The New Jersey Magazine, Volume 11867 |
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... Regiment of New York Artillery , and now the Eighth Regiment of New York Infantry . He served over two years in this company , when , in 1848 , he was trans- ferred to the second company of the Seventh Regiment National Guard , where in ...
... Regiment of New York Artillery , and now the Eighth Regiment of New York Infantry . He served over two years in this company , when , in 1848 , he was trans- ferred to the second company of the Seventh Regiment National Guard , where in ...
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... Regiment was the best drilled body which the Chi- cago Zouaves had seen . The First Regiment of the Hudson Brigade , which was under his command , contained infantry , cavalry , riflemen and artillery , and was acknowledged to be the ...
... Regiment was the best drilled body which the Chi- cago Zouaves had seen . The First Regiment of the Hudson Brigade , which was under his command , contained infantry , cavalry , riflemen and artillery , and was acknowledged to be the ...
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... regiment , one thousand strong , started for Washington , fully organized , equipped , and splendidly drilled . They marched down Broadway silently , steadily , and compactly , without a word or look to disturb the harmony of their ...
... regiment , one thousand strong , started for Washington , fully organized , equipped , and splendidly drilled . They marched down Broadway silently , steadily , and compactly , without a word or look to disturb the harmony of their ...
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... regiment , and continued the fight . " My men fight well , " wrote the colonel to his wife after the battle , " and appear to appreciate now the lessons I have given them . " His conduct in this battle was one of the bases for his hard ...
... regiment , and continued the fight . " My men fight well , " wrote the colonel to his wife after the battle , " and appear to appreciate now the lessons I have given them . " His conduct in this battle was one of the bases for his hard ...
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... regiment broke and fell back , causing much commo- tion , yet at this critical moment the colonel dashed forward , seized the flag , and shouted with a loud voice- ' Come on , boys ! ' And they did come on ' with a yell . Another moment ...
... regiment broke and fell back , causing much commo- tion , yet at this critical moment the colonel dashed forward , seized the flag , and shouted with a loud voice- ' Come on , boys ! ' And they did come on ' with a yell . Another moment ...
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Page 182 - From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never ; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Page 388 - Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness...
Page 11 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Page 378 - And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays : Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten ; Every clod feels a stir of might. An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers...
Page 532 - One cried, God bless us ! and, Amen, the other ; As they had seen me, with these hangman's hands, Listening their fear. I could not say, amen, When they did say, God bless us.
Page 453 - I will tell you: it is the devil. He is the most diligent preacher of all other; he is never out of his diocese...
Page 419 - In my mind, he was guilty of no error, he was chargeable with no exaggeration, he was betrayed by his fancy into no metaphor, who once said, that all we see about us, Kings, Lords, and Commons, the whole machinery of the state, all the apparatus of the system, and its varied workings, end in simply bringing twelve good men into a box.
Page 6 - It is allowed on all hands, that the primitive way of breaking eggs before we eat them, was upon the larger end: but his present Majesty's grandfather, while he was a boy, going to eat an egg, and breaking it according to the ancient practice, happened to cut one of his fingers.
Page 9 - And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail ; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass. And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders.
Page 298 - There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul...