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Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865 2 0 Browse Search
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Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Chapter 22: crossing the river at Fredericksburg. (search)
der the circumstances. Another group on pious thoughts intent, was bringing quite a selection of anthems to a close with the old hymn of: ‘When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear And wipe my weeping eyes.’ But they invariably forgot at the close of these lines the remainder of both hymn and air. As a consequence they sang at least twenty times with great unction and with great effect these four lines, and as often finished with Jim Along Josey or Carry Me Back to Old Virginia. At last, rather suspecting that there was a hitch somewhere in the arrangements, and that it must be in the hymn, they concluded to have one more loving drink all round and then to bed,—probably their usual one, poor fellows, upon their Mother Earth. Rich furniture became, in the streets, the lounging seat or couch of some tatterdemalions whom one would hardly dream were the heroes of yesterday and were to be among the heroes of the morrow. Rich carpets<