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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 139 (search)
The negroes of Colonel L. A. Jordan, of Georgia, hearing that he had a company on the coast named after him, made with their own hands, and presented through their master to Lieutenant Moffett, of the Jordan Greys, seventy-six pair of socks, part wool and part cotton.--Memphis Appeal and Norfolk Day Book, April 2.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 153 (search)
got into the woods, was about six feet deep, with a gentle current setting across the peninsula. In the East-Bayou the current was tremendous, and the boats had to be checked down with heavy head-lines. Here we found some obstructions caused by drift-heaps; but cutting off one or two logs would start all down the current. This is the hardest job I have ever seen undertaken; but Col. Bissell is so far down now as to call it successful, for we are in sight of the fences on t'other side of Jordan. The sag of the saw gives the correct are of the circle. At each end of the saw, a rope thirty feet in length is fastened and carried to boats upon which men are stationed. Ten men man and work each rope. When the saw runs right, we have cut off a stump two feet in diameter in fourteen minutes. Often it pinched and ran crooked; then a gang would be two or three hours on one of the same size. If there happened to be any brush under water, it added much to the labor. It all had to be
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 165 (search)
Perhaps the grandest singing we heard was at the Baptist Church on St. Helena Island, when a congregation of three hundred men and women joined in a hymn: “Roll, Jordan, roll, Jordan! Roll, Jordan, roll!” It swelled forth like a triumphal anthem. That same hymn was sung by thousands of negroes on the Fourth of July last, whJordan! Roll, Jordan, roll!” It swelled forth like a triumphal anthem. That same hymn was sung by thousands of negroes on the Fourth of July last, when they marched in procession under the Stars and Stripes, cheering them for the first time as the flag of our country. A friend writing from there says that the chorus was indescribably grand--that the whole woods and world seemed joining in that rolling sound. There is much more in this new and curious music of which it is aJordan, roll!” It swelled forth like a triumphal anthem. That same hymn was sung by thousands of negroes on the Fourth of July last, when they marched in procession under the Stars and Stripes, cheering them for the first time as the flag of our country. A friend writing from there says that the chorus was indescribably grand--that the whole woods and world seemed joining in that rolling sound. There is much more in this new and curious music of which it is a temptation to write, but I must remember that it can speak for itself better than any one for it. Very respectfully, Lucy