On Sherman's Track: Or, The South After the WarSeeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1867 - 320 pagina's |
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American Andersonville Andrew Johnson army Atlanta attack autumn bureau carried cars cause Cave city Charles Sumner Charleston Chattanooga CHRISTIAN COMMISSION command Confederacy Confederate cotton crowded enemy England favour Federal feeling feet Fort Sumter freedmen Freedmen's Bureau Georgia give Government Grant guns hands heard heart hope interest Island Jefferson Davis journey labour lady land late Leonidas Polk LIBBY PRISON look ment miles military Mission Ridge Mississippi morning Morris Island Nashville negro never nigger night North Northern officer ourselves party passed plantations planters position present President prisoners question railway Rebel rest Richmond river Savannah scene Secession seemed seen sent Sherman side slavery slaves soldiers South Carolina Southern steamer success sufferings supplies taken Tennessee thing thousand told town train troops turned Union Union armies wounded Yankee York
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Pagina 72 - Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all its combinations of skill and force, can do in his favour.
Pagina 233 - 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.
Pagina 151 - So the struck Eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And...
Pagina 166 - We have also consumed the corn and fodder in the region of country thirty miles on either side of a line from Atlanta to Savannah, as also the sweet potatoes, cattle, hogs, sheep, and poultry, and have carried away more than ten thousand horses and mules, as well as a countless number of their slaves.
Pagina 233 - Banner — it is trailing, While around it sounds the wailing Of its people in their woe. For, though conquered, they adore it, — Love the cold, dead hands that bore it, Weep for those who fell before it, Pardon those who trailed and tore it...
Pagina 233 - Banner — it is trailing! While around it sounds the wailing Of its people in their woe. For though conquered, they adore it! Love the cold dead hands that bore it! Weep for those who fell before it! Pardon those who trailed and tore it, But, Oh! wildly they deplore it Now who furl and fold it so.
Pagina 232 - tis weary, Round its staff 'tis drooping dreary: Furl it, fold it — it is best; For there's not a man to wave it, And there's not a sword to save it, And there's not one left to lave it In the blood which heroes gave it, And its foes now scorn and brave it: Furl it, hide it — let it rest!
Pagina 233 - tis hard for us to fold it; Hard to think there's none to hold it; Hard that those who once unrolled it Now must furl it with a sigh. Furl that Banner ! furl it sadly ! Once ten thousands hailed it gladly, And ten thousands wildly, madly, Swore it should forever wave; Swore that...
Pagina 258 - British ports, ever afterward entered them in every part of the world to refit, and so to renew their depredations. The consequences of this conduct were most disastrous to the States then in rebellion, increasing their desolation and misery by the prolongation of our civil contest. It had, moreover, the effect, to a great extent, to drive the American flag from the sea, and to transfer much of our shipping and our commerce to the very power whose subjects had created the necessity for such a change....
Pagina 101 - A few turned and fired their pieces; but the greater number collected into the many roads which cross obliquely up its steep face, and went on to the top. " Some regiments pressed on and swarmed up the steep sides of the Ridge, and here and there a color was advanced beyond the lines.