 Let me picture to you the footsore Confederate soldier as, buttoning up in his faded gray jacket the parole which was to bear testimony to his children of his fidelity and faith, he turned his face southward from Appomattox in April, 1865. Think of him...  History of Our Country: A Text-book for Schools - Page 392by Oscar Henry Cooper, Harry Fishburne Estill (F.), William Leonard Lemmon - 1895 - 441 pagesFull view - About this book
 | New England - 1890 - 746 pages
...to his children of his fidelity and faith, turned his face southward from Appomattox in April, 1865. Think of him as, ragged, half-starved, heavy-hearted,...surrenders his gun, wrings the hands of his comrades and, lifting his tear-stained and pallid face for the last time to the graves that dot the old Virginia... | |
 | Wallace Putnam Reed - Atlanta (Ga.) - 1889 - 922 pages
...his children of his fidelity and faith, he turns his face southward from Appomattox in April, 1865. Think of him as ragged, half-starved, heavy-hearted,...pallid face for the last time to the graves that dot old Virginia hills, pulls his gray cap over his brow, and begins the slow and painful journey. What... | |
 | Jacob W. Shoemaker - Readers - 1888 - 236 pages
...to his children of his fidelity and faith, turned his face southward from Appomattox in April, 1865. Think of him as ragged, half-starved, heavyhearted,...exhaustion, he surrenders, his gun, wrings the hands 2 of his comrades, and, lifting his tear-stained and pallid face for the last time to the graves that... | |
 | Joel Chandler Harris - Journalists - 1890 - 678 pages
...his children of his fidelity and faith, he turned his face southward from Appomatox in April, 1865. Think of him as ragged, half-starved, heavy-hearted,...pallid face for the last time to the graves that dot, old Virginia hills, pulls his gray cap over his brow and begins the slow and painful journey. What... | |
 | Joel Chandler Harris - Journalists - 1890 - 676 pages
...he turned his face southward from Appomatox in April, 1865. Think of him as ragged, half -starved, heavy-hearted, enfeebled by want and wounds, having...pallid face for the last time to the graves that dot, old Virginia hills, pulls his gray cap over his brow and begins the slow and painful journey. What... | |
 | Mary Sheldon Barnes, Earl Barnes - United States - 1891 - 482 pages
...the footsore Confederate soldier, as ... he turned his face southward from Appomattox in April, 1865. Think of him as ragged, half-starved, heavy-hearted, enfeebled by want and wounds. . . . He surrenders his gun, wrings the hands of his comrades in silence, pulls the gray cap over his... | |
 | Benjamin La Bree - United States - 1898 - 580 pages
...southward from Appomattox in 1865. I think of him, as ragged, half-starved, heavy-hearted, enfeebled hy want and wounds ; having fought to exhaustion, he...pallid face for the last time to the graves that dot old Virginia's hills, pulls his gray cap over his brow, and begins the slow and painful journey. CAMP... | |
 | Ralph Curtis Ringwalt - Orators - 1898 - 360 pages
...his children of his fidelity and faith, he turned his face southward from Appomattox in April, 1865. Think of him as ragged, half-starved, heavy-hearted,...want and wounds ; having fought to exhaustion, he 20 surrenders his gun, wrings the hands of his comrades in silence, and, lifting his tear-stained and... | |
 | Solomon Henry Clark, Frederic Mason Blanchard - Oratory - 1899 - 330 pages
...his children of his fidelity and faith, he turned his face southward from Appomattox in April, 1865. Think of him as ragged, half-starved, heavy-hearted,...dot the old Virginia hills, pulls his gray cap over liis brow and begins the slow and painful journey. What does he find ? — let me ask you who went... | |
 | Edwin Herbert Lewis - American literature - 1899 - 440 pages
...fidelity and faith, he turned his face southward from Appomattox in April, 1865. Think of him as 15 ragged, half-starved, heavy-hearted, enfeebled by...the graves that dot the old Virginia hills, pulls 20 his gray cap over his brow and begins the slow and painful journey. What does he find — let me... | |
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