A Soldier's Reminiscences in Peace and War

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Press of J. B. Lippincott Company, 1886 - 428 sider
 

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Side 133 - ART. 56. Whosoever shall relieve the enemy with money, victuals, or ammunition, or shall knowingly harbor or protect an enemy, shall suffer death, or such other punishment as shall be ordered by the sentence of a court-martial.
Side 313 - In case of the removal, death, -resignation, or inability of both the President and VicePresident...
Side 204 - Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again; The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers.
Side 230 - Like the soft light of parted days. The spirit of the holy eve Comes through the silent air To feeling's hidden spring, and wakes A gush of music there ! And the far depths of ether beam So passing fair, we almost dream That we can rise, and wander through Their open paths of trackless blue. Each soul is filled with glorious dreams, Each pulse is beating wild ; And thought is soaring to the shrine Of glory undefiled ! And holy aspirations start, Like blessed angels, from the heart, And bind — for...
Side 393 - Total deserted, 199,105. Number of soldiers in the Confederate service, who died of wounds or disease, (partial statement,) 133,821. Deserted, (partial statement.) 104,428. Number of United States Troops captured during the war, 212,608 ; Confederate Troopa captured, 476,169.
Side 34 - Should the senate, at their next session, advise and consent thereto, you will be commissioned accordingly. " Immediately on receipt hereof. please to communicate to this department, through the adjutant general's office, your acceptance or nonacceptance of said appointment ; and, with your letter of acceptance, return to the adjutant general of the army the oath, herewith inclosed, properly filled up.
Side 45 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Side 24 - They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
Side 229 - SABBATH EVENING. How calmly sinks the parting sun! Yet twilight lingers still ; And beautiful as dream of heaven It slumbers on the hill; Earth sleeps, with all her glorious things, Beneath the Holy Spirit's wings, And, rendering back the hues above, Seems resting in a trance of love.
Side 177 - SIR : You are hereby informed that the President of the United States...

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