Random Sketches and Wandering Thoughts: Or, What I Saw in Camp, on the March, the Bivouac, the Battle Field and Hospital, While with the Army in Virginia, North and South Carolina, During the Late Rebellion. With a Historical Sketch of the Second Oswego Regiment, Eighty-first New York State V. I.; a Record of All Its Officers, and Roster of Its Enlisted Men; Also, an AppendixA. Herrick, 1866 - 324 Seiten |
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... friends in whose judgment he had confidence , he has been induced to have it published in book form . People who are loyal , and appreciate sentiments flowing from a patriotic heart , and those who think well of the soldier , who left ...
... friends in whose judgment he had confidence , he has been induced to have it published in book form . People who are loyal , and appreciate sentiments flowing from a patriotic heart , and those who think well of the soldier , who left ...
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... friends of those who are dead , reminding them of the scenes through which they have passed . An account is also given of the many hard fought battles in which the regiment participated , with a record of the officers and an ...
... friends of those who are dead , reminding them of the scenes through which they have passed . An account is also given of the many hard fought battles in which the regiment participated , with a record of the officers and an ...
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... friend to drop a tear , or sing a funeral requiem . I visited this spot by pale moonlight , when all was quiet . Such feelings as then filled my breast can never again be realized , for they come but once in a lifetime . I arrived in ...
... friend to drop a tear , or sing a funeral requiem . I visited this spot by pale moonlight , when all was quiet . Such feelings as then filled my breast can never again be realized , for they come but once in a lifetime . I arrived in ...
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... friends who are all embarked in one common cause , assembling to commemorate the day of general thanksgiving throughout the North , was marked by universal hilarity , good feeling , and sentiments abounding in wit , from the fluent ...
... friends who are all embarked in one common cause , assembling to commemorate the day of general thanksgiving throughout the North , was marked by universal hilarity , good feeling , and sentiments abounding in wit , from the fluent ...
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... Friends at Home " Responded to by our Surgeon in a humorous and happy style , in which he said : " On this occasion ... friend's allusion to home reminds us it cannot always serve , so : ' Here's 26 RANDOM SKETCHES AND.
... Friends at Home " Responded to by our Surgeon in a humorous and happy style , in which he said : " On this occasion ... friend's allusion to home reminds us it cannot always serve , so : ' Here's 26 RANDOM SKETCHES AND.
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
18th Army Corps Albany Andersonville arrived battle field battle of Cold Beaufort beautiful Benjamin F bivouaced boat brigade camp captured Chaplain Charles Charles H Chowan river Cold Harbor Colonel colors command companies dead distance duty Edward Eighty-First New York Eighty-First Regiment enemy February 19 feel feet fight fire flag FOREST Fortress Monroe friends George George W guns Henry horses hospital hundred James river John Joseph July June land Major ment miles Morehead morning moted mustered negroes night North Carolina Northwest Landing November 30 officers ordered Oswego passed Petersburg picket prisoners Promoted from Sergeant promoted to Captain ranks rebel rebellion received in action regi returned Richmond sail Second Lieutenant Seven Pines shore soldiers soon South sundown Surgeon Swamp tents to-day took transports trees troops Union Veteran Virginia Volunteers White William H woods Yorktown
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Seite 53 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, To mingle with the Universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal.
Seite 57 - Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore j upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan — Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoflined, and unknown.
Seite 111 - He saw the lake, and a meteor bright Quick over its surface play'd — " Welcome," he said,
Seite 57 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean - roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy...
Seite 102 - For right is right, since God is God ; And right the day must win ; To doubt would be disloyalty, To falter would be sin ! FREDERIC WILLIAM FABER.
Seite 189 - The mother who conceals her grief While to her breast her son she presses, Then breathes a few brave words and brief, Kissing the patriot brow she blesses...
Seite 7 - They never fail who die In a great cause : the block may soak their gore ; Their heads may sodden in the sun ; their limbs Be strung to city gates and castle walls — But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years Elapse, and others share as dark a doom, They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts Which overpower all others, and conduct The world at last to freedom.
Seite 185 - A river of light on the welkin blue. The moon looks down on old Cronest ; She mellows the shades on his shaggy breast, And seems his huge gray form to throw In a silver cone on the wave below...
Seite 151 - On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead.
Seite 183 - Nathan Palmer, a lieutenant in your King's service, was taken in my camp as a Spy — he was tried as a Spy — he was condemned as a Spy — and you may rest assured, Sir, he shall be hanged as a Spy." " I have the honour to be, &c. "ISRAEL PUTNAM. rt His Excellency Governor TRYON.