American History Stories, 4. köideEducational Publishing Company, 1891 |
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Abraham Lincoln Army of Virginia attack battle of Gettysburg BATTLE OF SHILOH began Bethel Bragg brave Burnside Butler called cannon Charleston cheer cheese-box CHORUS Colonel command Confederate dark dead defeat Eddy enemy fell fight fire forces Fort Henry Fort Sumter forts Gettysburg Grant guns harbor heard heart Hurrah Jefferson Davis JENNY WADE join knew Lee's army Lew Wallace little girl look marched McClellan Merrimac morning mountain negroes never night North Northern numbers officer old Camp ground once Orleans Potomac President prisoners ready regiment remember retreat Richmond river Rosecrans round running seemed sent Sheridan Sherman shot side slaves songs South South Carolina Southern Stars and Stripes Stonewall Jackson stood story streets Sumter sure surrender tell Tennessee thing thought thousand town Union army Union flag Union soldiers Union troops Unionists vessels Vicksburg Virginia women wounded Yankees
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Page 157 - UP from the South at break of day, Bringing to Winchester fresh dismay, The affrighted air with a shudder bore, Like a herald in haste, to the chieftain's door, The terrible grumble, and rumble, and roar, Telling the battle was on once more, And Sheridan twenty miles away.
Page 83 - Frietchie then, Bowed with her fourscore years and ten ; Bravest of all in Frederick town, She took up the flag the men hauled down; In her attic window the staff she set, To show that one heart was loyal yet. Up the street came the rebel tread, Stonewall Jackson riding ahead. Under his slouched hat left and right He glanced; the old flag met his sight. "Halt!
Page 49 - All quiet along the Potomac," they say, "Except now and then a stray picket Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket.
Page 83 - But spare your country's flag," she said. A shade of sadness, a blush of shame Over the face of the leader came; The nobler nature within him stirred To life at that woman's deed and word: "Who touches a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog! March on!
Page 81 - Over the mountains winding down, Horse and foot into Frederick town. Forty flags with their silver stars, Forty flags with their crimson bars, Flapped in the morning wind : the sun Of noon looked down, and saw not one.
Page 177 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.
Page 81 - UP from the meadows rich with corn, Clear in the cool September morn, The clustered spires of Frederick stand Green-walled by the hills of Maryland.
Page 117 - 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 178 - In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me: As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, "While God is marching on.
Page 160 - And the wave of retreat checked its course there, because The sight of the master compelled it to pause. With foam and with dust the black charger was gray; By the flash of his eye and the red nostril's play He seemed to the whole great army to say, " I have brought you Sheridan all the way From Winchester down, to save the day.