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L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion 5 1 Browse Search
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L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion, Miss Melvina Stevens, the East Tennessee heroine. (search)
scort the escaped prisoners past the most dangerous points of the rebel garrisons and outposts, doing this from the age of about fourteen, at the risk of her liberty and life, from no other motive than her ardent love for her country and its cause, and in spite of the flatteries and persuasions of the secessionists, who would gladly have won a maiden so gifted and so well educated to their cause. The correspondents of the Tribune and the Cincinnati Gazette-Messrs. Richardson, Browne, and Davis — were indebted to her guidance for their escape from the rebels. Into a ward of the whitewashed halls, Where the dead and dying lay, Wounded by bayonets, shells, and balls, Somebody's Darling was borne one day- Somebody's Darling, so young and so brave, Wearing yet on his pale, sweet face, Soon to be hid by the dust of the grave, The lingering light of his boyhood's grace. Matted and damp are the curls of gold, Kissing the snow of the fair young brow, Pale are the lips of delicate mould-
L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion, Foraging. (search)
rode through the battery. The captain was in his tent. Approaching it, he discovered the quarters of a fine young beef that the men had foraged the previous night, lying against a tree. The general's brow contracted as he demanded of Sergeant Leander E. Davis: Where the d-1 did you get that beef? I gave the commissary no orders to issue fresh beef here. Davis, who was a very polite soldier, removed his cap, and saluted the general, saying, in a tone evincing perfect coolness and sDavis, who was a very polite soldier, removed his cap, and saluted the general, saying, in a tone evincing perfect coolness and sincerity: General, I was sergeant of the guard last night, and about ten o'clock I heard a terrible commotion in the camp of the Twelfth Massachusetts, Colonel Webster's regiment, across the road. I rushed out to see what was going on, and just as I passed the captain's tent I saw a fine steer coming through the camp of the Twelfth Massachusetts, with about a hundred men after it. The animal appeared very much frightened, general, and, true as you live, it jumped clear across the road (