This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...'s Longstreet. struggling in the lists, 35 Hemmed in an ugly gorge. Pope and his Dutchmen! whipped before. ' Bay'nets and grape! ' hear Stonewall roar. Charge, Stuart! Pay off Ashby's score, In Stonewall Jackson's Way. 40 Ah, Maiden! wait, and watch, and yearn, For news of Stonewall's band. Ah, Widow! read, with eyes ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...'s Longstreet. struggling in the lists, 35 Hemmed in an ugly gorge. Pope and his Dutchmen! whipped before. ' Bay'nets and grape! ' hear Stonewall roar. Charge, Stuart! Pay off Ashby's score, In Stonewall Jackson's Way. 40 Ah, Maiden! wait, and watch, and yearn, For news of Stonewall's band. Ah, Widow! read, with eyes that burn, That ring upon thy hand. Ah, Wife! sew on, pray on, hope on! 45 Thy life shall not be all forlorn. The foe had better ne'er been born, That gets in Stonewall's Way. John W. Palmer, (1862) 1825-19o6. TENTING ON THE OLD CAMP GROUND We 're tenting to-night on the old camp ground; Give us a song to cheer Our weary hearts, a song of home, And friends we love so dear. Many are the hearts that are weary to-night. 5 Wishing for the war to cease, Many are the hearts, looking for the right. To see the dawn of peace. Tenting to-night, tenting to-night, Tenting on the old camp ground. I0 We 've been tenting to-night on the old camp ground. Thinking of days gone by, Of the loved ones at home, that gave us the hand, And the tear that said ' Good-by!' We are tired of war on the old camp ground, '5 Many are dead and gone, Of the brave and true who 've left their homes Others been wounded long. We 've been fighting to-day on the old camp ground, Many are lying near; ' Some are dead, and some are dying, Many are in tears. (1863) Walter Kittredge, 1834-19o5. JUST BEFORE THE BATTLE, MOTHER Just before the battle, mother, I am thinking most of you, While upon the field we 're watching, With the enemy in view--Comrades brave are round me lying, 5 Fill'd with tho't of home and God; For well they know that on the morrow, Some will sleep beneath the sod. Farewell, mother, you may never Press me to your heart again; I0 But oh, you 'll not forget me, mother, I...
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Good. 1926. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. "Commissioning organisation: edited and annotated by Fred Lewis Pattee. xix, 1081, xlv p. 24 cm. Original cloth. Good clean copy with somewhat loose spine and worn spine bands and panel edges. 3d ed." Keywords: American literature. Not a first edition copy.....We ship daily from our warehouse.
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