Scouts, Spies, and Heroes of the Great Civil War: Including Thrilling Adventures, Daring Deeds, Heroic Exploits, Wonderful Escapes of Spies, Scouts, and Detectives, with Songs, Ballads, Anecdotes, Witty Sayings, Watchwords, Battle-cries, and Humorous and Pathetic Incidents of the WarE. R. Curtis, 1892 - 512 páginas |
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Página 309 - tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door ; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve : ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o...
Página 365 - Somebody's darling, so young and so brave, Wearing yet on his pale, sweet face, Soon to be hid by the dust of the grave, The lingering light of his boyhood grace. Matted and damp are the curls of gold...
Página 491 - ... boy ! and his father had said He never could let his youngest go : Two already were lying dead Under the feet of the trampling foe. But after the evening work was done, And the frogs were loud in the meadow-swamp, Over his shoulder he slung his gun And stealthily followed the foot-path damp.
Página 365 - Was it a mother's soft and white? And have the lips of a sister fair Been '''baptized in the waves of light? 4. God knows best! he was somebody's love; Somebody's heart enshrined him there; Somebody wafted his name above, Night and morn, on the wings of prayer. Somebody wept when he marched away, Looking so handsome, brave, and grand; Somebody's kiss on his forehead lay; Somebody clung to his parting hand.
Página 445 - Reputation's nuffin to me by de side ob life." "Do you consider your life worth more than other people's?
Página 250 - Number one, fire ! Number two, fire ! Number three, fire ! " — it seemed to me the tolling of the clock of destiny — and when at "Number six, fire!" the roar throbbed out with the flash, you should have seen the dead line that had been lying behind the works all day, all night, all day again...
Página 220 - During the conflict upon the hill, he was in the forest near the front of the rebel line. Here his horse was shot under him. Captain Wroton kept careful watch over him. When the flight began he hurried White away, and, accompanied by a squad of eleven men, took him ten miles into the country. They stopped at a farm-house for the night. White discovered that their host was a Union man. His...
Página 258 - Chickamauga !" down upon the mountaineers. But it would not all do, and just as the sun, weary of the scene, was sinking out of sight, with magnificent bursts all along the line, exactly as you have seen the crested seas leap up at the breakwater, the advance surged over the crest, and in a minute those flags fluttered along the fringe where fifty rebel guns were kenneled.
Página 219 - Body-Guard had profited greatly from his skill as a drill-master. He lost • three horses in the fight. As soon as one was killed, he caught another from the rebels ; the third horse taken by him in this way he rode into St. Louis. The Sergeant slew five men. 'I won't speak of those I shot,' said he, ' another may have hit them ; but those I touched with my sabre I am sure of, because I felt them.
Página 215 - Foley, not seeing any thing of the Guard, he supposed they had passed through at that place, and gallantly attempted to follow. Thirteen men fell in a few minutes. He was shot in the arm and dismounted. Lieutenant Connolly spurred into the underbrush, and received two balls through the lungs and one in the left shoulder. The dragoons, at the outset not more than fifty strong, were broken, and, dispirited by the loss of their officers, retired.