 | Frank Moore - National songs - 1856 - 436 pages
...extraordinary reason given by the provost marshal, ' that the rebels should not know that they bad a man in their army who could die with so much firmness." " 3 A BALIAD. THE breezes went steadily thro' the tall pines, A saying " oh ! hu-ush !" a saying "... | |
 | John Warner Barber - United States - 1860 - 478 pages
...other friends, were destroyed ; and this very extraordinary reason was given by the provost marshal, ' that the rebels should not know that they had a man in their army, who could die with so much firmness.1 " Unknown to all around him, without a single friend to offer him the least consolation,... | |
 | George Washington Greene - United States - 1865 - 518 pages
...have but one life to lose for my country " — he resolved in his heart that the rebels should never know that they had a man in their army who could die with so much firmness, and destroying his letters, destroyed, as he fondly supposed, the last and only record of his dying... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - England - 1866 - 312 pages
...were broken open, read and burned,(n<;We conduct !) in order, as was said by the provost-marshal, " that the rebels should not know that they had a man in their army who could die with such firmness." I have also read that she who would have been his bride, went with her father at night... | |
 | S. S. Colt - New York (State) - 1871 - 368 pages
...mother and other dear friends, were broken open and burned, that the rebels might not know there was a man in their army who could die with so much firmness. We have also heard that " she who would been his bride went with her father at night through the British... | |
 | Francis Samuel Drake - America - 1872 - 1042 pages
...morning of his execution, were destroyed by the provost-marshal, " that the rebels should not know they had a man in their army who could die with so much firmness." His dying observation was, that " he only lamented" that he had but one life to lose for his country."... | |
 | Francis Samuel Drake - America - 1876 - 1042 pages
...morning of his execution, were destroyed by the provost-marshal, " that the rebels should not know they had a man in their army who could die with so much firmness." His dying observation was, that " he only lamented that he had but one life to lose for his country."... | |
 | Moses Foster Sweetser - Middle Atlantic States - 1876 - 562 pages
...letters to his friends were destroyed by the British provost-marshal, "that the rebels should not know they had a man in their army who could die with so much firmness." The train passes NE from Syosset to Huntingdon, which was founded in 1654, and was fortified in 1782... | |
 | Francis Samuel Drake - America - 1879 - 1054 pages
...morning of his execution, were destroyed by the provost-marshal, " that the rebels should not know they had a man in their army who could die with so much firmness." His dying observation was, that " he only lamented that he had but one life to lose for his country."... | |
 | Edward James Young - History - 1881 - 532 pages
...others, being destroyed, in order, as the British provostmarshal said, " that the rebels might not know they had a man in their army who could die with so much firmness."* Major Andre", whose fate was similar, while his purpose was not so pure, and noble, seeing that he... | |
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... that the rebels should not know that they had a man in their army who could die with so much firmness. 
