 | Charles Rufus Skinner - 1900 - 508 lehte
...than was their wont. They seemed to spend more time that morning in unfurling the old battle-flags, in burnishing the medals of honor which decorated...stricken chief. The hand which had seized the surrendered sword of countless thousands could scarcely return the pressure of the friendly grasp. That voice that... | |
 | Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh - 1900 - 488 lehte
...in that vicinity, arose earlier than was their wont. They seemed to spend more time that morning in unfurling the old battle flags, in burnishing the...last marching salute. In the streets the columns were forming; inside the house on that bed, from which he was never to rise again, lay the stricken chief.... | |
 | 1901 - 50 lehte
...than was their wont. They seemed to spend more time that morning in unfurling the old battleflags, in burnishing the medals of honor which decorated...streets the columns were formed; inside the house, on the bed from which he never was to rise again lay the stricken chief. The hand which had seized the... | |
 | Edwin Du Bois Shurter - 1906 - 386 lehte
...unfurling the old battle flags, in burnishing the medals of honor which decorated their breasts, 30 for on that day they had determined to march by the...last marching salute. In the streets the columns were forming ; inside the house, on that bed from which he was never to rise again, lay the stricken chief.... | |
 | Edwin Du Bois Shurter - 1906 - 392 lehte
...in that vicinity, arose earlier than was their wont. They seemed to spend more time that morning in unfurling the old battle flags, in burnishing the medals of honor which decorated their breasts, 30 for on that day they had determined to march by the house of their dying commander to give him a... | |
 | Edwin Du Bois Shurter - 1909 - 338 lehte
...in that vicinity, arose earlier than was their wont. They seemed to spend more time that morning in unfurling the old battle flags, in burnishing the...last marching salute. In the streets the columns were forming; inside the house, on that bed from which he was never to rise again, lay the stricken chief.... | |
 | Francis Trevelyan Miller - 1911 - 366 lehte
...in that vicinity, arose earlier than was their wont. They seemed to spend more time that morning in unfurling the old battle flags, in burnishing the...last marching salute. In the streets the columns were forming; inside the house, on that bed from which he was never to rise again, lay the stricken chief.... | |
 | Augustus White Long - 1917 - 458 lehte
...in that vicinity, arose earlier than was their wont. They seemed to spend more time that morning in unfurling the old battle flags, in burnishing the...last marching salute. In the streets the columns were forming; inside the house on that bed, from which he was never to rise again, lay the stricken chief.... | |
 | Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1928 - 640 lehte
...in that vicinity, arose earlier than was their wont. They seemed to spend more time that morning in unfurling the old battle flags, in burnishing the...last marching salute. In the streets the columns were forming; inside the house on that bed, from which he was never to rise again, lay the stricken chief.... | |
| |
It was on Decoration Day in the City of New York, the last one he ever saw on earth. That morning the members of the Grand Army of the Republic, the veterans in that vicinity, arose earlier than was their wont. They seemed to spend more time that morning... 