Thursday, April 08, 2004

New additions to "Anecdotes, Poetry, and Incidents:"

  • A Prophecy

  • Occupation of Fort Sumter

  • Incident of the White House, Va

  • A Fighting Clergyman

  • The Last Man of Beaufort

  • Twins

  • A Reminiscence of Abraham Lincoln

  • All We Ask Is To Be Let Alone

  • The Man Who Wouldn't Be Made a Prisoner

  • Gen. Cheatham's Escape

  • An Incident with a Moral

    • posted by Mike @ 4/8/2004 09:53:36 PM  

    "The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865"
    First-Person Narratives of the American South

  • War-Time Sketches: Historical and Otherwise.

    • CIVIL WAR WOMEN - Primary Sources on the Internet
    Reminiscences of the Nineteenth Massachusetts Regiment
    U.S. Army Center of Military History

    posted by Mike @ 4/8/2004 11:39:59 AM  

    Wednesday, April 07, 2004

    Added the following to "Anecdotes, Poetry, and Incidents:"
    Taken by the Pirates

    posted by Mike @ 4/7/2004 01:53:38 AM  

    Tuesday, April 06, 2004

    Added the following to Anecdotes, Poetry, and Incidents"

  • The Voice of the North

  • Christmas Among the Freedmen

  • Conscript Quakers

  • The President and the Paymaster

  • An Incident of Vicksburg

  • The Amnesty Proclamation

  • Letters To Soldiers

  • Anecdote of General Sumner

  • The Bible on the Battle-Field

  • Abou Ben Butler

  • Enlisted

  • A Remarkable Prophecy

  • The True Balance

  • An Irish Regular

  • Anecdote of Roger A. Pryor

    • posted by Mike @ 4/6/2004 09:22:33 PM  

             Skedaddle


    The shades of night were falling fast,

    As through a Southern village passed

    A youth, who bore, not over nice,

    A banner with the gay device,

             Skedaddle!

     

    His hair was red, his toes beneath

    Peeped, like an acorn from its sheath,

    While with a frightened, voice he sang

    A burden strange to Yankee tongue,

             Skedaddle!

     

    He saw no household fire where he

    Might warm his tod or hominy;

    Beyond the Cordilleras shone,

    And from his lips escaped a groan,

             Skedaddle!

     

    "Oh! stay," a cullered pusson said,

    "An' on dis bossom res' your hed!"

    The octoroon she winked her eye,

    But still he answered, with a sigh,

              Skedaddle!

     

    "Beware McClellan, Buell, and Banks,

    Beware of Halleck's deadly ranks!".

    This was the planter's last Good Night;

    The chap replied, far out of sight,

             Skedaddle!

     

    At break of day, as several boys

    from Maine, New York and Illinois

    Were moving Southward, in the air

    They heard these accents of despair,

             Skedaddle!

     

    A chap was found and at his side

    A bottle, showing how he died,

    Still grasping in his hand of ice

    That banner with the strange device,

             Skedaddle!

     

    There in the twilight, thick and gray,

    Considerably played out he lay;

    And through the vapor, gray and thick,

    A voice fell like a rocket-stick,

             Skedaddle!

    posted by Mike @ 4/6/2004 04:55:43 AM  

    Added
    A Scout to East Tennessee
    to "Anecdotes, Poetry, and Incidents"

    posted by Mike @ 4/6/2004 04:44:00 AM  

    Sunday, April 04, 2004

    Added the following Anecdotes, Poetry, and Incidents:

  • Front Pages

  • Introductory Note

  • Image of General U. S. Grant

  • Anecdote of General Grant

  • Little Eddie The Drummer-Boy

  • How to Cross a River

  • A Brave Woman

  • Under the Washington Elm

  • Fun on the Rappahannock

  • "When You Is About, We Is.

  • Army Sports

  • Skedaddle

  • An Incident

  • Postal Affairs

  • Who First Answered the President's Call?

  • Touching Farewell Address

  • Adroit Smuggling

  • There's Life In The Old Land Yet!

  • A Hero Indeed

  • Adventures In East Tennessee

  • A Rainy Day in Camp

  • Beau Hackett as a Zouave

  • Bishop Rosecrans

  • Incident of Fort Pillow

  • Soldier Wit

  • South Carolina Gentleman

  • True Soldiers

    • posted by Mike @ 4/4/2004 10:04:15 PM