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... hours . The town however derives its chief speciality from being the scene of Rosecran's brilliant victory . • Onward still the shrieking locomotive hurries us , delighted with the country , until suddenly , looms up in the distance the ...
... hours . The town however derives its chief speciality from being the scene of Rosecran's brilliant victory . • Onward still the shrieking locomotive hurries us , delighted with the country , until suddenly , looms up in the distance the ...
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... hours before it sets in the horizon , during a great part of the summer . No citizen of America can be justified in traveling to Italy and Switzerland in search of beauty and rugged mountain grandeur , until he has visited this northern ...
... hours before it sets in the horizon , during a great part of the summer . No citizen of America can be justified in traveling to Italy and Switzerland in search of beauty and rugged mountain grandeur , until he has visited this northern ...
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... hour more step rewarded their watchfulness . passed in this silent and sorrowful suspense , without It was then the wished - for sound saluting their ears . - , thinking her worst fears realized , Mrs. poor burst into a passionate fit ...
... hour more step rewarded their watchfulness . passed in this silent and sorrowful suspense , without It was then the wished - for sound saluting their ears . - , thinking her worst fears realized , Mrs. poor burst into a passionate fit ...
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George Whitfield Pepper. uncertainty they remained for an hour longer , when suddenly the approach of footsteps gave new life to all . But their joy was of short duration , for on a nearer approach , the tread appeared far too slow and ...
George Whitfield Pepper. uncertainty they remained for an hour longer , when suddenly the approach of footsteps gave new life to all . But their joy was of short duration , for on a nearer approach , the tread appeared far too slow and ...
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... hours there was silence , broken only by the occasional discharge of artillery . It was a sort of breathing time , when the panting combatants , exhaus- ted by the battle , stood silently eyeing each other and making ready , the one to ...
... hours there was silence , broken only by the occasional discharge of artillery . It was a sort of breathing time , when the panting combatants , exhaus- ted by the battle , stood silently eyeing each other and making ready , the one to ...
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Personal Recollections of Sherman's Campaigns in Georgia and the Carlinas George Whitfield Pepper Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2020 |
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advance artillery Atlanta batteries battle beautiful brave Brevet Brigade brilliant burned Cahawba camp campaign Captain captured Carlin cavalry Chaplain charge Chattanooga cheer Cheraw citizens Colonel Columbia column command Cox's bridge creek crossed Davis Division enemy enemy's engaged eral eyes Fayetteville field Fifteenth Corps fight fire flag flank force fought Fourteenth Corps front gallant Georgia grand guns Hardee's heart hills honor Howard hundred Huntsville Illinois Johnston Jonesboro Kenesaw Kilpatrick left wing Lieutenant Lieutenant Colonel Logan looked Major McPherson ment miles morning mountains moved movement negroes never night noble North officers Ohio passed patriot pontoon position railroad Raleigh rear rebel army rebellion regiment Resaca Ridge river road Savannah scene Sherman Sherman's army skirmishers Slocum soldiers South Carolina splendid staff Tennessee terrible Thomas Francis Meagher thousand tion town troops Twentieth Corps Union victory W. T. SHERMAN Wade Hampton woods wounded
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Seite 22 - ... How sleep the Brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there!
Seite 21 - The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo; No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead.
Seite 233 - Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die.
Seite 465 - Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Seite 515 - And furthermore, as president of the Board of Supervisors, I beg you to take immediate steps to relieve me as superintendent, the moment the State determines to secede, for on no earthly account will I do any act or think any thought hostile to or in defiance of the old Government of the United States.
Seite 515 - I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.
Seite 423 - This done, each officer and man will be allowed to return to his home, not to be disturbed by the United States authorities so long as they observe their paroles, and the laws in force where they may reside.
Seite 174 - Talk thus to the marines, but not to me, who have seen these things, and who will this day make as much sacrifice for the peace and honor of the South as the best-born Southerner among you!
Seite 264 - Corps, that he has organized them into an army for a special purpose, well known to the War Department and to General Grant. It is sufficient for you to know that it involves a departure from our present base, and a long and difficult march to a new one. All the chances of war have been considered and provided for, as far as human sagacity can.
Seite 21 - But whether on the scaffold high, Or in the battle's van, The fittest place where man can die Is where he dies for man ! THE CHARCOAL MAN.— JT TROWRRIDG*.