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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 33: illiteracy in America. (search)
and write. I have never seen a male Chinese who could not read, and very few who could not write — in their own tongue. Out of sixty-three thousand Chinese reported in the census, six thousand are returned as illiterate, but in many towns, probably in most towns, illiteracy was taken by the census marshals to mean inability to read and write English--a rule under which Victor Hugo and Father Secchi would be classed as illiterate. Of course the poorer class of Irish help to swell the list. Pat is the bad lot of American statists; for with all his mirth and fire-his poetry, his sentiment, and his humour-he has few of the mechanical advantages of education. He can only make his mark, and swell the black list of the marshal's returns. Yet a vast majority of the illiterates in the census are American-born. Out of the five million six hundred thousand persons in the Republic who cannot read and write only three quarters of a million are of foreign birth. Of course, again, the
L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion, A female scout and spy. (search)
ompelled by broken health to leave the army for a time. The Irish sentinel. A son of the Green Isle, a new member of Colonel Gillem's Middle Tennessee regiment, while stationed at Nashville recently, was detailed on guard duty on a prominent street of that city. It was his first experience at guard-mounting, and he strutted along his beat apparently with a full appreciation of the dignity and importance of his position. As a citizen approached, he shouted- Halt! Who comes there? A citizen, was the response. Advance, citizen, and give the countersign. I haven't the countersign; and, if I had, the demand for it at this time and place is something very strange and unusual, rejoined the citizen. Ana, by the howly Moses, ye don't pass this way at all till ye say Bunker Hill, was Pat's reply. The citizen, appreciating the situation, advanced and cautiously whispered in his ear the necessary words. Right! Pass on. And the wide awake sentinel resumed his beat.
L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion, The farmer's contribution to the Chicago sanitary fair. (search)
rnor Curtin, for the kind attention given her upon the bloody field of Antietam. Unacceptable gratitude. Lieutenant J n, late of the Sixteenth Regiment, was a few days ago walking down Main street, when he was accosted by a fellow, half soldier, half beggar, with a most reverential military salute: God bless your honor, said the man, whose accent betrayed him to be Irish, and long life to you. How do you know me? said the lieutenant. Is it how do I know your honor? responded Pat. Good right, sure, I have to know the man that saved my life in battle. The lieutenant, highly gratified at this tribute to his valor, slid a fifty cent piece into his hand, and asked him, when? God bless your honor and long life to you, said the grateful veteran. Sure it was Antietam, when seeing your honor run away as fast as your legs would carry you from the rebels, I followed your lead, and ran after you out of the way; whereby, under God, I saved my life. Oh! good luck to your h
John G. B. Adams, Reminiscences of the Nineteenth Massachusetts Regiment, Chapter 15: the escape. (search)
ances and was severely whipped; again he urged her, with no better results. He then drove her to the swamps to work, and she was employed carrying heavy logs on her shoulders. This was one of the damnable features of slavery. Her brother, named Pat, was the driver. (I have several times used the word driver, and some may not understand its meaning. The driver is an intelligent, faithful slave, selected by the overseer as foreman. He turns out the slaves in the morning by blowing a horn, gives them their tasks, and has charge of them in the field.) She took us to his house, which was better than the rest, and we slept in the room with Pat and his wife. We were awakened in the morning by the firing of cannon, and the negroes came rushing in with the news that Sherman was coming. The firing grew nearer and nearer, musketry could be plainly heard, and through the cracks in the logs of the house we could see smoke where barns were burning. The negroes grew more and more excited
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 27: Chattanooga and the battle of Missionary Ridge (search)
good morning and turned back to join my headquarters and Thomas's forces near Orchard Knob. Now consider that Sherman had four bodies of men abreast, and not connected except by the long line of skirmishers which covered this whole front. Theyskirmishers and all-prepared to go up the ridge or to skirt along its side slopes. Thus these resolute men set out to perform the part allotted to them — a part, as it proved, next to the impossible, because nature, aided by the Confederate General Pat Cleburne, who guarded Bragg's right flank, had made some of these crags impregnable. Hooker and his men had already fought above the clouds and unfurled the emblem of a free country to the breeze on the most prominent rock of Lookout Mountain; Sherman and his divisions had toiled and fought with more vigor the second day than the first, amid unheard — of ruggedness and against odds. It was reserved by Providence to Thomas and his army, already four times depleted, November 25, 1863, to st
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, Daniel O'Connell (1875.) (search)
