. A personal history of Ulysses S. Grant, and sketch of Schuyler Colfax. ^5 ?3* -V? ?WBLK LIBRARY. A-^0<, LENOX ANDTtlDZH FOUNDATIONS. 1863.] HOW DO YOU DO, SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY. 3G9 Just as the sun, weary of the scene, was sinking out of sight, the ad-vance surged over the crest with magnificent hursts all along the line, exactlyas you have seen the crested waves leap up at the breakwater. In a minutethose flags fluttered along the fringe where fifty rebel guns were colors were the first on the mountain battlement one dare not try tosay. Bright Honor itself might be proud
. A personal history of Ulysses S. Grant, and sketch of Schuyler Colfax. ^5 ?3* -V? ?WBLK LIBRARY. A-^0<, LENOX ANDTtlDZH FOUNDATIONS. 1863.] HOW DO YOU DO, SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY. 3G9 Just as the sun, weary of the scene, was sinking out of sight, the ad-vance surged over the crest with magnificent hursts all along the line, exactlyas you have seen the crested waves leap up at the breakwater. In a minutethose flags fluttered along the fringe where fifty rebel guns were colors were the first on the mountain battlement one dare not try tosay. Bright Honor itself might be proud to bear, nay, to follow the hind-most. Foot by foot they had fought up the steep, slippery with much blood;let them go to glory together! The enemy had barely time to explode three or four ofhis caissons before national flags fluttered upon the crest,and national troops were bayoneting his men in their rifle-pits. Sheridan, with the advance, was suddenly flung tothe ground ; his horse had been shot under him. He sprangupon a captured gun, to catch the attention of the crazythrong
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