The Bivouac and the Battlefield: Or, Campaign Sketches in Virginia and MarylandHarper & brothers, 1863 - 352 pages |
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... passing Alexan- dria , every foot of whose streets was so familiar to my boyhood , and not long after we glide past Mount Ver- non , and the men crowd the rigging to catch their first look at the tomb of Washington . For one , I feel no ...
... passing Alexan- dria , every foot of whose streets was so familiar to my boyhood , and not long after we glide past Mount Ver- non , and the men crowd the rigging to catch their first look at the tomb of Washington . For one , I feel no ...
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... passing very few habitations or cultivated fields , fording two consider- able creeks and several " runs , " brought us among the canvas cities ... passed Shields's Division , and gazed with special 22 THE BIVOUAC AND THE BATTLE - FIELD .
... passing very few habitations or cultivated fields , fording two consider- able creeks and several " runs , " brought us among the canvas cities ... passed Shields's Division , and gazed with special 22 THE BIVOUAC AND THE BATTLE - FIELD .
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Or, Campaign Sketches in Virginia and Maryland George Freeman Noyes. right we passed Shields's Division , and gazed with special interest at these veterans of six months ' serv- ice , who had actually smelt powder and been in bat- tle ...
Or, Campaign Sketches in Virginia and Maryland George Freeman Noyes. right we passed Shields's Division , and gazed with special interest at these veterans of six months ' serv- ice , who had actually smelt powder and been in bat- tle ...
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... passed , or mani- fested their hostility in ways even more demonstrative . I confess that this sort of treatment , while it did not hurt my feelings , always astonished me . Somehow I had never been able to get up a feeling of hatred ...
... passed , or mani- fested their hostility in ways even more demonstrative . I confess that this sort of treatment , while it did not hurt my feelings , always astonished me . Somehow I had never been able to get up a feeling of hatred ...
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... passing a sol- dier , they sometimes swept by as if afraid of contami nation . Our boys bore all this with a good deal of indifference , but once in a while flung out a retaliato- ry sarcasm . Thus , as a woman , in passing a soldier ...
... passing a sol- dier , they sometimes swept by as if afraid of contami nation . Our boys bore all this with a good deal of indifference , but once in a while flung out a retaliato- ry sarcasm . Thus , as a woman , in passing a soldier ...
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ambulances Antietam anxious Aquia Creek army Army of Virginia artillery batteries BATTLE OF GAINESVILLE battle-field bivouac boys brave breakfast brigade brought camp camp-fire campaign captain cavalry Cedar Mountain Centreville CHAPTER cheer coffee colonel comfort command cornfield crowded division duty enemy enjoyed eral evident excitement feeling field fighting fire flank Fredericksburg front guns Hagerstown half halted head-quarters horses hospitals hour infantry iron storm late line of battle look ment mess-table miles military morning moved muskets night once orderlies passed patriotic pickets pleasant pontoon bridge position Potomac quarter-master quiet ranks Rappahannock reached ready rear rebel regiments rest retreat ride river road rode seemed Sharpsburg sharpshooters shot and shell side skirmishers sleep soldier soon South South Mountain staff officers stood storm tents tion to-day trees troops turnpike usual Virginia volley wagon-trains wagons Warrenton whole woods wounded
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