A New Invasion of the South: Being a Narrative of the Expedition of the Seventy-first Infantry, National Guard, Through the Southern States, to New Orleans. February 24-March 7, 1881Board of officers, Seventy-first Infantry, 1881 - 127 páginas |
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... appearance of dense tropical undergrowth , surmounted with cotton - wood trees , mossy and weird - like in their gaunt nakedness . Along the banks of the river were dense groves of the Sycamore , intermingling with the Southern pine ...
... appearance of dense tropical undergrowth , surmounted with cotton - wood trees , mossy and weird - like in their gaunt nakedness . Along the banks of the river were dense groves of the Sycamore , intermingling with the Southern pine ...
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... appearance the column of companies in double rank gave the battalion , popular- ized it , until the second or third day we received cheers and congratulations for what had first been looked upon as entirely out of all precedent . When ...
... appearance the column of companies in double rank gave the battalion , popular- ized it , until the second or third day we received cheers and congratulations for what had first been looked upon as entirely out of all precedent . When ...
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... Appearances were certainly against him . dazed and uncertain way he limped towards the St. Charles Hotel , hugging the shadows , hailed a cab , and without stopping to higgle over the fare , had himself driven to the neighborhood of the ...
... Appearances were certainly against him . dazed and uncertain way he limped towards the St. Charles Hotel , hugging the shadows , hailed a cab , and without stopping to higgle over the fare , had himself driven to the neighborhood of the ...
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... appearance , as far as the eye could reach were , line upon line , the glittering bayonets and waving plumes of the military . Close upon the river's front were the blue uniforms of Ours and the United States Marines . A hun- dred ...
... appearance , as far as the eye could reach were , line upon line , the glittering bayonets and waving plumes of the military . Close upon the river's front were the blue uniforms of Ours and the United States Marines . A hun- dred ...
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... appearance . The dancing floor is simi- larly prepared , while the arrangement of boxes and first balcony is almost exactly like that of the Academy . The public is excluded from the dancing floor at first and the Misticke Krewe , in ...
... appearance . The dancing floor is simi- larly prepared , while the arrangement of boxes and first balcony is almost exactly like that of the Academy . The public is excluded from the dancing floor at first and the Misticke Krewe , in ...
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Adjutant amid arms bale Baltimore band banner Battalion beau ideal blue boat boys cabin Canal street Captain Carnival cars Chaplain cheers Chickahominy Cincinnati citizens Colonel Vose command Commissary Company cotton Craig Crescent City crowded depot detachment dinner February flag gangway gentlemen Gibson House gold Govenor guests hands heard honor icy towers Jenks King ladies Levee look Lord Louisiana main deck Majesty Mardi Gras Marsh Mayor miles military Mississippi morning National Guard North North Atlantic Squadron officers Ohio opened Orleans parade party pass peace pleasant Quartermaster railroad rank formation reception RICHARD VOSE river roared Robert E rolled route New York Royal Host saloon salute seemed sentry Sergeant Seventy-first New York Seventy-first Regiment side single rank sleep smiling soldiers South Southern stood Sunday night thing thousands throng ticket took train trip uniform veterans Washington Artillery Winfield Scott Featherstone
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Página 12 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Página 89 - Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Página 13 - And this is in the night : — Most glorious night ! Thou wert not sent for slumber ! let me be A sharer in thy fierce and far delight, — A portion of the tempest and of thee...
Página 70 - Naught is seen in the vault on high But the moon, and the stars, and the cloudless sky, And the flood which rolls its milky hue, A river of light on the welkin blue. The moon looks down on old Cro'nest; She mellows the shades on his shaggy breast, And seems his huge gray form to throw In a silver cone on the wave below.
Página 90 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet But hark!
Página 21 - Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been. May sigh to think he still has found His warmest welcome at an inn.
Página 95 - Tis sweet to hear the watchdog's honest bark Bay deep-mouthed welcome as we draw near home; Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark Our coming, and look brighter when we come...
Página 78 - By the flow of the inland river, Whence the fleets of iron have fled, Where the blades of the grave-grass quiver, Asleep are the ranks of the dead; Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day; Under the one, the Blue; Under the other, the Gray.
Página 61 - Shouting and clapping, with confused din; That makes a prince. No, Lucio, he's a king, A true right king, that dares do aught save wrong, Fears nothing mortal, but to be unjust, Who is not blown up with the flattering puffs Of...
Página 5 - Oh, Peace ! thou source and soul of social life, Beneath whose calm inspiring influence, Science his views enlarges, Art refines, And swelling Commerce opens all her ports, Blest be the man divine who gives us thee...