Sheridan At Cedar Creek
Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. --Addison. General Sheridan took command of the Army of the Shenandoah in August, 1864. His coming was the signal for aggressive f... The Battle Of New Orleans
The heavy fog of morning Still hid the plain from sight, When came a thread of scarlet Marked faintly in the white. We fired a single cannon, And as its thunders rolled, The mist before us lifted In ma... The Battle Of Trenton
And such they are--and such they will be found: Not so Leonidas and Washington, Their every battle-field is holy ground Which breathes of nations saved, not worlds undone. How sweetly on the ear such echoes sound! Whi... The Burning Of The Philadelphia
And say besides, that in Aleppo once, Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk Beat a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by the throat the circumcised dog And smote him, thus. --Othello. It i... The Charge At Gettysburg
For the Lord On the whirlwind is abroad; In the earthquake he has spoken; He has smitten with his thunder The iron walls asunder, And the gates of brass are broken! --Whittier With br... The Cruise Of The Wasp
A crash as when some swollen cloud Cracks o'er the tangled trees! With side to side, and spar to spar, Whose smoking decks are these? I know St. George's blood-red cross, Thou mistress of the seas, But what i... The Death Of Stonewall Jackson
Like a servant of the Lord, with his bible and his sword, Our general rode along us, to form us for the fight. --Macaulay. The Civil War has left, as all wars of brother against brother must le... The Flag-bearer
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword; His truth is marching on. ... The General Armstrong Privateer
We have fought such a fight for a day and a night As may never be fought again! We have won great glory, my men! And a day less or more At sea or ashore, We die--does it matter when? --Tennyson. In the r... The Storming Of Stony Point
In their ragged regimentals Stood the old Continentals, Yielding not, When the grenadiers were lunging, And like hail fell the plunging Cannon-shot; When the files Of the isles From the smo... Washington
The brilliant historian of the English people [*] has written of Washington, that "no nobler figure ever stood in the fore-front of a nation's life." In any book which undertakes to tell, no matter how slightly, the story of some of the heroic deeds...

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