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Robert Stiles, Four years under Marse Robert, Chapter 17: between Gettysburg and the Wilderness (search)
o, by cruelty and license, add to its horrors. Another incident of this same period and locality occurs to me. One of the Georgia batteries of our battalion-Frazier's, as it was called — was composed largely of Irishmen from Savannah-gallant fellows, but wild and reckless. The captaincy becoming vacant, a Georgia Methodist preacher, Morgan Calloway, was sent to command them. He proved to be, all in all, such a man as one seldom sees — a combination of Praise God Barebone and Sir Philip Sidney, with a dash of Hedley Vicars about him. He had all the stern grit of the Puritan, with much of the chivalry of the Cavalier and the zeal of the Apostle. No man ever gave himself such a send-off as Calloway did with his battery. He gripped their very souls at the first pass. Not long after he took command the battalion spent a few days in these Poison Fields of Spottsylvania. The very evening we arrived, before we had gotten fixed for the night, a woman of the type of the one
Robert Stiles, Four years under Marse Robert, Chapter 26: analysis of the soldier-life (search)
om, nor sympathized, as I should have done, with my father's almost passionate love and reverence for his profession. It is all clear to me now. I am not a blind enthusiast. I admit that the almost enforced idleness of the camp in time of peace, the absence of women and children and the lack of other refining and elevating influence of home, are blemishes in the life of the soldier. Nevertheless, I think we may, in the light of our analysis, begin to comprehend why great soldiers-Sir Philip Sidney, Henry Havelock, Hedley Vicars, Chinese Gordon, Stonewall Jackson, Robert Lee — have exhibited an almost unrivaled elevation, strength, and perfection of character, both as men and as Christians. The late Dr. T. De Witt Talmage never penned a truer or a stronger paragraph than the following: The sword has developed the grandest natures that the world ever saw. It has developed courage — that sublime energy of the soul which defies the universe when it feels itself to be in the
Robert Stiles, Four years under Marse Robert, Index. (search)
United States Marines, 26 United States Military Academy, 65, 110-11, 121 University of Virginia, 50-51, 91, 145, 277, 356 Vallandigham, Clement Laird, 26, 28-30. Vicars, Hedley Shafto Johnstone, 230, 367 Venable, Charles Scott, 51, 277 Virginia Central Railroad, 120, 231 189, 308 Sherman, John, 26-28. Sherman, William Tecumseh, 300, 317, 348 Sims, John, 292 Sims, Robert Gill, 292 Shields, John Camden, 67 Sickles, Daniel Edgar, 219 Sickness, 64-65, 229, 348 Sidney, Philip, 230, 367 Slavery, 19-21, 26, 49-50. Slaves with Confederate armies, 136-37. Smith, Carey, 116-17, 292 Smith, Frederick Waugh, 202 Smith, James Judson, 116-17, 292 Smith, William ( Extra-Billy ), 26, 110-11, 194, 202-206. Smith, William Farrar, 269 Smith, William Nathan Harrell, 27 Snakes, 276-77. Snickersville Blues, 70-71. Snowball battles, 157-58. Soldier life, analysis of, 358-68. Somerville Ford, Va., 232 Southern Historical Society Papers, 286