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Browsing named entities in Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore). You can also browse the collection for Henry A. Wise or search for Henry A. Wise in all documents.
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 16 (search)
Prayer-books and Scalping-Knives.--The following letter, picked up by an officer of Gen. Cox's staff, on the ground from which Governor Wise's troops fled, shows the affecting tone of true piety that runs through all the Confederate operations:--
Way up on the hill, below Charleston four miles.
Mat.:--I want you to put every thing in the sergeant's room — every thing that belongs to us. And if there is any engagement, break my little trunk open, and take out my Bible and prayer-book, and those Boone County bonds, and save them for me. I have not read my Bible for sixteen years, but I want them saved.
Cook all the provender up there, and put all our cooking utensils together in the sergeant's room.
The news is that the enemy is coming up on both sides of the river in a d----d strong force.
I am the second company to have a shot.
The orders are to scalp all we get near to. J. W. M. Sherry, Captain of Boone Rangers. --Phila. Bulletin, Aug. 2.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 30 (search)
Bully for you. --The word Bull is destined to become famous in this war. If our men did run from Bull Run, we have now an offset in the fact that the rebels, under Gen. Henry A. Wise, did also run from Bull's Town.
So we now have Bull against Bull, and the bully of Accomac is the set-off, who set off so bravely to do what he could not accomplish.
Bully for you.
There was a man of Accomac, And he was bully Wise; He jumped into Kanawha's bush, And scratched out both his eyes; And, when he se fact that the rebels, under Gen. Henry A. Wise, did also run from Bull's Town.
So we now have Bull against Bull, and the bully of Accomac is the set-off, who set off so bravely to do what he could not accomplish.
Bully for you.
There was a man of Accomac, And he was bully Wise; He jumped into Kanawha's bush, And scratched out both his eyes; And, when he saw he lost his eyes, With all his might and main, From Kanawha he quickly flies, To brag, and — run again. --National Republican, Aug. 5