The Life and Adventures, Songs, Services, and Speeches of Private Miles O'Reilly [pseud.] (47th Regiment, New York Volunteers.) |
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... DEAR N : Our friend , Major Wright , showed me one paragraph of your letter to him , in which you referred , apparently with surprise , to the fact that the attack on Charleston by the iron - clads should have been discontinued " when ...
... DEAR N : Our friend , Major Wright , showed me one paragraph of your letter to him , in which you referred , apparently with surprise , to the fact that the attack on Charleston by the iron - clads should have been discontinued " when ...
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... removing the triple line of powerful and cunningly devised obstructions . The foregoing , my dear N , are only a few of the most prominent suggestions to be used in form- ing a right estimate of the struggle . Busy and 16 THE ADVENTURES OF.
... removing the triple line of powerful and cunningly devised obstructions . The foregoing , my dear N , are only a few of the most prominent suggestions to be used in form- ing a right estimate of the struggle . Busy and 16 THE ADVENTURES OF.
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... dear N , that we need iron- clad frigates ; and fast vessels to fight fast vessels . There is not one of our grass - grown Monitors to - day that can make , to save her life , even in tideless water , over five miles an hour , if so ...
... dear N , that we need iron- clad frigates ; and fast vessels to fight fast vessels . There is not one of our grass - grown Monitors to - day that can make , to save her life , even in tideless water , over five miles an hour , if so ...
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... DEAR HUDSON : A most ridiculous incident has occurred here , which nevertheless threatened , but for the prompt measures adopted by Lieutenant- Colonel J. F. Hall , Provost Marshal General , to have resulted , perhaps , in a weakening ...
... DEAR HUDSON : A most ridiculous incident has occurred here , which nevertheless threatened , but for the prompt measures adopted by Lieutenant- Colonel J. F. Hall , Provost Marshal General , to have resulted , perhaps , in a weakening ...
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... Dear Uncle Gideon , oh ! Let Dahlgreen homeward go ! He's a shmart man , as we know , And the guns he makes are sthriking ; Keep him always on the make , Do , Gid , for pity's sake ; But the warrior lead to take , Let us have Du Pont ...
... Dear Uncle Gideon , oh ! Let Dahlgreen homeward go ! He's a shmart man , as we know , And the guns he makes are sthriking ; Keep him always on the make , Do , Gid , for pity's sake ; But the warrior lead to take , Let us have Du Pont ...
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Admiral Du Pont aginst Anson Herrick army banquet bouchal dhas cruithin boys Brady Broadway Railroad Butler caucus Charles O'Conor Charleston Chase cloth bound Colonel command dear dhas cruithin amoe eyes Father Murphy Fernando Wood fight fire flag Fort Sumter Forty-seventh regiment gallant Gideon Gillmore give Greek fire Griese guest guns Gustavus W hands hear heart honor interest Irish iron-clads James O'Reilly John Judge Lincoln Lobby League Lord Lyons Lord Palmerston Loud applause Loud cheers Loud cries Loud laughter Luke Clark machines Meagher ment Monitors Morris Island Mozart navy never O'Kane O'Reilly's officers Oliver Charlick ould Admiral party pass political present President Davis Private Miles O'Reilly Private O'Reilly regiment New York right stripe Rodgers Sambo Seward Shaffer sing soldiers song South SPEECH Sub-committee Sumter Tammany there's things thrue tion verses vessels vote Washington words Yankee York Volunteers
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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.