. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . nd. as I remarked before,I was with Grant Nay. nay. I the farmer. say no more: He fell in battle.—I see, alas! Thou dst smooth these tidings oer,—Nay, speak the truth, whatever it be, Though it rend my bosoms core. How fell he,—with bis face to the foe, Upholding the flag he bore?Oh, say not that my boy disgraced The uniform that he wore! I cannot tell. said the aged man. And should have remarked before,That I was with Grant,—in Illinois,— Some three years b
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . nd. as I remarked before,I was with Grant Nay. nay. I the farmer. say no more: He fell in battle.—I see, alas! Thou dst smooth these tidings oer,—Nay, speak the truth, whatever it be, Though it rend my bosoms core. How fell he,—with bis face to the foe, Upholding the flag he bore?Oh, say not that my boy disgraced The uniform that he wore! I cannot tell. said the aged man. And should have remarked before,That I was with Grant,—in Illinois,— Some three years before the war. Then the farmer spake him never a word. Hut beat with his fist full soreThat aged man, who had worked for Grant Some three years before the war. Francis Bret Harte. * ^ 3a V) GAY AM) HAPPY STILL- Tin ex-Confederate of twenty-four, just released from PointLookout Prison, put into the passage quoted ( from In* novel, TigerLilies) tin- kind of humor which appears in the familiar --out; andwhich had sustained Lees ragged veterans during the preceding lourhard years. , >,, -page 18& I 18-t] VNJ,. IMPOSING OFFICERS AND FOREIGN ATTACHES
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