 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1867 - 374 Seiten
...Connecticut and the hated Stars and Stripes through the half-deserted streets, keeping step to the rmisic of our re-enspirited and splendid band. No welcome...and more were afterwards enrolled in Banks's Corps d'Afrique. The second day after the battle the regiment marched to Raceland, a small hostile force... | |
 | Christopher G. Peña - 2004 - 518 Seiten
...from far and near swarmed the regiment with greetings. "Every soldier had a negro, and every negro had a mule. Many of the blacks also brought with them...infants, till the bayou was thronged with them for miles."10* Weitzel, upon seeing the smoke of the burning bridges, immediately ordered the cavalry forward... | |
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Stripes through the half-deserted streets, keeping step to the music of our re-enspirited and splendid band. No welcome greeted us from the white race. They closed their doors and window-shutters, or scowled with eyes askance from verandas and balconies.... 