In The Ranks: From the Wilderness to Appomattox Court House

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R. E. McBride. In The Ranks: From the Wilderness to Appomattox Court House

In The Ranks: From the Wilderness to Appomattox Court House

Table of Contents

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

In the Ranks

Chapter I

"WAR!"

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter V

Chapter VI

Chapter VII

Chapter VIII

Chapter IX

Chapter X

Chapter XI

Chapter XII

Chapter XIII

Chapter XIV

Chapter XV

THE BEGINNING OF THE END

Chapter XVI

Chapter XVII

Chapter XVIII

Chapter XIX

Chapter XX

Western Reserve Seminary,

WEST FARMINGTON, OHIO

Organs and Pianos

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R. E. McBride

The War, as Seen and Experienced by a Private Soldier in the Army of the Potomac

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Butler County, famous for rocks, hills, buckwheat, psalm-singing, and soap mines. Psalm singing? Yes. The sturdy Scotch-Irish that grew among her hills, as a rule, would sing to the Lord with no other words than those of the warrior king and the holy men of old. Have you heard their solemn songs? I hear them to-night—it is not imagination, not "their songs," but "our songs." A voice of singing floats down through the years, very holy and very tender; for now all the singers are "evermore before the throne," except two, whose infant lips could scarce pronounce the words:

"Lord, bless and pity us,

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