Battle Field and Prison Pen: Or Through the War, and Thrice a Prisoner in Rebel DungeonsHubbard Brothers] Edgewood Publishing Company, 1882 - 486 頁 |
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advance arrived artillery assault attack batteries battle of Gettysburg became bridge brigade camp captured cavalry Cemetery Hill Centreville change of base charge Chickahominy Chickahominy river commanded by Gen commenced conflict crossed defeat desperate division driven back enemy enemy's engaged entire fall back Federal fell field fighting fire flank fled formed line Fort Sumter front Gettysburg ground guards guns Hancock's hands Heintzelman held Hooker infantry intrenchments James river killed large number Lee's line of battle Longstreet's loss Malvern Hill mand marched McClellan McDowell Meade Mechanicsville ment miles morning move movement night North o'clock ordered Pennsylvania Reserves posi Potomac prisoners raged rear rebel army rebel line regiment reinforcements retreat Reynolds Richmond road sent short distance skirmishers soldiers soon South Spottsylvania Court House station succeeded in getting Sumner swamp terrible tion Union army Union forces Union lines Union position Union troops vance victory volley Washington wood wounded
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第 28 頁 - Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, God's New Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand and the sheep upon the right; And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
第 241 頁 - Bear with patience the hardships and sacrifices you will be called upon to endure. Have confidence in your officers and in each other. Keep your ranks on the march and on the battlefield, and let each man earnestly implore God's blessing, and endeavor by his thoughts and actions to render himself worthy of the favor he seeks. With clear conscience and strong arms, actuated by a high sense of duty, fighting to preserve the Government and the institutions handed down to us by our forefathers, if true...
第 28 頁 - But," — and this he said rising on his feet and extending his arm, " if the Southern States attempt to secede from this Union without further cause, I am in favor of their having just so many slaves, and just so much slave territory, as they can hold at the point of the bayonet — and no more !" Wilkinson's Veteran Minnesota Regiment.
第 184 頁 - President of the United States, and commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States, do hereby appoint William W. Holden provisional governor of the State of North Carolina...
第 238 頁 - Soldiers! Again you are called upon to advance on the enemies of your country ; the time and the occasion are deemed opportune by your Commanding General to address you a few words of confidence and caution. "You have been re-organized, strengthened and fully equipped in every respect ; you form a part of the several armies of your country, the whole under...
第 20 頁 - All but four barrels were thus disposed of, and those remaining were wrapped in many thicknesses of wet woolen blankets. But three cartridges were left, and these were in the guns. About this time the flag-staff of Fort Sumter was shot down, some fifty feet from the truck, this being the ninth time that it had been struck by a shot. The men cried out, 'The flag is down; it has been shot away!
第 192 頁 - Whatever fatigues and sacrifices we may be called upon to undergo, let us have in view constantly the magnitude of the interests involved, and let each man determine to do his duty, leaving to an all-controlling Providence the decision of the contest.
第 241 頁 - Soldiers ! the eyes of the whole country are looking with anxious hope to the blow you are about to strike in the most sacred cause that ever called men to arms. Remember your homes, your wives and...
第 185 頁 - ... whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. "Done at the city of Washington, this...
第 22 頁 - STEAMSHIP BALTIC, OFF SANDY HOOK, April 18, 1861—10:30 am— via NEW YORK Having defended Fort Sumter for thirty-four hours, until...