The Twelve Months Volunteer: Or, Journal of a Private, in the Tennessee Regiment of Cavalry, in the Campaign, in Mexico, 1846-7; Comprising Four General Subjects: I. A Soldier's Life in Camp; Amusements; Duties; Hardships; II. A Description of Texas and Mexico, as Seen on the March; III. Manners; Customs; Religious Ceremonies of the Mexicans; IV. The Operations of All the Twelve Months Volunteers: Including a Complete History of the War with Mexico...engravings, from Drawings by the AuthorJ. A. & U. P. James, 1849 - 640페이지 |
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... turned to Mexico . The government of that country also , soon after , informed our minister , Mr. Shannon , that all intercourse between the two nations must cease on the 28th of the same month , and , at the same time , the president ...
... turned to Mexico . The government of that country also , soon after , informed our minister , Mr. Shannon , that all intercourse between the two nations must cease on the 28th of the same month , and , at the same time , the president ...
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... turned his arms against the works , thus placing the garrison between two fires . Encouraging their men by their cheerful and intrepid bear- ing , the officers of the division plied the guns day and night , and with the energy of men in ...
... turned his arms against the works , thus placing the garrison between two fires . Encouraging their men by their cheerful and intrepid bear- ing , the officers of the division plied the guns day and night , and with the energy of men in ...
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... turned and fled ; before doing so they had set fire to the priming tube , the gun being loaded ; the match was burning slowly , and was about to ignite the powder , when Lieutenant Woods knocked the priming off with his sword . In the ...
... turned and fled ; before doing so they had set fire to the priming tube , the gun being loaded ; the match was burning slowly , and was about to ignite the powder , when Lieutenant Woods knocked the priming off with his sword . In the ...
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... turned off into a little opening , and faced the road . As the lancers charged past us , we fired , and killed several of them ; the rest ran away , and were again fired upon by us . A great many gallant deeds were performed on this day ...
... turned off into a little opening , and faced the road . As the lancers charged past us , we fired , and killed several of them ; the rest ran away , and were again fired upon by us . A great many gallant deeds were performed on this day ...
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... turned in color of an ebony black ; he had got it almost to pure charcoal . He found it very easy to pound ( for all the coffee was pounded in tin cups , with a stone , muzzle of a pistol or carbine ) , but not so easy to settle , after ...
... turned in color of an ebony black ; he had got it almost to pure charcoal . He found it very easy to pound ( for all the coffee was pounded in tin cups , with a stone , muzzle of a pistol or carbine ) , but not so easy to settle , after ...
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34 페이지 - Now entertain conjecture of a time When creeping murmur and the poring dark Fills the wide vessel of the universe. From camp to camp through the foul womb of night The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fixed sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch...
637 페이지 - ... in their persons, nor shall their houses or goods be burnt or otherwise destroyed, nor their fields wasted by the armed force...
637 페이지 - ... is necessary to be taken from them for the use of such armed force, the same shall be paid for at a reasonable price.
638 페이지 - But if any officer shall break his parole by leaving the district so assigned him, or any other prisoner shall escape from the limits of his cantonment, after they shall have been designated to him, such individual, officer, or other prisoner, shall forfeit so much of the benefit of this article as provides for his liberty on parole or in cantonment.
638 페이지 - ... to be agreed upon between the respective commanders, be paid by the other party, on a mutual adjustment of accounts for the subsistence of prisoners, and such accounts shall not be mingled with or set off...
635 페이지 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States and admitted as soon as possible according to the principles of the Federal Constitution to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States...
636 페이지 - And finally, the sacredness of this obligation shall never be lost sight of by the said government when providing for the removal...
636 페이지 - ... influence and power, to rescue them and return them to their country, or deliver them to the agent or representative of the Mexican government. The Mexican authorities will, as far as practicable, give to the government of the United States notice of such captures ; and...