Winfield: The Lawyer's Son, and how He Became a Major-generalAshmead & Evans, 1865 - 313 |
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Strona 67
... capturing eight hun- dred prisoners , although at a fearful loss of life in our own ranks . The next battle in which the young Lieutenant participated was that of the castle of Chapultepec . The edifice stands on a high , rocky ...
... capturing eight hun- dred prisoners , although at a fearful loss of life in our own ranks . The next battle in which the young Lieutenant participated was that of the castle of Chapultepec . The edifice stands on a high , rocky ...
Strona 107
... pell mell , killing three , wounding five , and capturing twenty prisoners . These , with the wounded , were brought into camp by the Massachusetts boys , who greeted them blandly with the HIS FIRST FIGHT FOR THE UNION . 107.
... pell mell , killing three , wounding five , and capturing twenty prisoners . These , with the wounded , were brought into camp by the Massachusetts boys , who greeted them blandly with the HIS FIRST FIGHT FOR THE UNION . 107.
Strona 108
... captured Forts Hatteras and Clark , on the coast of North Car- olina , possessed several important points on the West- ern waters , and done the enemy considerable damage in Missouri , while he was pursuing the Fabian policy of masterly ...
... captured Forts Hatteras and Clark , on the coast of North Car- olina , possessed several important points on the West- ern waters , and done the enemy considerable damage in Missouri , while he was pursuing the Fabian policy of masterly ...
Strona 110
... captured from them , containing large supplies of guns , uniforms , ammunition , horses , teams , and grain . On the 13th of September , of this year , the battle of Cheat Mountain had been fought and won by the Union forces . The ...
... captured from them , containing large supplies of guns , uniforms , ammunition , horses , teams , and grain . On the 13th of September , of this year , the battle of Cheat Mountain had been fought and won by the Union forces . The ...
Strona 122
... captured late the preceding fall . Several battles had been won in Missouri , Kentucky , at Fort Pulaski , Georgia , and on the Western waters , and a new impulse given to the navy by the launching of several of the new iron Monitors ...
... captured late the preceding fall . Several battles had been won in Missouri , Kentucky , at Fort Pulaski , Georgia , and on the Western waters , and a new impulse given to the navy by the launching of several of the new iron Monitors ...
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Strona 139 - For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.
Strona 229 - HARK ! I hear the tramp of thousands, And of armed men the hum ; Lo ! a nation's hosts have gathered Round the quick alarming drum, — Saying, " Come, Freemen, come ! Ere your heritage be wasted," said the quick alarming drum. " Let me of my heart take counsel : War is not of life the sum ; Who shall stay and reap the harvest When the autumn days shall come ? " But the drum Echoed, " Come ! Death shall reap the braver harvest," said the solemnsounding drum.
Strona 165 - How sleep the brave, who sink to rest With all their country's wishes blest?
Strona 53 - I therein would have found issue. Hear me profess sincerely : had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather had eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.
Strona 123 - Potomac is now a real army, magnificent in material, admirable in discipline and instruction, excellently equipped and armed; your commanders are all that I could wish. The moment for action has arrived, and I know that I can trust in you to save our country.
Strona 95 - Thus stood the case when the final announcement of the decision was flashed along the electric wire, from the Atlantic, on the East, to the Pacific, on the West ; from the inland seas, on the North, to the Gulf of Mexico, on the South.
Strona 217 - Honor and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
Strona 19 - Thy spirit, Independence, let me share ! Lord of the lion heart and eagle eye, Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, Nor heed the storm which howls along the sky...
Strona 157 - For Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeathed by bleeding Sire to Son, Though baffled oft is ever won.
Strona 82 - Tallahassee, and one hundred and sixty south of Savannah. It has the distinction of being the oldest town in the United States, having been settled by the Spaniards in 1565.