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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 158 (search)
contraband genius: old Shady. Oh! ya, ya! darkies, laugh with me; For de white folks say old Shady's free! Don't you see dat de jubilee Is comina, comina! Hail, mighty day! chorus. Den away, den away, for I can't stay any longer; Hurrah, hurrah! for I am going home. [Repeat. Massa got scared, and so did his lady! Dis chile broke for ole Uncle Aby! Open de gates out! here's ole Shady, Comina, comina! Hail, mighty day! Den away, den away, etc. Good-by, Massa Jeff! good-by, Misses Stevens! Scuse dis nigger for taking his leavins; ‘Spec, pretty soon, you'll see Uncle Abram's Comina, comina! Hail, mighty day! Den away, den away, etc. Good-by, hard work, and never any pay-- I'm goina up North, where the white folks stay; White wheat-bread and a dollar a day. Comina, comina! Hail, mighty day! Den away, den away, etc. I've got a wife, and she's got a baby, Way up North in Lower Canady-- Won't dey shout when dey see ole Shady Comina, comina! Hail, mighty day! Den away, den away, etc
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865, Roster of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry. (search)
, James. 33, mar.; laborer; Bardstown, Ky. 12 May 63; 1 Je 64 —— dis. $50. Brown, James E. 26, sin.; laborer; Oberlin, O. 12 May 63; 30 Sep 65 Boston. $50. G. A. R. Post 50. Chicago. Brown, John 25, sin.; seaman; Fort Erie, Can. 8 Apl 63; 20 Aug 65. $50. Brown, John A. 18, sin.; farmer; Steubenville, O. 8 Apl 63; died 1 Sep 63 Morris Id. S. C. $50. Brown, William R. Corpl. 26, mar.; laborer; Elmira, N. Y. 8 Apl 63; died 25 Mch 65 Gen. Hos. Charleston S. C. Typhoid Fever. $50. Canady, Barker 23, mar.; farmer; E. Stoughton. 17 Jly 64; 20 Aug 65. Carroll, William 22, sin.; laborer; Harrisburg, Pa. 8 Apl. 63; 20 Aug 65. $50. Carter, Levi 38, mar.; laborer; Elmira, N. Y. 8 Apl. 63; 20 Aug 65. $50. Cole, Philip Corpl. 19, sin.; laborer; Middletown, Pa. 8 Apl 63; 20 Aug 65. $50. Cleveland, O. Cole, William 27, sin.; laborer; Middletown, Pa. 8 Apl. 63; 10 Je 63 Boston; dis. $50. Cooper, Peter S. 27, sin.; brickmaker; Medford. 19 Dec 63; 20 Aug 65. $322. Corn
The Daily Dispatch: November 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], A card from Miss Joey Guggenheim--she refuses to play on Sunday . (search)
er was slightly wounded. Company A.--German Artillery. Killed.--Private Hoberg. Wounded.--Captain H. Werner, Lieutenant J. Mehrtens, Sergeant S. Pieper, Privates J. Seemken, W. Seemken, and -- Fichen. Company B--German Artillery. Killed.--Lieut. B. Meyerhoff, privates F. Itgen, C. H. Seedorff, W. Bringworth, Claus Meyer, H. Harken, L. Wienholtz. Wounded.--John Klee, W. Ripper, C. Seebeck. Captain Bedon's Company, from Summerville, three or four killed. Captain Canady's Company, three or four killed. Both of the latter companies are attached to Col. Heyward's Ninth Regiment. Gallant fighting of the men. The men fought bravely and desperately.--When the order to retreat was given, the troops was very unwilling to leave, and endeavored to secure their small arms, many of which had been buried in the sand or disabled during the action. A positive order was given, however, to leave them behind. Some sixty or seventy, however, were brought
The Daily Dispatch: September 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], Our army correspondence. (search)
watch a hundred times; now they'll find my story's true, I reckon. That watch and I will stop at the same minute." The woman at the bedside shook her head again. "It's an old fancy o'yourn, Mike Barlow, " she said; "you'll live to see the folly of it." "So they talk," said the man. "Now listen, doctor. You've come for to see me and done all you could. I'll give you that watch. Its money valley aren't much, but it'll do you service. It was give to me by an old Frenchman out o' Canady, when he was layin' just as I am layin'. It had been his father's, and grandfather's, and his great-grandfather's before that; and this is what he told me about it, and this is what you'll find to be truth. That watch will tick slow and steady, reg'lar as the sun, as long as whoever it belongs to is well, and safe, and thriving. When there's danger coming, it begins to go fast, faster, and faster and faster, until it is past, and so loud that you can hear it across the room as plain as if
The Daily Dispatch: April 11, 1864., [Electronic resource], The War News. (search)
opperheads from coles, Clark, and Edgar counties, impudently calling them in the secret missive a posse comitatus.--The gallant soldiers had seen rebels before, and a cleaning out and rapid flight of the miscreants took place. One of them, named Canady, was captured, says the Paris Beacon. The sworn statement of Canady was taken by a notary public. He declared that Sheriff O'Hair had sent for these men to come to Paris in squads of three or four, without arms, their guns to be brought in aCanady was taken by a notary public. He declared that Sheriff O'Hair had sent for these men to come to Paris in squads of three or four, without arms, their guns to be brought in a wagon, and secreted until occasion called for their use; that a paper to this effect was read to him, signed by william O'Hair, and witnessed by some of the best citizens of Paris — among others, Amos Green, and we believe Jonathan Mayo was mentioned in this connection col. Mayo positively denies having signed or seen such a paper. can it be that forgery has been committed for the base purpose of inaugurating a civil war in Edgar county? The Yankee congress — Passage of an important resol