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Updated: June 16, 2025
If so, you may remember the feelings that were within your heart as you left the last friendly cover of woods, and double-quicked across the open space up hill, and saw the artillery-men waiting till you got close up before pulling the primer lanyards, so as to make sure work of you all.
Atkinson, making a wide détour back of the station, led his men down the railroad tracks and, reaching a point where concealment was no longer possible, double-quicked up Fort Street and charged with his party across the little park. They had already been seen. A line of men, posted behind the places that line Front Street at that point, opened fire.
It was the "Jefferson Company," under that brave officer, Captain George Baylor. "Charge, and cut them down!" shouted Stuart, his drawn sword flashing as he forced his horse over fallen trees and the debris of the great deserted camp. A fine spectacle followed. As the Federal infantry double-quicked up a slope, Baylor charged.
"And we're off, too," shouted Lieutenant Mackinson. "Hurrah!" cried the three boys from Brighton in the same breath, as they double-quicked it behind the lieutenant to the upper deck. The scene was one to inspire the most miserable slacker. Somewhere in the upper part of the yard a band was playing Sousa's "Stars and Stripes Forever."
At sunset, two by two, girls with yellow primroses at their waists, and boys with their hurling sticks in their hands, marched down the white-walled Caherdavin road towards the bridge. The bridge guard hooped his arm towards the boat house occupied by the military. Soldiers, strapping on cartridge belts, double-quicked to his aid.
Frisbie actually blushed in deference to the lady. "Why er it was the other way round. He double-quicked a little side-trip down the gulch while I knocked in the heads of his whisky barrels and wrecked his bar with a striking hammer I had brought along." For the first time in the interview the chief's frown melted and he laughed approvingly.
Now and then a man falls from his horse or rides back wounded. We were on lower ground than they, and the bullets whistled above us; but as we went up the rising ground, they began to hiss around our heads. We double-quicked forward and began firing. Between us and the town there was a hollow, and on the farther ridge a road led down through the village.
So they had to return without him; but when they reported that he had disappeared, they found that he had made a flank march and reached heaven before them." Another was to the effect that whereas Moses took forty years to get the children of Israel through the wilderness, ""Old Jack" would have double-quicked them through in three days on half rations!"
They double-quicked into the forest; but they began to drop, to cling to the trees for support, or to retire from the field before the observers on the hill lost sight of them. Still Captain Gordon did not give the word to advance. "Isn't it time for this company to move forward?" asked the colonel.
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