The Whip, Hoe, and Sword; Or, The Gulf-department in '63This book discusses the experiences of the author as a solider in the Union Army during the Civil War. |
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Page 129 - And God said. Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Page 207 - For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain. Hence timely running's no mean part Of conduct, in the martial art...
Page 185 - Who does the best his circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly, angels could do no more.
Page 285 - Confederacy is an empty shell. I was surprised at the appearance of things inside the ring. The strength of the rebels has been over-estimated. They have neither the armies nor the resources we have given them credit for. Passing through their country, I found thousands of good Union men, who are ready and anxious to return to their allegiance the moment they can do so with safety to themselves and families.
Page 131 - Ho believed it was an orang-outang, and not a serpent. If he had lived in Louisiana, instead of England, he would have recognized the negro gardener. Eve was a new-comer, and had evidently been questioning, out of curiosity, the gardener, about the tree with the forbidden fruit.
Page 130 - ... there it stands, more durable than brass or granite, inviting us to look at the negro and the Indian, and then to look at that, and we will understand it. " Neither the Catholic nor the Protestant translators of the Bible seem to have had the negroes in their mind's eye when they were looking at the words naphesh chayah ; or, if they had, they took for granted that they were white men, whose skins a tropical sun had blacked; and hence omitted to translate the words which embrace them. Mississippi...
Page 272 - Our boys drove to the rear every pony and mule, every ox and cow and sheep. They did not leave, on an average, two chickens to a plantation. Wherever they encamped, the fences served as beds and firewood.
Page 251 - I came across some poor unfortunate, who had dropped his blanket in the mud, and down whose back the rain was trickling mercilessly ; and who seemed (I judged from the forcible expletives used) to have arrived at the sage conclusion, that a soldier's life is not always gay, as generally represented, and that camp-life and campmeeting are two very different things. But even he soon gathered his muddy vestments about him ; and, crawling alongside the bright fire, got into a better humor with himself...
Page 164 - when the whole audience swayed back and forward in their seats, and uttered in perfect harmony a sound like that caused by prolonging the letter " m " with the lips closed. One or two began this wild, mournful chorus ; and in an instant all joined in, and the sound swelled upwards and downwards like waves of the sea.
Page 167 - I remember, too, some of his phrases : they were very beautiful, and were epic in grandeur. He spoke of "the rugged wood of the cross," whereto the Saviour was nailed ; and, after describing that scene with as much power as I have ever known an orator to exhibit, he reached the climax, when he pictured the earthquake which rent the veil of the temple, with this extremely beautiful expression : " And, my friends, the earth was unable to endure the tremendous sacrilege, and trembled.