 | Abram Henry Herbert Orpen- Palmer - 1880 - 424 pages
...troops of that famous Christian soldier whose own dying thoughts and words were of the better land, ' Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees.' " Let no one (man or CoL ii. 8. envious demon) beguile you with enticing words; no one despoil you... | |
 | Samuel Penniman Bates - Chancellorsville, Battle of, Chancellorsville, Va., 1863 - 1882 - 280 pages
...sweetness spread itself over his pale face, and he said quietly, and with an expression, as if of relief, ' Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees.' And then without pain, or the least struggle, his spirit passed from earth to the God who gave it." Thomas... | |
 | George Augustus Sala - United States - 1882 - 420 pages
...the little harnlet called Guinneys, which I have more than once spoken of, and his last words were, " Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees." " Stonewall " Jackson ! I mind how, in the summer of '64, being at Niagara Falls, on the British side,... | |
 | Clara Emma Cheney - United States - 1884 - 586 pages
...— tell" — then the scene changed, and the battle-fire died out of his eyes, and saying softly, " Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees," he fell asleep. General Thomas J. Jackson was at the same time an undaunted soldier and a gentle Christian.... | |
 | Samuel Adams Wiggin - 1885 - 324 pages
...Flag ! All hearts adoring, Sing to thee their loving song. LAST WORDS OF GENERAL STONEWALL JACKSON. " Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees.' Upon his weary couch of pain he lay, The hero of a hundred fields of strife, And as his pulse gently... | |
 | Virgil Anson Lewis - Virginia - 1887 - 766 pages
...Hawks — " The sentence was never completed. A smile spread over the pale face, and he whispered, " Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees." With these beautiful and typical words trembling upon his lips, the Christian soldier sank to eternal... | |
 | John Trainer - United States - 1887 - 252 pages
...to his sorrowing wife when she informed him that his chances for recovery were very doubtful. 538. " Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees.'1' 539. He and Pemberton were sitting in the shade of a tree negotiating for the surrender of... | |
 | Robert Alonzo Brock - Virginia - 1888 - 420 pages
...sweetness spread itself over his pale face, and he said quietly and with an expression as if of relief: "Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees ;" and then, without pain or the least struggle, his spirit passed from earth to the (!od who gave it. The... | |
 | Numismatics - 1919 - 558 pages
...Chancellorsville, he was mortally wounded by his own men, who mistook him for the enemy. His last words were "Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees." He died May 10th, 1863. In the selection of names for a place in the Hall of Fame for great Americans,... | |
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