The Land We Love, Volumes 3-4Jas. P. Irwin & D.H. Hill, 1869 |
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... soon movements , Major General Whit- as he shall find it wavering before ing will move with his division his skirmishers , or as soon as from Petersburg along the Peters- burg and Richmond turnpike , and attack the enemy in flank and ...
... soon movements , Major General Whit- as he shall find it wavering before ing will move with his division his skirmishers , or as soon as from Petersburg along the Peters- burg and Richmond turnpike , and attack the enemy in flank and ...
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... soon be tillery - three 20 pounder Parrots engaged -- a dispatch had been and two fine Napoleons . He sent him at 9 a . m . , which was then took position in the works , repeated at 9.30 a . m . , to " press his left regiment being ...
... soon be tillery - three 20 pounder Parrots engaged -- a dispatch had been and two fine Napoleons . He sent him at 9 a . m . , which was then took position in the works , repeated at 9.30 a . m . , to " press his left regiment being ...
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... soon as the detailed while the enemy opened a severe Reports of subordinate command- fire which was soon silenced by ers shall have been received at our artillery . these Headquarters . The same opportunity will be taken to mention the ...
... soon as the detailed while the enemy opened a severe Reports of subordinate command- fire which was soon silenced by ers shall have been received at our artillery . these Headquarters . The same opportunity will be taken to mention the ...
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... soon began slowly to even should it be merged alto- ascend a long hill , where , from gether in some larger constitu- many successive sweeps of the ency , the interests of its lace- road , there was afforded a pretty makers will be ...
... soon began slowly to even should it be merged alto- ascend a long hill , where , from gether in some larger constitu- many successive sweeps of the ency , the interests of its lace- road , there was afforded a pretty makers will be ...
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... soon after with troopers and a thousand infantry , several choice regiments from with orders to occupy the enemy , Italy and Spain . The latterfound his old play - fellow worn with the cares and anxieties of his post , until the main ...
... soon after with troopers and a thousand infantry , several choice regiments from with orders to occupy the enemy , Italy and Spain . The latterfound his old play - fellow worn with the cares and anxieties of his post , until the main ...
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Page 470 - On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more.
Page 183 - And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, . And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor: And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted — nevermore...
Page 470 - And thinking of the days that are no more. Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Page 274 - General McLaws, with his own division and that of General RH Anderson, will follow General Longstreet On reaching Middletown he will take the route to Harper's Ferry, and by Friday morning possess himself of the Maryland Heights, and endeavor to capture the enemy at Harper's Ferry and vicinity.
Page 176 - I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality.
Page 470 - TEARS, IDLE TEARS Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean. Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.
Page 48 - Ah, captain! here goes for a fine-drawn bead : There's music around when my barrel's in tune." Crack ! went the rifle, the messenger sped, And dead from his horse fell the ringing dragoon. " Now, rifleman, steal through the bushes and snatch From your victim some trinket to handsel first blood — A button, a loop or that luminous patch That gleams in the moon like a diamond stud.
Page 390 - I say, if you wish to be pinioned, robbed, and murdered, and see your wives and daughters, in four days, abused by the dregs of mankind— in short, if you wish or deserve to live, and bear the name of men, grasp your arms in a moment and run to camp.
Page 83 - The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb.
Page 165 - Ideas that in themselves are not all of kin, come to be so united in some men's minds, that it is very hard to separate them; they always keep in company, and the one no sooner at any time comes into the understanding, but its associate appears with it...