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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Army Life in a Black Regiment, Chapter 4: up the St. John's. (search)
afternoon, and met the returning party. Poor fellows! I never shall forget the longing eyes they cast on us, as we marched forth to the field of glory, from which they were debarred. We went three or four miles out, sometimes halting to send forward a scout, while I made all the men lie down in the long, thin grass and beside the fallen trees, till one could not imagine that there was a person there. I remember how picturesque the effect was, when, at the signal, all rose again, like Roderick Dhu's men, and the green wood appeared suddenly populous with armed life. At a certain point forces were divided, and a detachment was sent round the head of the creek, to flank the unsuspecting enemy; while we of the main body, stealing with caution nearer and nearer, through ever denser woods, swooped down at last in triumph upon a solitary farmhouse, where the family-washing had been hung out to dry! This was the Rebel camp ! It is due to Sergeant Greene, my invaluable guide, to say
Mrs. John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: An Autobiography, Chapter 5: (search)
or that the army rendezvoused and equipped within its small limits was destined to hew its way to the gulf. The men of the West would not believe that the South would ever establish a blockade or fire upon the flag of the free. Finally the shot was heard, and the wide-mouthed cannon mounted on the river-bank at Columbus, turned toward the north, announced the establishment of the barrier. Fired by indignation and patriotism, the people rallied to their country's call like the hosts of Roderick Dhu. Accustomed to pioneering and roughing it, they were equal to the exigencies of the times. The spirits that controlled in the South and Southwest were so daring and so reckless that they would have undertaken any venture, no matter how mad, had they not learned of the preparations to prevent them from coming up the river. The volunteers waited not for the regulation appointments, but, with earnestness that meant success, began at once to acquire the profession of the soldier. The o
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To the same. (search)
in Gardiner, as soon as the travelling is tolerable. When I go to Gardiner, remember to write often, for 't is woman alone who truly feels what it is to be a stranger. Did you know that last month I entered my nineteenth year? I hope, my dear brother, that you feel as happy as I do. Not that I have formed any high-flown expectations. All I expect is, that, if I am industrious and prudent I shall be independent. I love to feel like Malcolm Graeme when he says to Allan Bane, Tell Roderick Dhu I owe him naught. Have you seen Ivanhoe ? The Shakespeare of novelists has struck out a new path for his versatile and daring genius, I understand. Does he walk with such elastic and lofty tread as when upon his own mountain heath? Have his wings expanded since he left the hills of Cheviot? Or was the torch of fancy, lighted with the electric spark of genius, extinguished in the waters of the Tweed? I have never seen it. Indeed I have na ony speerings about the literary world, except
The Daily Dispatch: May 26, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 7 (search)
ers who throng the streets of our city; if they desire the return to the post of duty of the thousands of truant soldiers scattered throughout the Commonwealth; na- if they wish the sick in the hospitals to recover their health and to rejoin their comrades in the army, let a proclamation be issued, in good faith, assuring the men that the day of inaction and retreat is past; that Beauregard's battle-cry, "Forward! always forward!" shall be re-echoed on the plains of Eastern Virginia, "until the last armed foe expires," or is driven from the land. Such a summons as this would far excel in potency the signal of Roderick Dhu. It would send a thrill of hope and joy throughout the land, and infuse new life into the people. The soldiers would be aroused from the indifference which forced marches and half rations have superinduced, and with souls reanimated by undying love of country and hatred of Yankees, they would be ready to follow him who might lead into the "thickest of the fray."
The Daily Dispatch: September 25, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the North. (search)
troyed, and to guard and protect long lines of railroad. The recovered territory was credited to the Union account; military Governors were appointed to superintend its delivery into the Union; and the press of the country proceeded to write up a most encouraging development of Unionism. But the more our armies occupied and guarded the country, the more unsafe it became. While they advanced, guerrillas in their rear were quiet. When they spread out to occupy, guerrillas sprang up like Roderick Dhu'smen. The rebels, driven from their extended lines of occupation, and forced to concentrate, assumed the offensive, and precipitated themselves upon our rear. Guerrilla bands, co-operating, gathered and captured our posts, detachments, and trains. And now our army is driven back, perhaps, to the starting point, abandoning the fortifications on which so much of the bone and muscle of Northern soldiers has been expended, and is actually compelled to concentrate for defence on its orig