 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...a stray picket Is shot as he walks on his beat to arid fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket. 'Tis nothing — a private or two, now and then, Will not...— only one of the men Moaning out, all alone, the deathnut ig< tie. All ^uift along the Potomac to-night, Wli«« the soldiers lie peacefully dreaming-,... | |
 | 1863 - 804 pages
...there a stray picket Is shot as he walkt on his beat to and fro By a rifleman hid in the thicket. 'Tis nothing — a private or two now and then Will not...count in the news of the battle ; Not an officer lost! enly one of the men Moaning out, all' alone, the death-rattle. " All quiet along the Potomac to-night,".... | |
 | Sir William Howard Russell - Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861 - 1861 - 1102 pages
...then, a stray picket IB shot, as he walks on bin beat to aud fro, By a riHemau hid in the thicket. T is nothing — a private or two. now and then, Will not count in the uerfu of the battle ; Not an officer lost — only one of the men Moaning out, ail alone, the death,... | |
 | Agriculture - 1862 - 500 pages
...a stray picket IB »hot aa he walke on his beat to anil fro, By a rifleman hid in a thicket. 'Tía nothing — a private or two, now and then, Will not...officer lost — only one of the men Moaning out, nil alone, the death rattle." All quiet along the Potomac to-night, Where the soldiers lie peacefully... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers - 1843 - 260 pages
...stray picket1 Is shot as he walks on his beat to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket. 2. 'Tis nothing — a private or two now and then Will not count in the news of the battle ; Not an officer8 lost — only one of the men Moaning out, all alone, the death rattle." 3. All quiet along... | |
 | John Henry Hayward - American poetry - 1863 - 410 pages
...picket Is shot as he walks on his beat to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket. 'Tis nothing—a private or two, now and then, Will not count in the news of the battle; "Not an officer lost—only one of the men Moaning out, all alone, the death-rattle." All quiet along the Potomac to-night,... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - 1863 - 316 pages
...Stonewall regiment in a neighboring grove, till they, too, fade away into the stilly night, and soon — ' The soldiers lie peacefully dreaming, Their tents in the rays of the clear autumn moon, Or the' light of the watch-fires are gleaming, A tremulous sigh as the gentle night wind Through the forest... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - Generals - 1863 - 328 pages
...regiment in a neighboring grove, till they, too, fade away into the stilly night, and soon — • ' The soldiers lie peacefully dreaming, Their tents in the rays of the clear autumn moou, Or the light of the watch-fires are gleaming, A tremulous sigh as the gentle night wind Through... | |
 | William Wyndham Malet - History - 1863 - 332 pages
...battle ; Not an officer lost — only one of the men — Moaning out, all alone, the death rattle. All quiet along the Potomac to-night, Where the soldiers lie peacefully dreaming, As their tents in the rays of the clear autumn moon, Or the light of the watch-fires, are gleaming.... | |
 | Frank Moore - History - 1864 - 364 pages
...Tis sweet for our country to die ! THE PICKET-GUARD. A LL quiet along the Potomac," they say, T is nothing — a private or two, now and then, Will not...Their tents, in the rays of the clear autumn moon, Or the light of the watch-fires are gleaming. A tremulous sigh, as the gentle night-wind Through the forest... | |
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All quiet along the Potomac," they say, "Except now and then a stray picket Is shot, as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket. 
