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Page 128 - I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Page 582 - These fanatics brought to civil and military affairs a coolness of judgment and an immutability of purpose which some writers have thought inconsistent with their religious zeal, but which were in fact the necessary effects of it.
Page 206 - Take thy banner! May it wave Proudly o'er the good and brave; When the battle's distant wail Breaks the sabbath of our vale, When the clarion's music thrills To the hearts of these lone hills, When the spear in conflict shakes, And the strong lance shivering breaks.
Page 380 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Page 141 - It was so good, the best thing he had had since he was wounded,' — and he thanked me so much, and talked about his 'good supper' for hours. Poor fellow, he had had no care, and it was a surprise and pleasure to find himself thought of; so, in a pleased, childlike way, he talked about it till midnight, the attendant told me, as long as he spoke of anything; for at midnight the change came, and from that time he only thought of the old days before he was a soldier, when he sang hymns in his father's...
Page 142 - ... know ! We went over one night and listened for an hour, while they sang, collected under the fly of a tent, a table in the middle where the leader sat, and benches all round the sides for the congregation — men only, — all very black and very earnest. They...
Page 98 - ONE sweetly solemn thought Comes to me o'er and o'er : Nearer my parting hour am I Than e'er I was before.
Page 93 - In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along: The present scene, the future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot: Cold diffidence, and age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost : Each blank, in faithless memory void, The poet's glowing thought supplied ; And, while his harp responsive rung, 'Twas thus the LATEST MINSTREL sung.
Page 548 - I immediately started down the hill through the thick undergrowth, and upon reaching the valley I followed the sound of the drum, and soon found him seated upon the ground, his back leaning against the trunk of a fallen tree, while his drum hung upon a bush in front of him, reaching nearly to the ground. As soon as he discovered me he dropped his drum-sticks and exclaimed — " 0 corporal ! I am so glad to see you. Give me a drink," reaching out his hand for my canteen, which was empty.
Page 546 - In an hour after, our company led the, Iowa First out of camp, our drum and fife playing " The girl I left behind me." Eddie, as we called him, soon became a great favorite with all the men in the company. When any of the boys had returned from a horticultural excursion, Eddie's share of the peaches and melons was the first apportioned out. During our heavy and fatiguing march from...
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| Title | Women of the War: Their Heroism and Self-sacrifice Making of America |
| Author | Frank Moore |
| Publisher | S. S. Scranton & Company, 1866 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Nov 23, 2005 |
| ISBN | 1425565182, 9781425565183 |
| Length | 616 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / United States / General |
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