The Life and Adventures, Songs, Services, and Speeches of Private Miles O'Reilly [pseud.] (47th Regiment, New York Volunteers.) |
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... asked by every unprejudiced naval officer at this station ; and it is important that the matter should receive the prompt attention of all who are interested in city property along the Atlantic and Pacific sea- boards . P - B . www MY ...
... asked by every unprejudiced naval officer at this station ; and it is important that the matter should receive the prompt attention of all who are interested in city property along the Atlantic and Pacific sea- boards . P - B . www MY ...
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... asking do they take him for à " soup kitchen convert , " or one of " Lord Clarendon's Jimmy O'Briens . " These phrases are all Greek to us down here , even in this region of Greek fire ; but mayhap " Irish Tom , " opposite the Custom ...
... asking do they take him for à " soup kitchen convert , " or one of " Lord Clarendon's Jimmy O'Briens . " These phrases are all Greek to us down here , even in this region of Greek fire ; but mayhap " Irish Tom , " opposite the Custom ...
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... asked Grant for a truce to bury his dead outside the works . This was while Grant was attacking from the land circumvallation , while the naval forces were throwing shells high up in the air to fall down over the bluffs into the devoted ...
... asked Grant for a truce to bury his dead outside the works . This was while Grant was attacking from the land circumvallation , while the naval forces were throwing shells high up in the air to fall down over the bluffs into the devoted ...
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... asked ; and to General Dix , who was invited to appear , so far as I can learn , alto- gether unattended , to meet foreign officers , some of equal , many of inferior , rank - but all attended by their proper retinue . I thank you again ...
... asked ; and to General Dix , who was invited to appear , so far as I can learn , alto- gether unattended , to meet foreign officers , some of equal , many of inferior , rank - but all attended by their proper retinue . I thank you again ...
Page 104
... asked eagerly- " Are you Private Miles ? " Everybody asked the question of every other person , and every person said " No " to every- body . Mr. Luke Clark said he had been all round the tables , and couldn't see Miles anywhere . He asked ...
... asked eagerly- " Are you Private Miles ? " Everybody asked the question of every other person , and every person said " No " to every- body . Mr. Luke Clark said he had been all round the tables , and couldn't see Miles anywhere . He asked ...
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Page 70 - To the flag we are pledged, all its foes we abhor, And we ain't for the nigger, but we are for the war.
Page 55 - I'll divide wid him, An' divil a word I'll say. In battle's wild commotion I shouldn't at all object If Sambo's body should stop a ball That was comin...
Page 56 - I'll resign, and let Sambo take it, On every day in the year! On every day in the year, boys, And wid none of your nasty pride, All my right in a Southern bagnet prod Wid Sambo I'll divide. The men who object to Sambo Should take his place and fight; And it's better to have a naygur's hue Than a liver that's wake an
Page 55 - And that the thrade of bein' kilt Belongs but to the white : But as for me, upon my sowl ! So liberal are we here, I'll let Sambo be murthered instead of myself, On every day in the year. On every day in the year, boys, And in every hour of the day • The right to be kilt I'll divide wid him, And divil a word I'll say.
Page 61 - An* whin you lie wid the top of aich toe Turned up to the roots of a daisy, May this be your epitaph, nately writ — • " Though thraitors abused him vilely, He was honest an...
Page 156 - And the other eye was out, my dear; And the calves of his wicked-looking legs Were more than two feet about, my dear.
Page 155 - O'Reilly is a brawny, large-boned, rather good-looking young Milesian, with curly reddish hair, grey eyes, one of which has a blemish upon it, high cheek bones, a cocked nose, square lower jaws, and the usual strong type of Irish forehead — the perceptive bumps, immediately above the eyes, being extremely prominent.
Page 235 - And order them, in language full, At once to send me down a bull : — If possible, a youthful beast, With warm affections yet unplaced, Who to my widowed cows may prove A husband of undying love.