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Updated: June 23, 2025
"What? Kincaid's Bat ?" "No-o, the Zouaves! Infantry! when the one only sane thing to do," cried every cannoneer of Camp Callender in its white lanes or on three-hours' leave at home on Bayou Road or Coliseum Square or Elysian Fields or Prytania street "the one sane thing to do," insisted the growingly profane lads to their elders, and assented the secretly pained elders to them, "the one thing that, if only for shame's sake, ought to have been done long ago, was to knock Fort Pickens to HELL with SHELL!" Sadly often they added the tritest three-monosyllabled expletive known to red-hot English.
She glided back, but turned to meet another footfall, possibly Kincaid's, and felt her anger rise against her will as she confronted only the inadequate Irby. A sudden purpose filled her, and before he could speak: "Go!" she said, "telegraph your uncle! instantly!" "I've done so." Her anger mutinied again: "Without consult' ! And since when?" "This morning."
Yet there was no other way, and so, convinced that thus alone might he hope to reach his prey, Paulvitch, with a parting scowl at the two figures upon the Kincaid's deck, turned away from the river. Hastening through the dense jungle, his mind centred upon his one fetich revenge the Russian forgot even his terror of the savage world through which he moved.
Tarzan scooped a shallow grave for the Kincaid's cook, beneath whose repulsive exterior had beaten the heart of a chivalrous gentleman. That was all he could do in the cruel jungle for the man who had given his life in the service of his little son and his wife. Then Tarzan took up again the pursuit of Rokoff.
"Then, on my honor as a Southern soldier, if he will stay by them and us as far as Camp Moore, to Kincaid's Battery they shall go. But, ladies " "Yes," knowingly spoke Miranda. "Hettie, Scipio, Dilsie, you-all can go 'long back to your work now." She wrinkled confidentially to the officer. "Yes," he replied, "we shall certainly engage the enemy's ships to-morrow, and you ladies must "
Major of Kincaid's Battalion he was now, whose whole twelve brass pieces had that morning helped the big iron batteries fight Porter's gunboats. "Finding Grand Gulf too strong," says Grant, "I moved the army below, running the batteries there as we had done at Vicksburg. How pleasantly familiar were those names in New Orleans.
They had fought fully aware that Richmond was already lost, and on the next day, a Sabbath, as Kincaid's Battery trundled through the town while forty thousand women and children with the Callenders and little Steve wept, its boys knew their own going meant Mobile had fallen, though they knew not that in that very hour the obscure name of Appomattox was being made forever great in history.
So startling was the irruption that Bobby was powerless to gather his scattered senses sufficiently to see clearly what was happening. Mr. Kincaid's gun bellowed; a cloud of white powder smoke hung in the mottled sunshine. And down through the trees a swift, brown, bullet-like flight crumpled and fell, whirling and twisting in a long slanting line until it hit the earth with a thump!
I was layin' for that houn'-dog 'at walks on his hind legs and calls hisself Vint Farley." "Who are you?" Tom demanded. "Kincaid's my name, and I'm s'posed to be one o' the strike guards; leastwise, that's what I hired out for a little spell ago. I couldn't think of nare' a better way o' gettin' at the damned " Gordon interrupted bruskly. "Cut out the curses and tell me what you owe Vint Farley.
"He'll take them wherever he is. I can't rest a moment for fear he's trying once more to escape." "But, 'Randa?" "Yes, dear?" "Whether he's here or there, Kincaid's Battery, his other self, will be in whatever goes on, and so, of course, will the Tennessee." "Yes," said Miranda, at their door. "Yes, and it's not just all our bazaar money that's in her, nor all our toil "
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