 | Mary Anna Jackson - Generals - 1891 - 526 pages
...out very cheerfully and distinctly the beautiful sentence which has become immortal as his last : " Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees." " \\ras his soul wandering back in dreams to the river of his beloved Valley, the Shenandoah (the '... | |
 | Periodicals - 1891 - 1058 pages
...sweetness spread itself over his pale face, and then he said <|iiietly, and with an expression 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. We should all be able to pass over... | |
 | Daniel Elbridge Wager - Mohawk River Valley (N.Y.) - 1891 - 58 pages
...itself over his wan face, "as if his soul had seen a vision,"and then he said calmly and quietly, "letin cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees;" then without pain or a struggle, his spirit passed peacefully away. Col. Willett had been amid scenes... | |
 | United States. 52d Cong., 1891-1893 - 1893 - 66 pages
...length there came to him in a ripe old age the realization of the last words of Gen. Stonewall Jackson: "Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees." ADDRESS OF MR. CAMPBELL, OF NEW YORK. Mr. SPEAKER: I rise to participate in these sad services, realizing... | |
 | Francis Shanor Kinder, Frank Clarence Spencer - American literature - 1894 - 292 pages
...Where blossoms blooming never fall, But hang in glory on the wall Forever and forever. HERE AND THERE. "Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees."— Stonewall Jackson's last 'words. On this side we stand so lonely, On this side we linger only Till... | |
 | John Reynolds Francis - Death - 1894 - 412 pages
...ineffable sweetness spread itself over his pale face, and he said quietly and with an expression 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 away. We should all be able to pass... | |
 | Joseph T. Derry - Confederate States of America - 1895 - 454 pages
...out very cheerfully and distinctly the beautiful sentence which has become immortal as his last: ' Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees.' " 1-2 General Howard, of the Union army, after describing the rout of his corps by Jackson at Chancellorsville,... | |
 | John Trainer - United States - 1895 - 356 pages
...sorrowing wife when she informed him that his chances for recovery were very doubtful. 558. " Tiet us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees." 559. He and Pemberton were sitting in the shade of a tree negotiating for the surrender of that place.... | |
 | 1897 - 632 pages
...coq)s. " Tell AP Hill to prepare for action ! " he shouted. Then, with a sigh of relief, he said, " Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees." His body lay in state for three days in the Capitol at Richmond. Then it was taken to Lexington, his... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - United States - 1898 - 548 pages
...mistook his reconnoitering party for the enemy. He died a week later; and those last words of his — "Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees" — are peculiarly happy, as showing that amid all the shocks of war, in which he had ever borne a... | |
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