The Bugle Blast, Or, Spirit of the Conflict: Comprising Naval and Military Exploits, Dashing Raids, Heroic Deeds, Thrilling Incidents, Sketches, Anecdotes, Etc., Etc

E. S. S. Rouse

J. Challen & Son, 1864 - United States - 336 pages

Contents

• Preface: 11
• The Star of the West: 27
• Lieutenant Slemmer saves Fort Pickens: 34
• Seventyfive thousand men called for: 45
• Death of Ellsworth: 53
• Cavalier Song: 60
• Piratical seizure of the steamer St Nicholas: 68
• I fights mit Sigel a Poem: 77
• Terrible fate of the Rebel Privateer Petrel: 85
• Zagonyis Charge: 91
• The Faithful Dog at Shiloh: 103
• Sketch of Gen T W Sherman: 111
• Romance of the WarA gallant deed and Chivalrous: 120
• Capture of New Orleans: 132
• General Butler in New Orleans: 139
• Elegy: 145
• Colonel Lorin Andrews: 151
• Scene in the Capitol Grounds near Washington: 158
• Ballooning Extraordinary related by an eye witness: 164
• Story of General McClellan: 171
• Sketch of MajorGeneral McClellan: 173
• A Female Soldier and her Experience: 179
• The Hero of Corinth: 187
• Colonel Lawsons Parole: 193
• Colonel Straights Cavalry Raid into Georgia: 199
• A Sad and Remarkable Incident: 205
• The Battle of Gettysburg: 216
• Capture Trial and Execution of Colonels Williams: 223
• Colonel Griersons Raid: 229
• Sketch of Grierson and Incidents in the Raid: 239
• Billy Bray a Humorous Poem: 245
• Sinking of the Cincinnati gunboat at Vicksburg: 246
• Siege and Capitulation of Vicksburg: 265
• Capitulation of Port Hudson: 273
• General HowardAn Incident: 280
• Queer Adventure and Narrow Escape: 286
• Gallantry of Lieutenant Milne: 292
• How John Morgan got three hundred horses: 299
• General Nelson at Pittsburg Landing: 306
• Clinton Waters the Scout: 312
• How a Blockade Runner was caught: 319
• Escape from Libby Prison: 328
• Little Johnny Clem: 334

Popular passages

Page 222 - Over the heads of the rebel host. Ever its torn folds rose and fell On the loyal winds that loved it well ; And through the hill-gaps sunset light Shone over it with a warm good-night.

Page 221 - Forty flags with their crimson bars, Flapped in the morning wind: the sun Of noon looked down, and saw not one. Up rose old Barbara Frietchie then, Bowed with her fourscore years and ten; Bravest of all in Frederick town, She took up the flag the men hauled down; In her attic window the staff she set, To show that one heart was loyal yet. Up the street came the rebel tread, Stonewall Jackson riding ahead. Under his slouched hat left and right He glanced; the old flag met his sight. 'Halt!

Page 46 - WHEREAS, The laws of the United States have been for some time past and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals...

Page 19 - What right has the North assailed ? What interest of the South has been invaded ? What justice has been denied? and what claim founded in justice and right has been withheld ? Can either of you to-day name one governmental act of wrong, deliberately and purposely done by the Government of Washington, of which the South has a right to complain ? 1 challenge the answer.

Page 45 - Sunday afternoon, the 14th instant, with colors flying and drums beating, bringing away company and private property, and saluting my flag with fifty guns.

Page 221 - Forty flags with their silver stars, Forty flags with their crimson bars, Flapped in the morning wind : the sun Of noon looked down, and saw not one. Up rose old Barbara Frietchie then, Bowed with her four-score years and ten ; Bravest of all in Frederick town, She took up the flag the men hauled down. In her attic-window the staff she set. To show that one heart was loyal yet.

Page 221 - It shivered the window, pane and sash; It rent the banner with seam and gash. Quick, as it fell, from the broken staff Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf. She leaned far out on the windowsill, And shook it forth with a royal will. "Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag,

Page 46 - Constitution and the laws, have thought fit to call forth, and hereby do call forth, the militia of the several States of the Union to the aggregate number of 75,000, in order to suppress said combinations and to cause the laws to be duly executed.

Page 31 - Excellency the Governor of South Carolina, Sir: Two of your batteries fired this morning upon an unarmed vessel bearing the flag of my Government. As I have not been notified that war has been declared by South Carolina against the Government of the United States, I cannot but think that this hostile act was committed without your sanction or authority. Under that hope, and that alone, did I refrain from opening fire upon your batteries.

Page 14 - Oh for a tongue to curse the slave, Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might...

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Bugle Blast, Or, Spirit of the Conflict: Comprising Naval and Military Exploits, Dashing Raids, Heroic Deeds, Thrilling Incidents, Sketches, Anecdotes, Etc., Etc
• Author: E. S. S. Rouse
• Publisher: J. Challen & Son, 1864
• Original from: the New York Public Library
• Digitized: Jan 23, 2008
• Length: 336 pages