| John Townsend Trowbridge - 1866 - 622 pages
...Spottsylvania, and which might with propriety be placed before every national soldiers' cemetery : — " On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents...guards with solemn round The bivouac of the dead." , At the alley-crossings stand the following : — " The hopes, the fears, the blood, the tears, That... | |
| Jeremiah Lewis Diman - 1866 - 726 pages
...had stood Secure, and flourished in a civil war! Mourn not, then, overmuch for the loyal dead: — " On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents...guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead." Of the countless dead who died fighting for the alien flag, doubtless thousands were inspired by honest... | |
| Charles Carleton Coffin - 1866 - 602 pages
...and his soul passed on to receive that reward which awaits those to whom duty is greater than life. " On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents...guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead." This is the contrast between Christian charity and barbaric hate,—not that all the people of the... | |
| George Whitfield Pepper - 1866 - 536 pages
...of to-day." We transcribe a few of the poetical inscriptions : ''On Fame's eternal camping ground, Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead." "Whether on the scaffold high, Or in the battle's van, The fittest place for man to die, Is where he... | |
| George Whitfield Pepper - 1866 - 538 pages
...of to-day." We transcribe a few of the poetical inscriptions : ''On Fame's eternal camping ground, Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead." "Whether on the scaffold high, Or in the battle's van. The fittest place for man to die, Is where he... | |
| Society of the Army of the Tennessee - 1877 - 564 pages
...to name would consume this evening, your eyes seek for in vain. " On fame's eternal camping ground, Their silent tents are spread, 'And glory guards with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead." I need not here speak of the achievements of the Army of the Tennessee. The world knows its history... | |
| George Whitfield Pepper - 1867 - 40 pages
...blent — they are far above the arguments of the living crowd. " On fame's eternal camping ground. Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards with solemn round. The bivouac of the dead." There is another element of our greatness, which we commemorate to-day- The number and variety of our... | |
| Jane Currie Blaikie Hoge ("Mrs. A.H. Hoge") - 1867 - 592 pages
...not let this Government of tbe people, for the people, and by the people, perish from the earth. . " On fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents...are spread,. And glory guards with solemn round The bivouacs of the dead." The following clipping from the New York Observer, and the pen of its editor,... | |
| Jane Currie Hoge - 1867 - 504 pages
...not let this Government of the people, for the people, and by the people, perish from the earth. " On fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents...are spread, And glory guards with solemn round The bivouacs of the dead." The following clipping from the New York Observer, and the pen of its editor,... | |
| Society of the Army of the Cumberland, Society of the Army of the Cumberland. Reunion - 1868 - 192 pages
...rebaptized our Nationality with their life's blood. "When can their glory fade?" When can we forget them ? " On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents...guards with solemn round The bivouac of the dead." The eleventh toast: "Atlanta — A victory which sealed the fate of the Southern Confederacy." Kesponse... | |
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