History of the First and Second Missouri Confederate Brigades: 1861-1865. And, From Wakarusa to Appomattox, a Military Anagraph |
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... looked for battle had really commenced . But the enemy , after about an hour's resistance , retired in confusion and with consid- erable loss . Our loss was only one man killed in Gates ' regiment , and quite a number wounded in both ...
... looked for battle had really commenced . But the enemy , after about an hour's resistance , retired in confusion and with consid- erable loss . Our loss was only one man killed in Gates ' regiment , and quite a number wounded in both ...
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... looked after the comfort of his command , and knew how to find for them something good to eat and to drink when nobody else could . His cheerful voice on the eve of a fight , and his bright face , had a mesmeric effect on all about him ...
... looked after the comfort of his command , and knew how to find for them something good to eat and to drink when nobody else could . His cheerful voice on the eve of a fight , and his bright face , had a mesmeric effect on all about him ...
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... looked in front , but could see no place to put his poor soldier . He discovered something on wheels , however , and commanded : " Halt ! and put this wounded soldier up ; I will save my wounded , if I lose the whole army ! " " " This ...
... looked in front , but could see no place to put his poor soldier . He discovered something on wheels , however , and commanded : " Halt ! and put this wounded soldier up ; I will save my wounded , if I lose the whole army ! " " " This ...
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... looked to him with confidence as one of her strong pillars in case of war . She sent him abroad to procure arms , but , before he had fully succeeded , President Davis appointed him brigadier - general , and assigned him to the command ...
... looked to him with confidence as one of her strong pillars in case of war . She sent him abroad to procure arms , but , before he had fully succeeded , President Davis appointed him brigadier - general , and assigned him to the command ...
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... looked upon the thousands of men streaming past him with a mingled expression of sorrow and pity . Old Gen- eral Price looked on the disorder of his darling troops with unmitigated anguish . The big tears coursed down the old man's ...
... looked upon the thousands of men streaming past him with a mingled expression of sorrow and pity . Old Gen- eral Price looked on the disorder of his darling troops with unmitigated anguish . The big tears coursed down the old man's ...
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Page 332 - SOLDIER'S DREAM. Our bugles sang truce — for the night-cloud had lowered, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered, The weary to sleep and the wounded to die.
Page 5 - Strike — till the last armed foe expires; Strike — for your altars and your fires; Strike — for the green graves of your sires, God — and your native land!
Page 412 - Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war!
Page 453 - The souls did from their bodies fly, They fled to bliss or woe! And every soul, it passed me by, Like the whizz of my cross-bow!
Page 343 - Their van will be upon us Before the bridge goes down; And if they once may win the bridge, What hope to save the town ? ' Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate : 'To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods...
Page 392 - Which Jews might kiss, and Infidels adore. Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose, Quick as her eyes, and as unfixed as those: Favors to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.
Page 452 - Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die, Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
Page 343 - Hew down the bridge, Sir Consul, With all the speed ye may ; I, with two more to help me, Will hold the foe in play. In yon strait path a thousand May well be stopped by three : Now who will stand on either hand, And keep the bridge with me?" Then out spake Spurius Lartius, A Ramnian proud was he : "Lo, I will stand at thy right hand, And keep the bridge with thee...
Page 308 - But still as wilder blew the wind, And as the night grew drearer, Adown the glen rode armed men, Their trampling sounded nearer. "O haste thee, haste!" the lady cries, "Though tempests round us gather; I'll meet the raging of the skies, But not an angry father.
Page 5 - tis gory, Yet 'tis wreathed around with glory, And 'twill live in song and story Though its folds are in the dust! For its fame on brightest pages, Penned by poets and by sages, Shall go sounding down the ages — Furl its folds though now we must.