United States or Saint Lucia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Here were the heroes of a hundred combats; the men who had held their ground desperately in the most desperate encounters the bulldogs who had showed their teeth and sprung to the death-grapple at Cold Harbor, Manassas, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Fleetwood, Gettysburg, in the Wilderness, at Trevillian's, at Sappony, in a thousand bitter conflicts with the cavalry.
I murmur, "Rowanty, and Sappony, and Disaways! Bonne fortune! old companions, little maiden, and kind friends all! It has not been time lost to gather together my recollections to live again in the past, to catch the aroma of those hours when kindness smoothed the front of war! We no longer wear the gray my mustache only shows it now! but, thank heaven! many things in memory survive.
Hampton crossed also; penetrated to Dinwiddie; defeated the enemy at Sappony church, capturing their men and artillery everywhere they had been routed, with a total loss of more than 2,000 prisoners. Such were the events which had taken place during my tedious illness. They came to me only in vague rumors, or by means of chance newspapers sent by my neighbors.
Word Of The Day