Identifier: battlessketcheso00ridl (find matches)
Title: Battles and sketches of the Army of Tennessee
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Ridley, Bromfield Lewis
Subjects: Confederate States of America -- History, Military United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: Mexico, Mo. : Missouri Printing & Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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embersof Southern hospitality and South Carolina greeting a pleasing recol-lection. The Rhetts, the Gists, the Hamptons, the Pickenses, et idomme genus, will kindle the flames of the days that are gone and makeus feel good. As a soldier boy, I saw a pretty girl in that State once, and itleft such a happy impression upon me that I want to go back and seeif tli.- glowing rose lias faded into a lily; or if she is not living,anything connected with her memory will be worthy of my visit. She had eyes like the fish pools of Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbirn, a neck like a tower of i\.,r> aye, the dimple in her chin,was like a flower a bee sat in. Tin: APPROACHING n,\ ki.i \h>\. 573 First, gallant South Carolina nobly made her stand;And quickl) Alabama took her by the hand. These and memories of coming home from Greensboro, crowd upon me. The men of to day cannot realize the pleasure of the sol-dier hoys ot yesterday. < those nice tobacc bags and little nothings
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A TYPICAL SOUTHERN SCENE TO THE TUNE OF OFF TO CITAELESTOx. for a soldiers comfort, and those ginger cakes for the haversack!The ways of those South Carolina girls were ways of pleasantness,and their paths seemed paths of peace, and so much appreciated bythe Tennesseean, Kentuckian, and- Missourian who were torn awayfrom the girls they left behind them. So, boys, wake up and dont miss it, for Charleston will kill herfatted calf. She will chant the festal song and vie with Houston, 574 BATTLES ANt> SKETCHES AfcMt OF TENNESSEE. Richmond and Nashville in making the reunion visit a pleasant recol-lection through their reverence for your services in the sixties, byfighting for a cause the truth of which will die only with the lastechoes of time. Off to Charleston, so early in the morning!Off to Charleston, fore the break of day.Give my respects to all the pretty Lina gals,Off to Charleston, fore the break of day. RIDLEY, THE PIONEER. i By R. A. Halley.) It has been said that none but th

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