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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 22 4 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 20 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life 10 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Short studies of American authors 6 0 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 6 4 Browse Search
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Historic leaves, volume 2, April, 1903 - January, 1904 6 0 Browse Search
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 118 (search)
knew nothing then of the effect of this gunboat cannonading, which was vigorously kept up till nearly morning, and it only served to remind us the more vividly of the day's disasters, of the fact that half a mile off lay a victorious enemy, commanded by the most dashing of their generals, and of the question one scarcely dared ask himself: What to-morrow? We were defeated, our dead and dying were around us, days could hardly sum up our losses. And then there came up that grand refrain of Whittier's — written after Manassas, I believe, but on that night, apparently far more applicable to this greater than Manassas--Under the cloud and through the sea. Sons of the Saints who faced their Jordan flood, In fierce Atlantic's unretreating wave-- Who by the Red Sea of their glorious blood Reached to the Freedom that your blood shall save! O countrymen! God's day is not yet done! He leaveth not his people utterly! Count it a covenant, that he leads us on Beneath the clouds and through th