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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Army Life in a Black Regiment 2 0 Browse Search
Mrs. John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: An Autobiography 2 0 Browse Search
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 2 0 Browse Search
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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."