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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore) 52 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 36 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 28 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore) 22 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Army Life in a Black Regiment 16 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 9: Poetry and Eloquence. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 12 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 12 0 Browse Search
Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley) 12 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 10 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 10 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Army Life in a Black Regiment, Chapter 5: out on picket. (search)
hackeray would say, at half the young fellows in the battalion. Meantime the singing was brisk along the whole column, and when I sometimes reined up to see them pass, the chant of each company, entering my ear, drove out from the other ear the strain of the preceding. Such an odd mixture of things, military and missionary, as the successive waves of song drifted by! First, John Brown, of course; then, What make old Satan for follow me so? then, Marching along ; then, Hold your light on Canaan's shore ; then, When this cruel war is over (a new favorite, sung by a few); yielding presently to a grand burst of the favorite marching song among them all, and one at which every step instinctively quickened, so light and jubilant its rhythm,-- All true children gwine in de wilderness, Gwine in de wilderness, gwine in de wilderness, True believers gwine in de wilderness, To take away de sins ob de world, ending in a Hoigh! after each verse,-- a sort of Irish yell. For all the songs,
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Army Life in a Black Regiment, Chapter 9: negro Spirituals. (search)
old your light, Brudder Robert, Hold your light, Hold your light on Canaan's shore. What make ole Satan for follow me so? Satan ain't got nofor do wid me. Hold your light, Hold your light, Hold your light on Canaan's shore. This would be sung for half an hour at a time, perhapsth the tug of the oar. IX. the coming day. I want to go to Canaan, I want to go to Canaan, I want to go to Canaan, To meet 'em at de Canaan, I want to go to Canaan, To meet 'em at de comin‘ day. O, remember, let me go to Canaan, ( Thrice.) To meet 'em, &c. O brudder, let me go to Canaan, ( Thrice.) To meet 'em, &c. My brudCanaan, To meet 'em at de comin‘ day. O, remember, let me go to Canaan, ( Thrice.) To meet 'em, &c. O brudder, let me go to Canaan, ( Thrice.) To meet 'em, &c. My brudder, you — oh!--remember, (Thrice.) To meet 'em at de comin‘ day. The following begins with a startling affirmation, yet the last line quiCanaan, ( Thrice.) To meet 'em, &c. O brudder, let me go to Canaan, ( Thrice.) To meet 'em, &c. My brudder, you — oh!--remember, (Thrice.) To meet 'em at de comin‘ day. The following begins with a startling affirmation, yet the last line quite outdoes the first. This, too, was a capital boat-song. X. One more river. O, Jordan bank was a great old bank, Dere ain't but one mCanaan, ( Thrice.) To meet 'em, &c. My brudder, you — oh!--remember, (Thrice.) To meet 'em at de comin‘ day. The following begins with a startling affirmation, yet the last line quite outdoes the first. This, too, was a capital boat-song. X. One more river. O, Jordan bank was a great old bank, Dere ain't but one more river to cross. We have some valiant soldier here, Dere ain't, &c. O, Jordan stream will never run dry, Dere ain't, &c. Dere's a