Whose hat is this? Well, Mr. O'Connell, that is Mike's hat. --How do you know it? I will swear to it, sir. --And did you really find it by the murdered man? I did that, sir. --But you're not ready to swear that? I am, indeed, Mr. O'Connell. --Pat, do you know what hangs on your word? A human soul. And with that dread burden, are you ready to tell this jury that the hat, to your certain knowledge, belongs to the prisoner? Y-yes, Mr. O'Connell, yes, I am. O'Connell takes the hat to the nearest window, and peers into it,--J-a-m-e-s, James. Now, Pat, did you see that name in the hat? I did, Mr. O'Connell. --You knew it was there? Yes, sir; I read it after I picked it up. --No name in the hat, your honor. So again in the House of Commons. When he took his seat in the House of 1830, the London Times visited him with its constant indignation, reported his speeches awry, turned them inside out, and made nonsense of them; treated him as the New York Herald used to treat us A
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 51: reconstruction under Johnson's policy.—the fourteenth amendment to the constitution.—defeat of equal suffrage for the District of Columbia, and for Colorado, Nebraska, and Tennessee.—fundamental conditions.— proposed trial of Jefferson Davis.—the neutrality acts. —Stockton's claim as a senator.—tributes to public men. —consolidation of the statutes.—excessive labor.— address on Johnson's Policy.—his mother's death.—his marriage.—1865-1866. (search)
to entertain the Alabama claims; but it was laid on the table (Globe, p. 243) on Reverdy Johnson s motion, Sumner voting for it. Banks, in his report and speech, disparaged the American system of neutrality as wanting in principle, and established at the behest of a foreign power—a necessity at a period of national weakness, but out of place in a condition of national strength. George Bemis (1816-1878), the eminent lawyer and publicist, in a pamphlet entitled American Neutrality, its Honorable Pat. its Expedient Future, subjected this report and speech to the tests of international law and duty, saying at the outset, I conceive that the country is under great obligations to Senator Sumner for sturdily standing in the way of this ill-digested and revolutionary legislation, and preventing its passage through the Senate by storm, amid the excitement of the closing hours of the session. Mr. Bemis was distinguished as a lawyer for his critical and scientific treatment of criminal law
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1858. (search)
ds. He felt that his death was altogether right, and hoped they would think so at home. In the evening Patten was brought in wounded. Lowell asked that his comrade might be laid next him, took his hand and held it, and talked of the sudden termination of his life without a regret. When our troops moved on, and orders came for all who could to fall in, he insisted on Patten's leaving him. Patten asked if he had no messages for home. I have written them all, he said; tell them how it was, Pat. The officers of his regiment who went to bid him farewell tell us that the grasp of his hand was warm and firm and his countenance smiling and happy. He desired that his father might be told that he was struck while dressing the line of his men; besides this he had no message but Good by He expressed a wish that his sword might not fall into the enemy's hands,—a wish that was faithfully attended to by Colonel Palfrey, through whose personal care it was preserved and sent home. All who saw
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 16: (search)
eports that his command had with them a hand-to-hand fight, in which bayonets and butts of muskets were used. About 80 of these skirmishers were killed, wounded or captured. Many of the wounds were from bayonets. The Sixty-third had been thoroughly drilled in the bayonet exercise, and they made splendid use of their knowledge on this occasion. One little Irishman encountered a tall, stout Federal soldier, who seized his gun by the barrel. The two had quite a struggle for the prize, when Pat, perceiving that the Federal soldier was about to get the best of him, with the exclamation, To hell with you and the gun! gave his opponent a sudden shove which threw him to the ground, and then taking to his heels made his escape. Lieutenant Polhill escaped capture by shooting one of his enemies, bringing another down with his sword, and thrusting a third out of his way. His clothing was riddled, but he came off unscathed. On the evening before, the Sixty-third regiment had been posted i
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 15. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Paroles of the Army of Northern Virginia. (search)
Henderson J., Cisco, Everett B., Crow, Wm. M., Dettmore, Jno., Delaney, Calvin, Dudney, Arthur, Eadley, Jno., Fisher, Jno. F., Fisher, Jas. M., Highland, Silas, Hill, Wm. H., Kennedy, John, Long, Griffin, Lee, Joseph, Mannion, Mike, Mellen, Henry, McCann, John, McGrath, Jno., Neal, Andrew J., Ryan, Jno., Stewart, Samuel, Sturdivant, Jas., Tedderton, Jesse T., Tedderton, Jno., Thompson, Wm., Thomasson, Samuel, White, Pat. [3 officers, 41 men.] Roll of Captain Woolfolk's Company (G), Huger's Artillery Battalion, First Army Corps. James Woolfolk, 1st Lieut., one horse. Geo. D. Vaughan, Jr. 1st Lieut., one horse. L. W. Duke, Sergeant. W. A. Saunders, Corporal. Silas Chandler, Corporal. Wm. S. Flippe, Corporal. Nicholas Terrill, Sergeant. John Slater, Sergeant. Ragland, C. L., Corporal. Simms, S. H. C., Corporal. Privates. Atkinson, R. L., Bumpass, F., Bumpass, E. S.
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