A Soldier's Letters to Charming Nellie |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
arms army artillery asked battle began Bill Calhoun Bob Murray boys Brahan Brazoria County breastworks camp Captain capture carried cavalry Charming Nellie Colonel command Company F comrades Confeder Confederate darky duty enemy enemy's eral face Federal feet fellow Fifth Texas fight fire foot Fourth Texas Regiment Fredericksburg French Broad River front gade gallant gave ground guard halt Hampton's Legion hand head hill Hood Hood's Hood's Texas Brigade horse hundred yards Jack killed lady LELAND LELAND STANFORD letter Lieutenant Longstreet look Manassas mand morning never night officer picket Pickett's brigade Pokue Powhite Creek rear replied Richmond river round shot Second Manassas Sharpsburg shot shouted side sight skirmish soldier Stonewall Jackson Texans Texas Brigade timber tion tree troops UNIVERSITY Veteran Virginia voice Watts house wounded Yankees
Popular passages
Page 271 - Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, — act in the living present! Heart within, and GOD o'erhead!
Page 272 - Impenetrability, — which signifies that no two bodies can occupy the same space at the same time.
Page 132 - In all the trade of war no feat Is nobler than a brave retreat: For those that run away, and fly, Take place at least o' the
Page 183 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Page 114 - I wish I was a baby, and a girl baby at that!" The plagued Yankees have such an ability and habit of outnumbering us that we are not prompt to join in any censure of the Texas Irishman who, sent out on the skirmish line, came back on a treble-quick and, when told by his lieutenant, "I'd rather die, Mike, than run out of a fight...
Page 98 - Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? . . . And the creature run from the cur? There thou mightst behold the great image of authority: a dog's obeyed in office.
Page 107 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder?
Page 307 - In this charge, in which upwards of a thousand men fell, killed and wounded, before the fire of the enemy, and in which fourteen pieces of artillery and nearly a regiment were captured, the Fourth Texas, under the lead of General Hood, were the first to pierce these strongholds and seize the guns.
Page 37 - ... he who fights and runs away will live to fight another day.
Page 20 - Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I." Sir Roderick marked, — and in his eyes Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel.