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The regions near Zlochoff, Zboroff, Brzezany, and Halicz, and especially that small strip of country lying between the Zlota Lipa and the Dniester, were witnesses of some of the most stubborn and sanguinary fighting which even this blood-drenched corner of unhappy, war-swept Galicia had seen.
During that neo-feudal period the architect prospered, having his place at the baronial table; but now poor Tom's a-cold on a war-swept heath, with food only for reflection.
Leaving Nancy behind us, and ascending the Meurthe valley on the eastern bank, turning out of it before Saint Nicholas du Port, we came presently to the most completely war-swept fields that I have ever seen. On a perfectly level plain the little town of Haraucourt stands in sombre ruins. Its houses are nothing but ashes and rubble.
Naturally, after surveying much Virginia country once war-swept, as I came to the head of the Shenandoah Valley, I could not miss a visit to Lexington, where repose in honoured graves two such protagonists as Lee and Stonewall Jackson.
And here, miles away from that war-swept land, another woman sang. And there was honeysuckle outside, and late roses and poppies, and there was Peace. And the world which had not fought would forget. But the men who had fought would remember. He heard Randy's voice, sharp with nerves. "Sing something else, Becky. We've had enough of war " The Major leaned across the table.
Jock read, and later the remains of the Regiment read as they moved off past the aching desolation of the silent factory, down the shell-torn road, across the war-swept ruins of a whole country-side.
Where the armies had passed, few of the people, white or black, remained; most of them had been forced as "refugees" within the Union lines or into the interior of the Confederacy. Now, along with the disbanded Confederate soldiers, they came straggling back to their war-swept homes.
During the progress of the war, while these outward demonstrations, of necessity, diminished, the devotion on the part of the grand women of that war-swept region only increased. I have not undertaken to describe scenes or relate incidents which transpired in the battery before I became a member of it.
And here, miles away from that war-swept land, another woman sang. And there was honeysuckle outside, and late roses and poppies, and there was Peace. And the world which had not fought would forget. But the men who had fought would remember. He heard Randy's voice, sharp with nerves. "Sing something else, Becky. We've had enough of war " The Major leaned across the table.
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