rowland Jones No preview available - 2009 |
Four Years in the Army of the Potomac: A Soldier's Recollections (1881) Evan Rowland Jones No preview available - 2009 |
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Page 217 - O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up — for you the flag is flung — for you the bugle trills, For you bouquets and ribboned wreaths — for you the shores a-crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck, You've fallen cold and dead.
Page 38 - I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 115 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Page 38 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 22 - I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction ; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 216 - O Captain! My Captain! O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. O Captain! my Captain!
Page 177 - Still sprung from those swift hoofs, thundering South, The dust, like smoke from the cannon's mouth; Or the trail of a comet, sweeping faster and faster. Foreboding to traitors the doom of disaster, The heart of the steed and the heart of the master Were beating like prisoners assaulting...
Page 20 - That the normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom; that, as our republican fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all our national territory, ordained that "no person should be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law...
Page 59 - 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 168 - I believe that to have interfered as I have done, as I have always freely admitted I have done, in behalf of His despised poor, I did no wrong, but right. Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children and with the blood of...