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John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War., General Pegram on the night before his death. (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), Border war, as seen and experienced by the inhabitants of Chambersburgh, Pa. (search)
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., Xvii. Lee 's army on free soil-gettysburg. (search)
Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz), I. First months (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 153 (search)
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the blue coat.
The following ballad is from the pen of Bishop Burgess, of Maine, and was contributed by him to the book published and sold at the Sanitary Fair in Baltimore, under the sanction of the State Fair Association of the women of Maryland:
The blue coat of the soldier. You asked me, little one, why I bowed, Though never I passed the man before? Because my heart was full and proud When I saw the old blue coat he wore. The blue great-coat, the sky-blue coat, The old blue coat the soldier wore. I knew not, I, what weapon he chose, What chief he followed, what badge he wore; Enough that in the front of foes His country's blue great-coat lie wore. The blue great-coat, etc. Perhaps he was born in a forest hut, Perhaps he had danced on a palace-floor; To want or wealth my eyes were shut, I only marked the coat he wore. The blue great-coat, etc. It mattered not much if he drew his line From Shem or Ham, in the days of yore; For surely he was a brother of mine, Who for my
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 102 (search)
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Index. (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Battery Gregg -reply to General N. H. Harris . (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 249 (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 272 (search)