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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 196 (search)
nd escaped by mounting his horse and dashing through their lines, but was obliged to abandon his horse at the bank of the river; was for a long time lying in the mud at the water's edge and in the water, with a part of his face out in the shade of a tree, while they were searching for him. He heard them shout across: John, O John Everett, shoot them d-----d devils coming out of the water there, and two guns went off. There's another just out behind the tree there. Oh, I've sunk that d-----d Yankee. Another was shot while crawling in the mud, near where Turner lay concealed in the water, and there was a yell, I've got one of the d-----d dad's scalps, and a first-rate Enfield rifle. Turner afterward swam the river, and gives us some of these items: A reliable citizen of Cabell County reports that he heard the rebels boast, on the return to Barbours-ville, that they had thrown eight or nine wounded men off the bridge into the river. When the rebel cavalry left Guyandotte, twenty-
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), 83. December in Virginia. (search)
83. December in Virginia. contraband, loquitur. De leaves hab blown away, De trees am black and bare; De day am cold an damp, De rain am in de air. De wailing win's hab struck De strings ob Nature's lyre; De brooks am swollen deep, De roads am mud an mire. De horses yank de team, De wheels am stickin thar; De Yankee massa yell-- De Lord! how he do swar! De oafs dat he do take, De nigger disremember; De Dutch, De Deuce, De Debbil, De — all tings dat am ebil-- de-Cember