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"Lost our crew," was the laconic answer. "All gone west but José, and he's bled white. We'll have to paddle our own canoe now." For a time after his head was bandaged McKay lay quiet, staring out at the tiny battlefield and at his two mates working silently on the wounded arm of José. When they came back he spoke one word. "Schwandorf." "Yeah! He's the nigger in the woodpile, I bet my shirt.
My military bodyguard were the chief speakers, and cleverly brought round the smoky fire, for the benefit of the thick-headed rustics who made up the fascinated audience, a modern battlefield, and made their description horrible enough.
The sacrifices which we are making together, the mingling of our blood upon the battlefield, will render even stronger the agelong, traditional friendship between our two nations. "Viva l'Inghilterra! Viva l'Italia!" During my first month in Italy I lived a nomadic life. I was only "attached" to a Battery, and really nobody's child.
Truax, with a wave of his hand. Lieut. Steigermeyer, in full-dress, even to epaulets, rigidly erect and sternly important as to look, testified that he was a Second Lieutenant in the Regular Army, but had the staff rank of Captain and Inspector-General, and after going out of his way to allude to the laxness of discipline he found prevailing in the Western armies, testified that on the day mentioned, while in pursuance of his duty, he was going over the battlefield, he came upon the prisoner, whose drunken yelling attracted his attention; that he had admonished him, and received insults in reply.
Lee met McClellan at Antietam and waited for Jackson to arrive from Harper's Ferry. When McClellan's artillery opened in the gray dawn, more than sixteen thousand of Lee's footsore men had fallen along the line of march unable to reach the battlefield. The Union Commander was massing eighty-seven thousand men behind his flaming batteries. Lee could count on but thirty-seven thousand.
"The struggle has begun and, if the Republicans conquer La Vendee, we know how awful will be the persecutions, what thousands of victims will be slaughtered. Our only hope is in victory and, at any rate, those who die on the battlefield will be happy, in comparison with those who fall into the hands of the Blues." "You wish to go, Leigh?" "Certainly I do," the lad said.
I was going to take his body back to his mother, but the Colonel said: "'No; bury him like a soldier on the battlefield. "So I gave way, and we buried him that night in the best manner we could. He now lies in the cemetery at Arlington. My sorrow was great then, but I am past it all now, and can grieve no more." Col Bush here interrupted, saying: "'Uncle Daniel, you made a narrow escape.
Senator McLean of Connecticut, anti-suffrage Republican, flatly stated "that all questions involving declarations of war and terms of peace should be left to that sex which must do the fighting and the dying on the battlefield."
Go quickly to the battlefield and shield my wife's friend." "No, no, Father, I cannot!" cried the battle-maiden. "You love Siegmund, and I shall guard him well." At these words the mighty Wotan grew wrathful and cried: "How dare you disobey me, child? Go, I say! Give to Hunding the victory, and thus fulfill my promise."
It was the battlefield of the Marne, the scene of that immortal order of Joffre's in which he exhorted the sons of France to conquer or die where they stood. As he had commanded, so had they done. With an emotion too deep for words we each contemplated these plaintive memorials of the heroes who lay where they fell. Our orderly wept and made no effort to hide his tears.
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