Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 423
ironcheers were given, and this was not seldom thecase, the enemy preserved a moody silence. After remaining in our works for about a month,we were relieved by other troops and marched offto the left in the direction of the Weldon Railroad,which we took after severe fighting. We held it,and at once… … She is sitting very silent in her little crimson chair, With the flicker of the firelight on her pretty golden hair ; And all pleasant things surround her, but her thoughts are otherwhere. For these little lads and lasses have a country of their own,Where, without the older people, they can wander…
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