1861 Vs. 1862: "Co. Aytch", Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment; Or, A Side Show of the Big Show |
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army of Tennessee artillery Atlanta bang battle-field Billy blood Bonnie Blue Flag boom boys Bragg brave breastworks brigade called camp Captain captured cavalry charge Chattanooga Cheatham cheer Cleburne Cleburne's Colonel Field command Company H corps dead death earth face Federal felt fight fire flag forward furlough Galbreath glory guard hallooed hands hear heard hill Hood horse hundred Jeff Davis John Branch Johnny Jonesboro Joseph E killed knapsack knew ladies laugh Leonidas Polk line of battle looked loved Maury county minnie ball Missionary Ridge morning Murfreesboro never night old Joe ordered passed picket Polk poor fellow private soldier rations reader rear Rebel remember river scene seemed shoot shot side skirmish soon Stonewall Jackson tell Tennessee Regiment thing thought to-day told tramp tree victory whipped whole army wounded Yankee line yards yonder
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Page 46 - Pharaoh's people, when they were resisting old Moses, never enjoyed the curse of lice more than we did. The boys would frequently have a louse race. There was one fellow who was winning all the money; his lice would run quicker and crawl faster than anybody's lice. We could not understand it. If some fellow happened to catch a fierce-looking louse, he would call on Dornin for a race. Dornin would come and always win the stake. The lice were placed in plates — this was the race course — and the...
Page 81 - And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.
Page 183 - Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
Page 157 - He brought all the powers of his army into play; ever on the defensive, 'tis true, yet ever striking his enemy in his most vulnerable part. His face was always to the foe. They could make no movement in which they were not anticipated. Such a man was Joseph E. Johnston, and such his record. Farewell, old fellow! We privates loved you because you made us love ourselves. Hardee, our old corps commander, whom we had followed for nearly four years, and whom we had loved and respected from the beginning,...
Page 84 - We skinned him, washed and salted him, buttered and peppered him, and fried him. He actually looked nice. The delicate aroma of the frying rat came to our hungry nostrils. We were keen to eat a piece of rat; our teeth were on edge; yea, even our mouth watered to eat a piece of rat. Well, after a while, he was said to be done. I got a piece of cold corn dodger, laid my piece of the rat on it, eat a little piece of bread, and raised the piece of rat to my mouth, when I happened to think of how that...
Page 222 - ... and earth were in one mighty uproar. Forward,. men! And the blood spurts in a perfect jet from the dead and wounded. The earth is red with blood. It runs in streams, making little rivulets as it flows. Occasionally there was a little lull in the storm of battle, as the men were loading their gnns, and for a few moments it seemed as if night tried .to cover the scene with her mantle.
Page 10 - Noah, who meant to curse him blue, but overdid the thing, and cursed him black. Well, as I said before, they went to fighting, but old Abe's side got the best of the argument. But in getting the best of the argument they called in all the people and wise men of other nations of the earth, and they, too, said that America had no cardinal points, and that the sun did not rise in the east and set in the west, and that the compass did not point either north or south. Well, then, Captain Jeff Davis' side...
Page 12 - Federal army, surrendered. The die was cast; war was declared; Lincoln called for troops from Tennessee and all the Southern states, but Tennessee, loyal to her Southern sister states, passed the ordinance of secession, and enlisted under the Stars and Bars. From that day on, every person, almost, was eager for the war, and we were all afraid it would be over and we not be in the fight.
Page 35 - The victory was complete, but the word "halt" turned victory into defeat. The soldiers had passed through the Yankee camps and saw all the good things that they had to eat in their sutlers' stores and officers' marquees, and it was but a short time before every soldier was rummaging to see what he could find. The harvest was great and the laborers were not few. The negro boys, who were with their young masters as servants, got rich. Greenbacks were plentiful, good clothes were plentiful, rations...
Page 11 - ... histories are all correct. They tell of great achievements of great men, who wear the laurels of victory; have grand presents given them; high positions in civil life; presidents of corporations; governors of states; official positions, etc., and when they die, long obituaries are published, telling their many virtues, their distinguished victories, etc., and when they are buried, the whole country goes in mourning and is called upon to buy an elegant monument to erect over the remains of so...